The Worlds of Richard Fung

Richard Fung is a video artist, writer, theorist and educator born in Trinidad and based in Toronto, Canada. 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. On view at Gallery 360, his single-channel and installation works, including Re:Orientations (2016), My Mother’s Place (1990), Rex vs. Singh (2009), Dirty Laundry (1996) and Islands (2002) have been widely screened and collected internationally, and have been broadcast in Canada, the United States and Trinidad and Tobago. Using a 20-year archive of video interviews, his latest film The Enigma of Harold Sonny Ladoo (2024) explores the mysterious death of Harold Sonny Ladoo, the first Trinidadian and the second Caribbean novelist published in Canada. 

Fung’s writings 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). His work has been the recipient with numerous fellowships and awards, including 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. As a public intellectual, Fung has been an important voice in dialogue about queer sexuality, Asian identities, and the uneasy borderlands of culture and politics. 

The exhibition is being presented alongside The Worlds of Richard Fung: Queer Reclamations of the Asian Caribbean, a two-part public program at Northeastern University and Brown University with the artist.