Since youth, Tina Lam has been fascinated and perplexed by the mysteries of the natural world. Venturing into unfamiliar natural environments, she carries industrial materials which she reunites with natural entities. During these excursions, she ponders on the interplay between the Self (the individual, human and human-made) and the Other (beyond the individual and human), musing on notions of transformation, interaction, cosmology, mysticism and metamorphosis. Her land-art interventions, multimedia installations, and performances are meditations on humanity’s entanglement with the unknown and the mystical.
Tina Lam was born in Montréal, Canada, and raised in urban regions by Cambodian-Chinese refugees. She is a graduate of Cornell University (MFA), Concordia University (BFA) and McGill University (PhD). She has attended residencies including Shandaken: Storm King (2022), Cold Willapa Bay AIR(2023), Spring Harbor Laboratories (2023) and the Carving Studio & Sculpture Center (2024).
Tina Lam’s residency at NARS is made possible by the Canada Council for the Arts.
