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2022
True Pictures: Contemporary Photography from Canada and the USA, Museum der Moderne – Rupertinum, Salzburg, Austria, March 12 – June 26
Working Thought, Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh, March 5 to June 26
2021
Individuals, Networks, Expressions, M+ Museum, Hong Kong, November 11 – February 4, 2023
Friends and Family, Magenta Plains, New York, October 30 – December 4
True Pictures: Contemporary Photography from Canada and the USA, Sprengel Museum, Hannover, Germany, June 11 – February 13, 2022
Children Power, FRAC Ile-de-France, Chateau de Rentilly, Bussy St Martin, France, June 2 – July 17
Off the Charts, Royale Projects. Los Angeles, June 12 – September
Pictures and Promises, Vancouver Art Gallery, February 20 – September 6
2020
Thought. Outside. The Western Front, Vancouver, Canada, November 12 – January 30, 2021
Lost in America, Der Neue Berliner Kunstverein, Berlin, Germany, September 10 – January 17, 2021
Alles Echt!, Kunstmuseum Luzern, Switzerland, February 29 – November 22
Next Year’s Country, Remai Modern, Saskatoon, Canada, February 1 – October 12
2019
Tell me about yesterday tomorrow, Documentation Center for the History of National Socialism, Munich, November 28, 2019 – August 30, 2020
Form, Class and Beauty, Galerie Klemm’s, Berlin, Germany, September 13 – October 26
Collection(s), Musee d’Art Moderne et Contemporain, Geneva, Switzerland, May 19 – August 9
On Melly Shum, Witte de With Center for Contemporary Art, Rotterdam, April 7 – May 19
Displacement, Vancouver Art Gallery, March 9 – June 19
Come Together: Karen Lofgren, Ken Lum, Joel Otterson, Ruben Ortiz Torres, Royale Projects, Los Angeles, January 16 – March 24
Schengen Baroque Pasolini, Church of San Paolo Converso, Milan, Italy, January 10 – February 16
2018
Days of Reading, Plug In Institute of Contemporary Art, Winnipeg, Manitoba, September 30 – December 30
The 80s Image, Winnipeg Art Gallery, Winnipeg, Manitoba, September 29 – Spring 2019
International Dumpling Festival, Nuit Blanche, Toronto, September 29
L, Fonds régional d’art contemporain, Ile-de-France, Le Chateau Rentilly, September 22 – October 2, 2019
High Life: John Knight, Ken Lum, Gianni Pettena, Cameron Rowland, Superstudio, Sergio Zevallos, Converso Arte Contemporanea, Milano, Italy, September
Serpentine Path, Terminal Creek Contemporary, August 25 – September 16, Bowen Island, British Columbia, Canada
Readymades Belong to Everyone, Swiss Institute Contemporary Art, New York, June 22 – August 19
Then and Now, Art Asian Initiative, Philadelphia, May 4 – August 17
Note to Self, Royale Projects, Los Angeles, April 8 – December 16
Brand New: Art and Commodity in the 1980s, Hirshhorn Museum, Washington, D.C., February 14 – May 13
Photography in Canada: 1960 – 2000, The Rooms, St. John’s, Newfoundland, January 27, 2018 – April 22
2017
Sites of Assembly, Walter C. Koerner Library, University of British Columbia, April 11 – August 13
Transcending Signs: Ken Lum and Panchal Mansaram, Art Gallery of Mississauga, Ontario, Sept. 7 – October 22
150 Years/150 Artworks: Art in Canada as a Historical Act, Galerie UQAM, Montreal, December – March 2018
Wall to Wall: Carpets by Artists, Katonah Museum of Art, Katonah, New York, July 9 – October 1
Coquitlam, Canada, Art Gallery at Evergreen, Coquitlam, BC, May 20 – August 22
Art School High, Gordon Smith Gallery of Canadian Art, North Vancouver, BC, May 13 – August 26
The Carpet Kartell, Tanja Grunert Gallery, New York City, April 27 – May 31
Photography in Canada: 1960 – 2000, National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa, April 6 – September 17, 2016
2016
Wall to Wall: Carpets by Artists, Museum of Contemporary Art, Cleveland, September 23, 2016 – January 1, 2017 (catalog)
Past/Present/Future, Grand Rapids Art Gallery, Grand Rapids, Michigan, September 1 – October 30
Do you, Ms Jones? Rosenwald-Wolf Gallery, Philadelphia, June 24 – July 29
Were it as if, Witte de With Center for Contemporary Art, Rotterdam, The Netherlands, May 27 – August 21
Objects May Appear: Lustre & the Monochrome in Contemporary Art, Royale Projects: Palm Desert, Mar. 19–May 2
Masterworks from the Audain Art Museum, Audain Art Museum, Whistler, BC, Canada, March 12 – June 30 (catalog)
Hello my name is… Los Angeles, Royale Projects: Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, January 30 – March 26
2015
The Road Not Taken: Ai Weiwei, Ken Lum, Ozawa Tsuyoshi, Tomatsu Shomei, Misa Shin Gallery, Tokyo, November 27, 2015 – January 30, 2016
Regarding Spectatorship: Revolt and the Distant Observer, Kunstraum Kreuzberg/Bethanien, Berlin, November 21 – January 17, 2016 (catalog)
Fascination Photography, Essl Museum Contemporary Art, Vienna, November 13, 2015 – January 1, 2016
Foro Arte Cáceres, Fundación Mercedes Calles y Carlos Ballesteros, Cáceres, Spain, October 23 – 25
Inventory, Vol.5: Acquisitions from 1992 to 1996, FRAC Haute-Normandie, Sotteville-lès-Rouen, France, September 19 – December 6
Recollection, The Print Center, Philadelphia, September 18 – December 19 (catalog)
In An Absolut World True Taste Comes Naturally, Camberwell Space Gallery, University of the Arts, London, April 29 – June 10, (catalog)
Views From the Southbank II: Moments, Reflections, Intervals, Surrey Art Gallery, Surrey, BC, Apr 11 – June 14
Persons of Interest, Mackenzie Art Gallery, Regina, Saskatchewan, February 28 – May 3
Verortungen, Galerie Steinek, Vienna, January 24 – March 4
Sign, sign, everywhere a sign, Justina M Barnicke Gallery, University of Toronto, Toronto, January 15 – March 7
2014
La Colección ARCO, CA2M, Centro de Arte Dos de Mayo, Madrid, October 08 – February 1, 2015
Gwen MacGregor, Roula Partheniou, Ken Lum, MKG127 Gallery, Toronto, September 13 – October 11
People’s Biennial, Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit, Detroit, Michigan, September 12 – January 4, 2015 (catalog)
You’ve Really Got a Hold on Me, Oakville Galleries, Oakville, Ontario, June 30 – August 30
On Stage: Recent Acquisitions, Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver, June 28 – October 19
Punctum, Kunstverein Salzburg, Salzburg, Austria, July 26 – September 21 (catalog)
Sympathetic Magic, Mendel Art Gallery, Saskatoon, Canada, June 27 – September 14
Nouvelle Generation, FRAC Nord-Pas de Calais, May 17 – December 31
Attention Economy, Kunsthalle Vienna, Vienna, Austria, May 16 – September 6
Ruptures in Arrival: Art in the Wake of the Komagata Maru, Surrey Art Gallery, Surrey, BC, April 12 – June 15
Whitney Biennial, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York City, March 7 – May 25 (catalog)
Border Cultures: Part two (Work, Labour), Art Gallery of Windsor, Windsor, Ontario, Canada, January 25 – April 13 (catalog)
2013
Neue Ware, Galerie Christian Nagel, Cologne, Germany, January 11 – March 2
2012
Where I live and What I live for, Oakville Galleries, Oakville, Ontario, December 9 – February 17, 2013
Data Trash, I-20 Gallery, New York City, May 24 – July 20
Street Life, Museum of Contemporary Art, Calgary, Alberta, March 8 – September 25
Topografias de la Memoria: a traves de grandes fotografos contemporaneos, AlHondiga-Bilbao, Bilbao, Spain, February 1 – April 15
Spelling the Image, Marc Jancou Gallery, New York, January 26 – March 3
Who told you so? The collective sotry vs. the individual narrative, Onomatopee Office and Project Space, Rotterdam, The Netherlands, January 4, 2012 – January 1, 2013
2011
One Suitcase Per Person: David Diao, Ken Lum, Hiram To, 1A Space, Hong Kong, November 24 – January 31, 2012
In the End was the Word: Language as a Medium of the Contemporary Visual Arts, Ursula Blickle Foundation, Kraichtal-Unteröwisheim, Germany, November 12 – December 18
Shore, Forest and Beyond: Art from the Audain Collection, October 29 – January 29, 2012
The 4th Moscow Biennale of Contemporary Art, Moscow, September 22 – October 30
In Deed: Certificates of Authenticity in Art, De Vleeshal, Middelburg, The Netherlands, September 10 – October 9;
Fondazione Bevilacqua La Masa, Venice, Italy, October 14 – November 4; Khoj International Artists’ Association, Delhi, India, November 18 – December 16
Through the Looking Brain: A Swiss Collection of Conceptual Photography, Kunstmuseum Bonn, Bonn, Germany, June 30 – September 25
Out of Storage: Provisoire & Definitif, Marres Centre for Contemporary Culture, Maastricht, June 25, 2011 – March 25, 2012
Traffic: Conceptual Art in Canada 1965 – 1980, Art Gallery of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, June 25 – September 25
Destello, The Jumex Collection Art Museum, Ecatepec, Mexico, April 6 – November 22
ConText – Bild und Text, L.A. Galerie Lothar Albrecht, Frankfurt, April 2 – May 28
Bob and Breakfast – Robert Filliou et ses invites, Galerie Nelson-Freeman, Paris, March 12 – April 9
FACES: Works from the Permanent Collection, Helen and Morris Belkin Art Gallery, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, January 14 — April 10
2010
It is what it is: Recent Acquisitions of New Canadian Art, National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa, November 6 – January 23, 2011
Construction Sites: Identity and Place, Kamloops Art Gallery, October 18 – December 31
Art Moves Festival, Torun, Poland, September 17 – October 17
Traffic: Conceptual Art in Canada 1965 – 1980, University of Toronto Galleries, Toronto, September 5 – December 5 (catalog)
