Lam Tung Pang 林東鵬 Hong Kong, b. 1978

Born in 1978 and raised in Hong Kong, Lam Tung Pang is one of the most versatile artists of his generation, whose practice reflects the city’s shifting identity in the wake of decolonization and new allegiances. He completed his BFA at The Chinese University of Hong Kong in 2002 and earned his MFA from Central Saint Martins, London, in 2004. After formative years working between Hong Kong, London, and Beijing, Lam relocated to Vancouver in 2022, while maintaining an active practice in Hong Kong.

Lam’s art is distinguished by its diversity of vision and material. Moving fluidly across painting, installation, sound, and video, he transforms the most ordinary resources—plywood, found objects, fragments of vernacular imagery, into poetic architectures of meaning. His works are not confined to the studio: they are community-based, participatory, and deeply engaged with the social fabric of his time. Through allegorical landscapes, immersive environments, and fractured video perspectives, Lam captures moments and emotions that define both personal memory and collective experience.

Since his early Curiosity Box (2013-2015) experiments, Lam has treated video not simply as a medium but as a language—a way of building fractured perspectives that mirror displacement, diaspora, and the instability of belonging. Lam’s video works extend beyond the screen to create spaces of dialogue and reflection. They are at once personal and communal, capturing the lived emotions of a generation while opening new interpretive frameworks for how art can respond to history, place, and community.

Recent projects such as Image-coated (Hong Kong Museum of Art, 2019–2020), Mountains de-bonding (2024–ongoing), and The Great Escape – our relationship will not be the same (2026), situate landscapes as mirrors of the body and as sites of struggle between power and freedom.

His works are collected by many important institutions internationally, including the San Francisco Asian Art Museum, USA; Los Angeles County Museum of Art, USA; Hong Kong Museum of Art, Hong Kong; M+ Museum of Visual Culture, Hong Kong; Vancouver Art Gallery, Canada, amongst others.

Key institutional exhibitions include “Mountain Jade” (Crow Museum of Asian Art, USA, 2024-2027); “Past Continuous Tense” (Asian Art Museum of San Francisco, USA, 2022-2023); “Beyond the Mountain: Contemporary Chinese Artists on the Classical Forms” (Seattle Asian Art Museum, USA, 2022-2023); “Half-Step House” (Hong Kong House, Echigo-Tsumari Art Triennale, Japan, 2021); “Memento” (Asian Art Museum of San Francisco, USA, 2021); “Classics Remix: The Hong Kong Viewpoint” (Hong Kong Museum of Art, 2019-2020); “Hi! Houses” (Wong Uk Village, Hong Kong, 2016-2017); “The Hometown Tourist” (New Capital Hotel, Hong Kong, and Counter Space, Zurich, 2015); “The Curiosity Box” (Chinese Culture Center of San Francisco, USA, 2013); “One-Two-World” (public installation presented by gdm, Art Basel Hong Kong, 2013), and “Selling my Soul” (Tate Modern, London, UK, 2010).