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KEN LUM
Born: Vancouver, Canada (1956- ) Works: Philadelphia, PA
Education
1985 MFA, Department of Fine Arts, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada
1982 Graduate studies, Department of Art Education, New York University, NY, New York
1980 BSc, Department of Biological Sciences, Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, Canada
Solo Exhibitions
2021 Magenta Plains Gallery, New York, NY
2018 Royale Projects, Necrology and Four French Deaths in Western Canada, Los Angeles, CA The Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts, What's old is old for a dog, San Francisco, CA
2017 Art Gallery of Mississauga, A Matter of Life and Death, Ontario, Canada
2016 L.A. Galerie (Lothar Albrecht), Ken Lum Works and Videos, Frankfurt, Germany Richard Rhodes Dupont Projects, Necrology, Toronto, Canada Artspace, Window, Winnipeg, Canada Base Progetti per l’Arte, Necrology, Firenze, Italy Siemens Stiftung/Chilean Cultural Council for the Arts, Espacios Revelados/Changing Places: Torres de Tajamar, Santiago, Chile
2015 Royale Projects, Ken Lum, Los Angeles, CA Vienna Kunsthalle Karlsplatz Public Space, Ken Lum. Coming Soon, Vienna, Austria 221A Semi Public, Vancouver Especially (A Vancouver Special scaled to its property value in 1973, then increased by 8 fold), Vancouver, Canada I-70 Sign Show, Bindy Sangeet: Employee of the Month/Alia Naffouj: Hooked on Tennis, various locations by I-70 near Hatton, MO
2014 Rosenwald-Wolf Gallery, Ken Lum: The Mini Mall Series, University of the Arts, Philadelphia, PA
2013 Galerie Marc Jancou, Ken Lum: The Mini-Mall Series, New York, NY
2012 Galerie Marc Jancou, Ken Lum: The Shopkeeper series, Geneva, Swizerland L.A. Galerie Lothar Albrecht, Ken Lum, Frankfurt, Germany Galerie Nelson-Freeman, Paris, France
2011 Misa Shin Gallery, Ken Lum: 2000s to Present, Tokyo, Japan Vancouver Art Gallery, Ken Lum, Vancouver, Canada
2010 Vancouver Art Gallery Off-Site, From Shangri La to Shangri La, Vancouver, Canada Audain Gallery (windows), I Said No, Vancouver, Canada
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2009 L.A. Galerie (Lothar Albrecht), Works and Videos, Galerie, Frankfurt, Germany Galerie Christian Nagel, Berlin, Germany
2008 Galeria Llucia Homs, Barcelona, Spain Galerie Grita Insam, Ken Lum: Rorschach Shopkeepers, Vienna, Austria Galerie Nelson-Freeman, Paris, France Galerie Christian Nagel, Berlin, Germany
2007 Galerie Lothar Albrecht, Ken Lum: Rorschach Shopkeeper Series, Frankfurt, Germany Tang Contemporary Art, Beijing (catalog), China Centro de Arte Contemporáneo De Huarte, Navarro, Spain (catalog)
2006 West Passage, Pi, permanent public art installation, Karlsplatz, Vienna, Austria Galerie Grita Insam, Vienna, Austria
2005 City of Vancouver National Works Yard Commission, permanent installation, Vancouver, Canada
2004 Galerie Grita Insam, Vienna, Austria The Power Plant Contemporary Art Centre, Toronto (catalog), Canada Xpo September, Stockholm, Sweden Schnitzel Company, Museum in Progress/ Arbeiterkammer Wien, Vienna, Austria LA Galerie (Lothar Albrecht), Frankfurt, Germany
2003 Galerie Nelson, Paris, France Art Gallery of Windsor, I don’t know whether to laugh or cry, Contact Photo/ Art Gallery of Ontario, Canada Art Gallery of Calgary, Calgary, Canada Galerie Art & Public, Geneva, Switzerland
2002 Canadian Museum of Contemporary Photography, Ottawa (catalog), Canada LA Galerie (Lothar Albrecht), Frankfurt, Germany Centre Culturel Canadien, Paris (catalog), France
2001 Galerie Grita Insam, Vienna, Austria Galeria Espacio Electico, Buenos Aires, Argentina (brochure) Haus der Kulturen der Welt, There is No Place Like Home, Berlin, Germany The Agency Contemporary Art, London, United Kingdom Andrea Rosen Gallery, New York, NY Centre for Contemporary Art, Kitakyushu, Japan (artist’s book) Contemporary Art Gallery, Vancouver (catalog) Galerie im Taxispalais, Innsbruck, Austria (brochure)
2000 Museum in Progress, There is No Place Like Home, Vienna, Austria LA Galerie Lothar Albrecht, Frankfurt, Germany
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 (catalog), Brasil
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The Agency Contemporary Art, London, United Kingdom Galerie Drantmann, Brüssels, Belgium
1997 Camera Oscura, San Casciano dei Bagni, Italy FRAC de Haute-Normandie, Galerie Duchamp, Yvetot, France (catalog) Galerie Art & Public, Geneva, Switzerland Andrea Rosen Gallery, New York, NY
1996 Stills Gallery, Edinburgh, Scotland
1995 Galerie Drantmann, Brussels, Belgium Camden Arts Centre, London, United Kingdom San Francisco Art Institute, San Francisco, CA Galerie Nelson, Paris, France 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, NY Catriona Jeffries Gallery, Vancouver, Canada Oakville Galleries, Oakville, Canada
