Heidi Lau’s practice embraces clay as an ideal conduit for exploring the malleability and materiality of time. Her hand-built clay formations range from intimately scaled figures to site-responsive installations, melding organic bodies with totemic objects and primordial monuments. Large-scale architectural columns ripple like the spine of a massive creature, while the textured, earthen surfaces of her vessels recall coral structures or fossilized ruins—holding a vital presence suspended between life and decay. Drawing upon Taoist mythology, Chinese landscape painting, and vernacular spiritual practices, Lau’s ceramics explore anti-categorical imaginings of material and space, channeled through personal memory and ritual.

Heidi Lau grew up in Macau and is based in New York. Her work has been exhibited internationally, including at the 58th Venice Biennale, the Bronx Museum of the Arts, M+ in Hong Kong, the Macao Museum of Art, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, and UCCA Clay in Yixing, China.