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Licenciado en Ciencias de la Universidad Simon Fraser en 1980 y Master de Bellas Artes en 1985 de la University of British Columbia. Ha sido profesor visitante en L'École nationale superieure des Beaux-artis en París, en the Akademie der Bildende Kunst en Munich y la Academia de China de Arte en Hangzhou, China. Actualmente es Profesor en el Bard College en Nueva York. Expone internacionalmente desde 1978. Ha mostrado su trabajo en numerosos acontecimientos donde se incluye el Carnegie International in Pittsburgh (1991), Sydney Biennale (1992); the Johannesburg Biennale (19979; San Paulo Bienal (1998); Shanghai Biennale (2000); the Venice Biennale (1995, 2001); Documenta XI (2002) and the 10th Istanbul Biennial (2007). La mayor exhibición de su trabajo ha sido organizada en el Witte the With Center for Contemporary Art in Rotterdam, en el Vancouver Art Gallery, en el Winnipeg Art Gallery y en una retrospectiva acerca de su trabajo: “ Ken Lum: Works with Photography” organizada e itinerada por los museos canadienses de fotografia. También ha realizado arte público para las ciudades de Vancouver, Viena (Austria), Strasbourg (Francia) , Siena( Italia) y también para la región de La Plaiv in Switzerland.
| exposicions individuals (SELecció) | |
| 2008 | Galerie Grita Insam, Vienna Galerie Nelson Freeman, Paris |
| 2007 | Ken Lum: Rorschach – Shopkeeper Series, L.A. Gallery, Frankfurt Tang Contemporary Art, Beijing, China Chosun Gallery, Seoul Pi, permanent public art installation, Vienna |
| 2006 | Galerie Grita Insam, Vienna |
| 2005 | I don’t know..., Galerie Grita Insam, Vienna Galleria BASE, Florence, Italy Ken Lum: Shopkeeper series, Art & Public, Geneva, CH |
| 2004 | I don’t know..., Galerie Grita Insam, Vienna L.A. Galerie, Frankfurt/Main, Germany Works With Photography, The Power Plant, Toronto |
| 2003 | Galerie Nelson, Paris Art Gallery of Windsor, Ontario Art Gallery of Calgary, Calgary Galerie Art & Public, Geneva, CH |
| 2002 | Galerie Grita Insam, Vienna Centre culturel canadien, Canada Ken Lum – Selected Works, L. A. Galerie, Frankfurt/Main, Germany |
| 2001 | Andrea Rosen Gallery, New York Centre for Contemporary Art, Kitakyushu, Japan Galerie im Taxispalais, Innsbruck, Austria |
| 2000 | There is no place like home, Museum in Progress, Vienna L.A. Galerie Lothar Albrecht, Frankfurt, Germany The Gate Foundation, Amsterdam |
| 1999 | Plug-In Gallery, Winnipeg, Canada Mendel Art Gallery, Saskatoon, Canada Walter Phillips Gallery, The Banff Centre, Banff, Canada |
| 1998 | XXIV Sao Paulo Bienal, Sao Paulo The Agency Contemporary Art, London Galerie Drantmann, Brussels, Belgium |
| 1997 | Camera Oscura, San Casciano dei Bagni, Italy FRAC de Haute Normandie, Galerie Duchamp, Yvetot, France Galerie Art & Public, Geneva, CH Andrea Rosen Gallery, New York |
| 1996 | Stills Gallery, Edinburgh |
| 1995 | Galerie Drantmann, Brussels Camden Arts Centre, London San Francisco Art Institute, San Francisco Galerie Nelson, Paris l'Aquarium-Galerie de l'Ecole des Beaux Arts, Valenciennes, France Salle d'Expositions, Ecole Nationale des Beaux Arts, Nancy, France |
| 1994 | Andrea Rosen Gallery, New York Catriona Jeffries Gallery, Vancouver Oakville Galleries, Oakville |
| 1993 | Galerie Daniel Buchholz, Cologne Galerie lohnen & Schöttle, Cologne Städtische Galerie im Lenbachhaus, Munich Badischer Kunstverein, Karlsruhe, Germany Stadtgalerie Saarbrücken, Saarbrücken, Germany Neue Galerie am Landesmuseum Joanneum, Graz, Austria |
| 1992 | Andrea Rosen Gallery, New York Galleria Massimo De Carlo, Milano, Italy |
| 1991 | Galerie Rüdiger Schöttle, Paris Galerie Daniel Buchholz, Cologne, Germany UBC Fine Arts Gallery, Vancouver Galerie Rüdiger Schöttle, Munich Kunstmuseurn Luzern, Lucerne, CH |
