Executive Director, Asia Art Archive
Christopher K Ho is executive director of Asia Art Archive, as well as an artist, educator and organiser
Christopher K Ho is an artist, educator and organiser. His multi-component projects address privilege, community and capital, and draw equally from learned material about, and lived encounters with, power and otherness in a multi-polar, networked world.
Ho is currently the Executive Director of Asia Art Archive. Prior to joining AAA, he served on the faculty of the Rhode Island School of Design (2000 to 2018), and additionally taught at Cranbrook Academy of Art, the Maryland Institute College of Art, and the Pratt Institute. He received his BFA in architecture and BS in history of architecture and urbanism from Cornell University, and his MPhil in art history from Columbia University. He was on the boards of AAA in America and AAA from 2015 and 2018, respectively, until 2021, and has been involved in Apexart, NURTUREart, and Telluride Arts, among other non-profits.
Ho recently exhibited his art at UCCA Beijing, Asia Society Hong Kong, the Guangdong Times Museum, Vancouver Art Gallery, and the Bronx Museum. He has written interviews and reviews for Yishu, Artforum China, ArtAsiaPacific, November, Modern Painters, and ArtReview; as well as essays for PAJ: A Journal of Performance and Art and assorted museum catalogues. Ho has also lectured at Asia Contemporary Art Week, UC Berkeley, The Kitchen, Toronto Powerplant, and the Museum of Chinese in America; and curated projects at the Hyde Park Art Center, PS 122, and the Incheon Women Artists’ Biennale. He recently co-edited an anthology of 73 letters titled Best! Letters from Asian Americans in the Arts (n+1/Paper Monument).
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Did You Know?
Christopher K Ho moved to Hong Kong from New York to take up his job at the AAA.
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Photography
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