Ken Lum - Works With Photography

Ken Lum Works With Photography is a twenty-year retrospective of Ken Lum's internationally-renowned photo-based works. Since the start of his artistic career in the late '70s, Lum has created artworks in widely diverse media, including furniture installations, performance works, videos and paintings, as well as a large body of photographs with texts. Lum's questioning of the relationship between high art and popular culture is long-standing, and his works reflect both a photographic self-reflexivity and a graphic design sensibility in their presentation. Lum constructs provocative photographic portraits accompanied by words that seem to express personal, intimate sentiments, yet are displayed in commercial, logo-styled text. These seemingly private portraits, publicly displayed, often reflect inquiries into the nature and the performance of identity.

Ken Lum lives and works in Vancouver. Since 1978, he has had numerous exhibitions worldwide. Recent solo exhibitions include the National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa (2002-03); Camden Arts Centre, London (1995); and Witte De With Center, Rotterdam (1990). He represented Canada at the XXIV São Paulo Bienal and the Shanghai Biennale and his work was included in Documenta 11, Kassel (2002); Cities on the Move, Secession, Vienna (1997); and Art et Publicité, Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris (1990). Lum is Associate Professor of Fine Arts, University of British Columbia, an active art critic, and serves as editor for Yishu: Journal of Contemporary Chinese Art.

The exhibition is organized and circulated by the Canadian Museum of Contemporary Photography, an affiliate of the National Gallery of Canada. Sponsor for the Power Plant’s presentation of Ken Lum Works with Photography: BMO Nesbitt Burns.

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Ken Lum - Works With Photography