CV and Biography
Jump to: Exhibitions Awards Bibliography Artist Talks Teaching Bio
EDUCATION
2004 MFA School of Arts, University of California, Irvine
Critical Theory Emphasis School of Humanities, UC Irvine
2000 BFA Emily Carr Institute, Vancouver
1999 Hong Ik University, Seoul
1998 Cooper Union, New York City
1991 DDS Faculty of Dentistry, University of Toronto, Toronto
1987 BSc Psychology (Honours), University of Toronto, Toronto
AWARDS / RESIDENCIES / FELLOWSHIPS
2010 SymbioticA Centre of Excellence in Biological Arts Residency, University of Western Australia, Perth, Australia
2009 Canada Council Inter-Arts Creation/Production Grants– Mid-Career category, Ottawa, Canada
2007 Canada Council Inter-Arts Creation/Production Grants– Emerging category, Ottawa, Canada
2007 Franklin Furnace Fund for Performance Art Award, New York, USA
2006–09 British Columbia Arts Council Visual Arts Project Development Awards, BC, Canada
2004 Distinguished Master's Thesis Nominee for the University of California, Irvine,
Master's Thesis Writing Competition, Western Association of Graduate Schools, USA
2004 Most Promising Future Faculty Award, School of the Arts, UC Irvine, USA
2001-3 UC Irvine Chancellor's Full Tuition Fellowship, University of California, Irvine, USA
EXHIBITIONS
ONE PERSON EXHIBITIONS/ PERFORMANCE
2008 Centre A, How to Feed A Piano (Performance with Candice Hopkins), Vancouver
2007 Franklin Furnace Archive, M. Butterfly (after Shigeko Kubota), Tisch School of Art, NYU, New York City
2007 Fado Performance, Inc., Phalogocentrix, Music Gallery, Toronto
2006 Western Front, Mediamorphosis, Vancouver
2006 Latitude 53, Bleeding Book, Edmonton
2005 Grunt Gallery, Oral - Fecal , Vancouver
2004 Room Gallery, Linea Lingua, Irvine
TWO PERSON EXHIBITIONS/ PERFORMANCES
2006 Alternator Gallery,Spill (collaboration with Carrie Paterson), Kelowna
2004 Paxico Gallery, of Cocks and Tongues (collaboration with Carrie Paterson), Los Angeles
2004 Paxico Gallery,modular : globular (collaboration with Lisa Birke), Los Angeles
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2009 TRUCK Contemporary Art, Welcome to the Dollhouse, Calgary
2008 Orange County Center for Contemporary Art, Animal Magnetism, Santa Ana, CA
2008 Second International Biennial DEFORMES, Nomads : Body and City, Santiago, Chile
2008 Western Front, Manifestation :: Agitation, Vancouver
2008 Latitude 53, Visualeyez, Edmonton
2008 A Space, Grotesques, Toronto
2008 The Western Front, Manifestation :: Agitation, Vancouver
2007 7th Floor Gallery, Exquisite Crisis & Encounters, A/P/A Institute, NYU, New York City
2007 Concourse Gallery, Faculty Exhibition, Emily Carr Institute, Vancouver
2007 Gallery of BC Ceramics, Ricochet (collaboration with Jeremy Hatch), Vancouver
2007 Helen Pitt Gallery, The Performed Object: Against A Pathetic Fallacy, Vancouver
2007 LES Gallery, Aggregate Set, Vancouver
2007 Centre for Innovation in Culture and Arts in Canada, Performing Identities/ Crossing Borders, Nicosia, Cyprus
2006 Deformes Biennale, Museum of Contemporary Art, Santiago, Chile
2006 Western Front, Slits 2, Vancouver
2006 Gallery Aferro, Glossolalia, Newark NJ
2005 Track 16 Gallery, Irrational Exhibits 4, Los Angeles
2005 Cal Poly University, Free For All, San Luis Obispo
2004 Tokyo Keizai University, Contemporary Diaspora Art, Tokyo
2004 Richmond Art Gallery, Work and Play, Richmond BC
