Henry Heng Lu is an artist and curator based in Vancouver, Toronto, and Shenzhen. He is co-founder of Call Again, a mobile initiative/collective committed to creating space for contemporary Asian diasporic artistic practices. He is currently the curator and executive director at Centre A: Vancouver International Centre for Contemporary Asian Art. His exhibition Far and Near: the Distance(s) between Us was awarded Ontario Association of Art Galleries (OAAG) Award for Exhibition of the Year (Under $20,000 - Thematic), it is also the first student-curated exhibition at the Art Museum to receive an OAAG Exhibition of the Year Award. The exhibition included a video screening, artist-talks with Karen Tam and Chih-Chien Wang, a public lecture with Ken Lum, and off-site projects at University of Toronto's John M. Kelly and E.J. Pratt Libraries. It explored the work of Canadian artists of Chinese descent and narratives of Chinese Canadian culture. His writings have been published by Canadian Art, ArtAsiaPacific, Yishu: Journal of Contemporary Chinese Art, C Magazine, Richmond Art Gallery, PLATFORM Gallery, ArchDaily, OCAT Shenzhen, and Gardiner Museum.
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