Vancouver artist Ken Lum awarded Gershon Iskowitz Prize at Art Gallery of Ontario GlobeArts
Vancouver artist Ken Lum, who is currently a professor and chair of the Department of Fine Arts at the University of Pennsylvania’s Stuart Weitzman School of Design.Vancouver born-and-raised artist Ken Lum has been awarded the prestigious Gershon Iskowitz Prize at the AGO.
Iskowitz, who was born in Poland in 1921, was a survivor of Auschwitz and Buchenwald. While imprisoned as a slave labourer in the concentration camps, he managed to find drawing materials and would sketch late into the night. “I needed it for my sanity,” Iskowitz later said.After liberation, he studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Munich and immigrated to Canada in 1949. Iskowitz, who lived in Toronto, understood the great importance that grants play in the development of artists in Canada.
Lum, who is a professor and chair of the Department of Fine Arts at the University of Pennsylvania’s Stuart Weitzman School of Design, was the unanimous choice of the jury for the 2019 prize. He has exhibited extensively in Canada and internationally, but this will be his first show at the AGO. He has received a Guggenheim Fellowship, a Pew Fellowship, a Hnatyshyn Foundation Visual Arts Award and he is a member of the Order of Canada. He has received numerous other awards, including an honorary doctorate from Simon Fraser University, where he completed his undergraduate degree. He received his MFA in Visual Arts from the University of British Columbia. He has been a professor at UBC and at the Emily Carr University of Art and Design in Vancouver, as well as at Bard College in New York.
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