The Megalith
2016
Heidi Lau
New York, New York
Artworks shown are selected from works submitted by the artist in their grant or residency application. All works are copyright of the artist or artist’s estate.
About Heidi Lau
Heidi Lau grew up in Macau and currently lives in New York and works in Brooklyn. Her ceramics and works on paper have been exhibited nationally and internationally at venues such as the Macau Museum of Art, Wave Hill, Boston Center for the Arts, Tiger Strike Asteroid in New York, Kniznick Gallery at Brandeis University, Bronx Museum of the Arts, and Aljira Center for Contemporary Art. Her practice has been generously supported by numerous residencies and awards; Bronx Museum Artist In the Market Place Program, Emerging Artist Fellowship at Socrates Sculpture Park, Center for Book Arts Workspace Residency, Martin Wong Foundation Scholarship, among others. In 2015, she was a recipient of the Joan Mitchell Foundation Painter and Sculptor Fellowships, and participated in the Lower Manhattan Cultural Council Process Space Program in the summer of 2016. She received her BFA from New York University in 2008.
Program Participation
Joan Mitchell Center Residency, 2018
Painters & Sculptors Grant, 2015
Website / Social Links
My ceramic works are hand-built in the form of various objects of memory - towers, funerary monuments and fossilized creatures that simultaneously infest, disintegrate and reform at the cellular level. By creating collections of impossible or fictional monuments and artifacts, imbued with elements of myth and minor history, I suggest the materiality and non-linearity of the past.”