1993 Galerie Daniel Buchholz, Cologne, Germany Galerie Johnen & Schöttle, Cologne, Germany Städtische Galerie im Lenbachhaus, Munich, Switzerland Badischer Kunstverein, Karlsruhe, Germany Stadtgalerie Saarbrücken, Saarbrücken, Germany Neue Galerie am Landesmuseum Joanneum, Graz, Austria
1992 Andrea Rosen Gallery, New York, NY Galleria Massimo De Carlo, Milan, Italy
1991 Galerie Rüdiger Schöttle, Paris, France Galerie Daniel Buchholz, Cologne, Germany Fine Arts Gallery, UBC, Vancouver, Canada Galerie Rüdiger Schöttle, Munich, Switzerland Kunstmuseum Luzern, Lucerne, Switzerland (catalog)
1990 Witte de With Center for Contemporary Art, Rotterdam, Netherlands Galerie Meert Rihoux, Brussels, Belgium Galleri Nordanstad-Skarstedt, Stockholm, Sweden Andrea Rosen Gallery, New York, NY Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver, Canada Winnipeg Art Gallery, Winnipeg, Canada Artspeak Gallery, Vancouver, Canada
1989 Galerie Johnen & Schöttle, Cologne, Germany Galerie Daniel Buchholz, Cologne, Germany Galleria Massimo De Carlo, Milan, Italy
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1988 Cold City Gallery, Toronto, Canada Galerie Ralph Wernicke, Stüttgart, Germany Musée d'Art Contemporain, Montréal, Canada Galerie Nelson, Lyon, France Nature Morte Gallery, New York, NY
1987 Galerie Daniel Buchholz, Cologne, Germany Robbin Lockett Gallery, Chicago, IL
1986 The Ydessa Gallery, Toronto, Canada Convertible Showroom Gallery, Vancouver, Canada Nature Morte Gallery, New York, NY
1985 Plug-In Inc., Youth Portraits, Winnipeg, Canada Coburg Gallery, Vancouver, Canada YYZ Gallery, Toronto, Canada
1984 SFU Downtown Studio Gallery, Partially Buried Sofa, Vancouver, Canada Coburg Gallery, Portrait/Logos, Vancouver, Canada
1983 OR Gallery, World Portraits, Vancouver, Canada
1982 Artists Space, New York, NY SFU Downtown Studio Gallery, Vancouver, Canada
1980 505 Hamilton Street Studio, Sculpture For Dream Home, Syracuse, NY
1979 Ian Wallace Studio, Architectural Digest Presents, Vancouver, Canada
1978 Ian Wallace Studio, 303 Abbott Street, Sculpture for Livingroom/Public Lounge, Vancouver Walk Piece, outdoor performance, Simon Fraser University campus Entertainment for Surrey, B.C., outdoor performance in Surrey, Canada Anonymous, outdoor project, downtown streets of Vancouver, Canada
Group Exhibitions
2020 Front Gallery, Thought Outside, Vancouver, Canada Vancouver Art Gallery, Uncommon Language, Vancouver, Canada Der Neue Berliner Kunstverein (NBK), Lost in America, Berlin, Germany Kunstmuseum Luzern, Alles Echt!, Luzern, Switzerland Remai Modern, Next Year’s Country, Sakatoon, Canada
2019 Munich Documentation Centre for the History of National Socialism, Tell me about yesterday tomorrow, Munich, Germany, Galerie Klemm’s Berlin, Form, Class & Beauty, Berlin, Germany
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Musée d’Art Moderne et Contemporain, Collection(s), Geneva, Switzerland Judith & Norman Alix Art Gallery, Photography in Canada: 1960 – 2000, Sarnia, Ontario Vancouver Art Gallery, Views from the Collection: The Street, Vancouver, Canada Witte de With Center for Contemporary Art, On Melly Shum, Rotterdam, Netherlands Vancouver Art Gallery, Displacement, Vancouver, Canada Royale Projects, Come Together, Los Angeles, CA Church of San Paolo Converso, Schengen Baroque Pasolini, Milan, Italy
2018 Plug In Institute of Contemporary Art, Days of Reading, Winnipeg, Manitoba Winnipeg Art Gallery, The 80s Image, Winnipeg, Manitoba International Dumpling Festival, Nuit Blanche, Toronto Fonds régional d’art contemporain, L, Le Chateau Rentilly, Ile-de-France Terminal Creek Contemporary, Serpentine Path, Bowen Island, British Columbia, Canada Converso Arte Contemporanea, High Life: John Knight, Ken Lum, Gianni Pettena, Cameron Rowland, Superstudio, Sergio Zevallos, Milano, Italy Swiss Institute Contemporary Art, READYMADES BELONG TO EVERYONE, New York, NY Art Asian Initiative, Then and Now, Philadelphia, PN Royale Projects, Note to Self, Los Angeles, CA Hirshhorn Museum, Brand New: Art and Commodity in the 1980s, Washington, D.C. The Rooms, St. John’s, Photography in Canada: 1960 – 2000, Newfoundland, Canada
2017 Walter C. Koerner Library, Sites of Assembly, Vancouver, University of British Columbia, Canada Art Gallery of Mississauga, Transcending Signs: Ken Lum and Panchal Mansaram, Ontario, Canada Galerie UQAM, 150 Years/150 Artworks: Art in Canada as a Historical Act, Montreal, Canada Katonah Museum of Art, Wall to Wall: Carpets by Artists, Katonah, New York Art Gallery at Evergreen, Coquitlam, Canada Gordon Smith Gallery, Art School High, North Vancouver, Canada Tanja Grunert Gallery, The Carpet Kartell, New York City, NY National Gallery of Canada, Photography in Canada: 1960 – 2000, Ottawa, Canada Museum Moderner Kunst Stiftung Ludwig, Oh…, Vienna, Austria
