Karilynn Ming Ho is a Vancouver-based interdisciplinary artist working with video, performance, multimedia installation, sculpture, and collage. Her work draws on existential themes as a means to examine formal and conceptual ideas around screen culture, technology,  performativity, and the body. Ming Ho has exhibited in solo shows across Canada including the Glenbow Museum, Calgary; Trinity Square Video, Toronto; Optica Centre d’art Contemporain, Montreal; and Khyber ICA, Halifax. Her work has been screened widely in film and performance festivals in Canada, the US, and France.

SOLO EXHIBITIONS

  • TBD - The Weight of One Strawberry, Artcenter Ongoing, Tokyo, Japan 

  • 2019 - Glamour and Vapours, Art Gallery of Grande Prarie, Grande Prarie CA, curated by Derrick Chan

  • 2018 - For The Left Hand Alone, Richmond Art Gallery, Richmond, CA

  • 2017 - For The Left Hand Alone, Glenbow Museum, Calgary CA
    - For The Left Hand Alone, Trinity Square Video/ Images Festival, Toronto, CA

  • 2014 - Love Is Just a Four-Letter Word, Optica Centre for Contemporary Art, Montreal, CA

  • 2013 - Versions 1,2,3 Khyber Centre for the Arts, Halifax, CA

  • 2012 - Where Where There There, Stride Gallery, Calgary, CA

  • 2010 - Versions 1,2,3 Perel Gallery, Vancouver, CA

  • 2004 - I Want You to Want Me (with Gale Allen) Stride Gallery, Calgary, CA

GROUP EXHIBITIONS

  • 2021 - Light Hours, Hotam Press Gallery, Vancouver, BC

  • 2020 - Crocodile Tears, Unit 17, Vancouver, BC curated by Tobin Gibson 

  • 2018 - Homecoming, The Bakery Gallery, Vancouver CA

  • 2018 - Beyond Repair, Union Gallery, Queens University, Kingston CA curated by Robin Alex MacDonald

  • 2013 - The Idiot of Nature, University of British Columbia AHVA Library Gallery, curated by Christine D’Onofrio Vancouver, CA

  • 2012 - VIP Art Fair MFA, New York City, USA

  • 2011 - Feeling Video: Are We Done With Judgment? Vtape Curatorial Incubator, curated by Jennifer Chan, Vtape, Toronto, CA

  • 2009 - Empty Orchestra curated by Heather Keung and Maiko Tanaka, video Gendai Gallery, Toronto, CA

  • 2005 - Room for Progress, Alberta College of Art and Design, Calgary, CA

PERFORMANCES/ VIDEO SCREENINGS/ FILM FESTIVALS

  • 2018 - The Gifts of Fringe: He Who Dreams, Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver CA 

  • 2017 - What is Left? What Is Right? Forest City Gallery, London CA

  • 2015 - Love After Materialism, Collectif Jeune Cinema/ XPO Gallery, Paris FR

  • 2015 - Materiality of Love Conference, Katowice, PL

  • 2015 - Love After Materialism, Trinity Square Video, Toronto, CA

  • 2011 - An Uncertain Theatre, Surrey Art Gallery, Sound Thinking Symposium, curated by Jordan Strom, Surrey, CA

  • 2010 - A Badly Made, Not Made and Well Made Work, Mountain Standard Time, Performative Festival, Calgary, CA

  • 2008 - Empty Orchestra curated by Heather Keung & Maiko Tanaka, Toronto Reel Asian International Film Festival, Toronto, CA

  • 2007 - Intergration curated by Nahed Mansour and Paul Coulliard, FADO Performance Inc, Toronto, CA

  • 2006 - Hardcore Superstar, Paris Gay and Lesbian Film Festival, Paris, FR

  • 2006 - Play, Toronto Alternative Art Fair International, Toronto, CA

  • 2005 - Hardcore Superstar, Festival Nemo, Paris FR

  • 2005 - Saccharine, Mountain Standard Time Performantive Art Festival, Calgary, CA

  • 2005 - In/Out, Live Action, curated by Dick Averns & Mark Dicey, Calgary, CA

  • 2004 - Rhythm 10, That 70’s Ho, curated by Victoria Singh and Velveeta Krisp Western Front Gallery, Vancouver, CA

  • 2004 - I Want You to Want Me, Stride Gallery, Epcor Centre for the Performing Arts, Calgary, CA

  • 2004 - Play, Closet Gallery, Alberta College of Art and Design Calgary, CA

  • 2004 - Hardcore Superstar, Ladyfest, curated by Brenda Goldstein, Toronto, CA

  • 2004 - Hardcore Superstar, Images Festival, Toronto, CA