Ho Sin Tung

Ho was born and raised in Hong Kong, and grew up in Tai Po before moving further north near Lok Ma Chau.^[1] Ho began her artistic training at the age of three when she attended workshops in a studio called "Cultural Corner" founded by a Hong Kong painter, Gaylord Chan (陳餘生). She graduated from the Salem-immanuel Lutheran College in 2005,^[2] and graduated with a Bachelor of Fine Arts from the Fine Arts Department of The Chinese University of Hong Kong in 2008.^[1] Ho participated in SeMA Mediacity Biennale Seoul (2014) and the 9th Shanghai Biennale (2012), and received Hong Kong Arts Development Award 2012^[3] – Award for Young Artist and Hong Kong Contemporary Art Award 2012. Ho is now a full-time artist and operates a studio in Fo Tan.^[4]

Ho's work is multidisciplinary and cross-media. She uses a variety of texts and materials and weaves impressions of varied objects, stories, movies, as well as personal memories and imaginations into various forms of representations. She may use pencil, graphite and watercolour as art media in combination with found and ready-made images such as stickers, maps, charts, and rubber-stamps to create artwork.^[5] She also creates video art and process-led projects that interpret and extend different narrative frameworks.

Apart from drawing, installation and video, Ho also considers writing as one of her essential practices. Ho's translations, reviews and fictions are published in various medias and literal magazines.^[6] Ho enjoys reading a lot and spends most of her time in a day reading.

Ho is inspired by the cinema, martial arts, literature and film culture. These are all sources of inspiration for her artistic creations.^[5][7][8] Ho is obsessed with films, with a particular interest in European movies, for Ho enjoys the depth and darkness depicted in movies.^[4] Ho believes that films are more than an escape to her, films teach her about emotions and actions that are larger than life. Drawn to horror scenarios, Ho believes in ghosts and expresses some of her deep fears in her drawings. Her depiction and artwork of human bodies are often at the edge of reality and surreal, reflecting her fantasies, pains and obsessions.

Ho respects non-living items, storiese and knowledge as if they are living animals or humans. She believes non-living items should be easily categorised or defined^.[9]

Ho currently operates a gym-cultural space called Good Night which serves as a platform for interdisciplinary practice, leveraging the power of sports to train and empower practitioners as stronger individuals and communities.^[10]

Ho is represented by Hanart TZ Gallery in Hong Kong and Chambers Fine Art in New York and Beijing.

• Living in Creative Fongshan, Kaohsiung, Taiwan (Oct 2016)^[11]
• Vermont Studio Centre, Johnson, Vermont, US (Oct – Nov 2013)^[11]
• SeMA Nanji Residency, Seoul Museum of Art, Seoul, South Korea (Jul – Sep 2013)^[11]