About the Artist
David Kam was born and raised in Montreal, Canada. His creativity surfaced early in his life. He was one of the best students in his high school. After a brief stint in fashion design, he completely shunned arts and graduated from Industrial Engineering instead. Throughout his life, he has been driven to raise money for various social causes, such as cancer research, prevention of violence against women, fighting racism, fighting for freedom, protection of the environment… etc. After graduation from university, he started his own business, developing and marketing healthy beverages. His beverage label designs and promotional music CDs brought him numerous international design awards. His creativity also allowed him to create several patent pending Internet and technology inventions. He was thrust back into pure fine art due to several major events in his life: a) the terrorism of 911; b) the death of his father; c) the death of his God sister’s whole family in a plane crash; d) soft drink monopolies prevented him from expanding his beverage business; e) stealing of his intellectual property inventions by major corporations with more money and power; f) his financial setback and g) visiting Martin Luther King Jr.’s house and exhibition in Atlanta. These made him think about making art as a vehicle to explore man’s (woman’s) relationship to the world, the world’s relationship to a man (a woman) and man’s (woman’s)relationship to each other.
David Kam was born and raised in Montreal, Canada. His creativity surfaced early in his life. He was one of the best students in his high school. After a brief stint in fashion design, he completely shunned arts and graduated from Industrial Engineering instead. Throughout his life, he has been driven to raise money for various social causes, such as cancer research, prevention of violence against women, fighting racism, fighting for freedom, protection of the environment… etc. After graduation from university, he started his own business, developing and marketing healthy beverages. His beverage label designs and promotional music CDs brought him numerous international design awards. His creativity also allowed him to create several patent pending Internet and technology inventions. He was thrust back into pure fine art due to several major events in his life: a) the terrorism of 911; b) the death of his father; c) the death of his God sister’s whole family in a plane crash; d) soft drink monopolies prevented him from expanding his beverage business; e) stealing of his intellectual property inventions by major corporations with more money and power; f) his financial setback and g) visiting Martin Luther King Jr.’s house and exhibition in Atlanta. These made him think about making art as a vehicle to explore man’s (woman’s) relationship to the world, the world’s relationship to a man (a woman) and man’s (woman’s)relationship to each other.
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