Amy Fung is a writer, curator and organizer of multifarious events.
Fung (b. 1981, Kowloon, Hong Kong) has lived and worked on the Treaty 6 territory of Edmonton, the unceded territory of the Musqueam, Squamish and Tsleil-Waututh First Nations of Vancouver, the Treaty territory of the Mississaugas of the New Credit in Toronto, which is subject to the Wampum Belt Treaty of the Dish With One Spoon, an agreement between the Haudenosaunee Confederacy and the Anishinaabe to peaceably share and care for the resources around the Great Lakes, and currently resides in Ottawa on unceded Algonquin territory.
She received her Masters in English and Film Studies from the University of Alberta in 2009 with a specialization in criticism, poetics, and the moving image. Her writings have been published by publications in print and online since 2002 and commissioned by festivals, galleries, and museums since 2007. Between 2015 – 2017, Fung held the position of Artistic Director of IMAGES Festival, Toronto and was a co-founder and working collective member of MICE Magazine. Her first book on Canadian art and identity, Before I was a critic, I was a human being, was published in 2019 from Artspeak and Book*hug. Currently, she is a PhD student at Carleton University.
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