2016 Royale Projects, SHINE TIME, Los Angeles, CA Moderner Kunst Stiftung Ludwig, Construction_Reflection: Works from the Collection Gertraud & Dieter Bogner at Mumok, Vienna, Austria Museum de Fundatie, Behold the Man: 100 years, 100 faces, Zwolle, Netherlands Museum of Contemporary Art, Wall to Wall: Carpets by Artists, Cleveland, OH Grand Rapids Art Gallery, Past/Present/Future, Grand Rapids, MI Charles Addams Fine Arts Gallery, Staff, Philadelphia, PA Rosenwald-Wolf Gallery, Do you, Ms Jones?, Philadelphia, PA Witte de With Center for Contemporary Art, Were it as if, Rotterdam, Netherlands Galerie Porte 10 CHU – Hôpitaux de Rouen, Portraits d’espace: David Coste, Axel Hütte, Ken Lum, Sophie Ristelhueber, Rouen, France Royale Projects, Objects May Appear: Lustre and the Monochrome in Contemporary Art, Palm Desert, CA Masterworks from the Audain Art Museum, Audain Art Museum, Whistler, Canada (catalog) Royale Projects, Hello my name is…, Los Angeles, CA
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2015 Camberwell Space Gallery, In An Absolute World True Taste Comes Naturally, University of the Arts, London, UK (catalog) Surrey Art Gallery, Views From the Southbank II: Moments, Reflections, Intervals, Surrey, Canada Mackenzie Art Gallery, Persons of Interest, Regina, Canada Galerie Steinek, Verotungen, Vienna, Austria Justina M Barnicke Gallery, Sign, sign, everywhere a sign, University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada
2014 Art Museum of Nanjing University of the Arts, In/Out Source, Amnua International Project, Nanjing, China La Colección ARCO, CA2M, Centro de Arte Dos de Mayo, Madrid, Spain MKG127 Gallery, Gwen MacGregor, Roula Partheniou, Ken Lum, Toronto, Canada People’s Biennial, Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit, Detroit, MI Oakville Galleries, You’ve Really Got a Hold on Me, Oakville, Canada Vancouver Art Gallery, On Stage: Recent Acquisitions, Vancouver, Canada Kunstverein Salzburg, Punctum, Salzburg, Austria (catalog) Mendel Art Gallery, Sympathetic Magic, Saskatoon, Canada FRAC Nord-Pas de Calais, Nouvelle Generation, Dunkirk, France Kunsthalle Vienna, Attention Economy, Vienna, Austria Surrey Art Gallery, Ruptures in Arrival: Art in the Wake of the Komagata Maru, Surrey, Canada Whitney Museum of American Art, Whitney Biennial, New York, NY (catalog) Art Gallery of Windsor, Border Cultures: Part two (Work, Labour), Ontario, Canada
2013 Galerie Christian Nagel, Neue Ware, Cologne, Germany
2012 Oakville Galleries, Where I live and What I live for, Ontario, Canada I-20 Gallery, Data Trash, New York, NY Museum of Contemporary Art, Street Life, Alberta, Canada AlHondiga-Bilbao, Topografias de la Memoria: a traves de grandes fotografos contemporaneos, Bilbao, Spain Galerie Marc Jancou, Spelling the Image, New York, NY Onomatopee Office and Project Space, Who told you so? The collective story vs. the individual narrative, Rotterdam, Netherlands
2011 1A Space, One Suitcase Per Person: David Diao, Ken Lum, Hiram To, Hong Kong Ursula Blickle Foundation, In the End was the Word: Language as a Medium of the Contemporary Visual Arts, Kraichtal-Unteröwisheim, Germany Vancouver Art Gallery, Shore, Forest and Beyond: Art from the Audain Collection, Vancouver, Canada The 4th Moscow Biennale of Contemporary Art, Moscow, Russia De Kabinetten Van De Vleeshal, In Deed: Certificates of Authenticity in Art, Middelburg, Netherlands Fondazione Bevilacqua La Masa, Venice, Italy Khoj International Artists’ Association, Delhi, India Kunstmuseum Bonn, Through the Looking Brain: A Swiss Collection of Conceptual Photography, Bonn, Germany Marres Centre for Contemporary Culture, Out of Storage: Provisoire & Definitif, Maastricht, Netherlands Art Gallery of Alberta, Traffic: Conceptual Art in Canada 1965 – 1980, Edmonton,
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Canada The Jumex Collection Art Museum, Destello, Ecatepec, Mexico L.A. Galerie Lothar Albrecht, ConText – Bild und Text, Frankfurt, Germany Galerie Nelson-Freeman, Bob and Breakfast – Robert Filliou et ses invites, Paris, France Helen and Morris Belkin Art Gallery, FACES: Works from the Permanent Collection, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada
2010 National Gallery of Canada, It is what it is: Recent Acquisitions of New Canadian Art, Ottawa, Canada Kamloops Art Gallery, Construction Sites: Identity and Place, Kamloops, Canada Art Moves Festival, Torun, Poland University of Toronto Galleries, Traffic: Conceptual Art in Canada 1965 – 1980, Toronto (catalog) La Garenne Lemot, Jeux de Rôles, Gétigné, France Surrey Art Gallery, Checking in with your hotspots, Surrey, Canada Kunstmuseum Bonn, Through the Looking Brain: the Photographic Collection of Swiss Collectors Rudolf, Christine and Thomas Bechtler, Bonn, Germany Dutch Cultural Center, Nether Land, Shanghai, China OR Gallery, Hold Still Wild Youth: GINA Show, Vancouver, Canada Osage Gallery, Li Ming, Shirley Tse, Adrian Wong, Ken Lum, Wang Xiaopeng, Hong Kong Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Vigo (MARCO), Volando hacia la tierra/Flying Down to Earth, Vigo, Spain Museum of Contemporary Art of the National University of Mexico, Wandering Position: Selections from the inSite Archive, Mexico City, Mexico Museum London, I don’t know whether to laugh or cry, London, Canada
