Ho Sin Tung

Ho Sin Tung (; born 1986) is a visual artist who lives and works in Hong Kong.

Background Ho was born and raised in Hong Kong, and grew up in Tai Po before moving further north near Lok Ma Chau. 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, and graduated with a Bachelor of Fine Arts from the Fine Arts Department of The Chinese University of Hong Kong in 2008. – 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. 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. Ho is obsessed with films, with a particular interest in European movies, for Ho enjoys the depth and darkness depicted in movies. 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.

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.

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

Artist residencies Living in Creative Fongshan, Kaohsiung, Taiwan (Oct 2016) Vermont Studio Centre, Johnson, Vermont, US (Oct – Nov 2013) 2016 – Dusty Landscape, Chambers Fine Art, Beijing, China 2015 – Icarus Shrugged, Hanart TZ Gallery, Hong Kong 2013 – The Void of Course Monday, Para Site, Art Basel Hong Kong 2012 – Hong Kong Inter-vivos Film Festival, Hanart TZ Gallery, Hong Kong 2011 – You Are Running A Business Called None of My Business, Abu Dhabi Art Fair, Abu Dhabi, UAE 2011 – Folie à deux, Experimenta, Hong Kong 2010 – Don't shoot the messenger, Hanart TZ Gallery, Hong Kong

Selected group exhibitions 2019 – Shek O-Sublime, Gallery EXIT, Hong Kong 2018 – The D-Tale, Video Art from the Pearl River Delta, Times Art Center, Berlin, Germany 2018 – How To See [What Isn't There], Langen Foundation, Neuss, Germany 2018 – Wan Chai Grammatica: Past, Present, Future Tense, Pao Galleries, Hong Kong Arts Centre, Hong Kong 2018 – Women in Art: Hong Kong, Sotheby's Hong Kong Gallery, Hong Kong 2017 – CUHK Fine Arts Department 60th Anniversary Feature Exhibition, Cattle Depot, Hong Kong 2017 – Ambiguously Yours: Gender in Hong Kong Popular Culture, M+ Pavilion, West Kowloon Cultural District, Hong Kong 2016 – Living in Creative Fongshan, C9-15 Dayi Area, Pier-2 Art Center, Kaohsiung, Taiwan 2016 – Animamix Biennale: Space in Mind, MoCA Shanghai, Shanghai, China 2016 – The (non) Existing Memory of Hong Kong in Literary Text, Comix Home Base, Hong Kong 2016 – Next Destination: Hong Kong, Exhibition of William Lim's Living Collection, Sotheby's Hong Kong Gallery, Hong Kong 2015 – The Human Body: Measure and Norms, Blindspot Gallery, Hong Kong 2015 – A Journey of Innovation, Hong Kong Convention and Exhibition Centre, Hong Kong 2015 – Polyphony III – Ecological Survey of Chinese Art – Pearl River Delta, Hall 3 of Art Museum of Nanjing University of the Arts, Nanjing, China 2015 – Here Is Where We Meet, Duddell's, Hong Kong 2015 – After/Image, Studio 52, Pure Art Foundation, Hong Kong 2015 – Sovereign Asian Art Prize Finalists' Exhibition, SOHO189 Art Lane / Level 18, Hong Kong 2014 – SeMA Biennale Mediacity Seoul 2014: Ghosts, Spies and Grandmothers, Seoul Museum of Art, Seoul, Korea; Korean Film Archive, Seoul, Korea 2014 – The Part In The Story Where A Part Becomes A Part Of Something Else, Witte de With, Rotterdam, The Netherlands 2014 – Animamix Biennale 2013–14: This Slow.That Fast, Run Run Shaw Creative Media Centre, City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong 2013 – Hong Kong Contemporary Art Award 2012, Hong Kong Museum of Art, Hong Kong 2013 – Framed: Ai Wei Wei and Hong Kong Artists, Duddell's, Hong Kong 2013 – HETEROTOPIA, SeMA Nanji Exhibition Hall, Seoul, Korea 2013 – The Floating Eternity, Para Site, Hong Kong 2013 – Drawing: Expression and Limit, Hall 2 of Art Museum of Nanjing University of the Arts, Nanjing, China 2013 – The Rencontres Internationales Paris/Berlin/Madrid, Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin, Germany 2013 – Hong Kong Eye, ArtisTree, Hong Kong 2012 – The Rencontres Internationales Paris/Berlin/Madrid, Palais de Tokyo, Paris, France 2012 – Hong Kong Eye, Saatchi Gallery, London, UK 2012 – The 9th Shanghai Biennale: Reactivation, Shanghai Museum of Contemporary Art, Shanghai, China 2012 – The Repository of Coherent Babbles, Southsite, Hong Kong 2012 – CAFAM.FUTURE, China Central Academy of Fine Arts Museum, Beijing, China 2012 – 'Traits, Ox Warehouse 2nd floor showroom, Macau 2012 – Market Force, Osage Kwun Tong, Hong Kong 2012 – The 17th Hong Kong Independent Short Film & Video Awards, Hong Kong Space Museum, Hong Kong 2011 – Octopus, Hanina Contemporary Art, Tel Aviv, Israel 2011 – Urban Utopia: if and only if, Goethe Institute, Hong Kong 2011 – Societe Generale Chinese Art Awards 2010 Tour Exhibition, Hong Kong / Beijing / Shanghai / Taipei / Paris / Singapore / London 2010 – You're Here, I'm Not., Osage Gallery, Kwun Tong, Hong Kong 2010 – Drawing Out Conversations: Taipei, Nanhai Gallery, Taipei, Taiwan 2010 – Shifting Topography, Hanart Square, Hong Kong 2010 – The Hong Kong Contemporary Art Biennial Awards 2009, Hong Kong Museum of Art, Hong Kong 2010 – Labium, Gallery EXIT, Hong Kong 2009 – A place changes when we look, agnes b's Librairie Galerie, Hong Kong 2009 – Fresh, Amelia Johnson Contemporary, Hong Kong 2009 – Drawing Out Conversations: Hong Kong Leg, Studio Bibliothèque, Fotan Artists Open Studios 2009, Fotan, Hong Kong 2008 – Hong Kong, Hong Kong, Hanart TZ Gallery, Hong Kong

Selected awards 2015 – Finalist of Sovereign Asian Art Prize, Sovereign Art Foundation 2013 – Finalist of Lu Xun Culture Award - Award for Best Artwork, Soho.com and Lu Xun Culture Foundation 2012 – Hong Kong Arts Development Award 2012 - Award for Young Artist, Hong Kong Arts Development Council 2012 – Hong Kong Contemporary Art Award 2012, Hong Kong Museum of Art 2010 – Finalist of Societe Generale Chinese Art Awards 2010, Societe Generale 2009 – Finalist of Hong Kong Contemporary Art Biennial Awards 2009, Hong Kong Museum of Art 2008 – Hui Yeung Sing Fine Arts Award, Chinese University of Hong Kong 2007 – Cheung's Fine Arts Awards, Chinese University of Hong Kong 2006 – Gaylord Chan Painting Award, Chinese University of Hong Kong 2006 – Lui Lup-fun Creative Award, Chinese University of Hong Kong