Wednesday, March 3, 7pm
The speakers series is open to the public and free of charge. Join us at:
Langara College (map)
100 West 49th Avenue, Vancouver
Room A136a
The Langara College Centre for Art in Public Spaces invites you to join us for an engaging lecture. Artist Ken Lum will speak about his public art work, and will also present a short paper titledTo Say or Not to Say: Thoughts on the Relationship between Art and the Real.
About the Artist
Ken Lum’s art is concerned with the dialectics of the private and public construction of identity, space and politics. His public art work titled Monument for East Vancouver, installed on the northwest corner of Clark and Great Northern Way in Vancouver, is his third public art commission in Vancouver.
He has participated in numerous international art exhibitions including the Sydney Biennale (1992), Venice Biennale (1995, 2001), Istanbul Biennale (2007), Gwangju Biennale (2008), and Documenta XI in Kassel, Germany (2002).
Lum was Head of the Graduate Program in Studio Art at UBC from 2000 to 2006, and spent 2 years as a visiting professor at the École Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-Arts in Paris. He also guest-taught at the Akademie der Bildenden Kunst in Munich, Germany, the China Art Academy in Hangzhou, China and the l’Ecole d’Arts Plastique in Fort de France, Martinique. He has published widely and is the founding editor of Yishu: The Journal of Contemporary Chinese Art. Lum was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship in 1999, a Killam Award for Outstanding Research in 1998, and the Hnatyshyn Foundation Visual Arts Award in 2007.
He is presently working on two major public art commissions in Berlin, Germany and in Utrecht, Holland.
