Heidi Lau

Born 1987  

Lives and works in New York, NY  

Solo and Two-Person Exhibitions

• Forthcoming, Two person exhibition with Dominique Fung, Institute of Contemporary Art San Francisco  

• Chrysalis Spectre, with Leelee Chan, Matthew Brown, Los Angeles, CA  
• A Cacophony of Rocks, Sikkema Jenkins & Co., New York, NY  

• Shadow Speak, with Biraaj Dodiya, Bureau, New York, NY  

• Gardens as Cosmic Terrains, Green-Wood Cemetery, Brooklyn, NY 

• Liste Art Fair Basel, Matthew Brown, Basel, Switzerland  
• Empire Recast, Grand Lisboa Palace, Macau 

• Spirit Vessels, Matthew Brown Los Angeles, CA 

• Apparition, Macau-China Collateral Exhibition at the 58th Venice Biennale, Venice  
• Blood Echoes, AALA Gallery, Los Angeles, CA  

• The Sentinels, with Rachel Frank, Geary, New York, NY 
• Solo Presentation at NADA New York with Geary, New York, NY 
• The Primordial Molder, The Bronx Museum of the Arts, Bronx, NY

• Third Rome, Deli Gallery, New York, NY  
• Vestiges (from a Dream Pool), Real Art Ways, Hartford, CT 

• Tea of Oblivion, Women’s Studies Research Center, Brandeis University, Waltham, MA  
• Lithos Sarkophagus, Guttenberg Arts, Guttenberg, NJ 

• The Obscure Region II, Macao Art Museum, Macao, China 

• The Obscure Region, Kent Place Gallery, Summit, NJ  

• In the Garden, Newhouse Center for Contemporary Art, Snug Harbor, Cultural Center
• Botanical Garden, Staten Island, NY 

Selected Group Exhibitions  

• Sigg Prize 2025, M + Museum, Hong Kong, China  
• What are you looking for?, Société Berlin, Berlin, Germany  
• The Jealous Potter, UCCA Clay Yixing, China  
• Monstrous Beauty: A Feminist Revision of Chinoiserie, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY  
• (Re)Shaping Our World: Contemporary Ceramics, Kimball Art Center, Park City, UT  
• Difficulty is cheerfully accepted, Sikkema Malloy Jenkins, New York, NY  

• Alien, David Castillo Gallery, Miami, FL,  
• Mother Lode: Material and Memory, James Cohan, New York, NY  
• On Ma, Galeria Pedro Cera, Lisbon, Portugal  
• PROGRAM, Matthew Brown, New York, NY  
• When I Kiss You, I Can Taste Your Soul, KOTARO NUKAGA, Tokyo, Japan 
• The Fullness of the Seeming Void, Adams and Ollman, Portland, OR  
• Shanshui: Echoes and Signals, M+ Museum, Hong Kong  

• Tony Marsh: Fever Dream Duets, albertz benda, Los Angeles, CA  
• Cosmos Cinema: The 14th Shanghai Biennale, Power Station of Art, Shanghai, China  
• Horizons: Is there anybody out there?, Antenna Space, Shanghai, China  
• And the Moon be Still as Bright, Harper’s, New York, NY  
• Body Without Organs, Chapter, New York, NY  
• River Styx, Sea View, Los Angeles, CA  
• Crossing, KOTARO NUKAGA, Tokyo, Japan  

• Liquid Ground, UCCA Dune, Beijing, China  
• Concrete Spiritual, curated by Ajay Kurian, Morán Morán, Los Angeles, CA  
• SSSSSSSSSCULPTURESQUE, Kiang Malingue, Hong Kong, China  
• Mouthed Echoes, Lyles & King, New York, NY  
• Recent Sculpture, Matthew Brown, Los Angeles, CA 
• The Hearing Trumpet Part 2, Galerie Marguo, Paris, France  

• Are The Fountain, UCCA Dune, Beijing, China  
• Liquid Ground, Para Site, Quarry Bay, Hong Kong  
• Social Recession, NCECA Annual, Weston Gallery, Cincinnati, OH 
• Resentment Sleeve, UCCA, Beijing, China  
• Earthly Coil, Magenta Plains, New York, NY 

