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Richard Fung is a video artist who currently lives and works in Toronto

Toronto

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, Ontario

Ontario

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. He was born in Port of Spain

Port of Spain

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, Trinidad

Trinidad

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and is openly

Coming out

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gay

Gay

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Work

Fung's work investigates themes of queer

Queer

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sexuality, postcolonialism

Postcolonialism

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and issues of diaspora and family. His video pieces include My Mother's Place (1990), Sea in the Blood (2000) and Islands (2002) and have been screened internationally. A former Rockefeller Fellow at the Center for Media, Culture and History at New York University

New York University

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, he teaches at the Ontario College of Art & Design

Ontario College of Art & Design

OCAD University is Canada's largest and oldest educational institution for art and design. It is located in Toronto, Ontario, Canada on McCaul Street beside the Art Gallery of Ontario...

. Fung has taught at University of California at Irvine, California Institute for the Arts and SUNY Buffalo. He received the McKnight Fellowship at Intermedia Arts Centre for Arts Criticism and Asian American Renaissance, Minneapolis-St. Paul (1996) and the Bulloch Award for best Canadian work in the Inside Out Film and Video Festival

Inside Out Film and Video Festival

The Inside Out Toronto Lesbian and Gay Film and Video Festival is an annual film festival in Toronto, Ontario, devoted to lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender film and video works...

(1996). In 2001 he won the Bell Canada

Bell Canada

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Award for Lifetime Achievement in Video Art and the Toronto Arts Award for Media Arts.

Work

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