Heidi Lau sees clay as the 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. 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 lives and works in New York. She is one of six artists shortlisted for the M+ Museum’s Sigg Prize 2025, and her sculptural installation "Pavilion Procession" is currently featured in the museum’s group exhibition alongside the other finalists. Selected solo exhibitions include 'Gardens as Cosmic Terrains,' at Green-Wood Cemetery, Brooklyn, NY (2022); 'Empire Recast' at Grand Lisboa Palace, Macau (2021); and 'The Primordial Molder,' at The Bronx Museum of the Arts, New York (2017). In 2019, she presented 'Apparition' was presented at the Macau-China Collateral Pavilion of the 58th Venice Biennale.