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Heidi Lau (b. 1987, Macau) lives and works in New York. Lau’s work has been exhibited in 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; BRIC, New York; and the Macau Museum of Art, among others.
Heidi Lau Lau received her BFA from New York University in 2008, where she primarily studied printmaking and drawing. Dissatisfied with these mediums, the artist taught herself to make ceramics, creating works that evoke miniature architectures, funerary vessels, and creatures drawn from Taoist mythology.
Artist Heidi Lau mainly works with ceramics, exploring themes such as Macau's identity and ever-growing development, Chinese traditions and more.
Mar 8, 2024 · Artist Heidi Lau draws from the classical stories of Shanhaijing—and the myth of Zhulong (whom Lau calls Z)—in her deeply evocative new sculptural work now on view in “ A Cacophony of Rocks ” at Sikkema Jenkins, New York (through March 15).
Reconfiguring both personal and collective fragmented memories, Heidi Lau’s vessels reimagine symbolic artifacts and zoomorphic ruins as materialization of the archaic and the invisible.
Oct 10, 2022 · These hybrid, spectral sculptures muddle the realm between the organic and otherworldly. Shaped by the hands of Macau-born, New York-based artist Heidi Lau, the works in clay are just two of many she created during her inaugural residence at Brooklyn’s historic Green-Wood Cemetery.
Jun 1, 2022 · The first ever artist-in-residence at famed Green-Wood Cemetery in Brooklyn, New York, sculptor Heidi Lau channels personal history, colonial culture, and the spiritual world through her hands and into her otherworldly clay works.
For artist Heidi Lau, sculpting is a ritual. She coaxes biomorphic forms out of clay by summoning stories from her family’s past. Her grandparents' Taoist religious practices and her youth spent in Macau act as seeds; in her hands, legends of goddesses or the levels of hell grow into uncanny figures, columns, artifacts, and structures.
Heidi Lau’s new body of work titled Spirit Vessels was created in the wake of New York State’s Stay-At-Home mandate. While trapped inside the confines of her 500 square foot apartment, outside Covid19 devastated the vibrant city that Lau has grown to call home.
About Heidi Lau. Heidi Lau grew up in Macao and currently lives in New York and works in Brooklyn. Her ceramics and works on paper have been exhibited nationally and internationally in venues such as the Macao Museum of Art, Wave Hill, Boston Center for the Arts, Tiger Strike Asteroid New York, Kniznick Gallery at Brandeis University, Bronx ...
