Michael Rikio Ming Hee Ho

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.