Richard Fung
Richard Fung is an artist and writer born in Trinidad and based in Toronto.
His work comprises challenging videos on subjects ranging from the role of the Asian male in gay pornography to colonialism, immigration, racism, homophobia, AIDS, justice in Israel/Palestine, and his own family history. His single-channel and installation works, which include Orientations: Lesbian and Gay Asians (1984) and its redux Re:Orientations (2016), My Mother’s Place (1990), Sea in the Blood (2000), Jehad in Motion (2007), Dal Puri Diaspora (2012) and Nang by Nang (2018), have been widely screened and collected internationally, and have been broadcast in Canada, the United States, and Trinidad and Tobago.
Richard’s essays have been published in numerous journals and anthologies and he is the co-author with Monika Kin Gagnon of 13: Conversations on Art and Cultural Race Politics (2002), later updated and translated into French. He was a Rockefeller Fellow at New York University and has received the Bell Canada Award for outstanding achievement in video art, the Toronto Arts Award for Media Art, the Kessler Award from CLAGS: Center for LGBTQ Studies at the City University of New York for a substantive body of work that has had a significant influence on the field of LGBTQ Studies and the Bonham Centre Award from Sexual Diversity Studies at the University of Toronto for distinguished contribution to the public understanding of sexual diversity in Canada.
Richard is Professor Emeritus in the Faculty of Art at OCAD University.
Artist Code: 183
Videography
The Enigma of Harold Sonny Ladoo
2024, 84:00 minutes
2018, 40:18 minutes, colour, English with closed captions
2016, 68:00 minutes, colour, English, English closed captions, and French subtitles available
2012, 80:25 minutes, colour, English, Bhojpuri, English subtitles, Closed Captions
2009, 29:38 minutes, colour, English
Jehad in Motion (2 Channel Installation)
2007, 25:47 minutes, English with closed captions
Uncomfortable: The Art of Christopher Cozier
2005, 47:38 minutes, colour, English
2002, 08:45 minutes, colour, English with closed captions
2000, 26:00 minutes, colour, English with closed captions
1998, 16:35 minutes, colour, English
1996, 30:30 minutes, colour, English
1991, 28:00 minutes, colour, English
1990, 31:00 minutes, colour, English
1990, 03:30 minutes, colour, subtitled multi-lingual
1990, 49:00 minutes, colour, English
Safe Place - A Videotape for Refugee Rights in Canada
1989, 32:00 minutes, colour, English - Master 2024-02-16
The Way To My Father's Village
1988, 38:00 minutes, colour, English
1986, 20:30 minutes, colour, English with closed captions
Orientations: Lesbian & Gay Asians
1985, 56:00 minutes, colour, English
Critical Writing
by . Feminist Media Studies, 2012, v. 12, no. 1.
by . Fierce: Women's Hot Blooded Film and Video, Mar. 10, 2010. Hamilton: McMaster Museum of Art, 2010.
by et al. Toronto Declaration: No Celebration of Occupation, Sept. 9, 2009.
by and . Millennium Film Journal, Spring 2009, no. 51.
by . GLQ: A Journal of Lesbian and Gay Studies, 2009, v. 15, no. 3. Duke University Press, 2009.
by . Richard Fung: Landscapes, 2008. Hamilton: McMaster Museum of Art, 2008.
by . Coach House Books, 2008.
by . Fuse, July 2007, v. 30, no. 3.
by . FILMPRINT - The magazine of Independent Filmmakers of Toronto, Jan. 2007, v. 27, no. 1.
by . Gay City News, Jan. 18, 2007.
by . Now, Jan. 19, 2006, v. 25, no. 21.
by . The State of The Arts: Living with Culture in Toronto, 2006. Toronto: Library and Archives Canada Cataloguing in publication, 2006.
by . Poolside, 2003. Winnipeg: Video Pool Inc., 2003.
by . Now, Apr. 11, 2002, v. 21, no. 32.
by and . Insomiac Press, 2002.
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by . Fuse, Apr. 2001, v. 23, no. 4.
by . Durham and London: Duke University Press, 2000.
by . Fuse, Summer 1998, v. 21, no. 3.
by and . Trade Initiative, 1998. Vancouver: Satellite Video Exchange Society, 1998.
GOOD, CLEAN FUNG: Retrospective des oeuvres video de RICHARD FUNG, 1997. Montreal: OBORO, 1997.
by . Jump Cut, Mar. 1996, no. 40.
by . Mirror Machine and Identity, 1995. Toronto: YYZ Books, 1995.
by . Take One, Summer 1994, no. 5.
by . Cinematheque Film Programme Guide, Fall 1994. Toronto: Cinematheque Ontario, 1994.
by . Xtra!, June 10, 1994, no. 251.
by . The Globe and Mail, Apr. 7 Spring, 1993. Toronto: The Globe and Mail, 1993.
by . Parallelogramme, 1993, v. 18, no. 4.
by . Parallèlogramme, 1992, v. 17, no. 4.
by . Parallèlogramme, 1992, v. 18, no. 3.
by . Fuse, Winter 1992, v. 15, no. 3.
Can-Asian Perspectives: A Film and Video Series Exploring Asian Experiences in Canada, 1992. London: The Canadian High Commission and Bazaar Magazine/South Asian Arts Forum, 1992.
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by . Outweek, Oct. 17, 1990, no. 68.
by . Fuse, Spring 1990, v. 13, no. 4.
by . NOW, Jan. 3, 1990, v. 10, no. 17.
by . Screen, Summer 1990, v. 31, no. 3.
by and . NOW, June 1, 1989, v. 8, no. 38.
by . Art in America, July 1987, v. 75, no. 7.
by . Afterimage, May 1987, v. 14, no. 10.
by and . Insomiac Press.