2009 Stedelijk Museum voor Actuele Kunst S.M.A.K. (Museum of Contemporary Art), Gagarin: The Artists in their Own Words, Ghent, Belgium Oakville Galleries, Uneasy Pieces, Oakville, Canada Al Ma’mal Foundation for Contemporary Art, The Jerusalem Syndrome, Jerusalem, Israel Arrow Factory, Just Around the Corner, Beijing, China Galerie Grita Insam, Accrochage, Vienna, Austria Art Foyer, DZ BANK Collection, Platz der Republik, Frankfurt, Germany Pendulum Gallery of the HSBC Building, Mapping and Marking Vancouver 2010: Artist Initiated Public Art Projects, Vancouver, Canada Common History and its Private Stories: Geschichte und Geschichten, MUSA Museum, Vienna, Austria Musée d’art et d’histoire de Saint Brieuc, Les Uns et les Autres: Le portrait dans tous ses états, Saint-Brieuc, France
2008 Galerie Art & Essai, Universite de Rennes, Ironies du presque-rien, Rennes, France i8 Gallery, Pleinairism, Reykjavik, Iceland 7th Gwangju Biennale, Gwangju, South Korea (catalog) Mackenzie Art Gallery, Let Me Be Your Mirror, Regina, Saskatchewan (catalog) Centre d’Art La Panera, Beautiful People, Lérida, Spain
2007 10th Istanbul Biennial, Istanbul, Turkey (catalog) Centre Rhenan d’Art Contemporain, Beautiful People et la Blessure Secrète, Crac Alsace, Altkirch, France Centre d’Art La Plenara, Lérida, Spain De Appel, The Shadow Cabinet, Amsterdam, Netherlands
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Artists Space, Real Life 1979 – 1990, New York, NY Galerie Nelson-Freeman, Anniversaire des 25 ans de la Galerie Nelson, Paris, France
2006 Vancouver Art Gallery, Paint, Vancouver, Canada Liverpool Biennial, Liverpool, UK (catalog) Habiter: Evenement d’Art Public, Quebec City (catalog) Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, Sound and Vision, Photographic and Video Images in Contemporary Canadian Art – A Selection of Works from the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, National Gallery of Canada and Art Gallery of Ontario, Canada (catalog) Galerie Witteveen, Projekt’80 + 25 = 2005 (#1), Amsterdam, Netherlands (catalog) Vancouver Art Gallery, 75 Years of Collecting, Vancouver, Canada Redcat Gallery, An Image Bank for Everyday Revolutionary Life, Los Angeles, CA
2005 White Columns Gallery, Monuments for the USA, New York, NY (catalog) Fleisch, Word and Object, Berlin, Germany Musee Cantonal des Beaux-arts Private, View 1980 2000, Collection Pierre Huber, Lausanne Switzerland, (catalog) Galerie Nelson, Photographies, Paris, France Kunsthaus Dresden, Arbeithaus: einatmen. ausatmen. (House of Work: inhale. exhale.), Dresden, Germany (catalog) Galerie Christophe Daviet-Thery, CCA Artist’s Book Show, Paris, France CCA Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts, Monuments for the USA, San Francisco, CA (catalog) Museo Nacional de Ciencias y Artes, Morir de Amor, Mexico City, Mexico (catalog) Blackwood Gallery, University of Toronto at Mississauga, (outdoor installation), I don’t know what’s right or wrong, Mississauga, Canada Wäinö Aaltonen Museum, Contemporary Visions: Photographs and videos from the Helga de Alvear Collection, Turku, Finland
2004 Kunsthalle Göppingen, Aufruhr der Gefühle. Leidenschaften in der zeitgenössischen Fotografie, Göppingen,Germany Richard E. Peeler Art Center, DePauw University, Social Strategies: Redefining Social Realism, Greencastle, IN (catalog) Newcomb Art Gallery, Tulane University, New Orleans Schick Art Gallery, Skidmore College, Saratoga Springs, NY Deutsches Museum, Science + Fiction, Munich, Germany (catalog) Galerie Nelson, Accrochage de groupe, Paris, France Museum fur Photographie, Braunschweig, Aufruhr der Gefuhle. Leidenschaften in der zeitgenossischen Fotografie, Braunschweig, Germany Museum Van Hedendaagse Kunst, Not Done! Het Kunsttenaarsboek (The Artists’ Book), Muhka: Antwerp, Belgium (catalog) Nobel Museum, Between Nano-World and Global Culture, science + fiction, Stockholm, Sweden Galerie Nordenhake, Out of Place, Berlin, Germany National Gallery of Canada, Landscapes Ottawa, Canada Museion: Museum fur moderne und zeitgenossische Kunst, Flirts. Art e pubblicita Bolzano, Italy Parc de La Courneuve, Art Nature Grandeur, St. Denis, France (catalog) Neue Galerie Graz am Landesmuseum Joanneum, Support, Graz, Austria Galerie Von Bartha, Schriftbilder Bilderschrift, Basel, Swizerland (catalog) Architekturzentrum, Walk Me: Die Kunstzeile an der Wienzelle, Vienna, Austria McMichael Gallery, Identities: Canadian Portraits, Toronto, Canada
