- Solo Exhibitions
- 2018
- Necrology, Royale Projects, Los Angeles, September 16 to December 16
- The Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts, San Francisco, March 15 – May 12
- 2017
- Royale Projects at Expo Chicago, September 13 – 17
- Art Gallery of Mississauga, Mississauga, Ontario, March 2 – April 17
- 2016
- L.A. Galerie (Lothar Albrecht), Frankfurt, November 26 – March 11, 2017
- Richard Rhodes Dupont Projects, Toronto, September 10 – October 1
- Window, Artspace, Winnipeg, Manitoba, August 1 – 30
- BASE/Progetti per l’arte, Florence, Italy, June 10 – September 10
- Espacios Revalados/Changing Places: Torres de tajamar, Siemens Stiftung/Chilean Cultural Council for the Arts, Santiago, Chile, April 7 – 17
- 2015
- Royale Projects, Los Angeles, September 19 – November 14
- Vienna Kunsthalle Karlsplatz Public Space, Vienna, March 20 – October 27
- Vancouver Especially (A Vancouver Special scaled to its property value in 1973, then increased by 8 fold), 221A Semi Public, 271 Union Street, Vancouver, February 21 – February 20, 2016
- 2014
- Rosenwald-Wolf Gallery, University of the Arts, Philadelphia, January 17 – February 28
- 2013
- Galerie Marc Jancou, New York City, March 9 – May 4
- 2012
- Galerie Jancou, Geneva, May 4 – June 9
- L.A. Galerie Lothar Albrecht, Frankfurt April 7 – June 30
- Galerie Nelson-Freeman, Paris, April 6 – June 23
- 2011
- Misa Shin Gallery, Tokyo, December 15 – March 3
- Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver, Feb 12 – July 3 (catalog)
- 2010
- From shangri la to shangri la, Vancouver Art Gallery Off-Site, Vancouver, January 23 to September 6
- I said no, Audain Gallery (windows), SFU Woodward’s, Vancouver, January 1 – February 4
- 2009
- L.A. Galerie (Lothar Albrecht), Frankfurt, November 6 – December 31
- Galerie Christian Nagel, Berlin, January 31 – February 28
- Arrow Factory Gallery, Beijing
- 2008
- Galeria Llucia Homs, Barcelona, June 12 – July 31
- Galerie Grita Insam, Vienna, June 6 to July 12
- Galerie Nelson-Freeman, Paris, March 8 – April 25
- 2007
- Galerie Lothar Albrecht, Frankfurt, October 26 – December 31
- Tang Contemporary Art, Beijing, June 30 – August 30 (catalog)
- Centro de Arte Contemporáneo De Huarte, Navarro, Spain, April 21 to June 10 (catalog)
- 2006
- Pi, permanent public art installation, Vienna, opened December 1, West Passage, Karlsplatz, Vienna
- Galerie Grita Insam, Vienna, Aug 08 – Sep 09, 2006.
- 2005
- City of Vancouver National Works Yard Commission, Vancouver, September 1 inauguration, permanent installation.
- 2004
- Galerie Grita Insam, Vienna, December 16 – February 12, 2005
- The Power Plant Contemporary Art Centre, Toronto, December 11 – March 6, 2005 (catalog)
- Xpo September, Stockholm, September 10 – October 10
- Schnitzel Company, Museum in Progress/ Arbeiterkammer Wien, Vienna, June 1 – August 1
- LA Galerie (Lothar Albrecht), Frankfurt, January 24 – March 20
- 2003
- Galerie Nelson, Paris, November – December 30
- Art Gallery of Windsor, August 20 – October 26
- I don’t know whether to laugh or cry, Contact Photo/ Art Gallery of Ontario, May 1 – 31
- Art Gallery of Calgary, April 18 – June 15
- Galerie Art & Public, Geneva, February
- 2002
- Canadian Museum of Contemporary Photography, Ottawa, September 21 – January 12, 2003 (catalog)
- LA Galerie (Lothar Albrecht), Frankfurt, June 1 – July 20
- Centre Culturel Canadien, Paris, March 7 to June 1 (catalog)
- 2001
- Galerie Grita Insam, Vienna, December 7 – January 26, 2002
- Galeria Espacio Electico, Buenos Aires, Argentina, November 7 – December 7 (brochure)
- There is No Place Like Home, Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin, October 4 – December 23
- The Agency Contemporary Art, London, September 8 – October 20
- Andrea Rosen Gallery, New York, May 25 – June 30
- Centre for Contemporary Art, Kitakyushu, Japan, May 26 – June 15 (artist’s book)
- Contemporary Art Gallery, Vancouver, May 4 – July 21 (catalog)
- Galerie im Taxispalais, Innsbruck, Austria, March 1 – 31 (brochure)
- 2000
- There is no place like home, Museum in Progress, Vienna, December 1 – February 28, 2001
- LA Galerie Lothar Albrecht, Frankfurt, November 18 – January 27, 2001
