Professor Kim Lan Huynh
Positions
Associate Professor
Contact information
Background
Educational Background
B.F.A. Fine Art, University of Victoria, 1990
M.F.A. Fine Art, University of Alberta, 1992
Biography
Born and growing up in the Vietnam War, Kim L. Huynh studied Chinese and Vietnamese until seventeen years old before immigrating to Vancouver, British Columbia. Kim received a Bachelor of Fine Arts from the University of Victoria, British Columbia, Canada, in 1990 and a Master of Fine Arts from the University of Alberta, Alberta, in 1992.
Huynh taught drawing and print media at the University of Victoria, University of Guelph, and Concordia University for five years before joining the Department of Art and Art History, University of Calgary, in 1999.
Since 1995, Huynh’s continued creative conversion in cultural materials, ready-made objects, and textile reconstructs in print media installations on various topics like language systems as obscure/conceal/covering performants, shifting Canadian multiculturalism, and the social-cultural transformations created by the impact of globalization.
Over the last ten years at the Department of Art and Art History, 2014-2024, Huynh has taught print media courses like 1. Social Memories, 2. Assemblage Social Objects, drawing courses like 1. Issues of the Body, 2. Consumerism, and graduate studio production in 1) Installation Art, 2. Visual Art's Strategies.
Research
Areas of Research
2022-2023 TickLiceMiteFly, an artbook of ten small images /ten handsewn fibre objects/ten recycled wearable neckties in the shapes of Albertan insects. This series is part of a larger art installation. Each small image is 6” H x 4” W.
Key: Ecology, Stewardship, and Shapeshifting.
2019- Neck to Neck: Rise Up Faster than the Sea, three parts of an art intervention and art installation. Work in Progress.
Key: Local Vs. global, Ecology, Stewardship, and Shapeshifting.
2018- Book Project, Sold Diversity: Equality and Inclusion in A Capitalist Framework, 18 scholars and creative researchers, edited by Kim L. Huynh and Cecille DePass.
Key: Asian Canadians, Interdisciplinary Studies, Regional Vs. Global, Friction Vs. Connection, Diversity, Equality, and Inclusions.
2016-2018 Health Support.
2016-2017 If I Had a Hammer - b, three visual components, 400 square foot mixed-media installation.
Key: Asian Canadian art in Canada, Man and Nature, and Cultural Instability.
2015-2016 If I Had a Hammer - a, three visual components, 400 square foot mixed-media installation.
Key: Asian Canadian art in Canada, Man and Nature, and Cultural Instability.
2014-2016 Demulsify, four visual components, 450 square foot mixed-media installation.
Key: Natural Resources, Globalization, Child Care and Education.
2012-2014 Ministry of Things 3, thirteen contemporary Asian Canadian logos. Digital print, each is 66” H x 44” W.
Key: China and Globalization, Complexity in Perceptions of Asian Canadians in Canada: Diversity, Inclusion, and Equality.
2007-2009 The Burden of 4,000 Pearls, two visual components, 400 square foot mixed-media installation.
Key: Dream and Reality, Globalization, and Gaps between 1% Vs.99%.
2009-2011 hole/whole, eighteen lithographs, each 30” H x 22” W.
Key: Dream and Reality, Corporates Vs. Consumers, Obscure/Conceal/Covering.
2007-2009 Health Strengthening.
2007-2008 on Pacific: Profit and Decay, four visual components, 300 square foot mixed-media installation.
Key: Corporates Vs. Consumers, Nature Vs. Capitalism.
2003-2013 Ministry of Things 2, reconstruct eight Asian Canadian murals in Canadian urban landscapes. Varied Size from 8 feet H x 24 feet W to 8 feet H x 60 feet W.
Key: History and Heritage, Globalization, Perceptions of Asians Canadians in Canada: Diversity, Inclusion, and Equality.
2005-2007 Hokusai, the Library, and the Sky 1, four visual components, 400 square foot mixed-media installation.
Key: The University of Calgary’s Libraries, Multiculturalism in Canada, History and Complexity of Inclusion, and Equality.
2007 Book Project, Pro Production, edited by Kim L. Huynh, published by Bayeux.
Key: History and Heritage, Globalization: Friction and Connection between First and Third World Nations.
2005-2007 Ministry of Things 1, twelve assemblages on the wall: each is 4” H x 6” W, and eight digital prints: each 66” x 44”.
Reconstruct 1400’s British family shields in Chinese mosaics.
Key: Subversion, Perceptions of Asian Canadians in Canada, and Cultural Identity Formation.
2002-2004 Unless, five visual components, 500 square foot print and mixed-media installation.
Key: Globalization: Friction and Connection between First and Third World Nations.
2001-2003 Fibrea / Fibrous, two visual components, 400 square foot mixed-media installation.
Key: History, Production, and Role of Women in Globalization.
2001-2002 Labour of Love, three visual components, 400 square foot mixed-media installation.
Key: Minority, and History of Colonization and Patriarchy.
2001 Book project, of Word/ of Skin, edited by Kim L. Huynh
Key: Post Structuralist, Language as System, and Obscure/Conceal/Covering.
1999-2001 of Word/ of Skin 2, two visual components, 400 square foot mixed-media installation. A mural/imprint from a 1907 basement, chalk floor, text, and a top hat cloud.
