23 Facts About Richard Fung

Richard Fung was born on 1954 and is a video artist, writer, public intellectual and theorist who currently lives and works in Toronto, Ontario.

Richard Fung was born in Port of Spain, Trinidad, and is openly gay.

Richard Fung earned an undergraduate degree at the University of Toronto, and received a Master of Education in sociology and cultural studies at the University of Toronto.

Richard Fung is an activist and founded the Toronto-based organization Gay Asians of Toronto in 1980.

Richard Fung produced a short documentary titled My Mother's Place, a tribute to his mother Rita.

Richard Fung has been published several times in magazines such as Asiandian and Fuse.

Early on in his career Richard Fung worked as an animator for community video production, and later became a staff producer at Rogers Cable.

Richard Fung produced his first independent video, Orientations: Lesbian and Gay Asians in 1984.

Richard Fung taught at the Ontario College of Art and Design.

Richard Fung was the Chancellor's Visiting Associate Professor at University of California Irvine, a visiting assistant professor at State University of New York Buffalo and a visiting scholar at the Mass Communications Research Centre, Jamia Millia Islamia in New Delhi.

Richard Fung served as a member on the editorial boards of Fuse and Amerasia.

Richard Fung is a member of the Caribbean Contemporary Arts in Trinidad, Toronto's Images Festival, the Racial Equality Committee of the Canada Council for the Arts, and the Toronto Arts Council.

Richard Fung is a programmer for the Inside Out Lesbian and Gay Film and Video Festival.

Richard Fung has written and published on aspects of culture and identity.

Richard Fung aimed to avoid sentimentality and lure the audience to feel as he does, through his video essay.

Little did Richard Fung know, a plethora of Asian men around him were HIV+, and some even died.

Richard Fung moved for secondary school and Canada for university.

In Canada, Richard Fung met his future partner, Tim McCaskell, at a Marxist study group.

The family expectation that Richard Fung would be an architect did not become reality.

Richard Fung attempted to study industrial design but instead entered the photoelectric arts department at the Ontario College of Art.

In many of Richard Fung's works relating to his family, such as Sea in the Blood, he explores how lesbians and gay men experience being exiled by kinship.

Richard Fung's works focus widely on queers of colour, drawing predominantly from personal experiences as an Asian homosexual.

Richard Fung's videos pull on subtle imagery, such as the use of waves and the sea.