Hong Kong artist (born 1964)
Ho Siu Kee 何兆基
Born 1964Hong Kong
Education Known for Performance Art , Installation Art , Sculpture Notable work
Women and Blood Series (1993–1995)
Love the Fucking Country (1997,2000)
Ten Steps One Kneel to Xin Ya (1996, 2003, 2005)
Ho Siu-Kee (Chinese : 何兆基 ; born 1964) is a visual artist from Hong Kong .[ 1] His artistic and academic research focuses on exploring bodily perceptions as a means and process of aesthetic expression.[ 2]
Education
Ho received a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree from the Department of Fine Arts, Chinese University of Hong Kong in 1989.[ 3] He graduated from Cranbrook Academy of Art in 1995 with an MFA majoring in sculpture, and received his Doctorate in Fine Art from the RMIT University , Australia in 2003.[ 4]
Career
Ho's works focus on the bodily experience, using his own body to heighten his senses and spatial awareness, employing different media including sculpture , installation , photography and video .[ 5]
He is also an art educator. He worked in the School of Design at Hong Kong Polytechnic University from 1997 to 2000. In 2000, he joined the Hong Kong Arts Centre to help the establishment of its art education division namely Hong Kong Art School. Before teaching at Hong Kong Baptist University, Dr. Ho was the Academic Head of Hong Kong Art School.[ 4]
Exhibitions
Solo exhibitions
Year
Title[ 6]
Venue
2012
Aureola: Ho Siu Kee[ 7]
Grotto Fine Art, Hong Kong
2012
Heavenly Mundanity: sculpture x photography by Ho Siu Kee[ 8]
Lumenvisum, Hong Kong
2009
Ho Siu Kee: The Constrained Body[ 9]
Grotto Fine Art, Hong Kong
2006
Ho Siu-kee: Body Gesture[ 10]
Grotto Fine Art, Hong Kong & Hong Kong Arts Centre
2003
The Visible Form of Intention – Works by HO, Siu-kee
Grotto Fine Art, Hong Kong
2000
Connotative Body - Works by Ho, Sui kee
IT Park, Taipei
1999
Per / Con-Ceptural Body: Works by Ho, Siu-Kee[ 11]
Hong Kong Arts Center
Group shows
Year
Title
Venue
2015
The Human Body: Measure and Norms[ 3]
Blindspot Gallery, Hong Kong
2013
Déjà Disparu[ 12]
Pearl Lam Galleries , Hong Kong
2012
Cityzening[ 13]
Jorge B. Vargas Museum and Filipiniana Research Center , Quezon City , Philippines
2011
Strolling on the Water - Hong Kong Contemporary Art Exhibition[ 14]
Westlake Museum of Contemporary Art, Hangzhou, China
2010
You Are Here, I Am Not. From Ho Siu Kee to Kong Chun[ 15]
Osage Gallery, Hong Kong
2009
Charming Experience[ 16]
Hong Kong Museum of Art
2007
Reversing Horizon[ 17]
MOCA Shanghai
2007
Pivotal Decade – Hong Kong Art 1997-2007[ 18]
Chinese Arts Centre , Manchester, UK
2004
Speed Up
Swiss Sports Museum, Basel
2004
Gods Becoming Men
Frissiras Museum , Athens
2001
Translated Acts – Performance and Body Art from East Asia
Haus der Kulturen der Welt , Berlin & Queens Museum of Art , New York
1999
Fast>>Forward: New Chinese Video Art
Fundacao Oriente Contemporary Art Museum, Macao; Galerie Rudolfinum, Czech Republic
1998
Inside/Out: New Chinese Art
Asia Society, New York & San Francisco Museum of Modern Art
1997
Hong Kong Art 1997
National Museum of Fine Arts, Beijing and Guangdong; Museum of Art, Guangzhou
1997
Cities on the Move
Vienna Secession, Austria & capc Musee d’art Contemporain de Bordeaux, France & P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center, New York
1992
City Vibrance
Hong Kong Museum of Art
Awards
References
External links
International National Other