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

2026
‘now that i look back it was all falling apart but the pieces were all there’, Fragment, New York, USA
2025
‘she told me that im sad and lonely in a whimsical and silly kind of way’, BABY THE COFFEE BREW CLUB, Tokyo, Japan
2024
‘my dad always told me that at the end of the day is night’,  i GALLERY, Osaka, Japan
‘you, me, and these trees, we’re made of the same stuff.’, VINS gallery, Taipei, Taiwan
‘All things in the universe are made of pure energy, yet I’m still tired’, sangheeut gallery, Seoul, Korea
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

2026
‘Hippocampal Overflow’, RIVER ART GALLERY, Taichung, Taiwan
2025
‘Pithecanthropus: Project by The 6th Laboratory Oil-Painting Department of Tokyo University of the Arts’, Mitsukoshi Contemporary Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
2024
‘Materiality and Language: Explorations in Form and Meaning Curated by Esthella Provas’, KOTARO NUKAGA, Tokyo, Japan
‘HOLLYWOOD DREAM BUBBLE: Ed Ruscha’s Influence in Los Angeles and Beyond’, The Hole, Los Angeles, USA
‘Materiality and Language’, KOTARO NUKAGA, 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

WORKS

NEWS

KOTARO NUKAGA to participate in 'Tokyo Gendai 2025'

KOTARO NUKAGA is pleased to announce our participation in ‘Tokyo Gendai 2025’, an international art fair held in PACIFICO Yokohama, Japan from September 12 to 14. KOTARO NUKAGA will showcase works by twelve internationally diverse artists, including Tomokazu Matsuyama and Rember Yahuarcani. Featuring a dynamic range of practices across painting and glass art. And also

Michael Rikio Ming Hee Ho's solo exhibition ‘she told me that im sad and lonely in a whimsical and silly kind of way’ will be held at BABY THE COFFEE BREW CLUB, Tokyo

KOTARO NUKAGA is pleased to announce that Michael Rikio Ming Hee Ho’s solo exhibition ‘she told me that im sad and lonely in a whimsical and silly kind of way’ will be held at BABY THE COFFEE BREW CLUB in Tokyu Plaza Harajuku Harakado from February 22 to March 5, 2025. In this new body

KOTARO NUKAGA to participate in 'Tokyo Gendai'

KOTARO NUKAGA is delighted to announce its participation in Tokyo Gendai from July 5(Fri) to July 7(Sun),2024. ■EXHIBITION DETAILS VIP Preview (by invitation only) 7/4(Thu)2pm-5pm Vernissage 7/4(Thu)5pm-8pm General Admission 7/5(Fri)11am-6pm 7/6(Sat)11am-6pm 7/7(Sun)11am-5:30pm ■ARTIST Michael Rikio Ming Hee Ho Nanami Inoue Maiko Kasai Takehito Koganezawa Tomona Matsukawa Tomokazu Matsuyama Joel Mesler José Parlá Carlos Rolón Yuichiro

Group Exhibition 'Materiality and Language: Explorations in Form and Meaning Curated by Esthella Provas'

KOTARO NUKAGA, Roppongi is pleased to present ‘Materiality and Language: Explorations in Form and Meaning Curated by Esthella Provas’ a group exhibition themed around materiality and language which features five international artists, from June 8 (Sat) to July 31 (Wed). The exhibition is curated by Esthella Provas, who is considered one of the world’s most

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