Ho Siu Kee

Ho Siu-Kee (何兆基) (born 1964) is a Hong Kong artist and visual art scholar[1] He was born in 1964 in Hong Kong. His artistic and academic research focuses on exploring bodily perceptions as a means and process of aesthetic expression.[2]

Ho Siu Kee 何兆基
Born1964
Hong Kong
EducationDepartment of Fine Arts, CUHK(1989)
MFA degree in Sculpture from the Cranbrook Academy of Art(1995)
Doctor of Fine Art degree from Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology(2003)
Known forPerformance 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)

Education

Ho received a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree from the 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

Art Practice

Ho's works focused 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] His visual presentation materializes and projects the innate personal experience as means of artistic expression which is expected to make up the communication between the 'Self' and the 'Other'.[4]

Walking on Two Balls (1995) was a way to feel the precarious balance of the first steps, or better, and to make the viewers aware of the complexity of what looks like the very simple act of walking. The Third Eye (1996), is an ingenious device to dismount the mechanism of vision, turning obvious the hidden, unconscious process that results in the act of seeing. With Flying Machine (1995-1996), and the Sisyphus Chair (1998), the myths of Greece are revisited by Ho to show how absurd are man's attempts to go beyond the physical limits of his body. A series of works, Gravity Hoop (1997), and An Evolutionary Body (2000), illustrate in a very original way the scientific theories that explain the human body as a machine, constrained by the laws of the Universe.[6] Sit/Stand/Lie depicts the simple and basic postures of sitting, standing and lying down. Ho claimed it was his favourite artwork, as he sees it as the critical turning point of his creative development. Quoted from the interview, Hong Kong artist Kurt Chan Yuk-keung said, "I fully understand what you mean because I can see some development in its simplicity. It is like getting some taste from drinking some pure water."[7]

Academic career

Apart from his artistic practice, Ho 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[8]

Solo Exhibitions
YearTitleVenue
2012Aureola: Ho Siu Kee[9]Grotto Fine Art, Hong Kong
2012Heavenly Mundanity: sculpture x photography by Ho Siu Kee[10]Lumenvisum, Hong Kong
2009Ho Siu Kee: The Constrained Body[11]Grotto Fine Art, Hong Kong
2006Ho Siu-kee: Body Gesture[12]Grotto Fine Art, Hong Kong & Hong Kong Arts Centre
2003The Visible Form of Intention – Works by HO, Siu-keeGrotto Fine Art, Hong Kong
2000Connotative Body - Works by Ho, Sui keeIT Park, Taipei
1999Per / Con-Ceptural Body: Works by Ho, Siu-Kee[13]Hong Kong Arts Center

Group Shows
YearTitleVenue
2015The Human Body: Measure and Norms[3]Blindspot Gallery, Hong Kong
2013Déjà Disparu[14]Pearl Lam Galleries, Hong Kong
2012Cityzening[15]Jorge B. Vargas Museum and Filipiniana Research Center, Quezon City, Philippines
2011Strolling on the Water - Hong Kong Contemporary Art Exhibition[16]Westlake Museum of Contemporary Art, Hangzhou, China
2010You Are Here, I Am Not. From Ho Siu Kee to Kong Chun[17]Osage Gallery, Hong Kong
2009Charming Experience[18]Hong Kong Museum of Art
2007Reversing Horizon[19]MOCA Shanghai
2007Pivotal Decade – Hong Kong Art 1997-2007[20]Chinese Arts Centre, Manchester, UK
2004Speed UpSwiss Sports Museum, Basel
2004Gods Becoming MenFrissiras Museum, Athens
2001Translated Acts – Performance and Body Art from East AsiaHaus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin & Queens Museum of Art, New York
1999Fast>>Forward: New Chinese Video ArtFundacao Oriente Contemporary Art Museum, Macao; Galerie Rudolfinum, Czech Republic
1998Inside Out: New Chinese ArtAsia Society, New York & San Francisco Museum of Modern Art
1997Hong Kong Art 1997National Museum of Fine Arts, Beijing and Guangdong; Museum of Art, Guangzhou
1997Cities on the MoveVienna Secession, Austria & capc Musee d’art Contemporain de Bordeaux, France & P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center, New York
1992City VibranceHong Kong Museum of Art

