Richard Fung wins prestigious Kessler Award
Thursday, October 8, 2015 - 4:00am
Richard Fung
Richard Fung has been named the recipient of the 2015 Kessler Award. This prestigious honour is given to an artist, scholar or community member whose body of work has had a powerful influence on LGBTQ studies. Fung will receive a monetary prize and, on December 16, 2015, deliver the annual Kessler Lecture in New York City.
In 1986, Fung made his first documentary, Orientations: Lesbian and Gay Asians. Fung’s new long-form film revisits seven of the 15 original participants three decades later. His Kessler Lecture — entitled “Re:Orientations” — will include clips from that documentary in progress.
Fung is a Trinidad-born, Toronto-based video artist and cultural critic. He joined the faculty of OCAD University in 2003 and teaches in Integrated Media and Art & Social Change. A former Rockefeller Fellow at the Center for Media, Culture and History at New York University, Fung has lectured across North America and in Europe, Asia and Australia. He served on the founding board of directors of the Images Festival, the first Racial Equality Committee of the Canada Council, the board of the Toronto Arts Council and was an editor and contributing editor to FUSE Magazine.
Congratulations to Richard Fung on this important recognition of his success in linking research, artistic practice and community engagement.
Richard Fung has been named the recipient of the 2015 Kessler Award. This prestigious honour is given to an artist, scholar or community member whose body of work has had a powerful influence on LGBTQ studies. Fung will receive a monetary prize and, on December 16, 2015, deliver the annual Kessler Lecture in New York City.
In 1986, Fung made his first documentary, Orientations: Lesbian and Gay Asians. Fung’s new long-form film revisits seven of the 15 original participants three decades later. His Kessler Lecture — entitled “Re:Orientations” — will include clips from that documentary in progress.
Fung is a Trinidad-born, Toronto-based video artist and cultural critic. He joined the faculty of OCAD University in 2003 and teaches in Integrated Media and Art & Social Change. A former Rockefeller Fellow at the Center for Media, Culture and History at New York University, Fung has lectured across North America and in Europe, Asia and Australia. He served on the founding board of directors of the Images Festival, the first Racial Equality Committee of the Canada Council, the board of the Toronto Arts Council and was an editor and contributing editor to FUSE Magazine.
Congratulations to Richard Fung on this important recognition of his success in linking research, artistic practice and community engagement.