Ho Siu-Kee (; born 1964) is a visual artist from Hong Kong. His artistic and academic research focuses on exploring bodily perceptions as a means and process of aesthetic expression.
Education Ho received a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree from the Department of Fine Arts, Chinese University of Hong Kong in 1989. 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.
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.
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.
Exhibitions
Solo exhibitions Year Title Venue 2012Aureola: Ho Siu Kee Grotto Fine Art, Hong Kong 2012Heavenly Mundanity: sculpture x photography by Ho Siu Kee Lumenvisum, Hong Kong 2009 Ho Siu Kee: The Constrained Body Grotto Fine Art, Hong Kong 2006 Ho Siu-kee: Body Gesture 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 Hong Kong Arts Center
Group shows Year Title Venue 2015 The Human Body: Measure and Norms Blindspot Gallery, Hong Kong 2013 Déjà Disparu Pearl Lam Galleries, Hong Kong 2012Cityzening Jorge B. Vargas Museum and Filipiniana Research Center, Quezon City, Philippines2011 Strolling on the Water - Hong Kong Contemporary Art Exhibition Westlake Museum of Contemporary Art, Hangzhou, China 2010 You Are Here, I Am Not. From Ho Siu Kee to Kong Chun Osage Gallery, Hong Kong 2009 Charming Experience Hong Kong Museum of Art 2007 Reversing Horizon MOCA Shanghai 2007 Pivotal Decade – Hong Kong Art 1997-2007 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 2012 Associate Member of the Royal Society of Sculptors. 2015 Artist of the Year (Visual Arts), Hong Kong Arts Development Awards.
References
External links Artist's website Ocula Profile CFCCA Archive & Library Profile