1. Tim was a graduate student in a seminar course I led at the University of
British Columbia in Vancouver. Now, he is a former student of mine whom I consider a peer. He was an exceptional student.
2. Tim's work often plays off the stereotypical persona of the well-behaved, inscrutable Asian that one often encounters in the form of tourists or as
visiting businessmen. The result was a odd confluence of a Korean Canadian man singing a Jewish and white-boy rap song that owes much to African American roots. We know today that there is much interchange
between different ethnic and racial communities, and new communities are often arising as a result, but to make a work about this widely observed fact is difficult and Tim does it very well.
3. Art and culture should be in the center of any society because art and
culture extend the discourse of the citizen. Today, I think art is just one of many peripheral activities that is largely kept contained within its respective world. The advantage of art remains its uselessness even in the face of this move towards privileging property rights over individual rights that I just mentioned. It gives me hope that art is one of the few areas of thought and practice that can never be fully contained.
— Ken Lum


Selected solo exhibitions: 2002: Or Gallery, Vancouver; 2001: Western Front, Vancouver.
Selected group exhibitions: 2003: Baja to Vancouver, Art Museum, Seattle;
Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego; Art Gallery, Vancouver; Wattis Institute CCAC, San Francisco; Soundtracks, Art Gallery, Edmonton; The Blackwood Gallery/ The Power Plant, Toronto; Art Gallery of Greater, Victoria; MacKenzie, Regina; Vancouver Video, Folly, Lancaster, England; 2002: Vancouver Video, Nuova Icona, Venice; Binocular Parallax, Consolidated Works, Seattle; Dogwood, Morris and Helen Belkin, Vancouver; Suite, Belkin Satellite, Vancouver; 2001: Documents, Para/ Site ArtSpace, Hong Kong.