Curriculum Vitae

EDUCATION

2021 JD, University of British Columbia, Vancouver
2004 MFA, University of California, Irvine
2004 Critical Theory Emphasis, University of California, Irvine
2000 BFA, Emily Carr Institute of Art + Design, Vancouver
1999 Hong Ik University, Seoul
1998 Cooper Union, New York City
1991 DDS, Faculty of Dentistry, University of Toronto, Toronto
1987 BSc, Psychology / Physiology, University of Toronto, Toronto

ONE PERSON EXHIBITION / PERFORMANCE

2026 Camuflaje, Centre A, Vancouver (UPCOMING)
2020 Anthropocene 2 Symbiocene / Cut Piece 2 Sew Peace, CSA Space, Vancouver
2018 La Monte Young Projects / Collective Calligraphy, Open Space, Victoria
2018 March of the Monarch (How To Fly A Tank), grunt gallery, Vancouver
2016 The tank, the poem, and the uniform, Malaspina Printmakers, Vancouver
2014 Wrong Places, A Space, Toronto
2012 Amelogenesis Imperfecta, grunt gallery, Vancouver
2012 Beautox Me, CSA Space, Vancouver
2010 A Measure of War (Je me souviens), articule, Montréal
2008 How to Feed A Piano, Centre A, Vancouver
2007 M. Butterfly (after Shigeko Kubota), Franklin Furnace Archive, NYU, NYC
2007 Phalogocentrix, Fado Performance, Inc., Music Gallery, Toronto
2006 Mediamorphosis, Western Front, Vancouver
2006 Bleeding Book, Latitude 53, Edmonton
2005 Oral - Fecal, grunt gallery, Vancouver
2004 Linea Lingua, Room Gallery, Irvine

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS / PERFORMANCES

2021 PERF (Ré)agir / (Re)act AXENÉO7, Gatineau
2017 Rare Bodies, Portaospacios, Caracas, Venezuela
2017 Rise of Bio-Society, Riddoch Art Gallery, Mount Gambier, Australia
2016 The Library Project (collaboration with Margaret Dragu) Contemporary Art Gallery, Vancouver
2016 Emergent Ecologies, Kilroy Metal Ceiling, Brooklyn, NY
2016 COSMOS, Project Daejeon, Daejeon, S. Korea
2016 Against Rapture; or Rupturing POC Relations, thirstDays, VIVO, Vancouver
2015 El Tanquetazo de Mariposa, FUSE, Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver
2014 Bajo Presión, Museo de Arte Contemporáneo, Universidad de Chile, Santiago
2014 Performing Utopias, University of British Columbia, Vancouver
2014 Thru the Trapdoor, On Main Gallery, Vancouver
2013 Toxicity, Plug In Institute of Contemporary Art, Winnipeg
2013 Immortality, Subtle Technologies, Toronto
2012 TRANSMUTED Performance Festival, Museo Ex Teresa Arte Actual, Mexico City
2012 RAW DATA – Artistic Transformation, Goethe Satellite, Vancouver
2012 Immaterial Pictorial Sensibility, Quinary Art Project: Pop-up Gallery, Vancouver
2010 Let’s Twist Again, Centre A, Vancouver
2010 direct 2 documentation, 7a*11d, Toronto
2009 Welcome to the Dollhouse, TRUCK Contemporary Art, Calgary
2008 Animal Magnetism, Orange County Center for Contemporary Art, Santa Ana, CA
2008 Nomads: Body and City, 2nd International Biennial DEFORMES, Santiago, Chile
2008 Manifestation :: Agitation, Western Front, Vancouver
2008 Visualeyez, Latitude 53, Edmonton
2008 Grotesques, A Space, Toronto
2007 Exquisite Crisis & Encounters, A/P/A Institute, New York University, New York City
2007 Performing Identity / Crossing Borders, Centre for Innovation in Culture+Arts, Nicosia, Cyprus
2007 The Performed Object: Against A Pathetic Fallacy, Helen Pitt Gallery, Vancouver
2007 Riccochet (collaboration with Jeremy Hatch), Gallery of BC Ceramics, Vancouver
2007 Aggregate Set, LES Gallery, Vancouver
2006 Slits 2, Western Front, Vancouver
2006 Quick and Dirty, Video In, Vancouver
2006 Bleeding Book, Latitude 53, Edmonton
2006 Glossolalia, Gallery Aferro, Newark NJ
2006 Spill (collaboration with Carrie Paterson), Alternator Gallery, Kelowna
2006 Deformes Bienniel, Factoría de la Universidad Arcis, Santiago, Chile
2005 Free For All, Cal Poly University, San Luis Obispo
2005 Irrational Exhibits 4, Track 16 Gallery, Los Angeles
2004 Contemporary Diaspora Art, Tokyo Keizai University, Tokyo
2004 Work and Play, Richmond Art Gallery, Richmond BC
2004 Irrational Exhibits 3, Track 16 Gallery, Los Angeles
2004 Supersonic, Art Center College of Design, Pasadena
2004 modular:globular (collaboration wih Lisa Birke), Sabina Lee Gallery, Los Angeles
2003 Happy Beautiful Desirable, Track 16 Gallery, Los Angeles
2003 Art Church, Woman's Building, Los Angeles
2003 Life by Design: Everyday Digital Culture, Beall Center for Art & Technology, Irvine
2002 The ME Project, Mediate Online, San Francisco www.meproject.com
2002 Generica, University Art Gallery, UCI, Irvine

