Carol Ho: The Shape of Thought

Carol Oi Yan 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 textile 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 in a continuous enduring questions of self-hood and embodiment.  Her work has been exhibited extensively across Asia, Europe and North America.