September 19 - December 29, 2024

“Ritual Clay: Cathy Lu, Paz G, Maryam Yousif” features Bay Area ceramic artists who use clay to explore how their identities and experiences intersect with themes of immigration, dislocation and cultural hybridity. Cathy LU (ACC 2019), Paz G and Maryam Yousif channel ancient archetypes and spiritual mythologies as a way to reckon with inherited histories. Ritual Clay is curated by Manetti Shrem Museum Curatorial Assistant Ginny Duncan.

Cathy Lu, born in 1984, creates ceramic sculptures and installations that manipulate traditional Chinese imagery and presentation to deconstruct assumptions about Chinese diasporic identity and cultural authenticity. Lu’s work has been exhibited at Berkeley Art Center; San Francisco Museum of Modern Art; Chinese Culture Center, San Francisco; A-B Projects, Los Angeles; CCA Wattis, San Francisco; and Marin MoCA. Lu was a 2019 Asian Cultural Council/ Beijing Contemporary Art Foundation Fellow and a 2022 SFMOMA SECA Award winner. She received her M.F.A. from the San Francisco Art Institute.

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