BIBLIOGRAPHY

2022 Haema Sivanesan, In the Present Moment: Buddhism, Contemporary Art & Social Practice.
Exhibition catalogue, Art Gallery of Greater Victoria
2018 Tarah Hogue, Jayce Salloum & Elisa Ferrari, thirstDays End Notes, VIVO.
2016 Dina Al-Kassim, Malaspina Printmakers, Exhibition essay “The tank, the poem, and the uniform.”
2014 Ashley Johnson, Canadian Art, “David Khang’s Wrong Places Does Political Art Right.” June 12, 2014. http://www.canadianart.ca/reviews/2014/06/12/david-khang/
2014 Steven Cochrane, Winnipeg Free Press, “Weird Science.” Exhibition review. Thursday Jan. 9th.
2013 Christine Kim, Interventions - International Journal of Postcolonial Studies.
“Intimating Asias, Postcolonial Possibilities, and the Art of David Khang.” Volume 15, Issue 1, pp.24-36.
2013 Koenig, Schild & Hufschmid (eds.) RAW DATA. Artistic Transformation: An interdisciplinary dialogue between art & physics. Goethe-Institute, TRIUMF, Emily Carr University and Revised Projects, Vancouver.
2012 Ashley McLellan, Canadian Art, “Sound Waves, Microscopes Bring Science-Fair Feel to Grunt Gallery.” October 4, 2012. www.canadianart.ca/reviews/2012/10/04
2012 KJ Baysa, grunt gallery, “Mashup Destinies.” Exhibition essay.
2012 Robin Laurence, Georgia Straight, “David Khang bridges  science and art.” Sept.13,
2012. 2010 Toni Sant, Franklin Furnace & the Spirit of the Avant-Garde: A History of the Future,
The University of Chicago Press, 2010
2008 Candice Hopkins, “On Gesture and Becoming Animal”, Centre A Exhibition Catalogue Essay, How To Feed A Piano: La Monte Young Projects 2003 – 2008, May 2008.
2008 Larissa Lai, “Butterfly Prostheses and the Reproductive Mouth”, Centre A Exhibition Catalogue Essay, How To Feed A Piano: La Monte Young Projects 2003 – 2008, May 2008.
2008 Alex Young-Hwa Cho, How To Draw Happiness: Art & Life of David Khang, Biographical documentary, 2nd Prize Winner, 2008 KBS World Korean Language Broadcasts Conference - Seoul.
2008 Mat Gleason, Animal Magnetism, , Orange County Center for Contemporary Art, Sept 2008.
2008 Amy Fung, VUE Weekly, “And Justice for All.” July 17, 2008, Issue # 665.
2007 Rinaldo Walcott, “Intimate Distances” Fado Performance Inc., www.performanceart.ca, May 2007.
2006 Joanne Bristol, “Mediamorphosis”, Front Magazine, The Western Front, September, 2006.
2006 Ashok Mathur, “The Problemed Body”, Latitude 53 Exhibition brochure, June 23, 2006.
2006 Fish Grikowsky, “Art buffet with the works”, Edmonton Sun, June 24, 2006.
2006 Nick Rockel, “Pain joins artists to audience”, Georgia Straight, February 23, 2006.
2006 Seph Rodney, “Hybrid Dissident”, Alternator Gallery Exhibition catalogue, March 2006.
2005 Glen Alteen, “Interview with David Khang”, brunt magazine, Issue 1, www.bruntmag.com,
2004 Peter Frank, “Performance Art Picks of the Week”, LA Weekly, October 22-28, 2004, p.158
2004 Carrie Paterson, “Supersonic”, Flash Art, Exhibition Review. October, 2004, Vol. XXXVIII, p.64
2004 Patrick Deegan, “SuperCalifornia”, Artnet, www.artnet.com/Magazine/review/deegan, August 2004
2004 Carrie Paterson, “Eviscerating the Visceral”, Supersonic Exhibition catalogue, Art Center, Pasadena,
2004 Robin Laurence, “Leisure Against Labour”, Georgia Straight.com: Visual Arts, 08.26.04
2004 Corrine Corrie, “Work and Play”, Richmond Art Gallery Exhibition catalogue, 2004
2003 Ann Conway, “Gallery visits where the art’s wiggling….”, Los Angeles Times, June 22, 2003, C1
2003 Benjamin Lima, “In and Out of Irvine:”, Exhibition catalogue, June 5, 2003. Track 16, Los Angeles
2001 Kalle Lasn, “Creative Resistance”, Adbusters Magazine, Vol.9 No.1, Jan/Feb 2001, p. 63
2000 Michael Scott, “Outside the Box”, The Vancouver Sun, May 20, 2000, p C1

