Annamarie Ho’s practice examines a diverse range of subjects, all of which are products of capitalist consumer culture. Her investigations of the commercialisation of desire and gendered hegemony in popular culture and the art-historical canon are intertwined with the formal compositional elements of each work.
In the body of work Tute, she mines the system of sponsorship and design of Formula One racing suits, resulting in 'paintings' that are reduced to sewn fabric and logo-less patches. Their minimal compositions, however, are still evocative of advertising’s seductive qualities and the spectacle of Formula One. Limited to flat fields of color, these works also allude to hard-edge abstraction.
Home Depot Paintings is a series of ceramic pieces that transform everyday objects found in hardware stores, such as vents and pegboards, which are mass produced for the middle-class and lower-income market. The works are colourfully-glazed and installed on the wall as ‘painting’ —historically the most privileged form of art. By re-appropriating mundane objects, the series encourages the viewer to re-consider the source material and its representation.
Annamarie Ho was born in 1980 in San Diego, California and now lives and works in Milan, Italy and Zürich, Switzerland.
EDUCATION
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MFA, Rhode Island School of Design, USA. |
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| 2003 |
BA, University of California at Berkeley, USA. |
SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS
| 2023 | 'Box Box', Cadogan SOLO, Milan, Italy. | |
| 2023-24 | Gucci Art Programme, Via Montenapoleone, Milan, Italy. | |
| 2021 | 'Suit and Fan', Plymouth Rock, Zürich, Switzerland. |
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
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2024 |
'Time Is On My Side', Kunsthalle 8000, Wädenswil, Switzerland |
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Enter Art Fair, Copenhagen, Denmark |
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2023 |
'Soft Guidance', Cadogan Gallery, London, UK. |
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2022 |
'Paint-by-Numbers', curated by Gianni Jetzer, Galerie Eva Presenhuber, Zürich, Switzerland. |
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| 2020 | Spring Exhibition, Kunsthal Charlottenborg, Copenhagen, Denmark. |
GRANTS AND AWARDS
| 2023 | Freiraumbeitrag Kanton Zürich. | |
| 2021 | Arbeitsstipendium Stadt Zürich. | |
| 2011 | Lower Manhattan Cultural Council Manhattan Community Arts Fund Grant. | |
| 2010 | Creative Time and Queens Museum of Art Open Door Finalist. | |
| 2009 | Frieze Foundation Cartier Award Finalist. | |
| 2008 | Madrid Abierto Grant. | |
| 2006 | Socrates Sculpture Park Emerging Artist Fellowship Program Grant. |