UPCOMING AND CURRENT ACTIVITIES
Bedrock, 2025 Liverpool Biennial
Curated by Marie-Anne McQuay
June 7 - September 14, 2025
Reshaping Collections: Where History Meets Art
Chinese Canadian Museum, Vancouver, British Columbia
Curated by Melissa Lee
September 25, 2024 - September 28, 2025
Grove of Wild Bamboo and Sweet Peas 竹盛豆苗青
Public artwork, commissioned by the City of New Westminster, British Columbia
Completion date projected for 2027
Pour chaque mile de voie construit... / For every mile of track laid...
Temporary public art displayed on billboards, sited at the former train yards
June 18, 2024 - January, 2025, Art Souterrain x Technopôle Angus
At the corner of Molson and William-Tremblay streets, Montreal, Québec
Precarious Joys, 2024 Toronto Biennial of Art
Curated by Dominique Fontaine and Miguel A. López
September 21 - December 1, 2024
Foodways
Group exhibition curated Zoë Chan
Richmond Art Gallery, Richmond British Columbia
October 19 - December 31, 2024
Future Worldings
Group exhibition curated by Lisa Baldissera, Usha Seejarim, and Karen Tam.
Featuring the works of Nura Ali, Sun Forest, Xwalacktun, Pebofatso Mokoena, Wezile Harmans, and Lebogang Mogul Mabusela
Griffin Art Projects, North Vancouver, British Columbia
September 28 - December 15, 2024
Sea of Clouds
Solo exhibition, curated by Tak Pham and Henry Heng Lu
September 20 - November 23, 2024, Illingworth Kerr Gallery, Alberta University of the Arts, Calgary, Alberta
NEWS
• The Robert H. N. Ho Family Foundation has generously given a $84,000 grant to support Montréal-based artist Karen Tam in a year-long role as Artist Researcher at the Vancouver Art Gallery. Working closely with the Gallery’s Senior Curator Diana Freundl, Tam and Freundl’s research will examine the lives and careers of Chinese artists who travelled to Canada in the early twentieth century.
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• Honourable Mention to the McCord Stewart Museum for my exhibition, "Swallowing Mountains," in the Exhibitions category at the 2024 Canadian Museums Association Outstanding Achievement Awards, which recognizes temporary, permanent, or traveling exhibitions that effectively and distinctively contribute to increase public understanding, and for the aptness of the new co-creative approach that was adopted for this project. (read)
• 多倫多藝術雙年展舉行粵劇歷史展覽及戲曲表演. Interview with Ryanne Xu, OMNI News (Cantonese) TV, Toronto, October 26(watch)
• Nancy Tousley. “Karen Tam – Sea of Clouds,” Galleries West, October 28, 2024 (read)
• Jérôme Delgado. “Toronto, centre du monde?,” Le Devoir, October 12, 2024 (p.15) (read)
• Interview. “Une rencontre entre l’art et l’histoire au Chinese Canadian Museum de Vancouver,” Le Telejournal Colombie-Britannique, Radio-Canada (Vancouver), September 25, 2024 (watch)
• Cheryl Sim. “La décolonisation des institutions artistiques est-elle possible ? Une discussion avec Abbas Akhavan, Manuel Mathieu, Skawennati et Karen Tam,” Vie des arts, Issue 274, Spring 2024 (p 38-43). (read)
• Paul Journet. “Un café avec… Karen Tam: Entre les voisins, des montagnes.” La Presse, June 25, 2023 (read)
• Charlene K. Lau. “The Spatial Imaginaries of Karen Tam 谭嘉文,” C Magazine, Issue 153, Winter 2023 (p.32-37) (read)
• Éric Clément. "Karen Tam remporte le prix Giverny Capital,"
La Presse, January 14, 2022 (read)