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2003 Seattle Art Museum, Baja to Vancouver: The West Coast and Contemporary Art, Seattle, WA (catalog) Buwog-Kundenzentrum, Gegenlicht, Vienna, Austria Toronto Festival of Photography, Contact Photo, Toronto, Canada Neuffer am Park, Der Rest der Welt, Pirmasens, Germany University Art Museum, Social Strategies: Redefining Social Realism, University of California, Santa Barbara, CA (catalog) Espai d’Art Contemporani de Castelló, Micropolitics: Everyday Life and Art, Castelló, Spain (catalog) Sight Seeing: 4th Austrian Triennale on Photography, Graz, Austria (catalog) Neue Galerie Graz am Landesmuseum Joanneum, M_ARS. Kunst und Krieg, Graz, Austria(catalog) Galerie du Théâtre de Bretagne, Faiseurs d’Histoire, Rennes, France
2002 Sprengel Museum, Science and Fiction, Hannover, Germany (catalog) Zentrum für Kunst und Medientechnologie, Karlruhe, Germany Kulturforum, Berlin, Germany Deutsches Hygiene Museum, Dresden, Germany Centre National Photographie, Sans Commune Mesure, Paris, France (catalog) CCAC Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts, To Whom It May Concern, San Francisco, CA Vancouver Art Gallery, This Place, Vancouver, Canada Documenta 11, Kassel, Germany (catalog) Galeria Duisburg, 26th Duisburger Akzente: Das Eigene und Das Fremde Globalisierung der Kulturen, Germany (catalog) Musée des Beaux-Arts, Le Regard de l’Autre, Rouen, France Kunstlerhaus, Mega: manifeste der amaßung—forum für experimentelle architektur, Vienna, Austria (catalog) Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Unpacking Europe, Rotterdam, Netherlands (catalog) House of World Cultures, Berlin, Germany
2001 OK Centrum für Gengenwartskunst, Kommunicative Röhren, Linz, Austria (catalog) Casino-Forum d’Art Contemporain, Luxembourg City, Luxembourg TN Probe Gallery, Mutations, Tokyo, Japan (catalog) Raffinerie, Brussels, Belgium Galeria Helga de Alvear, Text Message, Madrid, Spain Galerie Brotfabrik, There is No Place Like Home, Berlin, Germany Galerie Liane et Danny Taran, Centre des Arts Saidye Bronfman, Le Pouvoir de la Réflection, Montreal, Canada (catalog) Le Mois de la Photo, There Is No Place Like Home, Montreal, Canada (catalog) Museum Voor Schoene Kunsten, Shoes or No Shoes, Gent, Belgium Le Quartier, Centre d’Art Contemporain, Affinités, Quimper, France 49th Biennale of Venice, Plateau of Humankind, Venice, Italy (catalog) Lofoten Island Summer Festival of the Arts, Lofoten Island, Norway (catalog) Frankfurter Kunstverein, Neue Welt, Frankfurt, Germany (catalog) Le Centre Création de Bazouges la Pérouse, Archives: Le Printemps, Bazouges-la- Pérouse, France Chac Mool Gallery, Group Show with Trans Editions, Los Angeles, CA Atelier Gallery, Talk the Talk, Vancouver, Canada
2000 Yokohama Museum of Art, Contemporary Photography II: Anti-Memory, Yokohama,
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Japan (catalog) Bienal de Havana, Havana, Cuba (catalog) Shanghai Art Museum, Shanghai Biennale 2000: Shanghai Spirit, Shanghai, China (catalog)
1999 Ikon Gallery, Babel, Santa Monica, CA (catalog) Galerie für Zeitgenössische Kunst, Life Cycles, Leipzig, Germany (catalog) Centro Civico per l’Arte Contemporanea La Grancia, Venus’s Window, Serre di Rapolano, Italy Provinciaal Museum, voor Fotografie Laboratorium, Antwerp, Belgium (catalog) Vancouver Art Gallery, Face to Face: Four Centuries of Portraits, Vancouver, Canada FRAC de Haute-Normandie, In the City, Rouen, France (catalog) Hayward Gallery, Cities on the Move, Royal Festival Hall, London, UK (catalog) Galerie Art & Public, Sweet & Sour, Geneva, Switzerland Galerie du Rnb, FRAC de Bretagne, Visions Urbaines, Rennes, France
1998 4th International Foto-Triennale Esslingen, Photography as Concept, Esslingen, Germany (catalog) Andrea Rosen Gallery, John Currin, Felix Gonzalez-Torres, Sean Landers, Ken Lum, Dan Peterman, New York, NY University of Hong Kong Art Gallery, Between Earth and Sky, Hong Kong (catalog) Morris and Helen Belkin Art Gallery, Recent Acquisitions to the Photography Collection, Vancouver, Canada CAPC Musée d'Art Contemporain de Bordeaux, Cities On The Move Bordeaux, France (catalog) PS1 Center for Contemporary Art, New York, NY Paula Cooper Gallery, Travel and Leisure, New York, NY Catriona Jeffries Gallery, Ken Lum, Chen Zhen, Vancouver, Canada The Center for Curatorial Studies Museum, The Art of Memory: Ken Lum, Liisa Roberts, Bill Viola, Judi Werthein, Bard College, New York, NY Galerie Art & Public, Arrêt Sur Image, Geneva, Switzerland