| 1990 | Wirte de With Ceiiter tot Contemporary Art, Rotterdam Galerie Meert Rihoux, Brussels, Belgium Galleri Nordanstad Skarstedt, Stockholm, Sweden Andrea Rosen Gallery, New York Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver Winnipeg Art Gallery, Winnipeg Artspeak Gallery, Vancouver |
| exposicions col·lectives (selecció) | |
| 2007 | 10th Istanbul Biennial, Istanbul, Turkey The Shadow Cabinet, De Appel, Amsterdam |
| 2006 | Liverpool Biennial 2006, Liverpool Sound and Vision, The Montreal Museum of Fine Arts - Musée des beaux-arts de Montréal, Montreal, Quebec Habiter: Evenement d’Art Public, Quebec City,Canada HERE+NOW, Hans Haacke, Dinh Q. Le, Ken Lum, Kim Sooja, Elisabeth Leach Gallery, Portland The Great Wall 2006, The Great Wall, Hamburg, Germany An Image Bank for Everyday Revolutionary Life, Gallery at REDCAT, Los Angeles |
| 2005 | Intertidal, MUHKA Museum van Hedendaagse Kunst, Antwerp, Belgium Photographies, Galerie Nelson, Paris CCA Kitakyushu Artist's Books, Galerie Christophe Daviet-Thery, Paris Heal the World: a Tightly Curated Approximation of a Global Lifestyle, The Third Line Gallery, Dubai, United Arab Emirates Monuments for the USA, CCA Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts, San Francisco Morir de Amor, Museo Nacional de Ciencias y Artes, Mexico City Contemporary Visions: Photographs and videos from the Helga de Alvear Collection, Aaltonen Museum, Turku, Finland Aufruhr der Gefühle. Leidenschaften in der zeitgenössischen Fotografie, Kunsthalle Göppingen Facing History : Portraits from Vancouver, Wharf, centre d’art contemporain Basse-Normandie, Hérouville Saint-Clair Private View, 1980-2000. Collection Pierre Huber, Musée cantonale des Beaux-Arts, Lausanne |
| 2004 | Signes extérieurs, Biennale d’art contemporain en Seine Saint-Denis (La Courneuve) Facing History: Portraits from Vancouver, /Centre culturel canadien, Paris Support 2, Neue Galerie Graz, Graz /Walk me, Architekturzentrum Wien, Vienna, Austria Science + Fiction, Deutsches Museum, München, Germany/ Galerie Nelson, Paris Aufruhr der Gefühle. Leidenschaften in der zeitgenossischen Fotografie, Museum für Photographie, Braunschweig Art Grandeur Nature, Parc de la Courneuve, France Baja to Vancouver: The West Coast and Contemporary Art, Seattle Art Museum, Shanghaï Modern, Museum Villa Stuck, München (curator) Flirts – Kunst und Werbung, Museion Bozen, Italien |
| 2003 | Baja to Vancouver: The West Coast and Contemporary Art, Seattle Art Museum (catalogue) Festival d’Arles: Rencontres 2003, Arles, France Contact Photo, Toronto Festival of Photography, Toronto Social Strategies: Redefining Social Realism, University Art Museum, University of California at Santa Barbara Micropolitics: Everyday Life and Art, Espai d’Art Contemporani de Castelló, Castelló, Spanien (Katalog) Sight.Seeing: 4. Österreichische Triennale der Photographie , Graz Faiseurs d’Histoire, Galerie du Théâtre de Bretagne, Rennes, France |
| 2002 | documenta11, Kassel Manifesta, Frankfurt Text Massage, Galerie Helga de Alvear, Madrid |
| 2001 | Unpacking Europe, Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Rotterdam, Unpacking Europe, House of World Cultures, Berlin |
| 2000 | Contemporary Photography 11.- Anti Memory, Yokohama Museum of Art, Yokohama Havana Biennial, Cuba Shanghai Spirit, Shanghai Biennial 2000, Shanghai Art Museum |
| 1999 | Babel, lkon Gallery, Birmingham Life Cycles, Galerie für Zeitgenössische Kunst, Leipzig Venus's Window, Centro Civico per l'Arte Contemporanea La Grancia, Serre ei Rapolano, Italien Laboratoriuni, Provinciaal Museum voor Fotografie, Antwerpen Open Face to Face: Four Centuries of Portraits, Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver In the City, FRAC de Haute-Normandie, Rouen, France Cities on the Move, Hayward Gallery, Royal Festival Hall, London Sweet Sour, Galerie Art & Public, Genf Visions Urbaines, Galerie du TNB, FRAC de Bretagne, Rennes, France |
