Bio
Huy Lam is a graduate in Photography from Humber College, and worked as a professional and sought after agency photographer for over a decade. This field allowed him to travel extensively, while developing personal projects in a variety of media. Lam is a self taught sculptor and woodworker, and has had work exhibited in Canada, Japan and the US. The artist’s sculptural work includes custom furniture, lighting, stand alone and wall sculptures, and has work placed in various private and corporate collections including the Scotiabank Art Collection, Telus, Earl’s Restaurant and Canopy Hotel collections. Huy is represented by United Contemporary and Gallery Ether (Tokyo, Japan).
Statement
Huy Lam is a multi-disciplinary artist based in Toronto. Born in Vietnam, Lam’s practice is rooted in an ongoing fascination with non-verbal communication, with an emphasis on process based construction that is informed by his meditation practice. Having established a distinctive aesthetic from his precision of hand, the artist works with wood, brass, stainless steel and more recently paper. As a self-taught wood and metal-worker, Lam looks to celebrate the natural, diverse, and malleable qualities of his medium, with a focus on materiality and tactility. Using his experience as a professional photographer, Lam applies his understanding of light to his calculative designs, resulting in an illusion of form, dimension and space.
Huy Lam’s sculptures explore the unexpected intersections of our lives, how our disparate trajectories collide across time and space. “Although true linearity does not exist in our lives, or in nature, the human mind nonetheless attempts to impose this unattainable perfection upon our imperfect world.”
Film
This is a 3 mins short film that shows the process of how some of my work is created.
Exhibitions
2024 - Grimsby Public Art Gallery - Grimsby, ON - Solo Show
2024 - Ready For Hearth - United Contemporary, Toronto - Group Show
2022 - Varied Course - Pierre-François Ouellette, Montreal - 2 Person Show
2022 - Conduit - United Contemporary, Toronto - Solo Show
2022 - From The Inside (Looking Out) - United Contemporary, Toronto - Group Show
2021 - Transmutation - Gallery Ether, Tokyo, Japan
2020 - Art Toronto - United Contemporary, Toronto - Group Show
2020 - In Bloom - Gallery Ether, Tokyo, Japan - Group Show
2020 - Painting + Sculpture - 2 Gallery, PEC - 2 Person Show
2020 - The Artist Project - Toronto - Installation
2020 - DesignTO Festival - Cosentino, Toronto - Solo Show
2019 - Art Toronto - United Contemporary, Toronto
2019 - The Space Between - United Contemporary, Toronto - Group Show for Art Toronto
2019 - Confluence - Kiko Space, Toronto - Solo Show
2019 - Greenland Is Blue - United Contemporary, Toronto - 2 Person Show
2017 - Bombay Sapphire Artisan Series - Toronto - Group Show
2017 - Carmichael Canadian Landscape Exhibition - Orillia Museum of Art and History
2017 - Queen West Art Crawl - Toronto
2017 - Outside The Box - Public Art Commission
2017 - Untitled - Hashtag Gallery, Toronto - Group Show
2016 - Somewhere In Between - Black Cat Artspace, Toronto - 2 Person Show
2015 - 3rd Thursdays On Dundas West - Hermann & Audrey, Toronto - Installation
2012 - Private Commission - Ripley’s Entertainment, Orlando, FL
2005 - Images of Burma - Gallery 61 - Toronto
Education
1992 - Graduated from Humber College Photography Program - Won the Polaroid Canada Award, Mamiya Scholarship Award and Professional Photographers of Ontario Award of Merit.
Press
2024 - The Globe and Mail - Style Advisor - May Issue
2024 - Art Beat Podcast - Season 1 Episode 11
2019 - Create! Magazine Issue 15
2011 - McDevitt, Caitlyn - A less hopeful Obama poster, Politico.com - 08/17/11 https://politi.co/3rGsq3x
2011 - Blazenhoff, Rusty - Portraits of People Created By Repeating Words In Very Small Type https://bit.ly/3jpiYON