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Dominique Fung & Heidi Lau
Guest curated by Kathy Huang
In this first major duo presentation in San Francisco, Dominique Fung and Heidi Lau engage with the cyclical rhythm of life, death, and rebirth across material and spiritual worlds. Their shared artistic and thematic sensibilities reflect a years-long affinity with celestial and terrestrial cycles that extend beyond the physical realm and into the post-human.
The exhibition loosely evokes the architecture of an ancient Chinese tomb, a space traditionally inaccessible to the living. Upon entering, visitors encounter Lau’s gateway, which serves as a threshold into the underworld. At the center of the gallery rests Lau’s burial robe, positioned like the coffin at the heart of a chamber grave. Along the perimeter, a “spirit seat” anchors one wall, composed of a new painting by Fung alongside sculptural objects by both artists. Such objects would provide visual clues as to who the deceased was; in this case, the viewer might situate themselves as the spirit or as the excavator of the tomb.
Along one gallery wall, Fung’s paintings unfold as a procession through time, tracing the four seasons. In a separate room, a shallow pit recalls an archaeological excavation conceived by Fung, grounding the space in the terrestrial. In another room, Lau’s constellation of oyster vessels, which mirrors the rhythms and cycles of the exterior world, draws the viewer to the celestial. Together, their works form a spatial and conceptual arc, echoing the architectural logic of ancient Chinese burial sites.
Guest curated by Kathy Huang.
Date
Opening Fall 2026
COVER IMAGE:
(Left) Dominique Fung, A Tale of Ancestral Memories (detail), 2024. Oil on canvas. Courtesy of the artist and Massimo De Carlo. (Right) Heidi Lau, Celadon Menagerie (detail), 2024. Glazed ceramic. Courtesy of the artist and Sikkema Malloy Jenkins.
DOMINIQUE FUNG
HEIDI LAU
KATHY HUANG
Dominique Fung, A Tale of Ancestral Memories installation view, 2024. Courtesy of the artist and Massimo De Carlo.
Heidi Lau, installation view of Gardens as Cosmic Terrains at Green-Wood Cemetery, Brooklyn, NY, 2022. Courtesy of the artist and Sikkema Malloy Jenkins.
This exhibition is generously supported by LYRA ART FOUNDATION and Pamela and David Hornik.
Dominique Fung (b. 1987, Ottawa, Canada) lives and works in Brooklyn, New York. Fung received a BAA from Sheridan College Institute of Technology in Toronto, Canada.
Recent exhibitions include (Up)Rooted, Massimo de Carlo, London (2023, solo); A Tale of Ancestral Memories, Rockefeller Center, New York (2023, solo); Orrizonti, Casa Masaccio - Centro per l’Arte Contemporanea, San Giovanni Valdarno (2023); MATERNITY LEAVE: NONE OF WOMEN BORN, Nicodim in collaboration with the Green Family Art Foundation, Dallas (2023); Objects for Comfort in the Afterlife, Pond Society, Shanghai (2022, solo); Crossing, Kotaro Nukaga, Roppongi (2022); In Bloom, Massimo De Carlo Pièce Unique, Paris (2022); Wonder Women, curated by Kathy Huang, Jeffrey Deitch, New York and Los Angeles (2022); Luncheon on the Grass, Jeffrey Deitch, Los Angeles (2022); Coastal Navigation, Nicodim, Los Angeles (2022, solo); Women of Now: Dialogues of Identity, Memory and Place, Green Family Art Foundation, Dallas, Texas (2022); Dominique Fung and Katherina Olschbaur: My Kingdom and a Horse, Galeria Nicodim, Bucharest (2021, two-artist); It’s Not Polite to Stare, Jeffrey Deitch, New York (2021; solo); Relics and Remains, Nicodim, Los Angeles (2020, solo); Friends and Friends of Friends: Artistic Communities in the Age of Social Media, Schlossmuseum, Linz (2020); TRANS WORLD, curated by Ben Lee Ritchie Handler, Nicodim Los Angeles and Galeria Nicodim, Bucharest (2019); Wash Your Corners, Ross + Kramer, New York (2019, solo); and Looking Backward, Moving Forward, Taymour Grahne, London (2019, solo).
Heidi Lau (b. 1987) grew up in Macau and lives and works in New York. Selected solo and two person exhibitions include Chrysalis Spectre, with Leelee Chan, Matthew Brown, Los Angeles (2024); A Cacophony of Rocks, Sikkema Jenkins & Co., New York (2024); Shadow Speak, with Biraaj Dodiya, Bureau, New York (2023); Gardens as Cosmic Terrains, Green-Wood Cemetery, New York (2022); Spirit Vessels, Matthew Brown, Los Angeles (2020); The Primordial Molder, The Bronx Museum of the Arts, New York (2017); and The Obscure Region II, Macau Art Museum, Macau (2014), among others.
In 2019, Lau presented Apparition for the Macau-China Collateral Exhibition at the 58th Venice Biennale.
Recent group exhibitions include Monstrous Beauty, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York (2025), The Jealous Potter, UCCA Clay, Yixing (2025), Shanshui: Echoes and Signals, M+ Museum, Hong Kong (2024); Cosmos Cinema: The 14th Shanghai Biennale, Power Station of Art, Shanghai (2023); Liquid Ground, UCCA, Beijing (2022); Liquid Ground, Para Site, Quarry Bay, Hong Kong (2021), among others. Lau is one of six artists shortlisted for the M+ Museum’s Sigg Prize 2025 and her installation, Pavilion Procession is currently being featured in the museum alongside other finalists.
Work by Lau is included in the collections of The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Walker Art Center, CC Foundation, Shanghai; Kadist Art Foundation; the Bronx Museum of the Arts; Macao Museum of Art; The Shiga Museum of Art, and the M+ Museum in Hong Kong.
Kathy Huang is an independent curator and Managing Director, Art Advisory and Special Projects at Jeffrey Deitch, where she curated Wonder Women, an exhibition featuring forty Asian diasporic women and non-binary artists working in figuration. At Deitch, she has also organized exhibitions such as Judy Chicago: Los Angeles (2019), Dominique Fung: It’s Not Polite to Stare (2021), Sasha Gordon: Hands Of Others (2022), and Amanda Ba: Developing Desire (2024). Most recently, Huang co-organized Art (By) Dealers at Long Story Short, New York (2023); curated Wild: Women Abstractionists on Nature (2024) at the Metropolitan Museum of Manila, Manila; and Studiolo: A Cabinet Painting Exhibition at Adler Beatty, New York (2024). In December, Huang served on the curatorial committee for the 2024 edition of UNTITLED Miami Beach. Her curatorial project, Under the Talking Tree, opened at Kunsthal n, Copenhagen in March 2025. The book for Wonder Women was published by Rizzoli in Spring 2025.
Raised in Philadelphia, Huang earned a BA from Duke University and an MA in Modern & Contemporary Asian Art from Sotheby’s Institute of Art, London.