| 1998 | Photography as Concept, 4. Internationale Foto Triennale Esslingen John Currin, Felix Gonzalez-Torres, Sean Landers, Ken Lum, Dan Peterman, Andrea Rosen Gallery, New York Between Earth and Sky, University of Hong Kong Art Gallery, Hong Kong Recent Acquisitions to the Photography Collection, Morris and Helen Belkin Art Gallery, Vancouver Cities On The Move, CAPC Musée d'Art Contemporain de Bordeaux, France Cities On The Move, PS. 1 Center for Contemporary Art, New York Travel and Leisure, Paula Cooper Gallery, New York Ken Lum, Chen Zhen, Catriona Jeffries Gallery, Vancouver The Art of Memory: Ken Lum, Lisa Roberts, Bill Viola, Judi Werthein, The Centre for Curatorial Studies Museum, Bard College, Annandale-on Hudson, New York Arrêt Sur Image, Galerie Art & Public, Geneva, CH |
| 1997 | Cities On The Move, Secession, Vienna Repeated Gestures, Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver Heaven - Private View, PS. 1 Contemporary Art Center, New York Browser: Artropolis '97, Roundhouse Community Centre, Vancouver The Exquisite Corpse, Presentation House Gallery, North Vancouver 2nd Johannesburg Biennale, Johannesburg, South Africa in SITE 97.- Artists C.oncepts, Athenaeum Music and Arts Library, La Jolla, USA in SITE 97, various public sites in San Diego, Kalifornien/Tijuana, Mexiko Hotel on Fire, Okanagan Art Gallery, Kelowna, Canada One Minute Scenario, Printemps de Cahors, Cahors, France Foto Text Text Foto, Fotoinuseum Winterthur, Winterthur, CH In Visible Light: Photography Classification in Art, Science and The Everyday, Museum of Modern Art, Oxford (catalogue) In Visible Light: Photography Classification in Art, Science and The Everyday, Inverleigh House, Botanic Gardens, Edinburgh Harris Museum and Art Gallery, Preston Moderna Museet, Stockholm Museum of Photography, Helsinki The 20th: 1977 1997, The Bartlett Exhibition and Performance Space, Vancouver Synthese von Fotografie und Text in der Gegenwartskunst, Frankfurter Kunstverein, Frankfurt |
| 1996 | a/drift, Centre for Curatorial Studies Museum, Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, New York Synthese von Fotografie und Text in der Gegenwartskunst Museum Moderner Kunst, Bozen Fact or fiction? Four Canadian artists, Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney Shopping.- New York, project organized by Jerorne Sans and Deitch Projects, New York Surfing Systems, Kasseler Kunstverein, Kassel Reading and Re reading.- Selections from the Permanent Collection, Oakville Galeries, Oakville The OH! Canada Project, Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto, Canada |
| 1995 | Der zweite Blick, Haus der Kunst, München Album: The Photographic Collections of the Museum, Museum Beuningen Untitled (Reading Room), Margo Leavin Gallery, Los Angeles On Board, Riva San Biagio, Biennale Venedig Peinture, Photo et Compagnie, Espaces des Nouvelles Galeries, Arles, France Notion of Conflict: A selection of contemporary Canadian art, Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam Pièces - Meubles, Galerie Jousse Seguin Paris Crash Pad Postmasters Gallery, New York Work for the Permanent Collection, Oakville Galleries, Oakville |
| 1994 | GEWALT/Geschäfte, Neue Gesellschaft für bildende Kunst, Berlin Collection Modern Art, Museum Boyman van Beuningen, Rotterdam ProspectIRetrospect, Kunstmuseum, Luzern Das Archiv/The Archive, Forum Stadtpark, Graz Practice Ground, Ottawa Art Gallery Ottawa Die Orte der Kunst: Der Kunstbetrieb als Kunstwerk, Sprengel Museum, Hannover, Germany don't look now Thread Waxing Space, New York |
