August 25, 2026 – December 4, 2026

McMaster Museum of Art, McMaster University

Curated by PhD student Yan Wu (MVS 2015)

Opening Reception
Thursday, September 17, 5–8 p.m.
Remarks at 6 p.m.

Artist and Curator Talk
Saturday, October 24, 2–3:30 p.m.

Interior Chinatown: Morris Lum | 林耀基在華埠 is the artist’s first institutional mid-career survey. Bringing together works from a photographic practice spanning more than a decade with newly commissioned pieces, the exhibition approaches Chinatown as both subject and method in Lum’s work. Restaurants, storefronts, places of worship, association halls, interiors, streetscapes, and community spaces appear quiet, often uninhabited, yet charged with social life. Shaped by access, trust, repetition, and care, these images reveal Chinatown not only as a place to be represented, but as the world through which Lum’s practice has taken form. Lum is an Assistant Professor of Visual Studies at Daniels.

This exhibition is produced in collaboration with Markham Public Art and the Varley Art Gallery of Markham, supported by the Canada Council for the Arts and Ontario Arts Council.

Learn more at the M(M)A website

Image Credit
Morris Lum (Canadian, b. Trinidad, 1983)
Gate of Harmonious Interest, Victoria, 2023
photographic print on Hahnemühle Photo Rag® Bright White Paper using Epson archival inks
40 x 50 inches
Museum of Art Collection Trust, 2026