Ken Lum

KEN LUM (Vancouver, 1956).
"There is no place like home", 2004.
Giclee print on paper.
Edition 17/20.
Signed, dated and numbered on the back,
Measurements: 102 x 71 cm.

Ken Lum was born in Vancouver, Canada, but currently resides in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, where he is Marilyn Jordan Taylor Presidential Professor and chair of the Department of Fine Arts at the Stuart Weitzman School of Design at the University of Pennsylvania.
From 2000 to 2006, he directed the graduate program in fine art at the University of British Columbia, Vancouver, where he taught from 1990 to 2006. Lum joined the faculty at Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, in 2005 and worked there until 2007. He has been a visiting professor at the École Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-Arts in Paris, the Akademie der Bildenden Kunst in Munich, the California College of the Arts in San Francisco and the China Art Academy in Hangzhou.
Lum is co-founder and founding editor of the Yishu Journal of Contemporary Chinese Art. He has published extensively and recently completed an artist's book project with philosopher Hubert Damisch, published by Three Star Press of Paris.
He was project director of Okwui Enwezor's exhibition, *The Short Century: Independence and Liberation Movements in Africa 1945 - 1994* (2001). He was also co-curator of the 7th Sharjah Biennial (2005) and *Shanghai Modern: 1919 - 1945* (2005). He has exhibited widely, including the São Paulo Biennial (1998), Shanghai Biennial (2000), Documenta 11 (2002), Istanbul Biennial (2007), Gwangju Biennial (2008), Moscow Biennial (2011), and Whitney Biennial (2014). He has published numerous essays on art. He has also completed permanent public art commissions for the cities of Vienna, Vancouver, Utrecht, Leiden, St. Moritz, Toronto and St. Louis.