Jeux de Rôles, La Garenne Lemot, Gétigné, France, July 9 – October 31
Checking in with your hotspots, Surrey Art Gallery, Surrey, B.C., July 3 – September 12
Through the Looking Brain: the Photographic Collection of Swiss Collectors Rudolf, Christine and Thomas Bechtler, Kunstmuseum Bonn, June 30 – September 25, 2011
Nether Land, Dutch Cultural Center, Shanghai, June 18 – July 11
Hold Still Wild Youth: GINA Show, OR Gallery, Vancouver, June 4 – July 10
Li Ming, Shirley Tse, Adrian Wong, Ken Lum, Wang Xiaopeng, Osage Gallery, Hong Kong, 24 May to 20 June 2010
Volando hacia la tierra/Flying Down to Earth, Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Vigo (MARCO), Vigo, Spain, May 21 – August 29,
Wandering Position: Selections from the inSite Archive, Museum of Contemporary Art of the National University of Mexico, May 20 – August 31
I don’t know whether to laugh of cry, Museum London, London, Ontario, Canada, January 16 – April 18
2009
Gagarin: The Artists in their Own Words, Stedelijk Museum voor Actuele Kunst S.M.A.K. (Museum of Contemporary Art), Ghent, Belgium, December 4 — March 14
Uneasy Pieces, Oakville Galleries, Oakville, Ontario, Canada, December 5 — 31
The Jerusalem Syndrome, Al Ma’mal Foundation for Contemporary Art, Jerusalem, Israel, October 11 — 20
Just Around the Corner, Arrow Factory, Beijing, August 15 – November 11
Accrochage, Galerie Grita Insam, Vienna, August 14 – September 10
DZ BANK Collection, Art Foyer, Platz der Republik, Frankfurt, August 8 – October 10
Mapping and Marking Vancouver 2010: Artist Initiated Public Art Projects, Pendulum Gallery of the HSBC Building, Vancouver, July 6 – July 18
Common History and its Private Stories: Geschichte und Geschichten, MUSA Museum auf Abruf, June 25 – Oct. 3
Les Uns et les Autres:Le portrait dans tous ses états, Musée d’art et d’histoire de Saint Brieuc, France, June 20 – September 27
2008
Ironies du presque-rien, Galerie Art & Essai, Universite de Rennes, Rennes, France, September 27 – October 19
Pleinairism, i8 Gallery, Reykjavik, Iceland, September 12 – October 26
7th Gwangju Biennale, Gwangju, South Korea, September 5 to November 9 (catalog)
Let Me Be Your Mirror, Mackenzie Art Gallery, Regina, Saskatchewan, February 9 – May 25 (catalog)
Beautiful People, Centre d’Art La Panera, Lérida, Spain, February 7 – April 13
2007
10th Istanbul Biennial, Istanbul, September 8 – November 4 (catalog)
Beautiful People et la Blessure Secrète, June 13 – August 26, Crac Centre Rhenan d’Art Contemporain, Alsace, Altkirch, France; February 2 – April 13, 2008, Centre d’Art La Plenara, Lérida, Spain
The Shadow Cabinet, De Appel, Amsterdam, February 17 – April 15, curated by Petra Heck
Real Life 1979 – 1990, January 30 – May 12, Artists Space, New York
Anniversaire des 25 ans de la Galerie Nelson, Galerie Nelson-Freeman, Paris, January 13 – February 23
2006
Paint, Vancouver Art Gallery, September 30 – February 27
Liverpool Biennial, Liverpool, England, September 16 – November 26 (catalog)
Habiter: Evenement d’Art Public, Quebec City, August 25 – October 1, (catalog)
Sound and Vision, Photographic and Video Images in Contemporary Canadian Art – A Selection of Works from the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, National Gallery of Canada and Art Gallery of Ontario, Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, July 11 to October 22, 2006 (catalog)
Projekt’80 + 25 = 2005 (#1), Galerie Witteveen, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, February 18 – March 25 (catalog)
75 Years of Collecting, Vancouver Art Gallery, February 4 – May 14, Vancouver
An Image Bank for Everyday Revolutionary Life, Redcat Gallery, Los Angeles, February 2 – April 2
2005
Monuments for the USA, White Columns Gallery, New York, December 13 – February 7, 2006 (catalog)
Word and Object, Fleisch, Berlin, September 17 – October 16,
Private View 1980 2000, Collection Pierre Huber, Musee Cantonal des Beaux-arts, Lausanne, June 14 to Sept. 11 (catalog)
Photographies, Galerie Nelson, Paris, May 28 – July 23
Arbeithaus: einatmen. ausatmen. (House of Work: inhale. exhale.), Kunsthaus Dresden, Dresden, May 1 – July 17 (catalog)
CCA Artist’s Book Show, Galerie Christophe Daviet-Thery, Paris, April 16 – May 21
Monuments for the USA, CCA Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts, San Francisco, April 7 – May 14 (catalog)
Morir de Amor, Museo Nacional de Ciencias y Artes, Mexico City, March 3 – May 22 (catalog)
I don’t know what’s right or wrong, Blackwood Gallery (outdoor installation), University of Toronto at Mississauga, February 9 to September 30
Contemporary Visions: Photographs and videos from the Helga de Alvear Collection, Wäinö Aaltonen Museum, Turku, Finland, January 10 – February 1
2004
Aufruhr der Gefühle. Leidenschaften in der zeitgenössischen Fotografie, Kunsthalle Göppingen, Germany, November 21 – January 23, 2005
Social Strategies: Redefining Social Realism, Richard E. Peeler Art Center, DePauw University, Greencastle, Indiana, November 15 – February 15 (catalog)
_____Newcomb Art Gallery, Tulane University, New Orleans, August 21 – October 10
_____Schick Art Gallery, Skidmore College, Saratoga Springs, New York, March 9 – April 11
Science + Fiction, Deutsches Museum, Munich, October 9 – January 9 (catalog)
Accrochage de groupe, Galerie Nelson, Paris, September 7 to October 2
Aufruhr der Gefuhle. Leidenschaften in der zeitgenossischen Fotografie, Museum fur Photographie, Braunschweig, Germany, August 15 – October 31
Not Done! Het Kunsttenaarsboek (The Artists’ Book), Muhka:Museum Van Hedendaagse Kunst, Antwerp, June 19 – August 29 (catalog)
Between Nano-World and Global Culture, science + fiction, Nobel Museum, Stockholm, Sweden, June 18 – September 19
Out of Place, Galerie Nordenhake, Berlin, June 8 – July 24
Landscapes, National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa, June 4 – September 30
Flirts. Art e pubblicita, Museion: Museum fur moderne und zeitgenossische Kunst, Bolzano, Italy, May 28 – Aug 29
Art Nature Grandeur, Parc de La Courneuve, St. Denis, France, May 15 – October 17 (catalog)
Support, Neue Galerie Graz am Landesmuseum Joanneum, Graz, May 14 to August 29
Schriftbilder Bilderschrift, Galerie Von Bartha, Basel, May 13 – August 31 (catalog)
Walk Me: Die Kunstzeile an der Wienzelle, Architekturzentrum, Vienna, April 15 – May 10
Identities: Canadian Portraits, McMichael Gallery, Toronto, February 28 – June 13
2003
Baja to Vancouver: The West Coast and Contemporary Art, Seattle Art Museum, October 9 – January 4 (catalog)
Gegenlicht, Buwog-Kundenzentrum, Vienna, September 30 – December 31
Contact Photo, Toronto Festival of Photography, Toronto, May 1 – 31
Der Rest der Welt, Neuffer am Park, Pirmasens, Germany, April 5 – June 22 (catalog)
Social Strategies: Redefining Social Realism, University Art Museum, University of California at Santa Barbara, March – (catalog)
Micropolitics: Everyday Life and Art, Espai d’Art Contemporani de Castelló, Castelló, Spain, January 31 – March 30 (catalog)
Sight.Seeing: 4th Austrian Triennale on Photography, Graz, Austria, January 10 – February 28 (catalog)
M_ARS. Kunst und Krieg, Neue Galerie Graz am Landesmuseum Joanneum, Graz, January 11 – March 26 (catalog)
Faiseurs d’Histoire, Galerie du Théâtre de Bretagne, Rennes, France, January 7 – February 23
2002
Science and Fiction, Sprengel Museum, Hannover, December 15 – March 9 (catalog)
_____Zentrum für Kunst und Medientechnologie, Karlruhe, April – June 2003
_____Kulturforum, Berlin, July – August 2003
_____Deutsches Hygiene Museum, Dresden, November – January 2004
Sans Commune Mesure, Centre National Photographie, Paris, September 11 – November 18 (catalog)
To Whom It May Concern, CCAC Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts, San Francisco, September 4 – October 26
This Place, Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver, June 29 – January 12, 2003
Documenta 11, Kassel, Germany, June 8 – September 15 (catalog)
26th Duisburger Akzente: Das Eigene und Das Fremde Globalisierung der Kulturen, Galeria Kaufhof, Duisburg, Germany, June 8 – July 7 (catalog)
Le Regard de l’Autre, Musée des Beaux-Arts, Rouen, France, April 27 – September 2
Mega: manifeste der amaßung—forum für experimentelle architektur, Kunstlerhaus, Vienna, April 10 – June 2 (catalog)
Unpacking Europe, Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Rotterdam, December – March 2002 (catalog)
______House of World Cultures, Berlin, September 14 – November
2001
Kommunicative Röhren, OK Centrum für Gengenwartskunst,
Linz, Austria, December 6, 2001 – February 10, 2002 (catalog)
______Casino-Forum d’Art Contemporain, Luxembourg, March 8 – May 5, 2002
Mutations, TN Probe Gallery, Tokyo, November 10 – January 26, 2002, (catalog)
______Raffinerie, Brussels, October 25 – January 6, 2002
Text Message, Galeria Helga de Alvear, Madrid, November 8 – January 4
There is No Place Like Home, Galerie Brotfabrik, Berlin, October 4 – December 16
Le Pouvoir de la Réflection, Galerie Liane et Danny Taran, Centre des Arts Saidye Bronfman, Montreal, September 13 – November 4 (catalog)
There Is No Place Like Home, Le Mois de la Photo, Montreal, September 7 – October 21 (catalog)
Shoes or No Shoes, Museum Voor Schoene Kunsten, Gent, Belgium, July 13 – August 26
Affinités, Le Quartier, Centre d’Art Contemporain, Quimper, France, July 1 – October 7
