Betsy Ming-Lai Lam

Education

  • 2004 MFA Painting, San Francisco Art Institute, San Francisco, CA
  • 2001 BFA Painting, University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA
  • 2000 BA Journalism, University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA

Teaching

  • 2007-08 Assistant Adjunct Professor, University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA
  • 2004 Young Artist's Program Instructor, San Francisco Art Institute, San Francisco, CA

Solo Exhibitions

  • 2021 Reflexivity, The Martin, Chicago, IL
  • 2003 Disremember/Remember, Diego Rivera Gallery, San Francisco, CA
  • 2000 Excavation, Checkered Space, Iowa City, IA

Group Exhibitions

  • 2023 The Five Year Show, The Martin, Chicago, IL
  • 2017 Struggle, Homiey Gallery, Chicago, IL
  • 2004 APAture: A Window on the Art of Young Asian Pacific Americans, SomArts, San Francisco, CA
  • 2004 MFA Exhibition, Herbst Pavilion, San Francisco, CA
  • 2004 Memory/Loss curated by Alla Efimova & Levia Stern, Lacunae Gallery, San Francisco, CA
  • 2004 I.D., Swell Gallery, San Francisco, CA
  • 2003 Continuing MFA, Swell Gallery, San Francisco, CA
  • 2003 Take Out, Swell Gallery, San Francisco, CA
  • 2003 Blue, Swell Gallery, San Francisco
  • 2003 Graceless Lady, Six A Space, Iowa City, IA
  • 2001 You Can Still Call, Checkered Space, Iowa City, IA
  • 2001 Life Drawings, Mezzanine Gallery, Iowa City, IA
  • 2001 Self-Portraits, International Center, Iowa City, IA

Publications

  • 2015 How to Soften a Fall, essay, The Butter,

    Selected by Roxane Gay

  • 2010 Chance of Precipitation, drawing, SoulPancake,

    New York Times Best Seller by Rainn Wilson, Devon Gundry & Golriz Lucina