Yam Lau is a Hong Kong-born, Toronto-based multimedia artist. His artistic praxis references and engages with Chinese culture and literati practices. Lau’s work explores new expressions of space and time, past and present, fantasy and reality.

Yam Lau is a Hong Kong-born, Toronto-based multimedia artist. His artistic praxis references and engages with Chinese culture and literati practices. Lau’s work explores new expressions of space and time, past and present, fantasy and reality.

Yam Lau is a Toronto-based multimedia artist. Lau's work explores new expressions of space and time, past and present, fantasy and reality.

Yam Lau’s creative work and research explore new expressions and qualities of space, time and image. His most recent works combine video and computer-generated animation to re-create familiar spaces in varied dimensionalities and perspectives.

YAM LAU (b. Hong Kong) earned his MFA from the University of Alberta (1997). He has exhibited his work widely both nationally and internationally, including exhibitions at MacLaren Art Centre, Barrie (2019); Agnes Etherington Art Centre, Kingston (2018); Art Museum, University of Toronto, Toronto (2017); Darling Foundry, Montreal (2013); Yuanfen New …

2013年8月26日 · Yam Lau has a beautiful vision. With the eyes of a scholarly monk, the Hong Kong-born, Toronto-based multimedia artist creates works intricately steeped in allusions to Chinese literati practices, examining the space where long hours of meditative labor allow reality and fantasy to merge.

Lau, echoing Italo Calvino, has often said that he wanted to subtract weight from the world. “Everything we choose and value in life for its lightness soon reveals its true, unbearable weight,” Calvino had written in Six Memos for the Next Millennium .

Yam Lau is a Hong Kong-born, Toronto-based multimedia artist. His artistic practices references and engages with Chinese culture, philosophy, and literature. Lau’s work explores new expressions of space and time, past and present, fantasy and reality.

Yam Lau Biography. Yam Lau was born in Hong Kong. He received his MFA from the University of Alberta and is now based in Toronto where he is an associate professor of painting at York University. Lau publishes regularly on art and design and has exhibited his work widely in Canada, USA, Europe and China.

2019年10月3日 · Yam Lau is a Hong Kong born visual artist and writer whose work uses computer animation, video, and painting to explore space, image, and time. Lau is currently an associate professor at York University in Toronto.