Plateau of Humankind, 49th Biennale of Venice, (Arsenale), Venice, June 10 – November 4 (catalog)
Lofoten Island Summer Festival of the Arts, Lofoten Island, Norway, June 9 – July 15 (catalog)
Neue Welt, Frankfurter Kunstverein, Frankfurt, June 1 – September 23 (catalog)
Archives: Le Printemps, Le Centre Création de Bazouges la Pérouse, France, April 6 – June 4
Group Show with Trans Editions, Chac Mool Gallery, Los Angeles, April 3 – 17
Talk the Talk, Atelier Gallery, Vancouver, March 15 – April 3
2000
Contemporary Photography II: Anti-Memory, Yokohama Museum of Art, Yokohama, Japan, November 23 – January 21, 2001 (catalog)
Bienal de Havane, November 16 – December 31 (catalog)
Shanghai Spirit: Shanghai Biennale 2000, Shanghai Art Museum Shanghai, November 6 – December 14 (catalog)
1999
Life Cycles, Galerie für Zeitgenössische Kunst, Leipzig, October 24 – December 5 (catalog)
Babel, Ikon Gallery, September 11 – November 7 (catalog)
Venus’s Window, Centro Civico per l’Arte Contemporanea La Grancia, Serre di Rapolano, Italy, July 31 – August 8
Laboratorium, Antwerpen Open, Provinciaal Museum voor Fotografie, June 27 – October 3 (catalog)
Face to Face: Four Centuries of Portraits, Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver, June 19 – September 26
In the City, FRAC de Haute-Normandie, Rouen, France, May 18 – July 31 (catalog)
Cities on the Move, Hayward Gallery, Royal Festival Hall, London, May 13 – June 27 (catalog)
Sweet & Sour, Galerie Art & Public, Geneva, Switzerland, April 22 – May 22
Visions Urbaines, Galerie du Rnb, FRAC de Bretagne, Rennes, France, January 11 – 31
1998
Photography as Concept, 4th International Foto-Triennale Esslingen, Esslingen, Germany, June 28 – September 6 (catalog)
John Currin, Felix Gonzalez-Torres, Sean Landers, Ken Lum, Dan Peterman, Andrea Rosen Gallery, New York, June 23 – July 16
Between Earth and Sky, University of Hong Kong Art Gallery, Hong Kong, China (catalog), June 23 – August 1
Recent Acquisitions to the Photography Collection, Morris and Helen Belkin Art Gallery, Vancouver, June 29 – September 27
Cities On The Move, CAPC Musée d’Art Contemporain de Bordeaux, Bordeaux, June 4 – August 30 (catalog)
_____PS1 Center for Contemporary Art, New York,
Travel and Leisure, Paula Cooper Gallery, New York, May 2 – June 30
Ken Lum, Chen Zhen, Catriona Jeffries Gallery, Vancouver, March 19 – April 25
The Art of Memory: Ken Lum, Liisa Roberts, Bill Viola, Judi Werthein, The Center for Curatorial Studies Museum, Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, New York, March 8 – 22 (catalog)
Arrêt Sur Image, Galerie Art & Public, Geneva, March 5 – 31
1997
Cities On The Move, Vienna Secession, Vienna, November 25 – January 18 (catalog)
Repeated Gestures, Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver, November 22 – February 15, 1998
Heaven – Private View, P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center, New York, October 26 – January 30, 1998 (catalog)
Browser: Artropolis ’97, Roundhouse Community Centre, Vancouver, October 25 – November 23 (catalog)
The Exquisite Corpse, Presentation House Gallery, North Vancouver, October 15 – 19
2nd Johannesburg Biennale, Johannesburg, South Africa, October 12 – January 18 (catalog)
inSITE 97: Artists’ Concepts, Athenaeum Music and Arts Library, La Jolla, California, September 27 – November 29
inSITE 97, various public sites in San Diego/Tijuana, September 26 – November 30 (catalog)
Hotel on Fire, Okanagan Art Gallery, Kelowna, B.C., Canada, August 16 – October 13 (catalog)
One Minute Scenario, Printemps de Cahors, Cahors, France, June 6 – 21 (catalog)
Foto Text Text Foto, Fotomuseum Winterthur, Winterthur, Switzerland, April – June (catalog)
In Visible Light: Photography & Classification in Art, Science and The Everyday, Museum of Modern Art, Oxford, England, March 5, 20125, 201216 – June 22 (catalog)
_____Inverleith House, Botanic Gardens, Edinburgh, Scotland, December 13, 1997 – February 15, 1998
_____Harris Museum and Art Gallery, Preston,
_____Moderna Museet, Stockholm, Sweden, October 10 – January 10, 1999
_____Museum of Photography, Helsinki, Finland, January 30 – March 31, 1999
The 20th: 1977 – 1997, The Bartlett Exhibition and Peformance Space, Vancouver, February 12 – 28
Synthese von Fotografie und Text in der Gengenwartskunst, Frankfurter Kunstverein, Frankfurt, January 27 – March 10 (catalog)
1996
a/drift, Center for Curatorial Studies Museum, Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, New York, October 20 – January 5, 1997 (catalog)
Synthese von Fotografie und Text in der Gegenwartskunst, Museum of Modern Art, Bolzano, Italy, September 7 – November 17 (catalog)
Fact or fiction? Four Canadian artists, Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney, August 27 – December 1 (catalog)
Shopping: New York, project organized by Jerome Sans and Deitch Projects, New York (catalog)
Surfing Systems, Kasseler Kunstverein, Kassel, Germany, June 19 – August 4 (catalog)
Reading and Re-reading: Selections from the Permanent Collection, Oakville Galleries, Oakville, Ontario, April 20 to June 9 (brochure with essay)
The OH! Canada Project, Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto, February 16 – May 5
1995
Der zweite Blick, Haus der Kunst, Munich, November 4 – December 3 (catalog)
Infra-sound: a city project, various sites in Hamburg, sponsored by Woche die Bildenden Kunst, Hamburg, October 12 – November 30 (catalog)
Shopping, various sites in Bordeaux, sponsored by CAPC, Museum of Contemporary Art, Bordeaux, September 9 – October (catalog)
Album: The Photographic Collection of the Museum, Museum Boymans-van Beuningen, August 19 – November 19 (catalog)
Untitled (Reading Room), Margo Leavin Gallery, Los Angeles, July 15 – August 15
On Board, Riva San Biagio, Venice Biennale, Venice, June 6 – 13 (catalog)
Peinture, Photo et Compagnie, Espaces des Nouvelles Galeries, Arles, July 7 – August 15 (catalog)
Notion of Conflict: A selection of contemporary Canadian art, Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, May 11 – June 11 (catalog)
Pièces – Meublés, Galerie Jousse Seguin, Paris, May 6 – July 31
Crash Pad, Postmasters Gallery, New York, April 29 – May 27
Works from the Permanent Collection, Oakville Galleries, Oakville, Canada, April 8 – May 3
1994
GEWALT/Geschäfte, Neue Gesellschaft für bildende Kunst, Berlin, December 8 – February 19 (catalog)
Collection Modern Art, Museum Boymans-van Beuningen, Rotterdam, December (catalog)
Prospect/Retrospect, Kunstmuseum Luzern, October 14 – November 27 (catalog)
Das Archiv/The Archive, Forum Stadtpark, Graz, Austria, October 13 – November 2 (catalog)
Practice Ground, Ottawa Art Gallery, Ottawa, September 8 – October 23 (catalog)
Die Orte der Kunst: Der Kunstbetrieb als Kunstwerk, Sprengel Museum, Hannover, May 29 – September 11 (catalog)
don’t look now, Thread Waxing Space, New York, January 22 – February 26 (catalog)
1993
Collections, Musée Municipal de La Roche-sur-Yon, France, December 17 – January 31
Viennese Story, Vienna Secession, December 15 – January 23 (catalog)
Space of Time, Americas Society, New York, September 23 – (catalog)
_____Museo del Oeste, Caracas, Venezuela
_____Centro Cultural Recoleta, Buenos Aires, Argentina
_____Center for the Fine Arts, Miami
Konstruktion Zitat: Kollective Bilder in der Fotografie, Sprengel Museum Hannover, August 28 – October 31 (catalog)
Die Sprache Der Kunst: Die Beziehung von Bild und Text in der Kunst des 20. Jahrhunderts, Kunsthalle Vienna, September 3 – October 17 (catalog)
_____Frankfurter Kunstverein, Frankfurt, December 4 – February 20
Before the sound of the beep, various galleries of the Marais, Paris, August 1 – 31 (catalog)
Guelph Spring Festival, MacDonald Stewart Art Gallery, Guelph, Ontario, May 6 – June 13
Canada, une nouvelle génération, FRAC des Pays de la Loire; Musée de La Roche-sur-Yon; Musée des Sables d’Olonne, April 3 – May 30 (catalog)
Drawing Ideas, Atelier Gallery, Vancouver, March 27 – April 17
Working Documents: Vancouver Drawings, Artspeak Gallery, Vancouver, January 16 – February 6
Live in your head, Heilgenkreuzerhof, Hochschule fur Angewandte Kunst & Galerie Metropol, Vienna, January 8 – February 12 (catalog)
1992
Sydney Biennale, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia, December 15 – March 14, 1993 (catalog)
C. Eckart, G. Kuitca, J. Lasker, K. Lum, McDermot & McGough, D. Moylan, Galleria Galliani, Genoa, Italy, December – January
Proiezioni, Buchholz & Buchholz, Cologne, October 22 – November 18 (catalog)
1968, Le Consortium, Dijon, France, October 17 – December 31 (catalog)
One & One, La Galerie Du Mois, Paris, October 3 – 31
Avantgarde & Kampagne, Städtische Kunsthalle Düsseldorf, September 18 – 27 (catalog)
Moltiplici culture: Arte Critica 1992, Casa Della Citta, Rome, May 19 – July 19 (catalog)
The Speaker Project, Institute of Contemporary Art, London, September – December
“30 11”, Galerie des Archives, Paris, May 13 – July 11
C’est pas la fin du monde, Galerie Art & Essai, La Criée, Halle d’art contemporain, FRAC Bretagne – Galerie du TNB, Rennes, France, May 12 – June 27 (catalog)
Sporting Type, S.L. Simpson Gallery, Toronto, May 7 – June 2
Neuerwerbungen 1990/1991, Städtische Galerie im Lenbachhaus, Munich, April 7 – May 10
Rodney Graham, Ken Lum, Galerie Nelson, Lyon, France, March 17 – May 16