• Severed Symbol, Deli Gallery, Brooklyn, NY  
• Death Becomes Her, BRIC, Brooklyn, NY 

• Lararium, Deli Gallery, Brooklyn, NY 

• Tiger Strike Asteroid Ground Work 2018, TSA New York, Brooklyn, NY 
• The Burke Prize
  The Future of Craft Part 2, Museum of Art and Design, New York, NY  
• Clay Today, The Hole, New York, NY 

• Dark and Stormy Night Gothic Influence in Contemporary Art, Lehman  
• College Art Gallery, Bronx, NY 
• Cabinet, curated by Adam Milner, David B Smith Gallery, Denver, CO  
• Material Mythos, Geary, New York, NY 
• Morph, Asya Geisberg Gallery, New York, NY  
• A Most Filial Imprint, Aike Dellarco, Shanghai, China 
• Fictive Universe, curated by Max Razdow and Kari Adelaide, SPRING/  BREAK Art Show, New York, NY 

• Sour, Sweet, Bitter, Spicy: Stories of Chinese Food and Identity in  
• America, Museum of Chinese in America, New York, NY 
• Under the Tongue, curated by Marie Catalano, Evening Hours, New York, NY  

• Feelers, curated by Susan Metrican, Boston Center for the Arts, Boston, MA  
• Made in USA/Some Parts Imported curated by Naomi Reis and Heidi Lau,  TSA New York, Brooklyn, NY  

• I put this moment... here. I put this moment... here. I put this moment... over here, curatedby Jorge Roja, Aljira, Newark, NJ  
  
• Memento Mori, Curated by Deborah Brown, Field Projects, New York, NY  
• EAF 14, Socrates Sculpture Park, Long Island City, NY 

• Flat Files: The First Year, TSA New York, Brooklyn, NY  
• Signs of Life, Corridor Gallery, Brooklyn, NY  

• The A.I.R. Gallery 10th Biennial, curated by Ingrid Schaffner, Brooklyn, NY  
• Big Queens Drawing Show, Jamaica Center for Art and Learning, Queens, NY 
• Squeeze Machine, Field Projects, New York, NY 

• Dividing Light, Measuring Darkness, Curious Matter, Jersey City, NJ  
• Bronx Calling: the first AIM biennial, Wave Hill, Bronx, NY  

Awards  

2025 M+ Sigg Prize  

2020 NYSCA/NYFA Artist Fellowship in Craft/Sculpture 

2019 Colene Brown Art Prize 

2018 The Burke Prize by the Museum of Art and Design (Finalist) 

2017 The Foundation for Contemporary Art Emergency Grant 

2015 Joan Mitchell Foundation Painters and Sculptors Grant 

2014 Socrates Sculpture Park Emerging Artist Fellowship  

2012 Edward and Sally Van Lier Fellowship  

2010 Clo Ceardlann Artist Fellowship 

2005 Martin Wong Scholarship  

Residencies  

2021 Green-Wood Cemetery Artist-In-Residence 

Greenwich House Pottery Fellowship  

2020 CSULB Center for Contemporary Ceramics  

Artists in Residence Shadenken: Governor’s Island  

2019 Soaring Gardens Artists’ Residency  

2018 Joan Mitchell Center Residency 

The Saint John’s Pottery Jerome Foundation Emerging Artist Program 

Triple Canopy Commission  

2017 BRIC Media Arts Fellowship  

Museum of Art and Design Artist Studio Program  

2016 Lower Manhattan Cultural Council Process Space Program 

2015 Guttenberg Arts: Space and Time Artist Residency 

2014 Center For Book Arts Workspace Program  

2013 Emmanuel College Artist in Residence Program  

Aljira Emerge 11  

2012 Snug Harbor Artist Residency Program  

2011 Bronx Museum Artist in the Marketplace Program  

2010 Clo Ceardlann Artist Residency Program, Ireland 

Public Collections  

Beth Rudin DeWoody Collection, The Bunker Artspace, West Palm Beach, FL  

Bronx Museum of Art, The Bronx, NY  

Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, NY  

Kadist, San Francisco, CA  

M+, Hong Kong  

Macao Museum of Art, Macau  

Shiga Museum of Art, Shiga, Japan  

The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY  

Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN