Ken Lum‘s Hashtag is the third project in MKG127’s lightbox since the gallery’s move to its current location. With this work, Lum “was interested in the idea of a forbidden hashtag message, what could not be said. I wanted to invite the viewer to speculate what are some things that cannot be said.”

Ken Lum is an artist born and raised in Vancouver, Canada. He presently resides in Philadelphia where he is a Professor in the School of Design at the University of Pennsylvania. Previously, Lum has been on the faculty of the University of British Columbia, (Vancouver); Bard College (Annandale-on-Hudson) and the Ecole Nationale Superieure des Beaux-Arts, (Paris) among his teaching experience. Lum is co-founder and founding editor of Yishu Journal of Chinese Contemporary Art. He has published extensively incuding giving keynote addresses to the World Museums Conference in Shanghai in 2010, the Sydney Biennale in 2006 and the Universities Art Association of Canada in 1997. In 2008, Lum completed an artist’s book project with philosopher Hubert Damisch that was published by Three Star Press of Paris. Lum was project advisor for The Short Century: Independence and Liberation Movements in Africa 1945-1994 (2001). He was co-curator of the 7th Sharjah Biennial (2005), and Shanghai Modern: 1919-1945 (2005). Lum has exhibited widely, including Sao Paulo Bienal (1998), Shanghai Biennale (2000), Documenta 11 (2002), Liverpool Biennial (2006), Istanbul Biennial (2007), Gwangju Biennale (2008), Moscow Biennial (2011) and the Whitney Biennial (2014). Lum is also active in public art, realizing permanent works in Vienna, St. Moritz, Edmonton, Vancouver, St Louis, Leiden, Rotterdam, Toronto, and Utrecht.