Cathy Lu (b. Miami, FL) creates ceramic based sculptures and installations that reference Chinese diasporic images, mythology, and experiences as a way to point out fallacies about race and gender in American culture. She draws attention to unacknowledged histories of immigration, hybridity, and assimilation in order to reimagine our past and present to create a more equitable future.
Lu received a BA and BFA from School of the Museum of Fine Arts at Tufts University and an MFA from the San Francisco Art Institute. She is currently Assistant Professor of Ceramics at UC Berkeley. She has participated in artist-in-residence programs at Kohler Arts Center, Bemis Center for the Arts, Recology San Francisco, Greenwich House Pottery NYC, and the Archie Bray Foundation.
Her work has been exhibited widely: Berkeley Art Center, Chinese Culture Center, Jessica Silverman Gallery, Kadist, Kala Arts Center, Manetti Shrem Museum, Micki Meng Gallery, SFMOMA, Recology, Root Division, all
in the Bay Area, CA; The Armory Show, New York, NY, Art Basel Hong Kong, Chengdu Biennial, Chengdu, China, Aldrich Art Museum, CT, Galerie du Monde, Hong Kong, Henry Art Gallery, Seattle, MCA Denver,
Prospect 6 New Orleans, Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington D.C.. Lu was a 2019 Asian Cultural Council/Beijing Contemporary Art Foundation Fellow, and is a 2022 SFMOMA SECA Award winner.
Lu’s work has recently been included in the collection of the Asian Art Museum San Francisco, Cantor Arts Center at Stanford University, Institute of Contemporary Art, Miami, Kadist, Museum of Fine Arts Boston, San Francisco Arts Commission Portsmouth Square public sculpture, SFMOMA, and private collections.
Lu received a BA and BFA from School of the Museum of Fine Arts at Tufts University and an MFA from the San Francisco Art Institute. She is currently Assistant Professor of Ceramics at UC Berkeley. She has participated in artist-in-residence programs at Kohler Arts Center, Bemis Center for the Arts, Recology San Francisco, Greenwich House Pottery NYC, and the Archie Bray Foundation.
Her work has been exhibited widely: Berkeley Art Center, Chinese Culture Center, Jessica Silverman Gallery, Kadist, Kala Arts Center, Manetti Shrem Museum, Micki Meng Gallery, SFMOMA, Recology, Root Division, all
in the Bay Area, CA; The Armory Show, New York, NY, Art Basel Hong Kong, Chengdu Biennial, Chengdu, China, Aldrich Art Museum, CT, Galerie du Monde, Hong Kong, Henry Art Gallery, Seattle, MCA Denver,
Prospect 6 New Orleans, Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington D.C.. Lu was a 2019 Asian Cultural Council/Beijing Contemporary Art Foundation Fellow, and is a 2022 SFMOMA SECA Award winner.
Lu’s work has recently been included in the collection of the Asian Art Museum San Francisco, Cantor Arts Center at Stanford University, Institute of Contemporary Art, Miami, Kadist, Museum of Fine Arts Boston, San Francisco Arts Commission Portsmouth Square public sculpture, SFMOMA, and private collections.