Ken lum art for sale
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Ken Lum
Canadian artist (born 1956)
Kenneth Robert Lum, OC DFA (Chinese: 林荫庭; Chinese: 林蔭庭; Jyutping: lam4 jam3 ting4; born 1956)[1] holds dual citizenship in Canada and the United States. He is an artist, an academic, and a curator. Lum's artistic practice spans multiple media including painting, sculpture and photography. His playfully politically oriented works, which range from conceptual to representational, often explore themes of identity linked to language, portraiture, and spatial politics.[2] Since 2012, Lum has taught as a Professor of Fine Art in the Stuart Weitzman School of Design, the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia.
Early life
Lum was born in Vancouver, British Columbia in 1956 and grew up in Strathcona, Vancouver and Kensington-Cedar Cottage in East Vancouver. He attended Admiral Seymour Elementary, Lord Selkirk Elementary and Gladstone Secondary School.[3]
Career
Lum received an MFA from University of British Columbia (UBC) in 1985.[4] One of his earliest major projec
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Ken Lum
Professor, Chair of Fine Arts Department, University of Pennsylvania., USA
Vancouver-born artist Ken Lum, is known worldwide for his conceptual and representational art in a number of media, including painting, sculpture and photography. A longtime professor, he currently is the Chair of Fine Arts at the University of Pennsylvania’s School of Design in Philadelphia. He has also taught at UBC in Vancouver where was Head of Graduate Studio Fine Arts.
A founding editor of the Yishu Journal of Contemporary Chinese Art, he has published extensively, including an artist’s book project he co-conceived with philosopher Hubert Damisch. He has an active and long art exhibition record including Documenta 11, the Venice Biennale, Sao Paolo Bienal, Shanghai Biennale, Carnegie Triennial, Sydney Biennale, Liverpool Biennial, Gwangju Biennale among others. He has had solo exhibitions at the Kunstmuseum Luzern, Witte de With Center for Contemporary Art in Rotterdam, Badischer Kunstverein in Karlsruhe, National Gallery of Canada and Vancouver Art Gallery.
Since the mid 1990s, Lum
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Ken Lum explores issues of identity, immigration, language, and spatial politics through a wide range of media including painting, sculpture, performance, video, photography and critical writing. Lum’s artistic practice often raises questions that are left unanswered, prompting viewers to decipher potential solutions to universal concerns.
His work has been widely exhibited since the 1970’s in venues including the CCA Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts, San Francisco, CA; Swiss Institute, New York, NY; Hirshhorn Museum, Washington DC; National Gallery of Canada, Ontario, Canada; Witte de With, Rotterdam, Netherlands; the Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver, Canada and Kunsthalle Wien, Vienna, Austria. He was included in the 2014 Whitney Biennial, the 2008 Gwangju Biennale, the 2007 Istanbul Biennial, Documenta XI and the 1995 and 2001 Venice Biennales. Lum’s work is in the public collections of National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa, Canada; Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver, Canada; Centro de Arte Contemporáneo De Huarte, Navarro, Spain; FRAC Ile de France, le Plateau, Paris, Franc
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