2004 Track 16 Gallery, Irrational Exhibits 3, Los Angeles
2004 Inshallah Gallery, Situational Awareness, Los Angeles
2004 Art Center College of Design, Supersonic, Pasadena
2003 Womans' Building, Art Church, Los Angeles
2003 Track 16 Gallery, Happy Beautiful Desirable , Los Angeles
2003 Beall Center for Art & Technology, Life by Design: Everyday Digital Culture, Irvine
2003 Andrewshire Gallery, Two Hundred Dollars, Los Angeles
2003 Track 16 Gallery, Irrational Exhibits 2, Los Angeles
2002 Mediate Online, The ME Project , San Francisco www.meproject.com
2002 Arts in Action, Smoking Mirrors , Los Angeles
2002 Kinross Gallery, UCLA , Not in Our Name, Los Angeles
2002 University Art Gallery,UCI , Generica, Irvine
PERFORMANCES
2009 ANZA Club(in collaboration with Ziyian Kwan), “Study No.1” for Brief Encounters, Vancouver
2008 The Western Front, “Dental Drawings,” for Manifestation :: Agitation, Vancouver
2008 A Space,“Tooth Booth”, for Grotesques, Toronto
2007 Performance Studies International/ Performa, “M. Butterfly,” NYU, New York City
2007 Fado Performance, Inc., “Phallogocentrix,” Music Gallery, Toronto
2007 Centre for Innovation in Culture and Arts in Canada,
“Wrong Place: Greening the DMZ,” Performing Identity / Crossing Borders, Nicosia, Cyprus
2006 Western Front, “Mediamorphosis,” Vancouver
2006 Latitude 53, “Glossographia/ Glossophagia,” for the exhibition Bleeding Book, Edmonton
2006 Western Front, “Artifice of Sacrifice,” in Slits 2, Vancouver
2006 Video In, “Number Two,” in Quick and Dirty, Vancouver
2006 Factoría de la Universidad Arcis, “(No) Tener pelos en la lengua,” in Deformes Bienniel, Santiago, Chile
2005 Track 16 Gallery, “Writing on Water,” as part of Irrational Exhibits 4, Los Angeles
2005 grunt gallery, “(vag)Anal Painting,” in conjunction with the exhibition, Oral-Fecal, Vancouver
2004 Tokyo Keizai University, “Draw a straight line,” in Contemporary Diaspora, Tokyo
2004 Track 16 Gallery, “Speaking of Butterflies,” in Irrational Exhibits 3, Los Angeles
2003 Track16 Gallery, “Walk a straight line,” in Happy Beautiful Desirable, Los Angeles
2003 UC Irvine, “Circle Walk,” October 1 – 31, 2003, Irvine
2003 Andrewshire Gallery, Two Hundred Dollars, Los Angeles
2003 Womans’ Building, “Zen Offering,” in Art Church, Los Angeles
2003 Track 16 Gallery, “Zen for Mouth,” in Irrational Exhibits 2, Los Angeles
ARTIST TALKS / PANELS
2009 Goddard College, Plainfield, Vermont. July 30, 2009. Lecture: “Site + Locational Identity.”
2009 Goddard College, Plainfield, Vermont. Jan. 28, 2009. Artist talk.
2009 North Island College, Courtenay, Visiting Artist Lecture Series. March 12, 2009. Artist talk.
2009 West Coast Line, ANZA Club, Vancouver, Publication Launch Launch (Issue #59). Feb. 19, 2009. Artist talk.
2008 Emily Carr University, Vancouver, Foundation Forum. Sept. 22, 2008. Artist talk.
2008 Access Gallery, Vancouver. “Animot: Poetics of Inter-Species Relations." Curator's presentation.
2007 Performance Studies International #13, Tisch School of the Arts, NYU, New York City. Paper presentation.
2007 A Space Gallery, Toronto. “Politics of Representation/Representation of Politics," Oct.13, 2007.
Paper presentation.
2007 Knitting Circle/Video In, Vancouver, April 10, 2007. Artist talk.
2007 Centre for Innovation in Culture and Arts in Canada,
Performing Identity / Crossing Borders, Necosia, Cyprus, May 5. Panelist.