1997 Vienna Secession, Cities On The Move, Vienna, Austria (catalog) Vancouver Art Gallery, Repeated Gestures, Vancouver, Canada P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center, Heaven - Private View, New York, NY(catalog) Roundhouse Community Centre, Browser: Artropolis '97, Vancouver, Canada (catalog) Presentation House Gallery, The Exquisite Corpse, North Vancouver, Canada 2nd Johannesburg Biennale, Johannesburg, South Africa (catalog) Athenaeum Music and Arts Library, inSITE 97: Artists' Concepts, La Jolla, CA and various public sites in San Diego, CA/Tijuana, Mexico (catalog) Okanagan Art Gallery, Hotel on Fire, Kelowna, Canada (catalog) Printemps de Cahors, One Minute Scenario, Cahors, France (catalog) Fotomuseum Winterthur, Foto Text Text Foto, Winterthur, Switzerland (catalog) Museum of Modern Art, In Visible Light: Photography & Classification in Art, Science and The Everyday, Oxford, England (catalog) Inverleith House, Botanic Gardens, Edinburgh, Scotland Harris Museum and Art Gallery, Preston, England Moderna Museet, Stockholm, Sweden Museum of Photography, Helsinki, Finland
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The Bartlett Exhibition and Performance Space, The 20th: 1977 - 1997, Vancouver, Canada Frankfurter Kunstverein, Synthese von Fotografie und Text in der Gengenwartskunst, Frankfurt, Germany (catalog)
1996 Center for Curatorial Studies Museum, a/drift, Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, New York (catalog) Museum of Modern Art, Synthese von Fotografie und Text in der Gegenwartskunst, Bolzano, Italy (catalog) Museum of Contemporary Art, Fact or fiction? Four Canadian artists, Sydney, Australia (catalog) Shopping: New York, project organized by Jerome Sans and Deitch Projects, New York (catalog) Kasseler Kunstverein, Surfing Systems, Kassel, Germany (catalog) Oakville Galleries, Reading and Re-reading: Selections from the Permanent Collection, Oakville, Ontario (brochure with essay) Art Gallery of Ontario, The OH! Canada Project, Toronto, Canada
1995 Haus der Kunst, Der zweite Blick, Munich (catalog) Various sites in Hamburg, Infra-sound: a city project, sponsored by Woche die Bildenden Kunst, Hamburg (catalog) Various sites in Bordeaux, Shopping, sponsored by CAPC, Museum of Contemporary Art, Bordeaux, France (catalog) Museum Boymans-van Beuningen, Album: The Photographic Collection of the Museum, Rotterdam, Netherlands (catalog) Margo Leavin Gallery, Untitled (Reading Room), Los Angeles, CA Riva San Biagio, On Board, Venice Biennale, Venice, Italy (catalog) Espaces des Nouvelles Galeries, Peinture, Photo et Compagnie, Arles (catalog) Stedelijk Museum, Notion of Conflict: A selection of contemporary Canadian art, Amsterdam, Netherlands (catalog) Galerie Jousse Seguin, Pièces - Meublés, Paris, France Postmasters Gallery, Crash Pad, New York, NY Oakville Galleries, Works from the Permanent Collection, Oakville, Canada
1994 Neue Gesellschaft für bildende Kunst, GEWALT/Geschäfte, Berlin, Germany (catalog) Museum Boymans-van Beuningen, Collection Modern Art, Rotterdam, Netherlands (catalog) Kunstmuseum Luzern, Prospect/Retrospect, Luzern, Swizerland (catalog) Forum Stadtpark, Das Archiv/The Archive, Graz, Austria (catalog) Ottawa Art Gallery, Practice Ground, Ottawa (catalog) Sprengel Museum, Die Orte der Kunst: Der Kunstbetrieb als Kunstwerk,Hannover (catalog) Thread Waxing Space, don’t look now, New York, NY (catalog)
1993 Musée Municipal de La Roche-sur-Yon, Collections, La Roche-sur-Yon, France Vienna Secession, Viennese Story, (catalog) Americas Society, Space of Time, New York, NY (catalog) Museo del Oeste, Caracas, Venezuela Centro Cultural Recoleta, Buenos Aires, Argentina Center for the Fine Arts, Miami, FL Sprengel Museum, Konstruktion Zitat: Kollective Bilder in der Fotografie, Hannover, Germany, (catalog)
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Jahrhunderts, Die Sprache Der Kunst: Die Beziehung von Bild und Text in der Kunst des 20. Kunsthalle Vienna, Austria (catalog) Frankfurter Kunstverein, Frankfurt, Germany Maraism, Before the sound of the beep, traveling exhibition (catalog) MacDonald Stewart Art Gallery, Guelph Spring Festival, Guelph, Ontario, Canada Canada, une nouvelle génération, FRAC des Pays de la Loire; Musée de La Roche-sur-Yon; Musée des Sables d’Olonne (catalog) Atelier Gallery, Drawing Ideas, Vancouver, Canada Working Documents: Vancouver Drawings, Artspeak Gallery, Vancouver, Canada Live in your head, Heilgenkreuzerhof, Hochschule fur Angewandte Kunst & Galerie Metropol, Vienna, Austria (catalog)
