Rachel Lau BIOGRAPHY

Rachel Lau is a queer multidisciplinary artist, writer, and library worker based in what is colonially known as “Vancouver”. Through book and zine-making, poetry, and comics, they contemplate what it means to hold longing and grief alongside hope for a world that does not hurt. In search of connection with those in this shared struggle, they create work that embraces feeling and communality. Their work has been exhibited in shows and book fairs across North America, and collected internationally. With friends, they steward Queer Reads Library, a mobile library of queer books and zines based in Hong Kong and Vancouver. 

Links:

• Artist website: Rachel Lau

• Artist Instagram: 咪嘈 🗣 rachel (@racholau) • Instagram photos and videos

• Sorry, We're Open / Rachel Lau - The New Gallery, The New Gallery, 2023.

• Identity & Cultures of Resistance in Printed Media with Gord Hill, Rachel Lau, Jenny Lin and Cole Pauls — Griffin Art Projects, Griffin Art Projects, 2021.

interVIEWS:

• Collective Experiments with Artist Rachel Lau - Science World, Science World, 2021.

• Episode 77: Intergenerational Storytelling with Chinatown Seniors — with Yulanda Lui and Rachel Lau - SFU's Vancity Office of Community Engagement - Simon Fraser University, Simon Fraser University, 2020.

• Rachel Lau (BMS, Media Studies) - Asian Canadian and Asian Migration Studies, UBC.