Installation view, Floating Sea Palace, Studio Voltaire, London, 2024, photo by Andy Keate

Lap-See Lam

Lap-See Lam (b. 1990, Stockholm) lives and works in Stockholm, Sweden.

Lam was the recipient of the Lise Wilhelmsen Art Award 2025 and represented Sweden at the 60th International Art Exhibition – La Biennale di Venezia in 2024 with a Gesamtkunstwerk commissioned for the Nordic Countries Pavilion. In 2021, she was awarded the Dagens Nyheter Culture Prize.

Recent solo exhibitions include SCAD Museum of Art, Savannah College of Art and Design, Savannah, Georgia, USA; Henie Onstad Kunstsenter, Høvikodden (both 2026); PHI Foundation, Montréal; Moderna Museet, Stockholm; and Hammer Museum, Los Angeles (all 2025); The Power Plant, Toronto (Vega Foundation), and Studio Voltaire, London (both 2024); Buffalo AKG Art Museum, Buffalo; Swiss Institute, New York; Portikus, Frankfurt am Main; and Lidköping Konsthall, Lidköping (all 2023); Bonniers Konsthall, Stockholm (2022, 2018); Trondheim Kunstmuseum, Trondheim (2021); and Moderna Museet Malmö (2018–2019).

Lam has participated in group exhibitions at Tai Kwun Contemporary, Hong Kong (2026); Sammlung Philara, Düsseldorf (2024); Ghost 2565, Bangkok (2022); KINDL – Centre for Contemporary Art, Berlin (2022); Power Station of Art, Shanghai (2021); PinchukArtCentre, Kyiv (2021); Uppsala Konstmuseum, Uppsala (2020); Performa 19, New York (2019); Fondation Cartier pour l'art contemporain, Paris (2019); Luleå Biennial (2018); Kópavogur Art Museum, Kópavogur (2018); and Kunsthal Charlottenborg, Copenhagen (2017).

Lam's work is held in the collections of Instituto Bernardo Paz, Brazil; Buffalo AKG Art Museum, USA; Moderna Museet, Sweden; Maria Bonnier Dahlin Foundation, Sweden; KADIST, France/USA; M+, Hong Kong; Museum of Contemporary Art; Kiasma, Finland; Malmö Konstmuseum, Sweden; Public Art Agency Sweden; the City of Stockholm, Sweden; and Röhsska Museet, Sweden.

Installation view, Floating Sea Palace, Studio Voltaire, London, 2024, photo by Andy Keate

Installation view, Floating Sea Palace, The Power Plant, Toronto, 2024, photo by LFdocumentation.

Installation view, Tales of the Altersea, Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, photo by Jeff Mclane

Exterior installation view, Lap-See Lam, The Altersea Opera, 2024. With Kholod Hawash and Tze Yeung Ho. The Nordic Countries Pavilion, 60th International Art Exhibition, La Biennale de Venezia, 20 April - 24 November, 2024. Photo: Michael Miller/Moderna Museet. Textile work © Kholod Hawash. © Lap-See Lam. Courtesy the artist, Moderna Museet and Galerie Nordenhake. Dragon head made by Lu Guangzheng, for The Altersea Opera.

Live performance, The Altersea Opera, 2024. Lap-See Lam with Kholod Hawash and Tze Yeung Ho. The Nordic Countries Pavilion, 60th International Art Exhibition, La Biennale de Venezia, 20 April - 24 November, 2024. Photo: Jan Ahlstedt /Moderna Museet. Textile work © Kholod Hawash. © Lap-See Lam. Courtesy the artist, Moderna Museet and Galerie Nordenhake.

Installation view, Lap-See Lam, The Altersea Opera, 2024. With Kholod Hawash and Tze Yeung Ho. The Nordic Countries Pavilion, 60th International Art Exhibition, La Biennale de Venezia, 20 April - 24 November, 2024. Photo: Michael Miller/Moderna Museet. Textile work ©️ Kholod Hawash. ©️ Lap-See Lam. Courtesy the artist, Moderna Museet and Galerie Nordenhake.

Installation view, Lap-See Lam, The Altersea Opera, 2024. With Kholod Hawash and Tze Yeung Ho. Photo: Henrik Lundell/ HLVM.

