{"id":2811,"date":"2018-10-18T16:24:17","date_gmt":"2018-10-18T20:24:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/m-a-i.qc.ca\/?post_type=artist&#038;p=2811"},"modified":"2020-04-02T00:10:10","modified_gmt":"2020-04-02T04:10:10","slug":"karen-tam","status":"publish","type":"artist","link":"https:\/\/m-a-i.qc.ca\/en\/artist\/karen-tam\/","title":{"rendered":"karen tam"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Karen Tam<\/strong> lives and works in Montr\u00e9al. She holds an MFA in Sculpture from The School of the Art Institute of Chicago and a PhD in Cultural Studies from Goldsmiths (University of London). Her research focuses on the various ways in which cultures and communities are constructed and imagined, using installations that recreate the spaces of Chinese restaurants, karaoke lounges, opium dens, curio shops and other sites of cultural encounters. She questions how the corporeal experience of space allows one to understand its history and community. Using a cultural studies framework, she invites a critical view of contemporary <em>chinoiserie<\/em>, the impact of the Chinese export trade, and goods produced for \u2018Western\u2019 tastes.<\/p>\n<p>She has exhibited her work since 2000 and participated in residencies in North America, Europe, and China, including the Deutsche B\u00f6rse Residency at the Frankfurter Kunstverein (Germany), Mus\u00e9e d\u2019art contemporain de Montr\u00e9al (Canada), and CUE Art Foundation (USA). She was a finalist for the Prix Louis-Comtois in 2017 from the Contemporary Art Galleries Association and the Ville de Montr\u00e9al, a finalist for the Prix en art actuel from the Mus\u00e9e national des beaux-arts de Qu\u00e9bec in 2016, and long-listed for the Sobey Art Award in 2016 and 2010. 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