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Carol Ho: The Shape of Thought

Carol Ho is a Hong Kong born contemporary artist whose figurative paintings navigate the contested terrain between cultural memory, bodily identity and aesthetic inheritance,  With practice spanning printmaking, drawing and painting.  Ho merges the visual grammar of East Asian pop culture with the formal traditions of Western art history - producing works that are simultaneously seductive and deeplying unsettling. 

Her paintings have been exhibited internationally across Hong Kong, London, Tokyo, Berlin and beyond, and are held in institutional collections including the Royal College of Art Printmaking Archive, London and the University of Calgary, Canada.

Photo: Yuko Wakaume, 2022 @Gallery Lara 605, Tokyo, Japan 

Carol Ho is a contemporary artist whose practice investigates the psychological and cultural dimensions of the female form.  Working primarily across painting, drawing, and printmaking, Ho challenges traditional figurative representation by deconstructing and reassembling objectified bodies into a multiplicity of fragmented, translucent forms. 

Rather than depicting the body as a cohesive whole, Ho integrates her figures with complex patterns, signs, and environments, creating a unified fusion where the subject and its surroundings simultaneously engulf and cancel one another out.  Her layered compositions navigate the tension between vulnerability and strength, suggesting that in an era of ultimate self-objectification, modern identity is merely an extension of the objects we inhabit.

With an MA from the Royal College of Art, London, Ho's work engages continuous, enduring questions of self-hood and embodiment.  Her work has been exhibited extensively across Asia, Europe, and North America. 

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