Pearl Lam Galleries

Hong Kong-born art dealer and collector Pearl Lam first launched the first permanent space of her eponymous gallery in 2015 in Shanghai. Today, her gallery spans Hong Kong as well as Singapore and London, with the likes of Jenny Holzer, Yinka Shonibare and Dale Frank on her roster

Art / 23 Jan 2017

Material world: Dale Frank latest explorations in paint, resin and fire foam

January is usually a relatively quiet month for art in Hong Kong but not so at Pearl Lam’s eponymous Pedder Street gallery where the local gallerist is showing a solo exhibition of 16 works by artist Dale Frank. One...

Art / 15 Dec 2016

Su Xiaobai inaugurates Pearl Lam Galleries’ new Dempsey Hill outpost

If the experts are to be believed, things aren’t looking too rosy for the global economy. Not that this is stopping Pearl Lam. In fact, the Hong Kong-based art dealer is feeling particularly bullish about the contemporary art scene. So...

Art / 24 Mar 2016

Waterfront wonder: highlights from Art Basel Hong Kong 2016

As the art world descended on Hong Kong for five days of Art Basel and the dizzying collection of satellite shows that piggyback on the main event, the art market held its breath wondering if the region’s economic slowdown would...

Art / 24 Mar 2016

‘China Clean’: Enrico Marone Cinzano at Pearl Lam Design, Hong Kong

Italian designer Enrico Marone Cinzano is on a mission to prove that sustainable and luxurious furniture are not mutually exclusive with the launch of his first solo exhibition at Hong Kong’s Pearl Lam Design gallery. Entitled ‘China Clean’, the...

Art / 21 Mar 2016

Nasreen Mohamedi: the new Met Breuer brings modernist India to New York

The opening of The Met Breuer, the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s modern and contemporary program, has also brought a retrospective of Indian modernist Nasreen Mohamedi to New York. Open now, the exhibition – organised by The Metropolitan Museum of Art...

Art / 18 Jan 2016

The art of collage: Gatot Pujiarto’s ’Stitching Stories’ at Pearl Lam, HK

When Pearl Lam opened her second Hong Kong gallery on the edge of Sheung Wan and Sai Ying Pun last year, she promised to deliver a new platform for emerging artists and designers from around the region. Since then we’ve...

Art / 19 Nov 2015

Leonardo Drew exhibits his abstract landscapes at Pearl Lam's Pedder Building gallery

A series of extraordinary abstract landscapes comprising scraps of wood, paper and steel screws have taken up residence on the walls of Pearl Lam’s eponymous Pedder Building gallery. The strangely beautiful and organic forms created largely from natural materials, are...

Art / 8 Sep 2015

Form, gesture, feeling: Robert Motherwell retrospective opens at Pearl Lam

Pearl Lam Galleries in Hong Kong’s Central district is marking the 100th anniversary of the birth of one of America’s most influential abstract expressionist artists, Robert Motherwell, with a solo exhibition of fifteen paintings including his Great Wall of China...

Art / 17 Mar 2015

Light shows and pink feathers: how Art Basel 2015 took over Hong Kong

Art Basel swept into Hong Kong this week sparking a creativity frenzy that spread well beyond the 233 galleries showing in the city’s monolithic convention centre as everyone from up-and-coming young local designers to international galleries and fashion designers jumped...

Art / 27 Jan 2014

Pearl Lam opens a new gallery at Gillman Barracks, Singapore

Fresh from opening restaurateur Michael Chow’s solo show at her gallery in Hong Kong, Shanghai-based Pearl Lam has just expanded her empire by launching her fourth eponymous gallery in Singapore’s Gillman Barracks. The inaugural exhibition, titled ’Where does it all...

Art / 14 Jan 2014

Double Life: Restaurateur Michael Chow’s first solo show of his paintings

Michael Chow first burst onto the creative scene with his eponymous restaurants which made Chinese food fashionable in 1960s London and 1980s New York. The self-styled Chinese cultural ambassador has, however, always considered himself an artist. Born in Shanghai, he...

Art / 4 Mar 2013

Gallerist Pearl Lam docks Zhu Jinshi’s ’Boat’ at Art13 London

An ambitious paper and bamboo installation by Chinese artist Zhu Jinshi was the centerpiece of Art13 London, a new international art fair that launched last week with a similarly impressive scope. ’Boat’ is the masterwork of Zhu Jinshi, one of...