2006 Latitude 53, Edmonton, June 24, 2006. Artist talk.
2006 Alternator Gallery, Kelowna, March 4, 2006. Artist talk.
2006 Interior Investigations, Thompson River University, Kamloops, April 3-10, 2006. Artist residency.
2005 LIVE Performance Art Biennial: Altered States, Vancouver, Nov.13, 2005. Panel Moderator.
2005 Grunt Gallery, Vancouver,May 10, 2005. Artist talk.
2005 Emily Carr Institute, Vancouver, Foundation Lecture Series. Feb. 7, 2005. Artist talk.
2004 Tokyo Keizai University, Tokyo, “Contemporary Diaspora Art.” Nov.27-28, Artist talk/ Panelist.
2004 UCI Visual Studies Conference, Irvine, “Ends of Violence: Detonations of Vision.” Mar.13, 2004.
2003 Otis College of Art, Los Angeles, “Grad Panel at Otis.” Nov.18, 2003, Artist talk.
2003 Track 16 Gallery, Los Angeles, “Happy Artist’s Talk.” June 13, 2003, Artist talk.
2002 Gwangju Biennale: “There.”Gwangju, Korea, May 23-25, 2002, Panel respondent.
BIBLIOGRAPHY
2008 Candice Hopkins, Centre A Exhibition Catalogue, "On Gesture and Becoming Animal”, May 2008.
2008 Larissa Lai, Centre A Exhibition Catalogue, "Butterfly Prostheses and the Reproductive Mouth”, May 2008.
2007 Rinaldo Walcott, Fado Performance Inc., "Intimate Distances." www.performanceart.ca , May, 2007.
2006 Joanne Bristol, FRONT Magazine, "Mediamorphosis." September, 2006.
2006 Ashok Mathur, Latitude 53 Exhibition brochure, "The Problemed Body." June 23, 2006.
2006 Fish Grikowsky, Edmonton Sun, "Art buffet with the works." June 24, 2006.
2006 Nick Rockel, Georgia Straight, "Pain joins artists to audience." February 23, 2006.
2006 Seph Rodney, Alternator Gallery Exhibition catalogue, "Hybrid Dissident." March 2006.
2005 Glen Alteen, brunt magazine, "Interview with David Khang." Issue 1, September 2005. www.bruntmag.com/issue1/khang.html
2004 Peter Frank, LA Weekly, "Performance Art Picks of the Week." October 22-28, 2004, p.158
2004 Carrie Paterson, Flash Art, "Supersonic," Exhibition Review. October, 2004, Vol. XXXVIII, p.64
2004 Patrick Deegan, Artnet Magazine, "SuperCalifornia" www.artnet.com/Magazine/review/deegan, Aug,2004
2004 Sarah Lookofsky, Supersonic Exhibition catalogue, "Surfacing SoCal."
Art Center College of Design, Pasadena, June-August, 2004, p.72-74
2004 Carrie Paterson, Supersonic Exhibition catalogue, "Eviscerating the Visceral."
Art Center College of Design, Pasadena, June - August, 2004, p.42
2004 Robin Laurence, Georgia Straight.com: Visual Arts, "Group Show Plays Leisure Against Labour." www.straight.com , 08.26.04
2004 Corrine Corrie, Richmond Art Gallery Exhibition catalogue, "Work and Play." 2004
2003 Ann Conway, Los Angeles Times, "Gallery visits where the art's wiggling...." June 22, 2003, C1
2003 Benjamin Lima, Happy Beautiful Desirable Exhibition catalogue, "In and Out of Irvine: Four Reflections."
June 5-14, 2003. Track 16 Gallery, Los Angeles, p.2-4
2001 Kalle Lasn, Adbusters Magazine, "Creative Resistance," Vol.9 No.1, Jan/Feb 2001, p. 63
2000 Michael Scott, The Vancouver Sun, "Outside the Box," May 20, 2000, p C1
WRITINGS/ PUBLICATIONS
2007 brunt magazine, “Jason Fitzpatrick: Transitions & Transformations.” www.bruntmag.com, Issue 3, June 2007
2005 brunt magazine, “Interview with David Khang” www.bruntmag.com, Issue 1, September 2005
2001 Adbusters Magazine, “Creative Resistance,” Vol.9 No.1, Jan/Feb 2001, p. 62, 63 (Artist pages)
PROFESSIONAL TEACHING EXPERIENCES
2009 Goddard College, Vermont, USA. Graduate Advisor –Master of Fine Arts Program (Interdisciplinary Arts)
2008-9 Emily Carr University of Art & Design , Vancouver, Canada. Graduate Advisor - Master of Applied Arts Program
2006-9 Emily Carr University of Art & Design , Vancouver, Canada. Adjunct Faculty, Bachelor of Fine Arts Program
2002-4 University of California, Irvine,Department of Studio Art, Irvine, USA.Instructor - Bachelor of Fine Arts Program
COMMUNITY ACTIVITIES
2007-10 Access Artist Run Centre, President & Member, Board of Directors
2005-07 LIVE Performance Biennial, Chair & Member, Board of Directors
WEB LINKS
2008- www.centrea.org
2006- www.franklinfurnace.org
2005- www.bruntmag.com/issue1/khang.html
2004- www.paxicoreview.com/Khang.htm
2002- www.meproject.com
BIOGRAPHY
David Khang is a visual and performance artist based in Vancouver. In recent works that incorporate live animals and organs of speech, Khang uses language as a trope to consider constructions and performativity of gender and race, contextualized within postcolonial history and contemporary popular culture. Using citational strategies, Khang mines historical events and treats them as ready-mades, producing divergent, tangential, and often hyperbolic readings, as a way to remix and re-imagine their poetic and political potentials. After completing his B.Sc. (Psychology) and DDS, both from the University of Toronto, Khang received his BFA from Emily Carr Institute of Art + Design (2000), and MFA from the University of California, Irvine (2004), where he was the recipient of the UCI Chancellor's Full Fellowship. He concurrently completed UCI’s Critical Theory Emphasis (2004), for which he studied with Jacques Derrida, David Joselit, and Laura Kang. Khang was born in Seoul, grew up in Toronto, and currently resides in Vancouver, where he is an Adjunct Faculty at the Emily Carr University, and Goddard College (Plainfield, Vermont). Khang is a 2006-7 recipient of the Franklin Furnace Fund for Performance Art (NY), and in 2010, artist in residence at SymbioticA (Perth, AUS).