Ken Lum is an internationally recognized artist. He is currently the Chair of Fine Arts at the University of Pennsylvania’s Weitzman School of Design in Philadelphia. A co-founder and founding editor of the Yishu Journal of Contemporary Chinese Art, he has published extensively, including numerous major catalogue essays and juried papers. He was keynote speaker at the 2010 World Museums Conference held at the Shanghai Museum in Shanghai as well as keynote speaker for the 15th Biennale of Sydney in Sydney, Australia. A book of his writings titled Everything is Relevant: Writings on Art and Life 1991 - 2018 was issued by Concordia University Press in 2020. His exhibition record includes Documenta 11, the Venice Biennale, Sao Paolo Bienal, Shanghai Biennale, Carnegie Triennial, Sydney Biennale, Whitney Biennial, Gwangju Biennale among others. Since the mid 1990s, Lum has worked on several permanent public art commissions including for Vienna, the Engadines (Switzerland), Rotterdam, St. Louis, Leiden, Utrecht, Toronto and Vancouver. He has also realized temporary public art commissions in Stockholm, Istanbul, Torun (Poland), Innsbruck and Kansas City. Lum’s public art often deals with individual and social identity formation in the context of historical trauma and the complications of official and non-official memory. He also has a record of curatorial projects, co-curating Shanghai Modern: 1919 - 1945; Sharjah Biennial 7; and Monument Lab: Creative Speculations for Philadelphia. He is co-founder and Chief Curatorial Advisor for Monument Lab, a public art and history collective that recently won a 4 million USD Mellon Foundation Grant. He is a Guggenheim Fellow and an Officer of the Order of Canada.