- The Gate Foundation, Amsterdam, May 12 – June 30
- 1999
- Plug-In Gallery, Winnipeg, Canada, December 2 – January 8
- Mendel Art Gallery, Saskatoon, Canada, September 17 – November 5
- Walter Phillips Gallery, The Banff Centre, Banff, Canada, January 16 – February 14
- 1998
- XXIV Sao Paulo Bienal, Sao Paulo, October 4 – December 13 (catalog)
- The Agency Contemporary Art, London, September 19 – October 31
- Galerie Drantmann, Brussels, January 15 – March 5
- 1997
- Camera Oscura, San Casciano dei Bagni, Italy, April 4 – May 30
- FRAC de Haute-Normandie, Galerie Duchamp, Yvetot, France, March 26 – May 9 (catalog)
- Galerie Art & Public, Geneva, February 6 – March 15
- Andrea Rosen Gallery, New York, January 31 – March 8
- 1996
- Stills Gallery, Edinburgh, January 12 – February 17
- 1995
- Galerie Drantmann, Brussels, November 9 – December 16
- Camden Arts Centre, London, October 12 – November 26 (catalog)
- San Francisco Art Institute, San Francisco, July 20 – August 20
- Galerie Nelson, Paris, April 29 – June 3
- l’Aquarium—Galerie de l’Ecole des Beaux Arts, Valenciennes, France, April 5 – May 13
- Salle d’Expositions, Ecole Nationale des Beaux Arts, Nancy, France, March 2 – March 24
- 1994
- Andrea Rosen Gallery, New York, December 2 – January 14
- Catriona Jeffries Gallery, Vancouver, November 28 – January 14
- Oakville Galleries, Oakville, Canada, September 17 – November 13 (catalog)
- 1993
- Galerie Daniel Buchholz, Cologne, November 5 – December 4
- Galerie Johnen & Schöttle, Cologne, November 5 – December 4
- Städtische Galerie im Lenbachhaus, Munich, January 20 – March 7 (catalog)
- Badischer Kunstverein, Karlsruhe, Germany, June 19 – July 25
- Stadtgalerie Saarbrücken, Saarbrücken, Germany, May 9 – June 12
- Neue Galerie am Landesmuseum Joanneum, Graz, Austria, March 26 – April 25
- 1992
- Andrea Rosen Gallery, New York, December 4 – January 16
- Galleria Massimo De Carlo, Milan November 4 -December 31
- 1991
- Galerie Rüdiger Schöttle, Paris, October 22 – November 30
- Galerie Daniel Buchholz, Cologne, October 11 – November 9
- Fine Arts Gallery, UBC, Vancouver, September 19 – October 12
- Galerie Rüdiger Schöttle, Munich, April 16 – May 19
- Kunstmuseum Luzern, Lucerne, Switzerland, February 2 – April 7 (catalog)
- 1990
- Witte de With Center for Contemporary Art, Rotterdam, December 15 – January 27 (catalog)
- Galerie Meert Rihoux, Brussels, December 5 – January 20
- Galleri Nordanstad-Skarstedt, Stockholm, November 3 – 30
- Andrea Rosen Gallery, New York, September 11 – October 13
- Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver, August 15 – October 8
- Winnipeg Art Gallery, Winnipeg, Canada, February 24 – April 29
- Artspeak Gallery, Vancouver, February 17 – March 17
- 1989
- Galerie Johnen & Schöttle, Cologne, September 8 – October 7
- Galerie Daniel Buchholz, Cologne, September 8 – October 7
- Galleria Massimo De Carlo, Milan, January 11 – February 8
- 1988
- Cold City Gallery, Toronto, October 8 – November 2
- Galerie Ralph Wernicke, Stüttgart, September 9 – October 7
- Musée d’Art Contemporain, Montréal, February 28 – May 22 (catalog)
- Galerie Nelson, Lyon, France, January 16 – February 27
- Nature Morte Gallery, New York, January 3 – January 31
- 1987
- Galerie Daniel Buchholz, Cologne, November 13 – December 10
- Robbin Lockett Gallery, Chicago, May 7 – June 6
- 1986
- The Ydessa Gallery, Toronto, March 29 – April 26
- Convertible Showroom Gallery, Vancouver, January 22 – February 8
- Nature Morte Gallery, New York, January 6 – January 31
- 1985
- Youth Portraits, Plug-In Inc., Winnipeg, Canada, September 25 – October 13
- Coburg Gallery, Vancouver, September 4 – 8
- YYZ Gallery, Toronto, January 7 – 26
- 1984
- Partially Buried Sofa, SFU Downtown Studio Gallery, Vancouver December 27 – January 3
- Portrait/Logos, Coburg Gallery, Vancouver, April 18 – May 5
- 1983
- World Portraits, OR Gallery, Vancouver, October 3 – 15
- 1982
- Artists Space, New York, November 6 – December 6
- SFU Downtown Studio Gallery, Vancouver, January 10 – 22
- 1980
- Sculpture for Dream Home, 505 Hamilton Street Studio, Vancouver, July 23 – 30
- 1979
- Two Floorplan Paintings, Vancouver
