- Christopher Ho
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Christopher K. Ho (born 1974, Hong Kong) is an artist and curator who lives and works in New York City. He graduated from Cornell University in 1997 and Columbia University with an M.Phil in 2003.
His work has been exhibited in noteworthy venues including MassMoCa[1], Dallas Contemporary, Jamaica Center for the Arts [2], Queens Museum of Art, and Socrates Sculpture Park. He is represented by Winkleman Gallery in New York and EDS Galeria in Mexico City, Mexico.
Ho's conceptually oriented work is largely collaborative and site specific with regionalism as a recurring subject. In 2010 he produced a ghost-written memoir taking on the persona of Hirsch E.P. Rothko, an anagram of the artist's name, to explore the subject of regionalism as applied to contemporary art.[3] The memoir accompanied his 2010 solo exhibition Regional Painting. His collaborative process is premised on the idea that collaboration is an inherent characteristic of almost all art. Collaborative projects include & Leisure (2007); DOUBLE (2005) as part of the d.u.m.b.o arts festival; Everything for Everyone at Once (2005) at Franconia Sculpture Park and Intercut (2003) at Socrates Sculpture Park.
In 2001, he co-curated " The Brewster Project", which displaced New York City contemporary artists to Brewster, NY to create projects responding to a small town, using it as a gallery.[4] He has also curated shows at the Lower Manhattan Cultural Council[5], Jamaica Center for the Arts, and SCOPE Art Fair.
Reviews of his work have appeared in Art in America, Artforum, Art Review, The New York Times and Performance Art Journal. An interview with the artist was featured on BOMBLOG.
Ho has taught at Rhode Island School of Design and Cranbrook Academy of Art as the (2010-2011) Critical Studies Teaching Fellow.[6]
Exhibitions
- 2011 Lesbian Mountains in Love Des Moines Art Center, Iowa
- 2010 Regional Painting Winkleman Gallery, New York[7]
- 2009 Et in Arcadia Eco EDS Galeria, Mexico City, Mexico
- 2009 Incheon Biennale Incheon, Korea
- 2008 Happy Birthday Winkleman Gallery, New York[8][9]
- 2008 Busan Biennial APEC Naru Park, Busan, Korea
- 2007 Ceci n'est pas... Sara Meltzer Gallery, New York[10]
References
- ^ "Artnet News: April 3, 2008" artnet.com
- ^ "Art in the Parks: 2007" nycgovparks.org
- ^ "Book review in final ART LIES asks: What is regional art?" Jeremy Abernathy May 12, 2011
- ^ "Manhattan Artists Adopt A Village as Their Own" Claudia Rowe, New York Times, December 23, 2001
- ^ "ART REVIEW; From Photos to Relics, Remembering the Unforgettable" Roberta Smith, New York Times, September 6, 2002
- ^ Cranbrook Academy of Art Press Releases
- ^ "Artforum Critic's Picks" Nuit Banai Artforum.com December 18, 2010
- ^ "Christopher K. Ho: Happy Birthday" Jonathan T.D. Neil ArtReview 2008
- ^ "Art in Review" Ken Johnson New York Times, January 28, 2008
- ^ "Art in Review" Holland Cotter New York Time, August 3, 2007
External links
Categories:- Contemporary artists
- Columbia University alumni
- Cornell University alumni
- American artists
- 1974 births
- Living people
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