Temporal Botanical Continuance

Kong Ho utilizes his bicultural background as a teaching artist and muralist professionally trained in both Chinese and Western visual art to teach and practice art. Currently, Ho is a full-time artist based in Pennsylvania. He earned a M.F.A. in painting and drawing at Texas Tech University in 1994. Since then, he taught as art professor and practicing artist at several universities. His paintings have been exhibited in more than 115 international and national exhibitions including United States, Canada, United Kingdom, Germany, Italy, Bulgaria, Macedonia, Japan, China, Singapore, Thailand, Philippines, and Hong Kong. His artworks have been exhibited in venues such as the United Nations Headquarters and Chelsea Art Museum in New York City; World Bank Art Gallery and The John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in Washington DC; the US Ambassadors' Residences in Macedonia; Clymer Museum and Gallery in Washington; Amarillo Museum of Art and Brownsville Museum of Fine Art in Texas; Fine Arts Museums in New Mexico; Sunny Art Center in London; Joseph D. Carrier Art Gallery in Toronto; Kunstquartier Bethanien in Berlin; Atelier Montez in Rome; National Academy of Art and New Bulgarian University in Bulgaria; Museum of Tianjin Academy of Fine Arts in China, and Hong Kong Museum of Art in Hong Kong. Moreover, his work has been reviewed in APERO, 2020, and 2018; Average Art 15, 2017; Studio Visit, 2012; Direct Art, 2011; New Art International, 2010; Asian Art News, 2004; The New Art Examiner, 1994; and Art in America, 1994.