OVERVIEW

Michael Rikio Ming Hee Ho (born in 1996, Hawaii) is a Cantonese-Japanese American artist practicing in Tokyo. After graduating BA in fine arts from UCLA in 2018, Ho works in painting and sculpture to create complex works that stimulate situational discourse between the viewer and the work. Studying under artists such as Barbara Kruger and Andrea Fraser, Ho’s works frequently use a combination of symbolic imagery and bold-type texts that are provocative or confronting when they are stand-alone but ambiguously complex when combined – the result being an opaque social commentary of absurdist and comical scale that puts the viewer in a position of interpretation.

HISTORY

2023
‘SOMETHING SO BEAUTIFUL IS SO EASILY FORGIVEN’,KOTARO NUKAGA, Tokyo, Japan
2022
‘I must humbly and honestly acknowledge that things are really bad’, HIRO OKAMOTO, Tokyo, Japan
‘HIDDEN IN PLAIN SIGHT AND NOT AFRAID TO DIE’, Tokyo International Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
2021
‘Welcome to the Grèy Market’,Tokyo International Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
2020
‘TOKYO / SEASON 1’, Tokyo International Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
‘Happiness is Submission to Godzilla’,Tokyo International Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
‘I_AM_BECOME.pdf.’, Tokyo International Gallery website
‘TIG 1 Year Anniversary Show’, Imperial Hotel, Tokyo, Japan
2019
‘SEQUENCE 1 Pop-up Shop’, FR2 Gallery, Tokyo, Japan

2022
‘P.O.N.D.’, PARCO Shibuya, Tokyo, Japan
‘Metafair #01’, Sonoaida #Shinyurakucho, Tokyo, Japan
‘Tempered Temporality’, Sonoaida #Shinyurakucho, Tokyo, Japan
2021
‘Persistence of We ft.UGO’, Watarium Museum, Tokyo, Japan
‘UGO Summer’, Shin-Okubo UGO, Tokyo, Japan
2020
‘P.A.L.M.A.’, who is seen Gallery, Los Angeles, USA
‘HCN’, Tokyo International Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
2019
‘Isaacs Art Center Annual Album Show’, Hawaii, USA
2018
‘Pleasures’, 1200 Broad Art Center, Los Angeles, USA
‘Are You Ready to Rock’, New Wight Gallery, Los Angeles, USA
‘KILL THE BLOW FISH’, Broad Art Center, Los Angeles, USA
‘Annual Powell Exhibition’, Powell Library, Los Angeles, USA
‘Integer Overflow’, MAKE ROOM Gallery, Los Angeles, USA
2017
‘UCLA Undergraduate Juried Exhibition’,New Wight Gallery, Los Angeles, USA

NEWS

Michael Rikio Ming Hee Ho 'SOMETHING SO BEAUTIFUL IS SO EASILY FORGIVEN'

From April 8 (Sat) to June 3 (Sat), 2023, KOTARO NUKAGA, Tennoz is pleased to present ‘SOMETHING SO BEAUTIFUL IS SO EASILY FORGIVEN’, a solo exhibition by Hawai’i-born American artist Michael Rikio Ming Hee Ho. Upon entering the current exhibition, viewers will be confronted with an unexpected sight: sections of the gallery walls have been