Cameres Indiscretas, Centre d’Art Santa Monica, Barcelona, March 12 – April 12; Circulo de Bellas Aries, Madrid, May 27 – June 28 (catalog)
Internationale Künstlerplakate Saarbrücken, Saarbrücken, Germany, March 5 – 22 (catalog)
J. S. Bernard, Ken Lum, Joan Wallace, Pat Hearn Gallery, New York, February 15 – March 21
1991
The Wealth of Nations, Centre for Contemporary Art (Ujazdowski Castle), Warsaw, Poland, December 6 – January 12 (catalog)
Lieux communs – Figures singulières, Musée d’Art Moderne, Paris, October 24 – January 5 (catalog)
Carnegie International, Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh, PA, October 19 – February 16 (catalog)
As Yet Untitled, Gallery 400, University of Illinois at Chicago, October 2 – November 1
Projections, Castello di Rivara (Torino), September 21 – November 3
Jessica Diamond, Jeanne Dunning, Felix Gonzalez-Torres, Hirsch Perlman, Ken Lum, Michel Zumpf, The Archives, Art Information Center, Rotterdam, September
Just what is it that Makes Today’s Homes so Different, so Appealing?, The Hyde Collection, Glen Falls, New York, September 7 – November 17 (catalog)
Van, Wilkie Fine Arts, Seattle, Washington, July 2 – August 18
Art Conceptuel des Années 70 A Aujourd’hui, Galerie Rüdiger Schöttle, Paris, May 4 – June 15
Goya to Beijing, Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver, May 4 – June 17
Bildlicht: Malerei Zwischen Material Und Immaterialität, Museum Des 20. Jahrhunderts, Vienna, May 3 – July 7 (catalog)
The Museum of Natural History, Galerie Barbara Farber, Amsterdam, April 27 – June 15
Daniel Buren, Stephen Prina, Ken Lum, Rudolf Stingel, Home: for Contemporary Theatre and Art, New York, April 26 – May 19
La Revanche De L’Image. Galerie Pierre Huber, Geneva, March 14 – April 13 (catalog)
Echoes After the Storm: Tiananmen Memorial Art Exhibition, Asian Centre, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, January 12 – 26
Telekinesis, Mincher/Wilcox Gallery, San Francisco, January 10 – February 2
1990
(not so) Simple Pleasures, MIT List Visual Arts Center, Boston, December 8 – February 3 (catalog)
No, Not That One, It’s Not A Chair, Galerie 1900 – 2000, Paris, December 3 – January 12 (catalog)
Total Metal, Simon Watson , New York, November 3 -December 1 (catalog)
150 Ans de Photographie, Museé des Beaux Art, Nantes, November 16 – January 14, 1991
Art et Publicité, Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, October 30 – February 25 (catalog)
Op-positions, Fotographie Biennale Rotterdam II, Rotterdam, September 1 – October 14 (catalog)
The Thing Itself, Feature Gallery, New York, July 10 – August 10
Red, Galerie Isy Brachot, Brussels June 27 – September 29 (catalog)
Goya To Beijing, Centre International d’Art Contemporain, Montréal, June 1-July 29
Ausstellungraum, Galerie Johnen & Schöttle, Cologne, April 27 – June 2
Disconnections, Galleri Nordanstad-Skarstedt, Stockholm, March 26 – April 21
Information, Terrain Gallery, San Francisco, January 4 – February 3
Gallery Artists, Galerie Daniel Buchholz, Cologne, January
1989
Foto-Kunst, Stuttgarter Staatsgalerie, Stuttgart, November 11 – January 14 (catalog)
Selections from the Ann and Marshall Webb Collection, Art Gallery of York University, Toronto, November 1 – December 17 (catalog)
D & S Austellung, Kunstverein in Hamburg and Kunsthaus Hamburg, October 13- November 26 (catalog)
Prospect Photographie, Frankfurter Kunstverein and Schirn Kunsthalle, Frankfurt, October 10- November 4 (catalog)
Jennifer Bolande, Tim Ebner, Mike Kelley, Ken Lum, Robbin Lockett Gallery, Chicago, October 6 – November 4
Fictions, Montréal International Airport and Galerie Aubes 3935, September 30 – December 31 (catalog)
Internationale Foto-Triennale 1989, Villa Merkel, Esslingen, Germany, September 17 – November 5 (catalog)
The Play of the Unsayable: Ludwig Wittgenstein and the Art of the 20th Century, Vienna Secession, Vienna, September 13 – October 29 (catalog)
_____Palais des Beaux Arts, Brussels, December 15 – January 28
Oppningsutstallning, Galleri Nordanstad-Skarstedt, Stockholm, September 9 – 30
Vis a Vis Der Kamera: Aspekte Der Actuellen Portrait Fotografie, Galerie Grita Insam, Vienna, July 9 – September 9; Museum of Contemporary Art, s’Hertogenbosch, The Netherlands, September 22 – October 29 (catalog)
Problems with Reading/Rereading, Rhona Hoffman Gallery, Chicago, March 24 – April 22
Prospect 89, Frankfurter Kunstverein and Schirn Kunsthalle, Frankfurt, March 21 – May 21 (catalog)
Ken Lum, Jeff Wall, Galerie Rudiger Schöttle, Munich, February 8 – March 18
1988
John Hilliard, Barbara Kruger, Ken Lum, Richard Prince, Jeff Wall, Galleri Contur, Stockholm, November 19 – December 12
Democracy: Cultural Participation, an exhibition by Group Material, Dia Art Foundation, 77 Wooster Street, New York, November 19 – December 20
Selected Photo-Editions of the 80’s, Galerie Wilma Tolksdorf, Hamburg
(W)orte, Galerie der Künstler, Munich, October 28 – November 24
Gallery Artists, Galerie Crousel-Robelin/Bama, Paris, October 15 – November 26
Carl Andre, Daniel Buren, Ericson & Ziegler, Ronald Jones, Ken Lum, Julian Opie, Hirsch Perlman, Wolff Gallery, New York, September 15 – October 8
Yellow Peril:, Chisenhale Gallery, London, September 26 – October 16
New York Now, Esbo Museum of Art, Helsinki, Finland, August 28 – September 25 (catalog)
_____Norrköping Museum of Art, Norrköping, Sweden, October 9 Nov 11
_____Göteborg, Museum of Art, Göteborg, Sweden, November 26 – Jan. 29
_____Sundsvall Museum of Art, Sundsvall, Sweden, February 11 – March 27
_____Södertälje Museum of Art, Södertälje, Sweden, April 8 – May 28
Presi X Incantamento: L’Immagine Fotografica nelle Nuove Tendenze Internationali, Museo Padiglione d’Arte Contemporanea, Milan, June 7 – August 18 (catalog)
Art et Langage: Annees 80, œuvres choisies, Centres d’Histoire de l’Art Contemporain, Rennes, France (catalog)
Furniture as Art: Recent Tendencies in Sculpture, Museum Boymans-Van Beuningen, Rotterdam, April 24 – June 6 (catalog)
The Discursive Field of Recent Photography, ARC, Toronto, April 2 – 23 (catalog)
Christoph Andres, Larry Johnson, Ken Lum, Hans-Jorg Mayer, Harald F.Muller, David Robbins, Galerie Daniel Buchholz, Cologne, February 5 – March 12
Striving for Ideal Resolution, Nickle Arts Museum, Calgary, January 22 – March 13 (catalog)
1987
Nightfire, De Appel Foundation, Amsterdam, December 20 – January 31 (catalog)
Galerie De Lege Ruimte, Brugge, Belgium, December 6 – January 24
Logos, Anne Plumb Gallery, New York, December
Signes des Temps, Ghislaine Hussenot, Paris, November 28 – January 1
For Collectors, Cleveland Centre for Contemporary Art, Cleveland, Ohio
John M. Armleder, Klaus Vom Bruch, Ken Lum, Hans-Jorg Mayer, Otto Mecky, Galerie Daniel Buchholz, Cologne, December
Jenny Holzer, Louise Lawler, Ken Lum, Galerie Crousel-Robelin/Bama, Paris, October 17 – November 17
Material Fictions, The 49th Parallel Centre for Contemporary Canadian Art, New York, September 12 – 16 (catalog)
_____State University of New York, Binghampton Gallery, October 9- November 8
Multiples, Galerie Daniel Buchholz, Cologne, September 11 – October 17
Alan Belcher, Ken Lum, Coburg Gallery, Vancouver, April 8 – May 2
Kunst Mit Fotographie, Galerie Ralph Wernicke, Stüttgart, April 4 – May 7 (catalog)
Der Reine Alltag, Galerie Christophe Dürr, Munich, March 13 – April 25 (catalog)
1986
Foto Cliché, Victoria Miro Gallery, London, December 15 – January 27 (catalog)
_____The Orchard Gallery, Derry, Northern Ireland
James Casebere, Clegg & Guttmann, Ken Lum, Galerie Daniel Buchholz (Rudolf Zwirner) Cologne, November 13 – December 6
Au Coeur du Maelström, Palais des Beaux Arts, Brussels, September 19 – October 19 (catalog)
Caravelles: General Idea, Sol LeWitt, Ken Lum, Centre National d’Art Contemporain, Grenoble, June 22 – September 25 (catalog)
Damaged Goods: Desire and the Economy of the Object, The New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York, June 21 – August 10 (catalog)
1985
Transitional Objects: An Exhibition Organized by Joseph Kosuth, Galerie Philip Nelson, Lyon, October 18 – December 21
Ex-Academe, Contemporary Art Gallery, Vancouver, November 1 – 30
The Public Art Show, Nexus Centre for Contemporary Art, Atlanta, November
_____C.W. Woods Gallery, University of Southern Mississippi, Hattiesburg, Mississippi
_____Carolina Program Union, University of South Carolina, Columbia, South Carolina
_____Austin Peay State University, Clarksville, Tennessee; Valencia Community College, Orlando, Florida
_____North Carolina Museum of Art, Raleigh, North Carolina, August 16 – October 19, 1986
_____University of the South, Sewanee, Tennessee
Barbara Ess, Rodney Graham, Ken Lum, Galerie Rudiger Schottle, München, July 17 – August 31 (catalog)
Rodney Graham, Ken Lum, Jeff Wall, Ian Wallace, The 49th Parallel Center for Contemporary Canadian Art, New York, February 9 – March 9
1984
Poco Rococo, Coquitlam Mall, Coquitlam, British Columbia, June 2 – 15
Miyagi Biennale, Miyagi Museum of Art, Sendai, Japan, April 24 – May 6 (catalog)
Contact II, Walter Phillips Gallery, Banff, Alberta, January 9 – 29
1982
Real Life Magazine Presents, White Columns Gallery, New York, May 11 – 26
1979
Living Art Performance Festival, Firehall Theatre, Vancouver, September 21 – October 21 (catalog)
WRITINGS BY THE ARTIST:
2020
Letter to My Mother, essay in forthcoming book tentatively titled: Best! Letters from Asian Americans.
