Sami Tsang Dark Waters, Luminescent Dreams stoneware, glaze, glass, lace, micro-beads embellishment, acrylic, lights bulb, socket, chain, thread, resin, faux fur, 2025, 78 x 32 x 31 inches | 198 x 81 x 79cm
WE ARE DELIGHTED TO INVITE YOU TO EXPERIENCE AN IMERSIVE EXPERIENTIAL EXHIBITION OF NEW CERAMIC SCULPTURES AND PAINTINGS AT THE ARTIST'S AMERICAN GALLERY PREMIERE.
SAMI TSANG: OUR FAMILY PORTRAIT
May 24 - July 26, 2025
Claire Oliver Gallery announces Our Family Portrait, the first U.S. solo exhibition by Chinese-Canadian artist Sami Tsang. The exhibition features new large-scale, richly layered figurative and allegorical works in ceramic sculpture, painting, and installation. Tsang’s studio practice delves into the complexities of mythology, identity, cultural inheritance, family dynamics, and personal liberation.
Our Family Portrait will be on view May 24 - July 26, 2025, at Claire Oliver Gallery in Harlem.
Tsang’s ceramic figures exist in a liminal space between tradition and rebellion, bearing the weight of cultural history while simultaneously breaking free from its constraints. “My work and my studio practices are very empowering. I use my work as a way to have difficult conversations with myself,” Tsang says. “My studio practice often explores feeling silenced or confined; by making the work and putting these feelings and memories into forms, I can assert a voice that wasn’t always accessible to me.”
SAMI TSANG: OUR FAMILY PORTRAIT
May 24 - July 26, 2025
Claire Oliver Gallery announces Our Family Portrait, the first U.S. solo exhibition by Chinese-Canadian artist Sami Tsang. The exhibition features new large-scale, richly layered figurative and allegorical works in ceramic sculpture, painting, and installation. Tsang’s studio practice delves into the complexities of mythology, identity, cultural inheritance, family dynamics, and personal liberation.
Our Family Portrait will be on view May 24 - July 26, 2025, at Claire Oliver Gallery in Harlem.
Tsang’s ceramic figures exist in a liminal space between tradition and rebellion, bearing the weight of cultural history while simultaneously breaking free from its constraints. “My work and my studio practices are very empowering. I use my work as a way to have difficult conversations with myself,” Tsang says. “My studio practice often explores feeling silenced or confined; by making the work and putting these feelings and memories into forms, I can assert a voice that wasn’t always accessible to me.”
June 6, 2025
