Description
A major retrospective of one of Canada's most widely recognized contemporary artists.
Over the past 25 years, Vancouver-based artist Ken Lum has developed a large body of work that includes painting, sculpture, performance and photography. He has exhibited throughout North America, Europe and Asia, and his awards include a Hnatyshyn Foundation Visual Arts Award. This richly illustrated volume is the first full-length book devoted to Ken Lum's work in more than nine years. In this time, his work has shifted to large permanent public installations, among them his fourth permanent public installation opening in 2010 in the Netherlands. Ken Lum accompanies a large-scale exhibition organized by the Vancouver Art Gallery that celebrates Lum's entire career and showcases aspects of his work-such as the mazes created for Documenta 11 and the Istanbul Biennal-that have never been seen before in North America.
This book was published in partnership with the Vancouver Art Gallery.
About the authors
Grant Arnold is Audain Curator of British Columbia Art at the Vancouver Art Gallery, where over the past 20 years he has organized more than 35 exhibitions of historical, modern and contemporary art. He has also contributed essays and articles to exhibition catalogues, books and journals, recent examples being Ken Lum, Mark Lewis: Cold Morning, and Roy Arden: Against the Day. He lives in Vancouver, British Columbia.
Okwui Enwezor is the dean of academic affairs and senior vice president at San Francisco Art Institute and artistic director of Bienal Internacional de Arte Contemporaneo de Sevilla. He lives in New York and San Francisco.
Roland Schoeny is curatorial supervisor for Art in Public Space Vienna. A widely published art critic, he has organized numerous exhibitions for the OK Centre for Contemporary Art in Linz, Austria. He lives in Vienna.
Editorial Reviews
"The essays' critical breadth is both impressive and apposite...[Ken Lum] provides important insight into the work of one of Canada's most influential working artists."
Canadian Art
"Unlike the minimalist art that Lum often references...his work is far from abstract. His unapproachable furniture...provokes multiple interpretations, inviting us to consider how identity is formed by the often mundane aspects of modern consumer culture."
Globe & Mail