Everything is Relevant: Writings on Art and Life, 1991 – 2018. Concordia University Press, Montreal. 340 pages.
2019
Revisiting 1984 China. Essay contribution for “Beautiful China” book published by L/A (Landscape/Architecture) magazine. Censored by the Chinese government and remains unpublished.
Necrology Series, “Language and Art” issue, Border Crossings, Issue 149, Volume 38, Number 1, April-May 2019, pages 73 – 77.
2018
On Monument Lab, http://magazine.art21.org/2018/01/26/on-monument-lab/#.Wmuvaa2ZNBw, Winter 2018 issue, January 26, 2018
2017
Monument Lab: Memorializing Philadelphia as a Place of Crisis and Boundless Hope. http://penniur.upenn.edu/publications/monument lab-memorializing-philadelphia
2016
The Other in the Carpet Catalogue essay for the Museum of Contemporary Art, Cleveland exhibition: “Carpets by Artists”
Living in America: The differences in the Canadian and American Art Scenes, Canadian Art, Winter, 2016
2014
Some Reflections on Urban Public Art Today. Urban Link Penn IUR on-line magazine
http://penniur.upenn.edu/publications/some-reflections-on-urban-public art-today
2013
From Chalk Circle to Full Circle: The Art of Ian Wilson. Dia Art Foundation, New York City.
Looking Up: Art and the Image, M+ Museum of Visual Culture Publications, texts from M+ Matters: ARTWORKDOCUMENTATION symposium, Hong Kong.
Canadian Identity Debates are Broken. Let’s Fix them. Canadian Art, May 9, http://www.canadianart.ca/features/2013/05/09/ken-lum-who-speaks-for-canadian-culture/
2012
Past & Present, Art & Labour Meet, Canadian Art, December 4, http://www.canadianart.ca/features/2012/12/04/ken-lum-art-labour/
The City of Brotherly Love, Canadian Art, August 5, http://www.canadianart.ca/features/2012/08/16/the-city-of-brotherly-love/
2011
W/Here: Contesting Knowledge in the 21st Century, European League of Institutes of the Arts Annual Symposium, Vancouver
2010
Yishu, Archives and China-West exchanges in museology to date, CIMAM: The International Council of Museums, Barcelona, Spain
Melly Shum hates her job, but not the Witte de With, Witte de With Press, Rotterdam, The Netherlands (catalog essay for the 20th anniversary of the Witte de With Center for Contemporary Art
2009
Dear Steven, (chapter essay) Art School: Propositions for the 21st Century, The MIT Press, Cambridge, Massachusetts, Ed: Steven Henry Madoff
To Say or Not to Say: Art and the Real, Emily Carr University Press, Vancouver. Ed: Sadira Rodrigues and Melanie O’Brian
The Art of Liu Wei, In Production Mode: Contemporary Art in China, Timezone 8 Books, Beijing Ed: Pauline Yao
2008
Ultimo Bagagio, Hubert Damisch and Ken Lum, One Star Press, Paris
2007
Encountering Chen Zhen, Exhibition Catalogue essay, Kunsthalle Vienna, Vienna
2006
Gentle Indifference: the Art of Rhonda Weppler and Trevor Mahovsky, Rhonda Weppler and Trevor Mahovsky, Southern Alberta Art Gallery, Lethbridge, Alberta, ISBN: 1-894699-36-X / 978-1-894699-36-5
2005
Surprising Sharjah, Canadian Art, Vol. 22, Pt. 3, Fall 2005, pages 98 – 103
Contemporary Art within and without Institutions, Siting International Exhibitions: Biennales and the South, Constitution Club, Delhi (conference anthology)
Desire and Nomadicity: the life of the artist, (catalog essay), 7th Sharjah Biennial exhibition catalog, Sharjah Art Museum, Sharjah, United Arab Emirates
2004
Aesthetic Education in Republican China, (catalog essay), Shanghai Modern: 1919 – 1945, (exhibition catalog), Museum Villa Stuck, Munich, Germany
2002
Editorial Comment, Yishu Journal of Contemporary Chinese Art, Vol. 1, No. 1, May, pages 4 – 8
2001
There Is No Place like Home, Le Mois de La Photo, Montreal, published by Vox: Centre de Diffusion de la Photographie, September, pages 92 – 97
In Search of Wabi-Sabi, Center For Contemporary Art, Kitakyushu, Japan (Artist’s book project), 84 pages
An Interview with Ken Lum, by Cathy Busby, National Gallery of Canada Review, Vol. 2, 89 – 104
Special Project Consultant, The Short Century: Post Colonial African Art, Museum Villa Stuck, Munich
Of Chinese Contemporary Art and Continued International Engagement, Art & Collection (Taiwan)
Homage a Chen Zhen, Point d’Ironie, Agnes B Boutiques, Paris
Contradiction and Future Synthesis in the Model of the Shanghai Biennale, Art & Collection (Taiwan), 12, No. 99, pages 70 – 71
The Artist as Travelling Minstrel, Art & Collection, 9, No. 96, pages 114 – 117
1999
Canadian Cultural Policy: A Problem of Metaphysics, Inside Out: Reassessing International Cultural Influence Conference, BWA Gallery, Wroclaw, Poland
Window onto Venus Conference Reportage, Centro Civico, Serre di Rapolano, Italy, July 31 – August 8. www.zerynthia.it
Considerations of Race, Sex and Multiple Identities aboard the Raft of the Medusa, Nka: Journal of Contemporary African Art, Spring/Summer 1999, No. 10
Shanghai Biennale, Art & Text, No. 65, May-July, pages 88-89
Dak’Art 98, Nka: Journal of Contemporary African Art, Fall/Winter 1998, No. 9, page 71
Blame it on Conceptual Art, La Pala: A non-objectual art virtual magazine, (Mexico)
1998
Dak’Art 98, Art & Text, No. 63, November-January, pages. 89-90
Windows into Germany’s Soul: The Ambivalent Gaze of Photographer Thomas Ruff, National Post, (Canada) Friday, November 20, Arts & Life, pages B6-B7
Review of 6 New Vancouver Modern, Canadian Art, Vol. 15, No. 2, Summer/June, pages 46-51
1997
Beauty, Textuality, and Allusion in Photo-Media Art: Strategies of Canadian Artists as Producers, Universities Art Association of Canada Conference, Emily Carr Institute of Art and Design and the University of British Columbia, panel discussion moderated by James L. Gillespie, Vancouver, Canada (November 8)
Opening Remarks and Plenary Speaker: The Parable of the Young Artist, Universities Art Association of Canada Conference, Emily Carr Institute of Art and Design, Vancouver, Canada (November 6)
Low, William and Lum Ken: “Dialogue with Contemporary Asian Artists”, (video discussion) Asia Pacific Arts Festival, Asian Centre, University of British Columbia, October 23
Lemieux, Lyse, and Lum, Ken: “Dialogue on the exhibition of the Gordon Smith Exhibition at the Vancouver Art Gallery”, le Monde a l’Enver, French Radio-Canada (Vancouver), Sunday, October 27
Photography/text pages for catalog Parisien(ne)s, an exhibition sponsored by the Institute of International Visual Arts held at Camden Arts Centre, London, February 7 – March 23
1995
Frisinghelli, Christine, ed., “Ken Lum”, Camera Austria, No. 51 – 52, pages 88-98
Zalm, Olivier, and Fleiss, Elein, eds. “Liquid Science Fiction: Interview with William Gibson by Bernard Joisten and Ken Lum, Purple Prose, (Paris), No. 9, Summer, pages 10-16
Perrin, Frank, ed. Bloc Notes, (Paris), No. 8, Winter, pages 58-59
“Ten Widely Played Stories on Local Television and Newspaper in One August Week in Vancouver, Canada “, catalog essay for exhibiton by Alexander Timtschenko at Galerie Wittenbrink, Munich, Germany
1994
Brooks, Sharon, and White, Carolyn, eds. “Pull-out poster project”,
Work, (Toronto), edition 1, Summer: centerfold
Brayer, Marie-Ange, ed. “Byron Nelson Chang”, Exposé, (Orléans, France), No. 1, Spring: pages 74-77
1993
Nixon, John, ed. Kerb Your Dog, (Sydney, Australia), No. 13
1992
Imschoot, Uitgevers, publishers, Speculations, Ken Lum, (Gent, Belgium)
coordinated by Cornelia Lauf, IL Series of books.
1991
Snodgrass, Susan, ed., “Carnegie Library Project”, Whitewalls (Chicago), No. 29, pages 15-21
1988
Public Access. “Untitled Language Paintings, 1987”, Public (Toronto), Vol. 1, Winter: pages 44-51
1987
“Advertisements by Artists: Alan Belcher, Ken Lum, Jana Sterbak”, C Magazine, Canadian Art, File Megazine, Parachute, Parallelogramme, Parkette, Vanguard, Winter – Spring issues
Ess, Barbara & Branca, Glenn. eds. “Thought Objects”, Just Another Asshole, (New York), No. 7, pages 30
1986
General Idea, ed., File Megazine (Toronto), No. 26, December
1984
Lawson, Thomas, ed., Real Life Magazine (New York), No.12, pages 13-14
Legris, Peter, ed. Rubicon (Montreal), No. 3, pages 212-213
1982
Lawson, Thomas, ed., Real Life Magazine, (New York), No. 8, pages 14-15
RT4: City Art Institute Student News, (Sydney, Australia). Cover.
