POK CHI LAU

Current Exhibits

Through Time—Print Art in Aberdeen Street

Print Art Contemporary at 35 Aberdeen Street, PMQ - Until August 31, 2025

On Feb. 22, Pok Chi gave a presentation at the Print Art Contemporary about the rescuing a set of lead-type mould from the shop of Kwong Wah Newspaper in Havana, Cuba. These are now on display until August 2025.

He met Caridad Amaran, the Caucasian Cantonese opera diva with whom he had a 15-year friendship. She was cleaning lead types with a toothbrush and kerosine. A few years later, part of the ceiling was falling down due to decay and the lead types needed to be relocated. Eight boxes of moulds were boxed, stored, and shipped from Havana, to NYC, to Lawrence, Kansas and then to Hong Kong.

The process took 6 years with the help of 10 people, including editor Sr. Guillermo Chiu who gave permission to save these Chinese culture relics most of which had been long gone to the dump.

Past Exhibits


Solo Exhibitions (Selected)

  • 2025: The 5 Elements of Buddhism, Y Gallery, Hong Kong
  • 2024: Imagining Ancestors, Hamilton Gallery & Spokane Public Library, Washington
  • 2022: Cultural Photography of Chinese in Myanmar, Guangzhou Academy of Fine Art Museum, China
  • 2020: Migration: A 50-Year Retrospective, Yuezhong Museum of Historical Images, Shenzhen, China
  • 2017: Genes in Floating, R Space, Vancouver, Canada
  • 2016: Old City of Guangzhou, Bruce Lee Ancestral Home, Guangzhou, China
  • 2008: Flow China: A Forty-Year Retrospective, Guangdong Museum of Art
    — Red Walls, Galerie Beaugeste, Shanghai
  • 2005: Dreams of the Golden Mountain, Lianzhou International Photo Festival, China
    — Reve de la montagne d’or, Maison Robert Doisneau, Paris, France
  • 1988: From China to Chinatown, University of British Columbia & University of Alberta, Canada
  • 1980: Golden Mountain, Ulrich Museum of Art, Wichita, Kansas

Group Exhibitions (Selected)

  • 2023: Hot Flux, Tainan Museum of Art, Taiwan
  • 2022: Cuban Chinese African Portraits, Carl Maxey Center (Spokane), Dhaka Biennial (Senegal), Rockbund Museum (Shanghai)
  • 2021: Intermingling Flux, Guangzhou Triennial, Guangdong Art Museum, China
  • 2012: 8th Lianzhou International Festival, China; Photokina, Cologne, Germany
  • 2003–2005: Only Skin Deep: Changing Visions of the American Self, shown at the International Center of Photography (NYC), Seattle Museum of Art, and more
  • 1997–2000: Points of Entry: A Nation of Strangers, shown at the Jewish Museum (NYC), High Museum of Art (Atlanta), Smithsonian Institution (Washington, D.C.), and others



Past Exhibits

Solo Exhibitions (Selected)

  • 2025: The 5 Elements of Buddhism, Y Gallery, Hong Kong
  • 2024: Imagining Ancestors, Hamilton Gallery & Spokane Public Library, Washington
  • 2022: Cultural Photography of Chinese in Myanmar, Guangzhou Academy of Fine Art Museum, China
  • 2020: Migration: A 50-Year Retrospective, Yuezhong Museum of Historical Images, Shenzhen, China
  • 2017: Genes in Floating, R Space, Vancouver, Canada
  • 2016: Old City of Guangzhou, Bruce Lee Ancestral Home, Guangzhou, China
  • 2008: Flow China: A Forty-Year Retrospective, Guangdong Museum of Art
    — Red Walls, Galerie Beaugeste, Shanghai
  • 2005: Dreams of the Golden Mountain, Lianzhou International Photo Festival, China
    — Reve de la montagne d’or, Maison Robert Doisneau, Paris, France
  • 1988: From China to Chinatown, University of British Columbia & University of Alberta, Canada
  • 1980: Golden Mountain, Ulrich Museum of Art, Wichita, Kansas

Group Exhibitions (Selected)

  • 2023: Hot Flux, Tainan Museum of Art, Taiwan
  • 2022: Cuban Chinese African Portraits, Carl Maxey Center (Spokane), Dhaka Biennial (Senegal), Rockbund Museum (Shanghai)
  • 2021: Intermingling Flux, Guangzhou Triennial, Guangdong Art Museum, China
  • 2012: 8th Lianzhou International Festival, China; Photokina, Cologne, Germany
  • 2003–2005: Only Skin Deep: Changing Visions of the American Self, shown at the International Center of Photography (NYC), Seattle Museum of Art, and more
  • 1997–2000: Points of Entry: A Nation of Strangers, shown at the Jewish Museum (NYC), High Museum of Art (Atlanta), Smithsonian Institution (Washington, D.C.), and others


Permanent Collections

Pok Chi Lau’s work is held in the permanent collections of major art institutions and cultural archives worldwide:

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