Lam Lok-san

Lam Lok-san (林樂新) is a Hong Kong-based printmaker who works as a printer at the Hong Kong Open Printshop (HKOP), a non-profit community print studio. Originally trained on the mainland, he graduated from the Central Academy of Fine Arts (CAFA) in Beijing, where he majored in printmaking. Both his own studio practice and his work at HKOP centre on woodblock and other relief-print processes.

During and after his Beijing training, Lam built early exhibition credentials in national-level Chinese printmaking. His work was shortlisted for the 20th National Print Exhibition and collected by the Heilongjiang Art Museum in 2013, and it was subsequently shown in the Guanlan International Print Biennial at the China Printmaking Museum in 2015. These appearances place his early work within the generation of CAFA-trained Chinese printmakers who have moved between mainland exhibitions and the Hong Kong studio circuit.

At HKOP, Lam's role combines collaboration on fine-art print projects, production support for visiting artists' editions, and education, and he has tutored and assisted on woodblock-printing workshops aimed at introducing print art to the public. HKOP operates the imprint Print Art Contemporary, through which the studio's editions are published and sold.

Lam's woodblock series 'So Close, So Far' (2023) is among his most visible output to date. Three prints from the series — 'Pregnant,' 'Eight Months Old,' and 'Reunion Moment' — were shown in 'Debordering: Woodcut Printmaking Practice in Inter-Asian Context' at the Chinretsukan Gallery of Tokyo University of the Arts, tracing an intimate progression through pregnancy, infancy, and reunion. His profile within contemporary Hong Kong printmaking is most legible through the HKOP studio context rather than through individual gallery representation.