Heidi Lau

Heidi Lau (b. 1987, Macau, China) lives and works in New York. Lau, who grew up in Macau (on China’s southern coast), currently lives in Chinatown, Manhattan and works in Ridgewood, Queens. Her ceramic work is often modeled after tokens of remembrance, including ritual objects, funerary monuments, and fossilized creatures. Taoist mythology, folk superstitions, and Macau’s colonial history provide essential source material for her exploration of displacement and nostalgia as the condition of contemporary existence. Recently, Lau was chosen from among nearly one thousand candidates who applied for the inaugural year of the residency program, and was featured in the New Yorker, New York Daily News, L’Officiel Art, and Smithsonian Magazine, to name a few. In 2019, she represented Macau at the 58th International Art Exhibition of La Biennale di Venezia, Venice. Other participated exhibitions were held in local and international institutions including the Museum of Arts and Design, New York; the Bronx Museum of the Arts, New York; the Museum of Chinese in America, New York; the Macau Museum of Art; and others. Her practice has been supported by Socrates Sculpture Park, Lower Manhattan Cultural Council, the Martin Wong Foundation Scholarship, and more.