Ken Lum is an artist with an extensive international exhibition record that includes Documenta, the Venice Biennale, Sao Paolo Bienal, Shanghai Biennale, and the Whitney Biennial. Lum is the co-founder and Senior Curatorial Advisor to Monument Lab, a public art and history thinktank. He is a prolific writer with numerous essays and reviews in academic and non-academic publications. Hi is also Co-Founder and Founding Editor of Yishu Journal of Contemporary Chinese Art. Lum has realized numerous permanent public art commissions and has a curatorial record that includes co-curating Shanghai Modern: 1919 – 1945; Sharjah Biennial 7, Sharjah, United Arab Emirates and Monument Lab: Creative Speculations for Philadelphia. He was Project Manager for the seminal exhibition, The Short Century: Independence and Liberation Movements in Africa, 1945-1994. A longtime professor, he is the Chair of Fine Arts at the University of Pennsylvania’s Weitzman School of Design in Philadelphia.
Ken Lum
