Ken Lum »
Scotiabank Photography Award
Exhibition: 15 May – 3 Aug 2024
The Image Centre
33 Gould Street
M5B 1W1 Toronto
+1-416-9795167
rburley@ryerson.ca
ryersonimagecentre.ca
Wed-Sat 12-18
This exhibition, comprising signature series along with new works, celebrates the career of Canadian artist Ken Lum, winner of the 2023 Scotiabank Photography Award. Lum is internationally known for his conceptualist and often humorous approach, which draws on methods from cultural and social studies, semiology, psychoanalysis, and political philosophy. The artist’s impactful practice utilizes photography to investigate the relationship between language and representation in the public space. By doing so, Lum critically challenges the social hierarchies and dominant narratives related to identity, class, and gender that are always at play in capitalist and postcolonial societies.