Pearl Lam
| Pearl Lam | |
|---|---|
| Born |
林明珠 Hong Kong |
| Occupation | international gallerist |
| Parent(s) |
Lim Por-yen Gu Shui-ying |
| Relatives | Peter Lam (brother) |
Pearl Lam（Chinese：林明珠）is a Hong Kong-born international gallerist. She is the owner of Pearl Lam Galleries.
Lam was born in Hong Kong, which was then a British mandate. Lam is the daughter of Lim Por-yen, a Hong Kong real-estate tycoon and founder of the Lai Sun Group. At the age of eleven she was sent to be educated in the United States and the United Kingdom, where she studied accountancy and law. Following her graduation she returned to Shanghai to help her family oversee a real estate project.
In 1993, Lam started organizing pop-up exhibitions in Hong Kong.
In 2004, Lam was asked by the French Cultural Attache to organize and curate a major exhibition in Shanghai as part of a year of cultural exchanges. The exhibition was called ‘Awakening: La France Mandarin’ and travelled to Beijing, Hong Kong and Paris that year. Lam was called the Chinese design ambassador to France by the French Foreign Ministry and Culture Ministry. From 2000 to 2008, Lam authored the column, "The Rave", for Baccarat Magazine (then known as 'Talkies').
In 2005 Lam opened her first permanent gallery space in Shanghai, in the early years of its rise as a centre of contemporary art. Focusing on design, Lam used the gallery to introduce Chinese collectors to the international art market. Her exhibition for French designer Andree Putman in Shanghai was also shown in Hong Kong’s Design Centre. The same year, Lam participated in the Forum Talks at the Foire de Paris internationale d'art contemporain, FIAC, and at a conference for the French Senate on Luxury as a guest speaker.
In 2006, Lam opened a new gallery on Middle Jiangxi Road in Shanghai where it remains today. In 2009, the design gallery was moved to the lower ground floor of the Middle Jiangxi Road gallery. In 2012, she opened a permanent branch of Pearl Lam Galleries in Hong Kong’s Pedder Building. The gallery’s debut exhibition was curated by Gao Minglu. It was named the best gallery show of the year. The gallery then changed its name from Contrasts Gallery to Pearl Lam Galleries.
In 2008, Lam founded the China Art Foundation.
In early 2014, Lam opened a Singapore branch of Pearl Lam Galleries in Gillman Barracks. To inaugurate the new outpost, Lam hosted a group show curated by the author and broadcaster Philip Dodd. Her works extends to sponsoring exhibitions of western art in China and funding an artist-in-residence programme in Shanghai for Western and Asian designers.
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