1980
Performance Art Magazine, (Los Angeles) 2, June, page 41
PRESENTATIONS
2022
Delaware County Community College, Media, Pennsylvania, February 24
Society for Contemporary Art, Art Institute of Chicago, January 19
2021
Fondation Phi, Montreal, December 3
Monumental Reckoning, Paueru Gai, Powell Street Festival, Vancouver, November 20
Monument Lab x TO, Toronto, Canada, October 29
Glo Says Lets Talk Local, Podcast with Gloria Chong, Vancouver, October 24
Art and the Book, Volume 4 MTL, Montreal, September 29
Public Art and Monuments, Creative Canada Network, September 14
Menil Collection, Houston, TX, August 18
Yaddo Artists Forum: Reimagining Monuments, Yaddo Artist Residency, May 21
Monuments as Sites of Reckoning: the Built Environment as a Memorial, Chicago Monuments Project, City of Chicago Department of Cultural Affairs and Special Events, April 29
Inside-Out Art Museum, Beijing, January 8
2020
Project (unmonumenting), Stichting NDSM-werf Foundation, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, December 8 and 15 (webinar)
Art Gallery of Guelph, Guelph, Canada. December 3
Public Art and its Antimonies: Conversation with Steve Locke, Wang Xu, and Ken Lum, Asian Art Archive, New York, December 1
Barnard College, Columbia University, New York, November 30
Creative City Network of Canada Podcast, McEwen University, Edmonton, Alberta, November 20
Shaping the Past: Black Digital Futures, Goethe Institute, Toronto, October 23
Art, Design and the Public Domain Program, Department of Architecture, Harvard University, October 22, Cambridge, MA
Ken Lum in conversation with Kim Nguyen, Vancouver Art Book Fair, October 18
Becoming Public Art: Keynote Presentation, Markham Public Art Summit, Markham, Ontario, October 13
Stonecroft Lecture, University of Ottawa/National Gallery of Canada, October 12
Confronting Confederate Legacy Through Monument Removal, The Architect’s Newspaper. September 25
Monuments and Social Justice, Arthur Ross Gallery, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, September 24
Art and Social Responsibility Today, Artblog, Philadelphia, September 23
Next Steps for Monument Lab, Temple University, Philadelphia, September 22
South China Evening Post, Hong Kong interview
Royal Institute of Art, Stockholm, September 10
Hirshhorn Museum, Washington, D.C., September 2
Do We Still Need Monuments, Brooklyn Rail, New York, August 6
Markers, Monuments and Meaning: A National Conversation, Wisconsin Historical Society (Milwaukee), July 16
The Role of Public Art in Representing the Past, Munich Documentation Centre for the History of National Socialism, Podcast #9 with Monument Lab (Paul Farber and Ken Lum), June 26
Vancouver Art Gallery, May 26
Concordia University (Montreal) podcast, May 23
IG Interview, Frieze Art Fair, May 3
Art Metropole, Toronto, March 21
Invisible City Symposium. On Regionalism: Mid-century Art, Architecture and Culture in North America. University of the Arts, University of the Arts, Philadelphia, March 6
Conversation Ken Lum and Alexander Alberro, The Print Center, Philadelphia, March 4
Shadbolt Center Studio Theatre, Burnaby, B.C., Canada, February 27
Monument Lab Public Conversation. Housing Works Bookstore, New York, February 19
Public Art: City, Politics. Memory. Conference. Literaturhaus, Munich, Germany, January 30
Keynote Address for the Opening of Melly Space, Witte de With Center for Contemporary Art, Rotterdam, The Netherlands, January 17
2019
Navigating Landscapes of Memory: Reflections on Process and Power in Public Space with Monument Lab, Creative Time, Summit X, Cooper Union, New York City, November 16
Monument Lab: Public Think Tank on the High Line, New York, October 12
Future prospects and restorative strategies: How can we commemorate together? Bibliotheque et Archives nationale du Quebec, Montreal, October 7
VanCity Theatre, Vancouver, September 10
Madison Square Park Conservancy Symposium: Innovating Public Space, Sony Square, New York City, June 21
Theory X, The Bentway, Toronto, June 16
Not My Type: Thoughts on Typographic Taste, Concordia University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada, May 24
Monuments Summit, The Bentway, Toronto, Ontario, Canada, May 11
Monuments and Memory, Wolf Humanities, Penn Museum, Philadelphia, April 17
American Social History Project, City University of New York Graduate Center, New York City, February 6
Design Advocacy Group, Center for Architecture and Design, Philadelphia
2018
PASTFORWARD: A conference of the National Trust for Historic Preservation, Hyatt Regency, San Francisco, November 15
Winnipeg Art Gallery, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada, November 1
University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada, November 1
Yale University, New Haven, CT, October 17
Alliances of Artists Communities Conference, Loews Philadelphia Hotel, Philadelphia, October 13
Bryn Mawr College, Bryn Mawr, PA, October 10
MAS Summit for New York City, Municipal Art Society of New York, St. Bartholomew’s Church, New York City, October 9
Nuit Blanche, Toronto, Ontario, September 27
Front Triennale, Case Western University, Cleveland, Ohio, September 13, 14
Enduring Legacies of Public Art, Memorials, and Monuments. American for the Arts Annual Convention, Hyatt Regency Hotel, Denver, CO, June 14
Colby College, Waterville, ME, April 24
Hirshhorn Museum, Washington, D.C., March 29
Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts, San Francisco, CA, March 15
Talk with Doreen Garner and Ken Lum, Art21, Liberty Hall at Ace Hotel, New York City, February 5
2017
Visibility Conference, Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto, December 4
University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, October 19, 20
Monumental Exchange: Paul Farber, Tyree Guyton, Ken Lum, University of the Arts, Philadelphia, PA, October 11
Art Canada Institute, Toronto, June 16
University of the Arts, Philadelphia, PA, March 23
Art Gallery of Mississauga, Mississauga, Ontario, Canada, March 2
2016
Peace through Valour memorial unveiling, Nathan Phillips Square, City Hall, Toronto, Canada, June 24
BASE: Progetti per l’arte, Florence, Italy, June 9
Micro-Monuments, Harvard University Center for Hellenic Studies, Washington, DC, May 26 to 27
Praxis Dialogue II: Arts and Culture, FringeArts Performing Arts Theater, Philadelphia, April 11
2015
Making Home in the City: University-Community Partnerships in the Arts, Culture, and Humanities, Panel Moderator: Ken Lum, October 23
Art in the Service of Future Generations: a Dialogue between Veit Stratmann, Bethany Wiggin, Amze Emmons, Ken Lum and Aaron Levy, Slought Foundation, Philadelphia, October 6
Monument Lab: Ken Lum and Paul Farber, Philadelphia Center for Architecture, Philadelphia, May 8
Why do Humanities Matter? Trustees Council of Penn Women Annual Conference, Philadelphia, April 16
Designing for Collective Action: Krzysztof Wodiczko, Sergio Araya, Ken Lum, Aaron Levy and Orkan Telhan, Slought Foundation, Philadelphia, March 27
Activism, Evangelism, Art Panel with Pepon Osorio, Amy Sadao and Ken lum, Slought Foundation, Philadelphia, March 23
Vienna Kunsthalle Karlsplatz, Vienna, March 20
Art and the Activation of Public Space, Universitat für Angewandte Kunst, Vienna, Austria, March 17 to 19
Artist as Curator, Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, Rhode Island, March 5
In Conversation: Mark C Martinez and Ken Lum, The Galleries At Moore, Moore College of Art and Design, March 3
Department of Art, University of Oregon, Eugene, Oregon, January 28-29
2014
Alberta Public Art Summit, Canmore, Alberta, October 30
Department of Visual Arts, University of Chicago, October 27
Parsons School of Design, New York, October 15
Canada Remix, McGill Institute for the Study of Canada, McGill University, Montreal, September 23
Transart, Vienna, Austria, May 23
Universität für Angewandte Kunst (University of Applied Arts), Vienna, Austria, May 22
Artblog Radio Interview with Roberta Fallon and Libby Rosof, www.theartblog.org, February 4
2013
Yale Radio WYBC Interview by Brainard Carey, podcast archived at www.museumofnonvisibleart.com/interviews/ken-lum/, December 12
From Chalk Circle to Full Circle: The Art of Ian Wilson, Dia Art Foundation, New York, December 9
Asia Art Archive, Hong Kong, November 25
M+ Museum of Visual Culture, Hong Kong, November 23
Maryland Institute College of Art, Baltimore, Maryland, November 6 – 7
Centre for Dialogue, Simon Fraser University, Vancouver, Canada, October 23
Tyler School of Art at Temple University, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, September 25
Song Dong and Yin Xiuzhen, Terra Hall, University of The Arts, Philadelphia, September 14
Art Institute of Boston at Lesley University, Boston, Massachusetts, June 26 – 27
Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, January 4
2012
Geneva University of Art and Design (Haute Ecole d’Art et de Design Geneve), Geneva, Switzerland, May 2
Department of Fine Arts, York University, Toronto, April 24,25
Institute of Contemporary Art, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, February 20
From Analog to Digital Photography, Banff Centre, Banff, Alberta
February 7
Banff Centre, Banff, Alberta, January 10
2011
Arts Initiative Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan, November 26
1A Space, Hong Kong, November 23
British Higher School of Art and Design, Moscow, Russia, September 21
Art Moves Festival, Torun, Poland, September 16
Simon Fraser University and Portland Housing Society Community Services Society, Inter-Urban Gallery, Vancouver, June 28
Henry Art Gallery, Seattle, Washington, June 26
Art Gallery of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada May 26
Nieuw Welgelegen, Utrecht, The Netherlands, May 19
Rijksakademie van Beeldende Kunsten, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, May 17
“World Voices, Canadian Voices,” American Comparative Literature Association World Conference, Hyatt Hotel, Vancouver April 2,
February 10, Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver
2010
“Ghost Walk in Chinatown,” Vancouver, December 10
Conversations about Contemporary Canadian Art, National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa, November 19
“Yishu, archives, and China-West Exchanges in Museology to Date,” International Committee of ICOM for Museums and Collections of Modern Art Conference 2010 annual conference: “Common ground for museums in a global society”, Shanghai Art Museum, Shanghai, November 9
