Gwenessa Lam is a visual artist and educator. Her artwork stems from interests in perception and the compression of time and memory within images. Lam received her B.F.A. from the University of British Columbia and M.F.A. from New York University. She has taught at New York University, Emily Carr University of Art and Design, the University of British Columbia, and the Alberta College of Art and Design. She has attended residencies at the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, Skowhegan, MacDowell, Yaddo, and the Banff Centre. Her work has been exhibited at the Bronx Museum of Art, the Queens Museum of Art in New York, Galerie de L'UQAM, and Republic Gallery in Vancouver.
Discipline:
Visual Art – painting
Gwenessa Lam
Discipline:
Visual Art – painting
Region: Vancouver, CANADA
MacDowell Fellowships: 2008, 2010, 2012
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Studios
Cheney
Gwenessa Lam worked in the Cheney studio.
Cheney Studio was given to MacDowell by Mrs. Benjamin P. Cheney and Mrs. Karl Kauffman. Like Barnard Studio, Cheney is a low, broadly massed bungalow. Sited on a steep westward slope, its porches are supported on wooden posts and fieldstone with lattices. Although it still retains its appealing character, the original design of the shingled building…