Based in
London and Shanghai
cocoho.studio@outlook.com
Coco Ho’s auto-fictional practice explores intimacy, memory, and identity through experimental and hybrid forms spanning moving image, writing, works on paper, and performance. Working between Hong Kong, mainland China, the US, and the UK, she examines the psychological states of millennials navigating globalization, displacement, and emotional survival within capitalist and diasporic realities.
Her work often begins with lived experiences of immigration, family trauma, and digital isolation, which she reimagines through fantastical alter egos and role-play. These characters, personified from objects, animals, or mythological beings, inhabit dreamlike narratives that blend humor and melancholy. Through their shifting identities, Ho critiques how intimacy, belonging, and selfhood are constructed and commodified in contemporary life.
Using low-tech, hand-crafted processes, she stages poetic worlds that oscillate between confession and fiction, performance and cinema. Humor, cuteness, and absurdity become strategies to reframe vulnerability, allowing deeply personal stories to speak to collective states of longing and transformation.
As a former arts editor at NOWNESS China, Ho has interviewed and commissioned award-winning films featuring international artists such as Maurizo Cattelan, Marshmallow Laser Feast, UVA, Chiharu Shiota, Jian An Wu, Lu Yang, Cao Fei and Liu Wei. Her commercial collaborations include cilents in the luxury sector such as Burberry, Chanel, Cartier, Louis Vuitton, FREDERIC MALLE and Isabel Marant etc.
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b. 1995 in Hong Kong
EDUCATION
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2024 MFA Degree Show, Ruskin School of Art, University of Oxford, Oxfordshire, UK
Her work often begins with lived experiences of immigration, family trauma, and digital isolation, which she reimagines through fantastical alter egos and role-play. These characters, personified from objects, animals, or mythological beings, inhabit dreamlike narratives that blend humor and melancholy. Through their shifting identities, Ho critiques how intimacy, belonging, and selfhood are constructed and commodified in contemporary life.
Using low-tech, hand-crafted processes, she stages poetic worlds that oscillate between confession and fiction, performance and cinema. Humor, cuteness, and absurdity become strategies to reframe vulnerability, allowing deeply personal stories to speak to collective states of longing and transformation.
As a former arts editor at NOWNESS China, Ho has interviewed and commissioned award-winning films featuring international artists such as Maurizo Cattelan, Marshmallow Laser Feast, UVA, Chiharu Shiota, Jian An Wu, Lu Yang, Cao Fei and Liu Wei. Her commercial collaborations include cilents in the luxury sector such as Burberry, Chanel, Cartier, Louis Vuitton, FREDERIC MALLE and Isabel Marant etc.