The
Hong Kong–based Asia Art Archive (AAA) has named Christopher K. Ho, an artist,
curator, and educator, as its new executive director, ArtAsiaPacific reports. Asia Art Archive (AAA) is an independent and non-profit
organization based in Hong Kong that is dedicated to documenting recent art
history from around the region. Ho, who currently lives in New York, will move
to Hong Kong to take up his post at the
research and cultural organization in September, succeeding cofounder Claire
Tsu, who is retiring from the role. Tsu will move to cochair the nonprofit's
board with Benjamin Cha, while current co-chair DeBevoise will remain on AAA's
board as a member. DeBevoise will retain her position as board chair of the New
York–based Art Asia in America.
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Ho
commented that “I relish the opportunity to work alongside the team, and to
collaborate with its communities and constituents, in Hong Kong and beyond.”
A faculty
member of the Rhode Island School of Design from 2000 to 2018, Ho has
additionally taught at Michigan's Cranbrook Art Academy, where he was a fellow,
and at Pratt Institute in New York, among other instituitions. He has served on
the board of AAA since 2018, and on that of its American counterpart since
2015. Known for works that are site-oriented and collaboratively produced, he
has exhibited widely internationally, first showing in Hong Kong in 2013. Recent
exhibitions in that city include those at Para Site, de Sarthe Gallery,
Tomorrow Maybe, and Asia Art Society; those on the mainland include group shows
at Beijing's UCCA Center for Contemporary Art and Guangzhou's Guangdong Times
Museum.
“I
couldn’t be more delighted to be handing over the [executive director] baton to
Chris who embodies the values that we hold dear at AAA—that of generosity,
openness, intellectual curiosity and professional integrity,” Ho wrote to
colleagues in an email.
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