“Literatures and Public Spaces,” Musee d’art contemporain, Montreal, October 15 – 16
Public Salon: Vancouver Global Civic Society, The Playhouse Theatre, Vancouver, September 23
“Public Art and the Unsayable,” Department of Art History and Visual Art, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, September 22
Xi’an Art Museum, Xi’an, China, September 10
Pecha Kucha, Queen Elizabeth Theatre, Vancouver, June 23
Centre for Art in Public Spaces, Langara College, Vancouver, March 3
Banff Centre, Banff, Alberta, January 12
2009
“To say or not to say,” Speaking Truth to Reconcilation Symposium, Emily Carr University of Art and Design, October 23
“On a Redefinition of the Art School,” Manufactura’s Studio Gallery, Wuhan, China, September 19
Maine College of Art, Portland, Maine, July 20
Emily Carr University of Art and Design, July 7
On biennials/Tutto sulle biennali, C Festival Arte Contemporanea, Faenza, Italy, April 17 – 19
Banff Centre, Banff, Alberta, January 6
2008
Rijksakademie van beeldende kunsten, Amsterdam, June 18
University of California, Berkeley, March 27
California College of the Arts, San Francisco, January 29
2007
“Encountering Chen Zhen,” China and Canada, interconnected Conference, McCord Museum, Montreal, November 2
C6: The Art World is Flat, Pritzker Pavilion, Millenium Park, Chicago, April 27
Graduating Exhibition Keynote, Whitman College, Walla Walla, Washington, April 20
10th Annual Canadian Arts Summit, Sofitel Hotel Convention Centre, March 23, Montreal
University of Toronto Scarborough Campus, Scarborough, Ontario, March 6
2006
CAC, Vilnius, Lithuania, November 8
Meduse Centre d’Art, Quebec City, August 25
Sydney Biennale, Center of Fine Art, University of New South Wales, Sydney, August 10
National Gallery of Australia, Canberra, August 9
Australian National University School of Art, August 8
International Sculpture Center Conference, Crossroads Cincinnati, Cintas Center, Cincinnati, June 22
Asian Maps II, ARCO, Madrid, February 3
2005
Exhibition: A willing space? Panel discussion with Tadashi Kawamata, Director, Yokohama Triennale; Yusuke Nakahara, art critic; Jonathan Watkins, Director, Ikon Gallery, Birmingham; Alanna Heiss, Director, P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center/MOMA, New York, Yokohama Symposia, Yokohama, Japan, September 29
“Art and Ethnology”, Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, New York, June 30
Multiculturalism in Vancouver: Panel Discussion, Sponsored by CBC Radio 1, UBC Robson Square, Vancouver, May 2 (panelist)
On Chinese Contemporary Photography, Seattle Art Museum and University of Washington, Seattle, April 16
Expo Centre, Emirate of Sharjah, United Arab Emirates, April 8 (moderator)
Interview with Ken Lum (part two, hour two) on Dubai Eye Radio, Dubai, United Arab Emirates, March 28
Interview with Ken Lum (part one, hours one) on Dubai Eye Radio, Dubai, United Arab Emirates, March 14
The Power Plant Contemporary Art Centre, Toronto, February 13
Trinity College, University of Toronto, February 11
University of Toronto at Mississauga, February 9
Microsoft Campus, Redmond, Washington, February 4
Southern Biennales: Locus and Curatorial Concepts, Constitution Club, Delhi, India, January 17
Contemporary Art within and without Institutions, Constitution Club, Delhi, India, January 16
2004
Concordia University, Montreal, October 20, 21
CCA Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts, San Francisco, September 22, 23
Nickle Art Museum, Calgary, Alberta, September 17
Kulturhuset, Stockholm, Sweden, September 10
2003
Seattle Art Museum, Seattle, Washington, October 11
Wexner Center for Contemporary Art, Columbus, Ohio, January 30
l’Ecole des Beaux-Arts, Brest, France, January 13 – 17
2002
l’Université du Quebec á Montréal, October 23, 24
Nova Scotia College of Art and Design, Halifax, October 21, 22
Canadian Museum of Contemporary Photography, Ottawa, October 20
“Conversation with Ken Lum,” CBC FM Arts Report, Ottawa, September 20
“A dialogue between Lu Jie and Ken Lum,” Zunyi International Symposium: Curating in the Chinese Context, Long March Foundation, Guiyang, China, August 10
Contemporary Chinese Art, Fairchild Chinese Radio (hosted by Shengtian Zheng and Grace Leong), Vancouver, July 5
Chair: “Locating Asia: Globalisation and Art,” Morris Wosk Centre for Dialogue, Simon Fraser University, Vancouver, May 4
“Entrevue avec Ken Lum,” In Situ (hosted by Christoph Domino), Radio France Culture, Paris, April 17
Department of Visual Art, University of Art and Design, Zurich, April 4
University College of the Fraser Valley, Department of Fine Arts, Abbotsford, B.C., March 28
Royal College of Art, Department of Graduate Photography, London, March 13
University of Regina, Regina, Saskatchewan, January 24, 25
The Success and Failure of Canadian Art, Contemporary Art Society, Vancouver, January 22
2001
Art and Teaching: Fact or Fiction, Canadian Art Foundation symposium, SPIN Gallery, Toronto, November 14
Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin, Germany, October 25
St. John’s College, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, October 18
Royal College of Art, London, England, October 4
Lux Centre for Digital and Media Art, London, England, October 2
On Location, Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver, September 27
Green College, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, June 13
Center for Contemporary Art, Kitakyushu, Japan, May 16
Curatorial Practice and Criticism in Latin America: Trans-American Conversations on Art, (with Franis Alÿs, Bruce W. Ferguson, Ken Lum, Kitty Scott), Americas Society and Columbia University, New York, March 19
There is No Place like Home, Galerie im Taxispalais, Innsbruck, Austria, March 13
University of Victoria, Victoria, B.C., Canada, February 14 – 15
2000
Institut für Experimentelles Gestalten und Raumkunst, Universität für Angewandte Kunst, Vienna, December 15
Command N Centre for Electronic Art, Tokyo, November 26
Yokohama Museum of Art, Yokohama, Japan, November 25
Teatro Nacional, Galeria René Portocarrero, Havana, Cuba, November 16
Department of Art, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut, October 20
“A view from Goree Island and some thoughts on Gericault’s The Raft of the Medusa,” Departments of English, African Studies and French, Yale University, October 19
“The Role of the Artist,” Comox Valley Art Conference, North Island College, Courtenay, August 25 – 27
1999
National Museum of Ethnology of the Netherlands symposium, Leiden, The Netherlands, June 25 – 27
Inside Out: Reassessing International Cultural Influence, BWA Gallery, Wroclaw, Poland, June 12 – 16
State of the Art: Public Art in Vancouver, public forum discussion presented by Urbanarium, Robson Square Media Centre, Vancouver, February 3
The Banff Center for the Arts, Banff, Alberta, January 16
1998
School of Architecture, University of British Columbia, November 27
Las letras del arte [Art and Textuality], VII FITAC conference (International Forum on Contemporary Art Theory), Guadalajara, Mexico, September 10 – 12.
Interview with Ken Lum, Radio Television Hong Kong: The Morning Show, Hong Kong (June 25),
A conversation on contemporary art with Serge Guilbaut, Yves Michaud, Ken Lum and Kitty Scott, CITR UBC Radio, Vancouver (April 6)
Onder Aula, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Brussels, Belgium (January 14)
1997
Speaker Series 97, Contemporary Art Society and Emily Carr Institute of Art and Design, Vancouver, Canada (December 5)
Beauty, Textuality, and Allusion in Photo-Media Art: Strategies of Canadian Artists as Producers, Universities Art Association of Canada Conference, Emily Carr Institute of Art and Design and the University of British Columbia, panel discussion moderated by James L. Gillespie, Vancouver, Canada (November 8)
Opening Remarks and Plenary Speaker, Universities Art Association of Canada Conference, Emily Carr Institute of Art and Design, Vancouver, Canada (November 6)
l’Academie Francaise, Villa Medici Rome, Italy (April 29)
l’Ecole des Beaux-Arts du Havre, Yvetot, France (April 28)
l’Ecole Régionale d’Arts Plastiques de la Martinique, Fort-de-France, Martinique, April 14 – 23
1996
Australian Centre for Contemporary Art, Melbourne, Australia, September 6
Canberra Contemporary Artspace, Canberra, Australia (September 5)
Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney, Australia (September 4)
University of Westminster, London, England (February 20)
University of Staffordshire, Stoke-on-Trent, England (February 19)
Stills Gallery, Edinburgh, Scotland (February 17)
Grays School of Art, Robert Gordon University, Aberdeen, Scotland (February 16)
Napier University, Edinburgh, Scotland (February 14, 15)
Sheffield Hallam University, Sheffield, England (February 13)
Department of Fine Art, University of Leeds, England (February 13)
University of Derby, Derby, England (February 12)
Picturesque/Anti-Picturesque: Art at the Crossroads of Photography, Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver Feb 1
1995
Panel Discussion: Sasha Craddock, Ken Lum, Gillian Wearing, Camden Arts Centre, London, England, Oct. 14
Art in Vancouver, Cubitt Street Studios, London, England (October 11)
Culture Matin: Interview with Ken Lum, Radio France Culture, Paris, France (June 13)
Universität Gesamthochschule Essen, Essen, Germany (June 1, 2))
Jan van Eyck Akademie, Maastricht, The Netherlands (May 10, 11)
l’Ecole des Beaux-Arts, Valenciennes, France (April 4)
l’Ecole des Beaux-Arts, Nancy, France (February 27 – March 2)
Franco-Canadienne Rencontre, Musée d’Art Contemporain, Marseille, France (February 20)
l’Ecole Nationale des Beaux-Arts, Bordeaux, France (February 13 – 16)
Goldsmith College, University of London, England, (February 7)
De Ateliers, Amsterdam, The Netherlands (January 17, 24, 30, April 2)
1994
Symposium on Photography XV, Forum Stadtpark, Graz, Austria (October 14 – 16)
L’Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-Arts, Paris, France, (October 11)
University of Windsor, School of Visual Arts, Windsor, Ontario (September 22 – 23)
Ontario College of Art, Toronto, Ontario (September 19)
Ottawa Art Gallery, Ottawa, Ontario (September 17)
Walking Through the City: The Peripatetic in the Work of Dan Graham, Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto, Ontario (August 17)
1993
University of Graz, Department of Art History, Graz, Austria
Okanagan College, Department of Fine Arts, Kelowna, B.C.
