Ken Lum is a Canadian artist with an extensive international exhibition record. He is co-founder and senior curatorial advisor to Monument Lab, a public art and history thinktank. Lum is a prolific writer and essayist on art, culture and public space. His curatorial history includes co-curating “Shanghai Modern: 1919–1945,” the Sharjah Biennial 7 and “Monument Lab: Creative Speculations for Philadelphia,” as well as project managing “The Short Century: Independence and Liberation Movements in Africa, 1945–1994.” Lum is an Officer of the Order of Canada and a professor at the University of Pennsylvania Stuart Weitzman School of Design in Philadelphia.