Michael Rikio Ming Hee Ho

Michael Rikio Ming Hee Ho，1996 年生於夏威夷卡穆艾拉，是一位日粵裔美國藝術家。2018年以最高榮譽Summa Cum Laude畢業於美國加州大學。作品曾於東京、首爾、臺北、紐約及洛杉磯等地展出，參與釜山藝博會、東京玄內及臺北當代等藝博會，目前由東京Kotaro Nukaga代理。現生活與工作於日本東京。

 

Michael的創作實踐透過一套由語言、拼貼邏輯與「錯視（trompe-l’œil）」繪畫所構成的系統，試圖描繪並建構人們在後社群媒體時代中，如何進行情感上的自我隔離，並以表演性的方式形塑與展演歸屬感。他以錯視的盒狀形式來成為代替身體的存在，透過姿態、傾斜或倚靠來佔據我們所處的空間，彷彿正在參與一場對話。在當代語境中，對「自我」的定義，往往伴隨著必須不斷表演身分與歸屬的焦慮，這些盒狀結構回應了東京高度壓縮的都市尺度，並作為承載累積意義的容器存在並持續發展。作品畫面匯聚了來自夏威夷克里奧爾歷史的拼貼圖像、個人照片與各類「短暫物件（ephemera）」，同時伴隨著如內在獨白般反覆思索的文字片段。這些語句像是那些未曾送出的深夜訊息，或深藏於手機中的私人筆記，在一種極為當代的冷靜諷刺式樂觀與自覺的不安之間來回擺盪。

 

Michael Rikio Ming Hee Ho, born in 1996, Kamuela, Hawaiʻi, is a Japanese and Cantonese American artist. He graduated Summa Cum Laude from the University of California in 2018. Ho’s works have been exhibited in Tokyo, Seoul, Taipei, New York, and Los Angeles. He featured in various international art fairs, including Art Busan, Tokyo Gendai, and Taipei Dangdai. Currently, he is represented by Kotaro Nukaga in Tokyo, and the artist is also based in Tokyo. 

 

Ho’s practice employs an integrated system of language, collage logic, and trompe-l’œil painting to examine how people emotionally insulate themselves and perform a sense of belonging in this post-social-media era. His works often take the shape of trompe-l’œil box forms, functioning as surrogates for the body that assert space through posture, leaning, or tilting like participants in a conversation. In the Contemporary context, defining oneself now often carries the anxiety of having to perform identity and belonging. Developed in response to Tokyo’s compressed urban scale, these box-forms operate as containers for accumulated meaning. He collaged images from Hawaiʻi’s creole history, personal photos, and ephemera gathered on their surfaces, alongside pieces of text that read like a ruminating inner monologue. The phrases resemble those unsent late-night messages or the private notes you hide deep in your phone, oscillating between a particularly contemporary kind of wry optimism and self-aware insecurity.