Ho Siu Kee

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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)

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]

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[]

Year Title Venue
2012 Aureola: Ho Siu Kee[9] Grotto Fine Art, Hong Kong
2012 Heavenly Mundanity: sculpture x photography by Ho Siu Kee[10] Lumenvisum, Hong Kong
2009 Ho Siu Kee: The Constrained Body[11] Grotto Fine Art, Hong Kong
2006 Ho Siu-kee: Body Gesture[12] 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[13] Hong Kong Arts Center

Group Shows[]

Year Title Venue
2015 The Human Body: Measure and Norms[3] Blindspot Gallery, Hong Kong
2013 Déjà Disparu[14] Pearl Lam Galleries, Hong Kong
2012 Cityzening[15] Jorge B. Vargas Museum and Filipiniana Research Center, Quezon City, Philippines
2011 Strolling on the Water - Hong Kong Contemporary Art Exhibition[16] Westlake Museum of Contemporary Art, Hangzhou, China
2010 You Are Here, I Am Not. From Ho Siu Kee to Kong Chun[17] Osage Gallery, Hong Kong
2009 Charming Experience[18] Hong Kong Museum of Art
2007 Reversing Horizon[19] MOCA Shanghai
2007 Pivotal Decade – Hong Kong Art 1997-2007[20] 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

Festivals[]

Year Festival Venue
2012 Hong Kong – Macao Visual Art Biennale, Sculpting Space: Hong Kong Public Art Beijing World Art Museum
2010 Echo: Hong Kong Sculpture Biennale Department of Fine Arts, The Chinese University of Hong Kong and Hong Kong Sculpture, Hong Kong
2009 Gongju International Art Festival Limlip Art Museum, Korea
2001 49th Venice Biennial – Hong Kong, China Official Exhibition La Biennale di Venezia, Italy
1997 Contemporary Hong Kong Art Biennial Awards Winners Exhibition Hong Kong Museum of Art
1996 23rd 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. ^ Jump up to: a b "The Human Body: Measure and Norms". Blindspot Gallery. Retrieved 2020-02-23.
  4. ^ Jump up to: a b c "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. 27 May 2015. 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. 28 September 2012. 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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