David Khang received his BSc (Psych.)and DDS, both from the University of Toronto, BFA (Emily Carr Institute, 2000), and MFA with Emphasis in Critical Theory from the University of California, Irvine (2004). In 2004, his thesis was chosen to represent UC Irvine in the Distinguished Masters Thesis Series, Association of Graduate Schools. Khang has exhibited and performed in New York City, Los Angeles, Tokyo, Santiago de Chile, Toronto, among others. He is an Adjunct Faculty at the Emily Carr University and Goddard College MFA Program (Plainfield, Vermont). Khang is a 2007 recipient of the New York-based Franklin Furnace Fund for Performance Art. In 2010, he will be a resident artist at SymbioticA Center for Excellence in Biological Arts, Perth, Australia.

In his art, Khang uses language as a trope to consider constructions and performativity of subjects within postcolonial history and contemporary culture. Khang strategically mines historical events, and remixes/ re-imagines their poetic-political potentials.