Richard Fung is a video artist and cultural critic, born and raised in Port of Spain and based in Toronto. His single-channel tapes such as My Mother’s Place (1990), Sea in the Blood (2000) and Uncomfortable: The Art of Christopher Cozier (2005), have been widely screened and collected internationally, and have been broadcast in Canada and the United States. His video installations, which include Jehad in Motion and Landscapes, have been mounted in Canada and Japan. He is the co-author with Monika Kin Gagnon of 13: Conversations on Art and Cultural Race Politics and his essays have been published in numerous journals and anthologies. Richard was a Rockefeller Fellow at the Center for Media, Culture and History at New York University and has received the Bell Canada Award for Video Art and the Toronto Arts Award for Media Art, among other honours. He is an associate professor in the Faculty of Art at the Ontario College of Art and Design.