Ho Siu Kee Explained

Ho Siu Kee 何兆基
Birth Date:1964
Birth Place:Hong Kong
Field:Performance Art, Installation Art, Sculpture
Training:
Works:
  • 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

YearTitle[6] Venue
2012Aureola: Ho Siu Kee[7] Grotto Fine Art, Hong Kong
2012Heavenly Mundanity: sculpture x photography by Ho Siu Kee[8] Lumenvisum, Hong Kong
2009Ho 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
1999Per / Con-Ceptural Body: Works by Ho, Siu-Kee[11] Hong Kong Arts Center

Group shows

Year Title Venue
2015The Human Body: Measure and NormsBlindspot Gallery, Hong Kong
2013 Déjà Disparu[12] Pearl Lam Galleries, Hong Kong
2012Cityzening[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
2010You Are Here, I Am Not. From Ho Siu Kee to Kong Chun[15] Osage Gallery, Hong Kong
2009Charming Experience[16] Hong Kong Museum of Art
2007 Reversing Horizon[17] MOCA Shanghai
2007Pivotal 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
1999Fast>>Forward: New Chinese Video Art Fundacao Oriente Contemporary Art Museum, Macao; Galerie Rudolfinum, Czech Republic
1998Asia Society, New York & San Francisco Museum of Modern Art
1997Hong Kong Art 1997 National Museum of Fine Arts, Beijing and Guangdong; Museum of Art, Guangzhou
1997Cities on the Move Vienna Secession, Austria & capc Musee d’art Contemporain de Bordeaux, France & P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center, New York
1992City Vibrance Hong Kong Museum of Art

Awards

External links

Notes and References

  1. Book: Vigneron. Frank. 之間: 中西藝術賞析比較. 2007. Chinese University Press. Hong Kong.
  2. Web site: HO Siu Kee . Chinese University of Hong Kong . 2020-02-23 .
  3. Web site: The Human Body: Measure and Norms . Blindspot Gallery . 2020-02-23 .
  4. Web site: Ho, Siu-kee . www.siu-kee.com . 2020-02-23.
  5. Web site: Artist Ho Siu-kee explores the physical and the intangible . South China Morning Post . 27 May 2015 . 2020-02-23 .
  6. Web site: Ho Siu Kee CV . [www.siu-kee.com] . 2020-02-23 .
  7. Web site: Aureola - Ho Siu-kee . Grotto Fine Art . 2020-02-23 .
  8. Web site: Heavenly Mundanity: sculpture x photography by Ho Siu Kee . Lumenvisum . 2020-02-23 .
  9. Web site: Ho Siu Kee: The Constrained Body, 有限身:何兆基作品展 . . 2020-02-23 .
  10. Web site: Ho Siu-kee: Body Gesture, 姿態身段: 何兆基作品展 . . 2020-02-23 .
  11. Web site: Per / Con-Ceptural Body: Works by Ho, Siu-Kee . . 2020-02-23 .
  12. Web site: Déjà Disparu: A multimedia exhibition of artworks of the 1990s by contemporary Hong Kong artists . Pearl Lam Gallery . 2020-02-23 .
  13. Web site: Cityzening . . 28 September 2012 . 2020-02-23 .
  14. Web site: Strolling on the Water - Exhibition of Hong Kong Contemporary Art . Art Link Art . 2020-02-23 .
  15. Web site: LUI CHUN KWONG. YOU ARE HERE, I AM NOT. FROM HO SIU KEE TO KONG CHUN HEI . Art Link Art . 2020-02-23 .
  16. Web site: HONG KONG ART: OPEN DIALOGUE - CHARMING EXPERIENCE . Art Link Art . 2020-02-23 .
  17. Web site: Reversing Horizons: Artists Reflections of The Hong Kong Handover 10th Anniversary . . 2020-02-23 .
  18. Web site: 'The Pivotal Decade' exhibition, various artists, 30 June - 23 September 2007 . CFCCA Library and Archive catalogue . . 2018-09-08 .
  19. Web site: Siu-Kee Ho . . 2020-02-23 .
  20. Web site: Dr Ho Siu-kee named Artist of the Year in Visual Arts . Hong Kong Baptist University . 2020-02-23 .

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