WRITINGS/ PUBLICATIONS

2016 The tank, the poem, and the uniform. Exhibition Catalogue, Malaspina Printmakers,
2015 “Patois e Pasticcio.” Artspeak Postscript 62. August 2015. www.artspeak.ca
2014 “Linea Lingua: a case of interspecies conjugation.” Hot Asian Men. Hotam Press.
2013 “When Art and Dentistry Mix….” The Huffington Post, June 9, 2013.
http://www.huffingtonpost.ca/david-khang/botox-dentrisy-art_b_3413003.html
2012 “A Conversation: David Khang & Glen Alteen.” Centre A, How To Feed A Piano Exh. Cat. 2nded.
2010 “Wrong Places.” Front Magazine, June / July Issue 2010. Artist pages
2008 “Animot: The Works of Erin Perry & Amy Thompson.” Access Gallery, Essay, Sept. 2008
2008 “Citizenship & Cultural Belonging.” West Coast Line, Issue 59, vol.42.3, Fall 2008. Cover Art
2008 How To Feed A Piano: La Monte Young Projects 2003 - 2008, Exhibition Catalogue, Centre A,
2007 “Jason Fitzpatrick: Transitions & Transformations.” brunt magazine, www.bruntmag.com, June 2007
2005 “Interview with David Khang brunt magazine,” www.bruntmag.com, Issue 1, September 2005
2001 “Creative Resistance,” Adbusters Magazine, Vol.9 No.1, Jan/Feb 2001, Artist pages. p. 62, 63

AWARDS / FELLOWSHIPS / DISTINCTIONS

2024 Canada Council Visual Arts Research & Creation Grant, Ottawa
2014 NYU Hemispheric Institute Digital Video Library Collection, New York University, New York City
2010 SymbioticA Centre of Excellence in Biological Arts Residency, University of Western Australia, Perth
2007, 10 Canada Council Inter-Arts Creation / Production Grants, Ottawa
2007 Canada Council Inter-Arts Professional Presentation Travel Grant, Ottawa
2009 -15 BC Arts Council Visual Arts Project Development Awards – Level II, BC (2007, 2010, 2015)
2006, 08 BC Arts Council Visual Arts Project Development Awards – Level I, BC
2007 Franklin Furnace Fund for Performance Art Award, Brooklyn, New York
2006-07 BC Arts Council Visual Arts Professional Presentation Travel Grants, BC
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, CA
2001-3 UC Irvine Chancellor’s Full Tuition Fellowship, University of California, Irvine, CA

PROFESSIONAL TEACHING

2005-16 Emily Carr University of Art + Design Vancouver, Canada. Bachelor of Fine Arts Program
2008- 9 Emily Carr University of Art + Design Vancouver, Canada. Graduate Advisor
2009 Goddard College, Vermont, USA. Graduate Advisor – Master of Fine Arts Program
2002-4 University of California, Irvine, Department of Studio Art, Irvine, USA Intro to Visual Culture.

COMMUNITY ACTIVITIES

2012-16 grunt gallery, Board of Directors (President & Chair of the Board of Directors, 2014-2016)
2007-10 Access Gallery, Board of Directors (President of the Board, 2008-2010)
2005-08 LIVE Performance Biennial, Board of Directors (President of the Board, 2006-2008)