Amy Lam
b. 1983, China
Amy Ching-Yan Lam is an artist and writer. She has presented work both solo and as part of the collective Life of a Craphead. Her work approaches histories, personal and communal, via intuition and necessity. Exhibitions include Entertaining Every Second at Centre Clark and the Life of a Craphead Fifty-Year Retrospective at the Art Gallery of Ontario. Lam has participated in residencies at Macdowell and the Delfina Foundation.
Lam will present a solo exhibition at the Richmond Art Gallery, BC, in April 2023. Her first full-length collection of poetry is forthcoming from Brick Books in spring 2023.
She was born in Hong Kong and lives in Toronto, which is Mississauga Anishinaabeg territory.