Virtual Conversation with Ho Tzu Nyen

January 20, 2022

6 PM CST / 8 AM SST

Livestream via Crow Museum’s Youtube page

In Conversation:  Ho Tzu Nyen and Jacqueline Chao

Join internationally renowned artist Ho Tzu Nyen and Jacqueline Chao, Senior Curator of Asian Art, Crow Museum of Asian Art of The University of Texas at Dallas, for a conversation about the artist’s work and practice on the occasion of the U.S. premiere of his installation The Critical Dictionary of Southeast Asia, now on view at the Crow Museum.

A celebrated artist with a broad following across Asia and the globe, Ho Tzu Nyen (b. 1976, Singapore) is known for creating films, installations, and performances that begin as engagements with historical and theoretical texts. His recent works are populated by metamorphic figures such as the weretiger (One or Several Tigers, 2017) and the triple agent (The Nameless, 2015), under the rubric of The Critical Dictionary of Southeast Asia.

His works have been presented at the Yamaguchi Center for Arts and Media (2021), Edith-Russ-Haus for Media Art in Oldenburg (2019), Kunstverein in Hamburg (2018), Ming Contemporary Art Museum (Shanghai, 2018), Asia Art Archive in Hong Kong (2017), Guggenheim Bilbao (2015) and Mori Art Museum in Tokyo (2012). He represented the Singapore Pavilion at the 54th Venice Biennale (2011).

Recent group exhibitions include the 12th Gwangju Biennale (2021), Aichi Triennale (2019) and 2 or 3 Tigers at the Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin (2017). Together with Taiwanese artist Hsu Chia-Wei, he co-curated ‘The Strangers from Beyond the Mountain and the Sea’, the 7th Asian Art Biennial (2019) at the National Taiwan Museum of Fine Arts.