- Architectural Digest Presents, Ian Wallace Studio, 303 Abbott Street, Vancouver
- 1979
- Sculpture for Livingroom/Public Lounge, Ian Wallace Studio, 303 Abbott Street, Vancouver
- Walk Piece, outdoor performance, Simon Fraser University campus, October
- Entertainment for Surrey, B.C., outdoor performance in Surrey, B.C., July 5 – 10
- Anonymous, outdoor project, downtown streets of Vancouver, April
- Group Exhibitions
- 2019
- Come Together, Royale Projects, Los Angeles, January 13 –
- 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, September 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
- Oh…Museum Moderner Kunst Stiftung Ludwig, Vienna, March 17 – October 22
- 2016
- Construction_Reflection: Works from the Collection Gertraud & Dieter Bogner at Mumok, Museum Moderner Kunst Stiftung Ludwig, Vienna, November 25, 2016 – April 17, 2017
- Behold the Man: 100 years, 100 faces, Museum de Fundatie, Zwolle, The Netherlands, October 1 – January 15, 2017
- 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
- Staff, Charles Addams Fine Arts Gallery, Philadelphia, September 1 – 26
- 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
- Portraits d’espace: David Coste, Axel Hütte, Ken Lum, Sophie Ristelhueber, Galerie Porte 10 CHU – Hôpitaux de Rouen, Rouen, France, May 11 – August 26
- Objects May Appear: Lustre and the Monochrome in Contemporary Art, Royale Projects: Palm Desert, March 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 31, 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)
- Through a Window: Visual Art and SFU 1965-2015, SFU Gallery, Burnaby, BC, Canada, June 3 – July 31
- 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, Canada, April 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; Kunstmuseum St Gallen, St Gallen, Switzerland, October 15 – January 29, 2012
- 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 – October 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 September 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 – August 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
- 2000
- Talk the Talk, Atelier Gallery, Vancouver, March 15 – April 3
- 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
- Babel, Ikon Gallery, September 11 – November 7 (catalog)
- Life Cycles, Galerie für Zeitgenössische Kunst, Leipzig, October 24 – December 5 (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
- 2018
- 2017
- 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
- 2013
- 2012
- 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 1994”, 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
- Collections
- Museum moderner Kunst stiftung ludwig, Vienna
- Helga de Alvear Collection, Madrid
- Musée d’art Moderne et Contemporain, Geneva
- Lilac Milne, Vancouver
- FRAC Nord Pas de Calais, Dunkirk, France
- Centro Galego de Arte Contemporanea, Santiago de Campostela, Spain
- FRAC Haute Normandie, Rouen
- BMO Collection, Toronto
- Arco Foundation Collection Madrid
- M+ Museum of Visual Culture, Hong Kong
- National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa
- Fundación AMMA Amparo y Manuel, Mexico City
- Winnipeg Art Gallery
- Joanneumsviertel Neue Galerie, Graz, Austria
- Vancouver Art Gallery
- Stadtische Galerie im Lenbachhaus und Kunstbau, Munich
- Kunstmuseum Luzern, Lucerne
- Walter A Bechtler Foundation, Zurich
- Museum Boijmans van-Beuningen, Rotterdam
- Witte de With Center for Contemporary Art, Rotterdam
- Museum Volkenkunde, Leiden
- Musée d’Art Contemporain, Montreal
- Daniel Friedman, Winnipeg
- Elaine Cohen Collection, New York
- Ralph Wernicke Collection, Berlin
- Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, BC
- Pierre Huber Collection, Geneva
- Centro de Arte Contemporáneo De Huarte, Navarro, Spain
- Laumeier Sculpture Park, St Louis
- Long March Space, Beijing
- FRAC Ile de France, le Plateau, Paris
- Tang Contemporary Art, Beijing
- Drake Hotel Permanent Collection, Toronto
- Annie Wong Art Foundation, Hong Kong
- Collection of Library and Archives Canada, Ottawa
- RBC Collection, Toronto
- Anders Pilm Collection, London
- Collection of Musee Municipal, La Roche-sur-Yon, France