Installation view, Lap-See Lam, The Altersea Opera, 2024. With Kholod Hawash and Tze Yeung Ho. Dragon tail made by Lu Guangzheng, for The Altersea Opera. Photo: Henrik Lundell/ HLVM.

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Lap-See Lam in conversation with curator Carina Bukuts (Portikus Frankfurt/Main) on the occasion of Lam's solo exhibition 'Tales of the Altersea (Prologue)' at Galerie Nordenhake Berlin, September 15, 2023.

Tales of the Altersea (Dahlia), 2023, neon with green glass, 132.3 x 26 x 16.5 cm, 52 1/8 x 10 1/4 x 6 1/2 in

Installation view, 'Tales of the Altersea (Prologue)', Galerie Nordenhake Berlin, 2023

Installation view, 'Tales of the Altersea (Prologue)', Galerie Nordenhake Berlin, 2023

'Tales of the Altersea (Bow)', 2023, brass, neon, blockout paint, 152.4 x 94 cm, 60 x 37 in

Tales of the Altersea (Julie), 2023, kinetic sculpture: brass, paint, electrical motors, neon, 73 x 157 x 11 cm 28 3/4 x 61 3/4 x 4 3/8 in

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Video, Tales of the Altersea (Julie), 2023, kinetic sculpture: brass, paint, electrical motors, neon, 73 x 157 x 11 cm 28 3/4 x 61 3/4 x 4 3/8 in

Installation view, Tales of the Altersea, Swiss Institute, New York, 2023. Photo: Daniel Pérez

Installation view, Tales of the Altersea, Swiss Institute, New York, 2023. Photo: Daniel Pérez

Installation view, Tales of the Altersea, Swiss Institute, New York, 2023. Photo: Daniel Pérez

Installation view, Tales of the Altersea (Portal), 2023. Portikus, Frankfurt am Main, 2023. Photo: Tomas Maglione

Installation view, Tales of the Altersea, Portikus, Frankfurt am Main, 2023. Photo: Alwin Lay

Installation view, Tales of the Altersea, Portikus, Frankfurt am Main, 2023. Photo: Alwin Lay

Installation view, Tales of the Altersea, Portikus, Frankfurt am Main, 2023. Photo: Jiyoon Chung

Installation view, Tales of the Altersea, Portikus, Frankfurt am Main, 2023. Photo: Alwin Lay

Installation view, Det regnar drakfjäll, Röhsska Museum, Gothenburg, 2022. Foto: Carl Ander

Installation view, Det regnar drakfjäll, Röhsska Museum, Gothenburg, 2022. Foto: Carl Ander

Installation view, Det regnar drakfjäll, Röhsska Museum, Gothenburg, 2022. Foto: Carl Ander

Installation View, Dreamers’ Quay, Dreamers’ Key, Bonniers Konsthall, Stockholm, 2022. Photo: Jean-Baptiste Béranger

Installation View, Dreamers’ Quay, Dreamers’ Key, Bonniers Konsthall, Stockholm, 2022. Photo: Jean-Baptiste Béranger

Installation View, Dreamers’ Quay, Dreamers’ Key, Bonniers Konsthall, Stockholm, 2022. Photo: Jean-Baptiste Béranger

Installation View, Dreamers’ Quay, Dreamers’ Key, Bonniers Konsthall, Stockholm, 2022. Photo: Jean-Baptiste Béranger

Installation View, Dreamers’ Quay, Dreamers’ Key, Bonniers Konsthall, Stockholm, 2022. Photo: Jean-Baptiste Béranger

Installation View, Dreamers’ Quay, Dreamers’ Key, Bonniers Konsthall, Stockholm, 2022

Singing Chef Suit, 2021, hand folded double-sided inkjet print on washi paper, hanger, stainless steel

Installation view, Phantom Banquet, Galerie Nordenhake, Stockholm, 2020

Installation view, Phantom Banquet, VR 360 stereoscopic video, Galerie Nordenhake, Stockholm, 2020

Installation view, Mother's Tongue, Moderna Museet, Stockholm, 2019

Installation view, Performa 19 Commission, Performa Hub: Jeffrey Deitch Gallery, New York , 2019

Installation view, "Maria Bonnier Dahlin Foundation Grant Recipients 2017", Bonniers Konsthall, Stockholm, 2018

Installation view "Like the Eight Immortals", L’Ascensore OFF, Palermo Sicily, 2017