Date & time
Thursday, October 27, 2016
6 p.m. – 7:30 p.m.
6 p.m. – 7:30 p.m.
Arts & culture, Conferences & lectures
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Conversations in Contemporary Art Presents Ken Lum
We are proud to bring Vancouver artist Ken Lum to the stage for the fourth talk in the Conversations in Contemporary Art 2016-2017 fall season.
Cost
No fee
Contact
Where
Faubourg Ste-Catherine Building
1610 St. Catherine W.
Room C080
Wheel chair accessible
Yes
Ken Lum, Alex Gonzalez Loves His Mother and Father, 1986, Collection: Robin Resch, Princeton, NJ.
Ken Lum is a Canadian artist and Chair of Fine Arts, University of Pennsylvania. He has taught previously at the University of British Columbia, l’Ecole des Beaux-Arts in Paris, and Bard College. Lum is the founding editor of Yishu Journal of Chinese Contemporary Art. He has published extensively as well as given several keynote addresses including to the World Museums Conference in Shanghai in 2010 and the Sydney Biennale in 2006. He was co-curator of Sharjah Biennial 7, and Shanghai Modern: 1919-1945. Lum has exhibited widely including many biennales and Documenta. Lum has realized permanent public commissions in Vienna, Vancouver, St Louis, Leiden, Toronto, and Utrecht. He is working on a memorial of the Lake Nyos disaster in Cameroon.
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This lecture is generously supported by the Office of the Dean, Faculty of Fine Arts. Admission for all Conversations in Contemporary Art events is FREE and open to the general public. Seating is limited and available on a first come, first serve basis. Doors open at 5:30 p.m.
The lecture will be held in English.
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