Art Forum Guest Speaker, Ranio Ho
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- Ranio Ho
- April 29, 2024, 5:30 – 7:00 pm
- Virtual
Rania Ho is a multidisciplinary artist working in interactive multimedia installations and performance. Her works utilizes a wry, unexpected approach to everyday objects and situations as a means of interrogating social and cultural concerns. Ho uses her identity as a Chinese-American as the central subject and inspiration for many of her works that are humorous and resemble games but also have serious undertones and make critical social observations.
Ho received her BA in Theater Arts from UCLA and a master’s degree from the Interactive Telecommunications Program (ITP) at New York University. She lives and works in Beijing and San Francisco. In 2022, Ho was selected as an artist-in-resident at Recology, San Francisco, creating large-scale installation work out of materials scavenged from the city dump.
She has exhibited at the Jakarta Biennale (2021); Thailand Biennale (2018); Luggage Store Gallery, San Francisco (2018); BANK, Shanghai (2014); Observation Society, Guangzhou (2013); St. Andrews Museum, Edinburgh (2013); Long March Space, Beijing (2008), among others.
Ho is a co-founder of Arrow Factory (www.arrowfactoy.org.cn) one of the longest-standing, independently-run alternative art spaces in Beijing, which operated in a small storefront from March 2008 to September 2019. She is also a co-founder of Wujin (www.wujinbeijing.com), a tiny café, bookshop and creative platform in Beijing that has been operating since 2013.