Karilynn Ming Ho

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Karilynn Ming Ho
Known for Installation artist, Performance artist, sculptor, video artist, collagist
Website karilynnmingho.com

Karilynn Ming Ho is a Vancouver-based interdisciplinary artist working with video art, performance, multi-media installation, theatre, sculpture and collage. [1] Her work draws on existential themes as a means to examine formal and conceptual ideas around performativity as it relates to screen culture and the mediated body. [2]

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Ming Ho received her BFA in Media Arts and Digital Technologies from Alberta College of Art and Design, now the Alberta University of the Arts in 2005, and her MFA in interdisciplinary studies from the School of Contemporary Art at Simon Fraser University in 2010. [3]

Career

Ming Ho has exhibited in major shows across Canada including the Glenbow Museum in Calgary, Trinity Square Video in Toronto, Optica Centre d’art Contemporain in Montreal, the Richmond Art Gallery, the Art Gallery of Grande Prairie and Khyber ICA in Halifax. [4] Her work has been screened widely in film and performance festivals in Canada, the US, and France. Ming Ho also works as a professional editor and story editor for a number of reality television, film and documentary series produced in Canada. [3]

Selected artworks

Where Where There There (2012)

In the Peta Rake review of 'Where Where There There' (2012)in Canadian Art Magazine the writer states, "Interestingly, this video installation examines common social tropes that unfold behind and in front of the camera, and are both self-conscious and familiar—all the while addressing the possibilities of the performance of a banal series of events for a contemporary audience." [5]

Love Is Just A Four Letter Word (2014)

In Karina Irvine's meditation on 'Love Is Just A Four Letter Word' (2014), Irvine illuminates the ontological and existential lens through which Ming Ho communicates the difficult and complex, "performance and capitalism share a reptile pattern involving a multiplicity of performing bodies and objects in an ongoing drive for more and an endless perceived lack that finds its reenactment through language gestures and objects, while analyzing this dynamic her art also broaches the bodies inseparability from its image." [6]

For the Left Hand Alone (2017)

In Yishu Journal of Contemporary Chinese Art, the writer Mandy Ginson’s examines Ming Ho’s last work, ‘For the Left Hand Alone’ (2017) by asking,”How do we make sense of the very real cognitive and physiological operations triggered by merely looking, and how do we then distinguish between the conceptual categories of, “the real” and the “virtual?” Raising the ontological and conceptual nature of Ming Ho's work. [7]

Mirror Flower, Water Moon (2018)

Ming Ho's public installation of her work, Mirror Flower, Water Moon uses techniques of digital camouflage used to hide an object from video surveillance. This technology is similar to dazzle camouflage. The title, Mirror Flower, Water Moon, is from a Chinese proverb that speaks to something that can only be seen, but not grasped—like a flower in a mirror or the reflection of the moon in the water. [8]

Solo exhibitions

Group exhibitions

Performances/ Video Screenings/ Film Festivals

Publications

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References

  1. ↑ "Glenbow > Exhibitions > Artefacts: Contemporary Moving Images Karilynn Ming Ho: For the Left Hand Alone". www.glenbow.org. Retrieved 2019-03-08.
  2. ↑ "Richmond Art Gallery". www.richmondartgallery.org. Retrieved 2019-03-08.
  3. 1 2 "Trinity Square Video" . Retrieved 2019-03-08.
  4. ↑ "Richmond Art Gallery" (PDF).
  5. ↑ Rake, Peta. "Karilynn Ming Ho: Where Where There There Review". Canadian Art Online.
  6. ↑ Irvine, Karina. "Love Is A Four Letter Word: Karilynn Ming Ho" (PDF). e-artexte.ca.
  7. ↑ Ginson, Mandy (Nov–Dec 2018). "Karilynn Ming Ho: For the Left Hand Alone". Yishu Journal of Contemporary Chinese Art. 17 (6 Nov-Dec 2018): 30–40.
  8. ↑ Dacey, Shaun. "Love Is A Four Letter Word: Karilynn Ming Ho".
  9. ↑ Kacy Wu (April 10, 2018). "Karilynn Ho's Richmond Art Gallery exhibition questions 'What is real in the digital world'". Richmond News. Retrieved May 28, 2019.
  10. 1 2 3 4 "Karilynn Ming Ho" (PDF).
  11. ↑ Peter Shokeir (March 7, 2019). "Two exhibitions premiere atr Art Gallery of Grande Prairie". dailyheraldtribune. Retrieved May 28, 2019.
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