Pearl Lam is a collector, patron, gallery owner and curator.

As a curator, among many other exhibitions, she conceived and organised the critically acclaimed Awakening: La France Mandarine, an exhibition on the French influence on Chinese art, which was a central part of the 2004 French Year in China. As a patron, she has donated works to museums as various as the V&A in London, the Asia Art Society Museum in New York, the KW Institute in Berlin, the Museum of Art and Design in New York and the Peabody Museum in Boston.

She is the owner of Pearl Lam Galleries.