SESSION 1 - June 8–14

Cathy Lu is a ceramics-based artist who manipulates traditional Chinese art imagery and presentation as a way to explore how experiences of immigration, cultural hybridity, and cultural assimilation become part of American identity. Her work has been exhibited at the The Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum, American Museum of Ceramic Art, Asian Art Museum SF, The Berkeley Art Center, the Chinese Culture Center SF, Jan Shrem and Maria Manetti Shrem Museum of Art, SFMOMA, Galerie du Monde Hong Kong, US Embassy in Tbilisi, Georgia, among others. She received a BA & BFA from Tufts University and an MFA from the San Francisco Art Institute.

Cathy Lu, Nuwa’s Hand with Bananas (Yellow and Blue), 2023, porcelain, 26 x 16 x 16 inches each