Based in
London and Shanghai
cocoho.studio@outlook.com
BIOGRAPHY
Born in Hong Kong and raised in Beijing since the age of nine, Coco Ho has lived and worked across Seattle, New York, Shanghai, Oxford, and now London. Moving fluidly between cultures and languages - English, Cantonese, Mandarin, and Japanese, she is a multilingual artist, writer, arts editor, and film creative based between London and Shanghai.
Ho holds an MFA in Fine Art from the University of Oxford and a BA in Psychology and Interdisciplinary Visual Arts from the University of Washington, Seattle. Her professional experience in media and fashion continues to shape a multidisciplinary practice that bridges visual art, writing, and moving image.
Her art film Lillian the Alien (2023) was shortlisted for New Contemporaries 2024, and her editorial films have been featured in BAFTA-qualifying festivals including Bolton, Rhode Island, and the Shanghai International Film Festival. She was an artist in residence at the Swatch Art Peace Hotel, Shanghai and K11 Art Foundation × ArtReview, Wuhan.
Previously Arts and Culture Editor at NOWNESS China, Ho has interviewed and commissioned award-winning short films featuring artists such as Maurizio Cattelan, Chiharu Shiota, Lu Yang, Cao Fei, and Liu Wei. Her commercial collaborations include major luxury houses including Burberry, Chanel, Cartier, Louis Vuitton, and Isabel Marant etc.
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ARTIST STATEMENT
Coco Ho’s artistic practice explores intimacy, memory, and identity through autofictional and hybrid forms across moving image, writing, works on paper, and performance. Ho’s research focuses on the psychological states of millennials navigating globalization, displacement, and emotional survival within capitalist and diasporic realities.
Her work often begins with lived experiences of trauma and digital isolation, which she reimagines through fantastical characters and role-play. These characters, personified from objects, animals, or mythological beings, inhabit dreamlike narratives that weave humor with melancholy. Through their shifting identities, Ho reflects on how intimacy, belonging, and selfhood are constructed and commodified in contemporary life.
Using low-tech, hand-crafted processes, she stages poetic worlds that move between confession and fiction, performance and cinema. Humor, cuteness, and absurdity become strategies to reframe emotional openness, allowing deeply personal stories to speak to collective states of longing and transformation.
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Born in Hong Kong
EDUCATION
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2024 MFA Degree Show, Ruskin School of Art, University of Oxford, Oxfordshire, UK
Born in Hong Kong and raised in Beijing since the age of nine, Coco Ho has lived and worked across Seattle, New York, Shanghai, Oxford, and now London. Moving fluidly between cultures and languages - English, Cantonese, Mandarin, and Japanese, she is a multilingual artist, writer, arts editor, and film creative based between London and Shanghai.
Ho holds an MFA in Fine Art from the University of Oxford and a BA in Psychology and Interdisciplinary Visual Arts from the University of Washington, Seattle. Her professional experience in media and fashion continues to shape a multidisciplinary practice that bridges visual art, writing, and moving image.
Her art film Lillian the Alien (2023) was shortlisted for New Contemporaries 2024, and her editorial films have been featured in BAFTA-qualifying festivals including Bolton, Rhode Island, and the Shanghai International Film Festival. She was an artist in residence at the Swatch Art Peace Hotel, Shanghai and K11 Art Foundation × ArtReview, Wuhan.
Previously Arts and Culture Editor at NOWNESS China, Ho has interviewed and commissioned award-winning short films featuring artists such as Maurizio Cattelan, Chiharu Shiota, Lu Yang, Cao Fei, and Liu Wei. Her commercial collaborations include major luxury houses including Burberry, Chanel, Cartier, Louis Vuitton, and Isabel Marant etc.
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ARTIST STATEMENT
Coco Ho’s artistic practice explores intimacy, memory, and identity through autofictional and hybrid forms across moving image, writing, works on paper, and performance. Ho’s research focuses on the psychological states of millennials navigating globalization, displacement, and emotional survival within capitalist and diasporic realities.
Her work often begins with lived experiences of trauma and digital isolation, which she reimagines through fantastical characters and role-play. These characters, personified from objects, animals, or mythological beings, inhabit dreamlike narratives that weave humor with melancholy. Through their shifting identities, Ho reflects on how intimacy, belonging, and selfhood are constructed and commodified in contemporary life.
Using low-tech, hand-crafted processes, she stages poetic worlds that move between confession and fiction, performance and cinema. Humor, cuteness, and absurdity become strategies to reframe emotional openness, allowing deeply personal stories to speak to collective states of longing and transformation.