1992
Biennale of Sydney, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia
Akademie der Bilden Kunsten, Stüttgart, Germany
Akademie der Bilden Kunsten, Munich, Germany
Goldsmith College, University of London, London, England
Jan van Eyck Academie, Maastricht, the Netherlands
Cameras Indiscretes, Centre d’Art Santa Monica, Barcelona, Spain
1991
Public Radio interview, Warsaw, Poland
Carnegie International, Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
Wilkie Fine Arts, Seattle, Washington
1990
Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver, B.C
1989
University of Western Washington, Bellingham, Washington
University of Toronto, Department of Architecture, Toronto, Ontario
1988
Ontario College of Art, Toronto, Ontario
Musée d’Art Contemporain, Montréal, Quebec
1987
University of Ottawa, Department of Visual Art, Ottawa, Ontario
University of Victoria, Canada
1986
Office for Ability and Desire, Brussels, Belgium
University of Manitoba, School of Visual Arts, Winnipeg, Manitoba
1985
YYZ Gallery, Toronto, Ontario
Plug In Gallery, Winnipeg, Manitoba
University of Victoria, Canada
Walter Phillips Gallery, Banff, Alberta
AWARDS AND COMMISSIONS
2020 Mellon Award to Monument Lab
Government of Canada Governor-General’s Award in Visual and Media Arts
2019 Gershon Iskowitz Prize at the Art Gallery of Ontario
2018 Knight Prototype Fund (for Monument Lab), Knight Foundation
Surdna Foundation Grant
Pew Fellowship, Pew Center for Arts and Heritage
2017 Officer of the Order of Canada
2016 Pew Center for Arts and Heritage Award, MuralArts Philadelphia and Monument Lab team of Will Brown, Paul Farber and Ken Lum
2015 Honorary Doctorate in Fine Arts, Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, B.C., Canada
Kings Crossing, Vancouver
2014 Monument Lab, Pew Arts and Heritage Grant awarded to team of Will Brown, Paul Farber and Ken Lum
2013 Fellow, Penn Institute for Urban Research
Canadian Campaign in Italy WWII Memorial, Nathan Phillips Square, City Hall, Toronto
Concord Park Development Project, Toronto, Canada
Marine Gateway Development Project, Vancouver, Canada
Artist member of Lions Gate Secondary Wastewater Treatment Plant engineering team, Vancouver, Canada
2012 Laumeier Sculpture Park, St Louis, Missouri
2011 City of Torun (Poland) Artist Achievement Award
2010 570 Bay Street Public Art Toronto. Completed July 2013
Utrecht, Nieuw Welgelegen Public Art Competition, Utrecht, The Netherlands
City of Edmonton Walterdale Replacement Bridge Design Team
2009 Monument to East Vancouver, Mapping and Marking Public Art Commission, City of Vancouver
2007 Hnatynshyn Foundation Visual Arts Award
2006 City of Vienna Westpassage Karlsplatz Public Art Competition Vienna, Austria
2005 City of Vancouver National Works Yard Public Art Commission
2003 Distinguished University Professor Award, University of British Columbia, Vancouver
Dorothy Somerset Award for Distinction in Fine and Performing Arts, Vancouver
2002 Public Art Commission, Region of La Plaiv, Switzerland
2000 On Location: Art for the New Millenium, Public Art
Commission, Vancouver Art Gallery
Killam Award for Outstanding Research, University of British Columbia, Vancouver
1999 Public Art Commission, State of Siena, Italy
The Garden of Eden, Public Art Commission, National Museum of Ethnology, Leiden, The Netherlands
John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Fellowship, New York City
NON-ACADEMIC APPOINTMENTS AND SERVICE
2022 RAIR Artist-In-Residence Jury, Philadelphia
Juror, City of Ottawa Cambridge Street Public Art, Ottawa
2021 Board of Advisors, Center for Architecture, New York
2019 Member of the Board of Advisors, Toronto Biennial of Art, Toronto, Canada
Advisor, Socrates Sculpture Park, New York City
GSA Art Jury, Harrisburg, PA
Juror, King Salman Park Competition, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
2018 Advisor, Stenton House Museum and Gardens, Philadelphia
2017 Juror, AIMIA Photography Prize, New York
GSA Art Jury, Harrisburg, PA
2015 Juror, Jerome Fellowship for Emerging Artists, Minneapolis College of Art and Design, Minneapolis
Citizen’s Advisory Committee, Canada Post, Ottawa, Ontario
2014 CACHET (Canadian Art Commons for History of Art Education and Training) board member, University College, University of Toronto
Citizen’s Advisory Committee, Canada Post, Ottawa, Ontario
2013 CACHET (Canadian Art Commons for History of Art Education and Training) board member, University College, University of Toronto
Citizen’s Advisory Committee, Canada Post, Ottawa, Ontario
2012 Citizen’s Advisory Committee, Canada Post, Ottawa, Ontario
Juror, Lola Awards for Contemporary Dance, Vancouver
2011 Juror, Urban Design Awards, Edmonton
Board of Directors, The Power Plant Contemporary Art Gallery, Toronto
Juror, 2011 Mayor’s Arts Awards, City of Vancouver
Board of Directors, OR Gallery, Vancouver
Citizen’s Advisory Committee, Canada Post, Ottawa, Ontario
Special Recognition Award, Centre A: Centre for Asian Art
Juror, Brink Award, Henry Art Gallery, Seattle
2010 Juror, 2010 Mayor’s Arts Awards, City of Vancouver
Advisor, Committee on Canadian Art and International Exchanges, Canada, Council for the Arts, Ottawa
Juror, Hnatyshyn Foundation Visual Arts Awards, Toronto
2009 Juror, Hillcrest Public Art competition, City of Vancouver
Juror, 2009 Mayor’s Arts Award, City of Vancouver
Juror, RBC Canadian Painting Competition, Toronto and Montréal
2008 Juror, Bloomberg Young Contemporaries Exhibition, London, UK
Juror, Chinese Contemporary Art Award, Beijing, China
2007 Advisory Board, The Fillip Review, Vancouver (to present)
2005 Juror, SSHRC Creative and Performing Arts Committee, Ottawa, May 18 – 21
Committee member, Canada Council Advisory Board on Equity in the Arts
Co-curator, 7th Sharjah Biennial: Belonging, Sharjah Art Museum and Sharjah Expo Centre, Emirate of Sharjah, United Arab Emirates, April 6 – June 6
2004 Co-curator, Shanghai Modern: 1919 – 1945, Museum Villa Stuck, Munich, October 14 – January 16, 2005
Curator, 14th Northwest Annual Exhibition, Center of Contemporary Art, Seattle, October 9 – November 20
Advisory Committee, Canada Council for the Arts, Ottawa, various dates, July, August, September, October
2003 Vancouver Art Gallery Master Planning Committee (until 2004)
2002 Juror, Prix de Rome competition for The Netherlands, Amsterdam, September 2002 to April 2003
Member of the board, Center A: Center for Asian Art, Vancouver, 2002 – 2007
Member of the advisory board, Tokyo Arts Initiative, Tokyo, Japan, 2001 – present
Co-Founder and Editor in Chief, Yishu: Journal of Contemporary Chinese Art, (Taipei and Vancouver), 2001 – 2005, Board of Advisors, 2005 – 2018
2001 Project Manager, The Short Century: Independence and Liberation Movements in Africa, 1945 – 1994. Exhibition curated by Okwui Enwezor and organized for the Museum Villa Stuck, Munich, Germany and MoMA at PS1, New York
2000 Curator, Window Into Venus, (a conference on art in the midst of social ruin, with Israeli, Palestinian, Cuban, American, Italian and Canadian artists), Centro d’Arte Contemporaneo, Serre Di Rapolano, Italy, 2000
1998 Member of the board, Annie Wong Art Foundation, Hong Kong, 1998 – 2002
1994 Member, Public Art Committee For the City of Vancouver (to 1996)
1992 Member of the board, OR Gallery, Vancouver (to 1994)
1983 Director and Curator, OR Gallery, Vancouver (to 1984)
ACADEMIC APPOINTMENTS
Marilyn J Taylor Penn Presidential Professor, University of Pennsylvania 2019 – present
Penn Humanities+Urban+Design Fellow, University of Pennsylvania, 2017 to present
Professor, Chair of Fine Arts, Stuart Weitzman School of Design, University of Pennsylvania, 2016 – present
Professor, Director of Undergraduate Studies in Fine Arts, School of Design, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, 2012 – 2016
Rijksademie van beeldende kunsten, Amsterdam, 2010 – 2011
Low Residence Program MFA Professor, Emily Carr University, Vancouver, 2010, 2011
Master Class Professor, Banff Centre, Banff, Alberta, 2009, 2010, 2012
Graduate Advisor, Maine College of Art, Portland, Maine, 2009, 2010
Invited Guest Professor, Maine College of Art, Portland, Maine, Summer 2009
Invited Guest Professor, California College of the Arts, San Francisco, 2007 – 2008
Graduate Professor, Milton Avery School of the Arts, Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, New York, 2005 – 2007
Professor, Department of Fine Arts, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada, 2000 – 2006; Associate Professor, 1995 – 2000;
Assistant Professor, 1990 – 1995
Guest Professor, China Art Academy, Hangzhou, China, Spring 2000
Professeur Invité, l’Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-Arts, Paris, France, October 1996 – June 1997
Professeur Invité, l’Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-Arts, Paris, France, October 1994 – June 1995
Invited Professor, Akademie der Bilden Kunsten, Munich, Germany, Summer Session, May to September 1992
Sessional Instructor, Center for The Arts, Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, Canada, 1989
Sessional Instructor, Department of Visual Arts, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, Canada, 1988