Jonathan Fung is an interdisciplinary artist, professor and social activist. He has created site-specific installations, short independent films, and public art that explore the human condition, cultural and social justice issues, especially the human injustice of human trafficking. Fung’s work is poetic, poignant and thought-provoking and has been a platform to expose the darkness of modern-day slavery.

His award-winning short narrative film on human trafficking, Hark screened at international and domestic film festivals, including the Cannes Film Festival Court Metrage. He received the Best Director Creative Excellence Award at the CreaTV Awards, and Best Short Film at the Third World Indie, Awareness and Wine Country Film Festivals.

Fung’s public art installation PEEP was featured in the 5×5 Project in Washington DC in 2014 and later commissioned to spread awareness during Super Bowl 50 at Levi Stadium in 2016. He received favorable press reviews from the Washington Post, The Seen, and CBS San Francisco Bay Area to name a few. His site-specific art installation Coolie was exhibited at the de Saisset Museum and exposed the forced labor of Chinese immigrants during the California Gold Rush era. Fung’s most recent video installation is PREY that was exhibited at the Natalie and James Thompson Gallery.

Fung was invited and collaborated with Nam June Paik, the father of video art, for Modulation in Sync at the Guggenheim Museum and Electronic Superhighway at the Holly Solomon Gallery, both in New York City. He was a participant at the Doek Festival, where his film Een Nauwe Poort (A Narrow Gate) was screened outside the canals of Amsterdam onto 17th century ship sails. His work was also exhibited at the Venice Biennale in the Snow Show exhibition. Fung’s disconcerting video installation on anthropophagi, I Eat, Therefore I Am, was on view at the San Jose Museum of Art.

Jonathan Fung is a professor and Mosaic Faculty Fellow empowering social justice and diversity at San Jose State University and teaches photography and art through a social justice lens.