1992 Sydney Biennale, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia (catalog) Galleria Galliani, C. Eckart, G. Kuitca, J. Lasker, K. Lum, McDermot & McGough, D. Moylan, Genoa, Italy Buchholz & Buchholz, Proiezioni, Cologne, Germany (catalog) Le Consortium, 1968, Dijon, France (catalog) La Galerie Du Mois, One & One, Paris, France Städtische Kunsthalle Düsseldorf, Avantgarde & Kampagne, Germany (catalog) Casa Della Citta, Moltiplici culture: Arte Critica 1992, Rome, Italy (catalog) Institute of Contemporary Art, The Speaker Project, London, UK Galerie des Archives, 30 11, Paris, France Galerie Art & Essai; La Criée; Halle d’art contemporain; FRAC Bretagne - Galerie du TNB, C’est pas la fin du monde, Rennes, France (catalog) S.L. Simpson Gallery, Sporting Type, Toronto, Canada Städtische Galerie im Lenbachhaus, Neuerwerbungen 1990/1991, Munich, Germany Galerie Nelson, Rodney Graham and Ken Lum, Lyon, France Centre d’Art Santa Monica, Cameres Indiscretas, Barcelona, Spain Circulo de Bellas Artes, Madrid, Spain (catalog) Internationale Künstlerplakate Saarbrücken, Saarbrücken, Germany (catalog) Pat Hearn Gallery, J. S. Bernard, Ken Lum, Joan Wallace, New York, NY Centre for Contemporary Art (Ujazdowski Castle), 1991 The Wealth of Nations, Warsaw, Poland (catalog) Musée d’Art Moderne, Lieux communs - Figures singulières, Paris, France (catalog) Carnegie Museum of Art, Carnegie International, Pittsburgh, PA (catalog) Gallery 400, As Yet Untitled, University of Illinois at Chicago, IL Castello di Rivara, Projections, Torino, Italy Art Information Center, The Archives, Jessica Diamond, Jeanne Dunning, Felix Gonzalez- Torres, Hirsch Perlman Ken Lum, Michel Zumpf, Rotterdam, Netherlands The Hyde Collection, Just what is it that Makes Today’s Homes so Different, so Appealing?, Glen Falls, NY (catalog) Wilkie Fine Arts, Van, Seattle, WA Galerie Rüdiger Schöttle, Art Conceptuel des Années 70 A Aujourd’hui, Paris, France Vancouver Art Gallery, Goya to Beijing, Vancouver, Canada Museum Des 20., Jahrhunderts, Bildlicht: Malerei Zwischen Material Und Immaterialität, Vienna, Austria (catalog) Galerie Barbara Farber, The Museum of Natural History, Amsterdam, Netherlands Home: for Contemporary Theatre and Art, Daniel Buren, Stephen Prina, Ken Lum, Rudolf Stingel, New York, NY Galerie Pierre Huber, La Revanche De L'Image, Geneva, Switzerland (catalog) Asian Centre (University of British Columbia), Echoes After the Storm: Tiananmen Memorial Art Exhibition, Vancouver, Canada
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Mincher/Wilcox Gallery, Telekinesis, San Francisco, CA
1990 MIT List Visual Arts Center, (not so) Simple Pleasures, Boston, MA (catalog) Galerie 1900 - 2000, No, Not That One, It's Not A Chair, Paris, France (catalog) Simon Watson, Total Metal, New York, NY(catalog) Museé des Beaux Art, 150 Ans de Photographie, Nantes, France Centre Georges Pompidou, Art et Publicité, Paris, France (catalog) Fotographie Biennale Rotterdam II, Op-positions, Rotterdam, Netherlands (catalog) Feature Gallery, The Thing Itself, New York, NY Galerie Isy Brachot, Red, Brussels, Belgium (catalog) Centre International d'Art Contemporain, Goya To Beijing, Montréal, Canada Galerie Johnen & Schöttle, Ausstellungraum, Cologne, Germany Galleri Nordanstad-Skarstedt, Disconnections, Stockholm, Sweden Terrain Gallery, Information, San Francisco, CA Gallery Artists, Galerie Daniel Buchholz, Cologne, Germany
1989 Stuttgarter Staatsgalerie, Foto-Kunst, Stuttgart, Germany (catalog) Art Gallery of York University, Selections from the Ann and Marshall Webb Collection, Toronto, Canada (catalog) Kunstverein Hamburg and Kunsthaus Hamburg, D & S Austellung, Hamburg, Germany (catalog) Frankfurter Kunstverein and Schirn Kunsthalle, Prospect Photographie, Frankfurt, Germany (catalog) Robbin Lockett Gallery, Jennifer Bolande, Tim Ebner, Mike Kelley, Ken Lum, Chicago, IL Montréal International Airport and Galerie Aubes 3935, Fictions, Montreal, Canada (catalog) Villa Merkel, Internationale Foto-Triennale 1989, Esslingen, Germany (catalog) Vienna Secession, The Play of the Unsayable: Ludwig Wittgenstein and the Art of the 20th Century, Vienna, Austria (catalog) Palais des Beaux Arts, Brussels, Belgium Galleri Nordanstad-Skarstedt, Oppningsutstallning, Stockholm, Sweden Galerie Grita Insam, Vis a Vis Der Kamera: Aspekte Der Actuellen Portrait Fotografie, Vienna, Austria Museum of Contemporary Art, s'Hertogenbosch, Netherlands (catalog) Rhona Hoffman Gallery, Problems with Reading/Rereading, Chicago, IL Frankfurter Kunstverein and Schirn Kunsthalle, Prospect 89, Frankfurt, Germany (catalog) Galerie Rudiger Schöttle, Ken Lum and Jeff Wall, Munich, Germany
1988 Galleri Contur, John Hilliard, Barbara Kruger, Ken Lum, Richard Prince, Jeff Wall, Stockholm, Sweeden Dia Art Foundation, Democracy: Cultural Participation an exhibition by Group Material, 77 Wooster Street, New York, NY Galerie Wilma Tolksdorf, Selected Photo-Editions of the 80's, Hamburg, Germany Galerie der Künstler, (W)orte, Munich, Germany Gallery Artists, Galerie Crousel-Robelin/Bama, Paris, France Wolff Gallery, Carl Andre, Daniel Buren, Ericson & Ziegler, Ronald Jones, Ken Lum, Julian Opie, Hirsch Perlman, New York, NY Chisenhale Gallery, Yellow Peril, London, UK Esbo Museum of Art, New York Now, Helsinki, Finland (catalog) Norrköping Museum of Art, Norrköping, Sweden Göteborg, Museum of Art, Göteborg, Sweden