| 1993 | 1993 Collections, Musée Municipal de La Roche-sur Yon, France Viennese Story, Wiener Secession Space of Time, Americas Society, New York (Katalog) Space of Time, Museo del Oeste, Caracas, Venezuela Centro Cultural Recoleta, Buenos Aires, Argentinien; Centre for the Fine Arts, Miami Konstruktion Zitat: Kollektive Bilder in der Fotografie, Sprengel Museum, Hannover, Germany Die Sprache Der Kunst - Die Beziehung von Bild und Text in der Kunst des 20.Jahrhunderts, Kunsthalle Wien + Frankfurter Kunstverein, Frankfurt Before the sound of the beep, Marais, Paris Guelph Spring Festival, MacDonald Stewart Art Gallery, Guelph, Ontario, Canada Une nouvelle génération, FRAC des Pays de la Loire; Musée de La Roche-sur-Yon, France Musée des Sables d'Olonne, France Drawing Ideas, Atelier Gallery, Vancouver Working Documents: Vancouver Drawings, Artspeak Gallery, Vancouver Live in your head, Heiligenkreuzerhof, Hochschule für Angewandte Kunst & Galerie Metropol, Vienna |
| 1992 | Sydney Biennale, Art Gallery of New South Wales Sydney C. Eckart, G. Kuitca, J. Lasker, K. Lum, McDermot & McGough, D. Moylan, Galleria Galliani, Genua, Italien Proiezioni, Buchholz & Buchholz, Cologne, Germany 1968, Le Consortium, Dijon, France One & One La Galerie du Mois, Paris Avantgarde & Kampagne, Städtische Kunsthalle, Düsseldorf, Germany Moltiplici culture: Arte Critica 1992, Ca,@ Della Citta, Ronie + The Speaker Project, Institute of Contemporary Art, London "30 11", Galerie des Archives, Paris C'est pas la fin du monde Galerie Art & Essai, La Criée, Halle d'art contemporain, FRAC, Bretagne, Galerie du TNB, Rennes Sporting Type S.L. Simpson Gallery, Toronto Neuerwerbungen1990/1991, Städtische Galerie im Lenbachhaus, Munich, Germany Rodney Graham, Ken Lum, Galerie Nelson, Lyon Cameras Indiscretas, Centre d'Art Santa Monica, Barcelona Circolo de Bellas Artes, Madrid Internationale Künstlerplakate Saarbrücken, Saarbrücken J.S. Bernard, Ken Lum, Ian Wallace, Pat Hearn Gallery, New York |
| 1991 | 1991 The Wealth of Nations, Centre for Contemporary Art Ujazdowski Castle, Warsaw, Poland Lieux communs Figures singulières, Musée d'Art Moderne, Paris Carnegie International, Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh As Yet Untitled, Gallery 400, University of Illinois at Chicago Projections Castello di Rivara, Turino, Italy Jessica Diamond, Jeanne Dunning, Felix Gonzalez-Torres, Hirsch Perlman, Ken Lum, Michel Zumpf, The Archives, Art Information Center, Rotterdam Just what is it that Makes Today's Homes so Different, so Appealing?, The Hyde Collection, Glen Falls, New York Van Wilkie Fine Arts, Seattle Art Conceptuel des Années 70 à aujourd'hui, Galerie Rüdiger Schöttle, Paris Goya to Beijing, Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver Bildlicht: Malerei zwischen Material und Immaterialität, Museum des 20. Jahrhunderts, Vienna The Museum of Natural History, Galerie Barbara Farber, Amsterdam Daniel Buren, Stephen Prina, Ken Lum, Rudolf Stingel, Home for Contemporary Theatre and Art, New York La Revanche de l'image Galerie Pierre Huber, Geneva, CH Echoes After the Storm: Tiananmen Memorial Art Exhibition, Asian Centre, University of British Columbia, Vancouver Telekinesis, Mincher/Wilcox Gallery, San Francisco |
| 1990 | (not so) Simple Pleasures, MIT List Visual Arts Center, Boston No, Not That One, It's Not A Chair, Galerie 1900-2000, Paris Total Metal, Simon Watson Gallery, New York 150 Ans de Photographie, Musée des Beaux Art, Nantes, France Art et Publicité, Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris Op-positions, Fotographie Biennale Rotterdam II The Thing Itself, Feature Gallery, New York Red, Galerie Isy Brachot, Brussels, Belgium Goya To Beijing, Centre International d'Art, Contemporain, Montreal Galerie Johnen & Schöttle, Cologne, Germany Disconnections, Galleri Nordanstad Skarstedt, Stockholm Information, Terrain Gallery, San Francisco Gallery Artists, Galerie Daniel Buchholz, Cologne, Germany |