Festivals
YearFestivalVenue
2012Hong Kong – Macao Visual Art Biennale, Sculpting Space: Hong Kong Public ArtBeijing World Art Museum
2010Echo: Hong Kong Sculpture BiennaleDepartment of Fine Arts, The Chinese University of Hong Kong and Hong Kong Sculpture, Hong Kong
2009Gongju International Art FestivalLimlip Art Museum, Korea
200149th Venice Biennial – Hong Kong, China Official ExhibitionLa Biennale di Venezia, Italy
1997Contemporary Hong Kong Art Biennial Awards Winners ExhibitionHong Kong Museum of Art
199623rd International Biennial of São Paulo (Hong Kong Official Representative)Fundacao Bienal de São Paulo, Brazil

Awards

References
  1. Vigneron, Frank (2007). 之間: 中西藝術賞析比較. Hong Kong: Chinese University Press.
  2. "HO Siu Kee". Chinese University of Hong Kong. Retrieved 2020-02-23.
  3. "The Human Body: Measure and Norms". Blindspot Gallery. Retrieved 2020-02-23.
  4. "Ho, Siu-kee". www.siu-kee.com. Retrieved 2020-02-23.
  5. "Artist Ho Siu-kee explores the physical and the intangible". South China Morning Post. Retrieved 2020-02-23.
  6. Tsong-Zung, Chang. "Ho Siu-Kee". UOL. UOL. Retrieved 2015-03-19.
  7. Ho, Siu-kee (2010). You xian shen|The constrained body / Ho (Chu ban ed.). Xianggang: Xianggang yi shu zhong xin. ISBN 9789627630753.
  8. "Ho Siu Kee CV". [www.siu-kee.com]. Retrieved 2020-02-23.
  9. "Aureola - Ho Siu-kee". Grotto Fine Art. Retrieved 2020-02-23.
  10. "Heavenly Mundanity: sculpture x photography by Ho Siu Kee". Lumenvisum. Retrieved 2020-02-23.
  11. "Ho Siu Kee: The Constrained Body, 有限身:何兆基作品展". Asia Art Archive. Retrieved 2020-02-23.
  12. "Ho Siu-kee: Body Gesture, 姿態身段: 何兆基作品展". Asia Art Archive. Retrieved 2020-02-23.
  13. "Per / Con-Ceptural Body: Works by Ho, Siu-Kee". Asia Art Archive. Retrieved 2020-02-23.
  14. "Déjà Disparu: A multimedia exhibition of artworks of the 1990s by contemporary Hong Kong artists" (PDF). Pearl Lam Gallery. Retrieved 2020-02-23.
  15. "Cityzening". Jorge B. Vargas Museum and Filipiniana Research Center. Retrieved 2020-02-23.
  16. "Strolling on the Water - Exhibition of Hong Kong Contemporary Art". Art Link Art. Retrieved 2020-02-23.
  17. "LUI CHUN KWONG. YOU ARE HERE, I AM NOT. FROM HO SIU KEE TO KONG CHUN HEI". Art Link Art. Retrieved 2020-02-23.
  18. "HONG KONG ART: OPEN DIALOGUE - CHARMING EXPERIENCE". Art Link Art. Retrieved 2020-02-23.
  19. "Reversing Horizons: Artists Reflections of The Hong Kong Handover 10th Anniversary". Asia Art Archive. Retrieved 2020-02-23.
  20. "'The Pivotal Decade' exhibition, various artists, 30 June - 23 September 2007". CFCCA Library and Archive catalogue. Centre for Chinese Contemporary Art. Retrieved 2018-09-08.
  21. "Siu-Kee Ho". Royal Society of Sculptors. Retrieved 2020-02-23.
  22. "Dr Ho Siu-kee named Artist of the Year in Visual Arts". Hong Kong Baptist University. Retrieved 2020-02-23.
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