Key: Post Structuralist, Language as System, and Obscure/Conceal/Covering.
1999-2000 Health Accommodation
1997-1999 of Word/ of Skin 1, four visual components, 400 square foot mixed-media installation. A wall of print murals on punctuation marks from top hat designs, and 15 handsewn top hat performants.
Key: Post Structuralist, Language as System, and Obscure/Conceal/Covering.
1994-1996 Library Science, twelve book assemblages from commercial reject printing on the floor. Each is 5 feet H x 7 feet W.
Key: Knowledge, Dissemination, and Gate Keepers.
1992-1994 Visual Cults Performants, fifteen collages from Chinese magazine as Chine-Colle. Each 8.5” H x 11” W.
Key: Zones of Instability, Ethnicity, Popular Culture, and Transience.
1990-1994 of a (w)hole, twenty large etchings after Lacan on Chinese written characters. Each 24” H x 36” W.
Key: Man and Nature, Language, System, and Lacan.
1988-1990 The Subject and Power, eight large drawings/paintings: each is 8 feet H x 7 feet W, and three lithographs: Each 22” H x 30” W.
Key: Man and Man, System, and Foucault.
Courses
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Publications
- UAAC Panel presentation “ Art of the Aftermath”. UAAC. (2017)
More Information
Teaching:
Teaching, University of Calgary, Undergraduate Courses, Department of Art and Art History
- Art 233 Three-Dimensional Study
- Art 481 Sculpture
- Art 483 Sculpture
- Art 241 Drawing 01
- Art 243 Drawing 02
- Art 341 Drawing 03
- Art 343 Drawing 04
- Art 345 Anatomical Drawing a
- Art 347 Anatomical Drawing b
- Art 271 Introductory Intaglio
- Art 379 Printmaking: Etching
- Art 373 Printmaking: Lithography
- Art 473 Intermediate Printmaking: Lithography, Etching and Silkscreen
- Art 573 Advance Printmaking: Lithography, Etching and Silkscreen
- Art 461 Advanced Studio a
- Art 463 Advanced Studio b
- Art 513 Independent Research Topic
Teaching, University of Calgary, Graduate Courses, Department of Art and Art History.
- Art 661.01 Graduate Critical Research Production
- Art 661.02 Graduate Thesis Research Production
- Art 605 Graduate Independent Critical and Research Project
Teaching, University of Calgary, Graduate Supervision, Department of Art and Art History
- Tara Manifingers, 2020-2023, Installation Art, Supervisor.
- Shoudo Qu, 2020-2022, Painting, Supervisor.
- Neha Syed, 2018-2020, Miniature Painting and Installation Art, Supervisor.
- Yeisen Chang, 2020, Media Installation, Internal Examiner.
- Joel Warkentin, 2019, Sculptural Objects, Internal Examiner.
- Nurgul Rodriguez del Ojo, 2015-2017, Ceramic Installation, Supervisor.
- Elmira Sarreshtehdari, 2015-2017, Mixed-media Installation, Supervisor.
- Ziya Lin, 2015-2017, Drawing Installation, Supervisor.
- Marzieh Mosavarzadeh, 2014-2016, Print Installation, Co-supervisor.
- Ann Procter, 2014-2015, Mixed-Media Installation, Supervisor.
- Vince Kogut, Fall 2014, Painting, Interim supervisor.
- Alexandria Inkster, Fall 2014, Performance, Interim supervisor.
- Derrick Hoekstra,2013-2015, Mixed-Media, Supervisor committee member.
- Lorie Cooper, 2013-2016, Site Intervention, Supervisor.
- Dana Tosic, 2010-2012, Print-Media, Supervisor.
- Hakan Temucin, 2009-2011, Photography, Supervisor committee member.
- Adina Edwards, 2008-2010, Installation Art, Supervisor.
- Lisa Borin, 2008-2010, Installation Art, Supervisor committee member.
- D’Arcy Wilson, 2007-2009, Mixed-Media Installation, Supervisor.
- Courtney Chetwynd, 2006-2008, Installation Art, Supervisor.
- Jane McQuitty, 2006-2008, CNN Plexiglas Motif Installation, Supervisor committee member.
- Marianne Dawn Coreless, 2005-2007, Installation Art, Supervisor.
- Mathew Walker, 2004-2006, Sculpture, Supervisor.
- Tanya Lynn Rusnak, 2004-2006, Installation Art, Supervisor committee member.
- Erin Alexandra Finley, 2003-2005, Drawing and Painting, Supervisor committee member.
- Meghan Margaret Rose Lewick, 2002-2004, Installation Art, Supervisor.
- Catherine Jessie Paleczny, 2002-2004, Ceramic, Supervisor committee member.
- John Robert Christopher Blaise Salas Luna, 2001-2003, Painting, Supervisor.
- Ingrid Helen Koivukangas, 2001-2003, Installation Art, Supervisor committee member.
- Josephine Chu,2001-2003, Photography Installation, Supervisor committee member.
- Jessica Tova Levman, 2000-2002, Mixed-Media, Supervisor committee member.
- Sharon Rose Hjartarson, 2000-2002, Installation Art, Supervisor committee member.
- Calvin David Burns, 1999-2001, Installation Art, Supervisor committee member.
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