MOCA Curators in Conversation: Christopher K. Ho

Artist Christopher K. Ho talks about his life and work with MOCA Curator Herb Tam. This talk is part of the MOCA series Curators in Conversation, where we learn about how curators, artists, and cultural producers in the Chinese and Asian American community approach their work. Christopher will discuss his upbringing, early interests in art, his relationship to Hong Kong, art pedagogy, and recent projects, including the book Best! Letters from Asian Americans in the Arts which he edited with Daisy Nam. Christopher K. Ho (何恩懷; b. Hong Kong) is a speculative artist based in New York, Hong Kong, and Telluride, Colorado. He is known for materially exquisite objects that draw from learned material about, and lived encounters with, power and otherness in an unevenly decolonized, increasingly networked world. He has exhibited at, among other venues, the Bronx Museum, the Brooklyn Academy of Music, UCCA Beijing, Asia Society Hong Kong, the Guangdong Times Museum, ParaSite, Storm King, the Queens Museum, the Incheon Biennale, and the Busan Biennale. He is currently editing an anthology with curator Daisy Nam titled Best! Letters from Asian Americans in the Arts. The New York Times, South China Morning Post, Artforum, ArtAsiaPacific, Yishu, Frieze, LEAP, RanDian, Art in America, Modern Painters, Hyperallergic, and Art Review have featured his work.