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Sundsvall Museum of Art, Sundsvall, Sweden Södertälje Museum of Art, Södertälje, Sweden Museo Padiglione d'Arte Contemporanea, Presi X Incantamento: L'Immagine Fotografica nelle Nuove Tendenze Internationali, Milan, Italy (catalog) Centres d'Histoire de l'Art Contemporain, Art et Langage: Annees 80, œuvres choisies, Rennes, France (catalog) Museum Boymans-Van Beuningen, Furniture as Art: Recent Tendencies in Sculpture, Rotterdam, Netherlands (catalog) ARC, The Discursive Field of Recent Photography, Toronto, Canada (catalog) Galerie Daniel Buchholz, Christoph Andres, Larry Johnson, Ken Lum, Hans-Jorg Mayer, Harald F.Muller, David Robbins, Cologne, Germany Nickle Arts Museum, Striving for Ideal Resolution, Calgary, Canada (catalog)
1987 De Appel Foundation, Nightfire, Amsterdam, Netherlands (catalog) Galerie De Lege Ruimte, Brugge, Belgium Anne Plumb Gallery, Logos, New York, NY Ghislaine Hussenot, Signes des Temps, Paris, France Cleveland Centre for Contemporary Art, For Collectors, Cleveland, OH Galerie Daniel Buchholz, John M. Armleder, Klaus Vom Bruch, Ken Lum, Hans-Jorg Mayer, Otto Mecky, Cologne, Germany Crousel-Robelin/Bama, Jenny Holzer, Louise Lawler, Ken Lum, Paris, France The 49th Parallel Centre for Contemporary Canadian Art, Material Fictions, New York, NY (catalog) Binghampton Gallery, State University of New York, NY Galerie Daniel Buchholz, Multiples, Cologne, Germany Coburg Gallery, Alan Belcher, Ken Lum, Vancouver, Canada Galerie Ralph Wernicke, Kunst Mit Fotographie, Stüttgart, Germany (catalog) Galerie Christophe Dürr, Der Reine Alltag, Munich, Germany (catalog)
1986 Victoria Miro Gallery, Foto Cliché, London, Britain (catalog) The Orchard Gallery, Derry, Northern Ireland Galerie Daniel Buchholz (Rudolf Zwirner,) James Casebere, Clegg & Guttmann, Ken Lum, Cologne, Germany Palais des Beaux Arts, Au Coeur du Maelström, Brussels, Belgium (catalog) Centre National d'Art Contemporain, Caravelles: General Idea, Sol LeWitt, Ken Lum, Gre noble, France (catalog) The New Museum of Contemporary Art, Damaged Goods: Desire and the Economy of the Object, New York, NY (catalog)
1985 Galerie Philip Nelson, Transitional Objects: An Exhibition Organized by Joseph Kosuth, Lyon, France Contemporary Art Gallery, Ex-Academe, Vancouver, Canada Nexus Centre for Contemporary Art, The Public Art Show, Atlanta, GA C.W. Woods Gallery (University of Southern Mississippi), Hattiesburg, MS Carolina Program Union (University of South Carolina) Columbia, SC Austin Peay State University, Clarksville, Tennessee Valencia Community College, Orlando, FL North Carolina Museum of Art, Raleigh, NC University of the South, Sewanee, TN Galerie Rudiger Schottle, Barbara Ess, Rodney Graham, Ken Lum, Munich, Germany (catalog) The 49th Parallel Center for Contemporary Canadian Art, Rodney Graham, Ken Lum, Jeff
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Wall, Ian Wallace, New York, NY
1984 Coquitlam Mall, Poco Rococo, Coquitlam, Canada Miyagi Biennale, Miyagi Museum of Art, Sendai, Japan (catalog) Walter Phillips Gallery, Contact II, Banff, Alberta, Canada
1982 White Columns Gallery, Real Life Magazine Presents, New York, NY
1979 Living Art Performance Festival, Firehall Theatre, Vancouver, Canada (catalog)
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Selected Public Collections
Anders Pilm Collection, London, UK Annie Wong Art Foundation, Hong Kong Arco Foundation Collection, Madrid, Spain Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto, Canada Belinda Stronach Collection, Toronto, Canada Centro de Arte Contemporáneo De Huarte, Navarro, Spain Centro Galego de Arte Contemporanea, Santiago de Campostela, Spain DZ Bank Collection, Frankfurt, Germany Collection of Hart House at the University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada Collection of Library and Archives Canada, Ottawa, Canada Elaine Cohen Collection, New York, NY FRAC Haute Normandie, Rouen, France FRAC Ile de France, le Plateau, Paris, France FRAC Nord Pas de Calais, Dunkirk, France Helga de Alvear Collection, Madrid, Spain Jumex Art Collection, Mexico City, Mexico Kunstmuseum Luzern, Lucerne, Switzerland Laumeier Sculpture Park, St. Louis, MO M+ Museum of Visual Culture, Hong Kong Musee d'Art Contemporain, Montreal, Canada Museum Boijmans van-Beuningen, Rotterdam, Netherlands Museum Volkenkunde, Leiden, Netherlands National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa, Canada Neue Galerie am Landesmuseum Joanneum, Graz, Austria Pierre Huber Collection, Geneva, Switzerland Ralph Wernicke Collection, Berlin, Germany RBC Collection, Toronto, Canada Stadtische Galerie im Lenbachhaus und Kunstbau, Munich, Germany Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver, Canada Vienna Secession, Vienna, Austria Walter A Bechtler Foundation, Zurich, Switzerland Winnipeg Art Gallery, Winnipeg, Canada Witte de With Center for Contemporary Art, Rotterdam, Netherlands
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