Lau Yee Vanessa Fong

Born 1997 in Hong Kong

Lives and works in London, UK

Lau Yee Vanessa Fong is a London-based visual artist who has recently completed her MA in Painting from the Royal College of Art. Prior to this, she earned her BFA in Fine Art from the Art Center College of Design in 2021. Her creative work is profoundly influenced by Buddhist and Eastern culture and philosophy, depicting a personal journey of spiritual self-healing after experiencing trauma. She explores the quest for self-identity while reinterpreting Buddhism in a modern visual language. In 2025, Fong is an artist-in-residence at the GoodEyeProjects Summer Residency in London, UK

EDUCATION

2024 MA Painting, Royal College of Art, London, UK 

2021 BFA in Fine/Studio Arts, Art Center College of Design, Pasadena, USA 

2018 Illustration, School of Visual Arts, NYC, USA 

SELECTED EXHIBITIONS

2025 ‘The Torrent & The Fold’, LBF Contemporary, London, UK (Group)

2025 ‘Full Disclosure’, D Contemporary, London, UK (Group)

2025 'Malerei’, akku Kunstplattform, Emmenbrücke, Switzerland (Group)

2025 ‘Fantasyland’, Twilight Contemporary, London, UK (Group)

2024 ‘Invited Worlds’, Speiro Projects, London, UK (Group)

2024 Delphian Open Call 2024 winners exhibition, Delphian Gallery and Unit 1 Gallery, Workshop, London, UK  (Group)

2024 ‘I Am Rooted, But I Flow’, Maison Lune and MEY Gallery, Los Angeles, USA (Group)

2024 Post Graduate Exhibition, Royal College of Art, London, UK

2023 ‘Lawless Imagination’, RuptureXIBIT(+Studio), London, UK (Group)

2023 ‘Unbounded Group Exhibition’, Three Shadows Xiamen Photography Art Centre, Xiamen, China (Group)