- Paul Bain, Toronto
- DZ Bank Collection, Frankfurt
- Schulich School of Business Collection, York University, Toronto
- City of Utrecht Collection, The Netherlands
- Vienna Secession, Vienna
- Joanne Cohen, Cleveland
- Klaus Nordenhake, Berlin
- Eleanor and Francis Shen, San Francisco
- Joe Friday, Ottawa
- Sandra Antelo-Suarez, New York
- Remai Modern, Saskatoon
- David Knaus, Palm Springs
- Wiener Linien, Vienna
- Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto
- Tim Newton, Milford, CT
- Collection of Hart House at the University of Toronto, Toronto
- Helen and Morris Belkin Art Gallery, Vancouver
- Oakville Galleries, Oakville, Ontario
- Paris Bar, Berlin
- Belinda Stronach Collection, Toronto
- Surrey Art Gallery, Surrey, BC
- Gerd Metzdorff, Vancouver
- District of North Vancouver’s Public Art Collection
- Ann and Marshall Webb, Toronto
- Mackenzie Art Gallery, Regina
- Kelowna Art Gallery, Kelowna, Canada
- Private Collection, New York
- Private Collection, Stockholm
- Private Collection, Vancouver
- Private Collection, Chicago
- Private Collection, London
- Private Collection Vienna
- Private Collection, Beijing
- Private Collection, Toronto
- Lectures and Presentations
- 2019
- American Social History Project, City University of New York Graduate Center, New York City, February 6
- Design Advocacy Group, Philadelphia, January 3
- 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
- EducationLawyers.com Sunday School Show, Philadelphia 107.9 FM, October
- Alliance of Artists Communities, Loews Philadelphia Hotel, Philadelphia, October 13
- Bryn Mawr College, Bryn Mawr, PA, October 10
- 2018 MAS Summit for New York City, Municipal Art Society of New York, St. Bartholomew’s Church, New York City, October 9
- Nuit Blanche 2018, Toronto, Ontario, September 27
- Front Trienniale, 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
- California College of the Arts, Oakland, CA, March 13
- 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, October 19, 20
- Monumental Exchange: Paul Farber, Tyree Guyton and Ken Lum, University of the Arts, Philadelphia, October 11
- Art Canada Institute, Toronto, June 16
- University of the Arts, Philadelphia, March 23
- Art Gallery of Mississauga, Mississauga, Ontario, Canada, March 2
- 2016
- Concordia University, Montreal, Canada, October 27 to 28
- Barcelona English Radio, Barcelona, Spain, July 13
- 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 Panel Discussion, 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
- 2000
- University of Victoria, Victoria, B.C., Canada, February 14 – 15 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
- l’Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-Arts, Paris, France (October 10)
- 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, Canada (February 1)
- 1995
- Panel Discussion: Sasha Craddock, Ken Lum, Gillian Wearing, Camden Arts Centre, London, England (October 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 Public Commission
- 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
- 2015
- Honorary Doctorate in Fine Arts, Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, B.C., Canada
- Finalist. 4601 Market Street, Public Safety Services Campus Project, Philadelphia
- Kings Crossing, Vancouver, B.C.
- 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
- Loeb Fellowship Harvard University (declined by the artist due to scheduling problems)
- City of Torun (Poland) Artist Achievement Award
- 2010
- 570 Bay Street Public Art
- 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, La Plaiv, Engedines, 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
- 2019
- 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, Toronto, Ontario
- 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, Toronto, Ontario
- 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 – present
- 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 Academic Appointments
- 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
- Chair, Department of Fine Arts, School of Design, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, 2016 –
- 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