David G. Ho is a Chinese-American artist.
Ho was born in
New Jersey. He moved to
Taiwan with his family when he was a child, and moved back to California as a teenager. After getting his undergraduate Sociology degree from
UC Berkeley, his ambition in art motivated him to pursue another bachelor's degree in
art history and
fine arts
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from
San Jose State University.
Ho has created numerous
digital art works which were widely recognized and have been featured in competitions and publications including
Society of Illustrators Annuals,
Spectrum Annuals,
Applied Arts Photography and Illustration Annuals,
Communication Arts Illustration Annual,
Design Graphics,
Heavy Metal,
Computer Graphics World
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,
DPI Magazine,
Society for News Design,
Chicago Tribune,
MacWorld Expo Digital Gallery,
Step-by-Step Illustration Annual,
EFX Art and Design,
Digital Photo User (UK),
Tear Magazine, PEI,
Digital Fantasy Painting,
Secrets of Award-Winning Digital Artists and more.
In discussion of his work, he has said that digital technology is "a playpen where inhibitions, imagination, madness, fears and angers run wild in a frolicking orgy of psychobliss."
[Lavin, Thea (February 19, 2004). "Digital art competition winners on display", '' Oakland Tribune''.]
Ho also works as a
freelancer
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illustrator and designer. His clients include
Corona Beer,
Simon & Schuster, ''
The Source'' magazine, ''
Chicago Tribune'',
Interscope Records
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,
Ziff Davis,
Acer,
Hitachi
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,
IBM, the
NRA
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,
Wizards of the Coast,
Infected Mushroom,
Seether
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,
Penguin Publishing and
Soulfly.
David Ho has illustrated cards for the ''
Magic: The Gathering'' collectible card game.
Artwork
Ho's artwork is grouped into eight series:
*Show Me the Honey Series
*Pig Series
*Interpretation Series
*Candice the Ghost Series
*Block Series
*Contemplation Series
*Classic Series
*Original Paintings
David Ho has also done album artwork for some bands as exampled in
Infected Mushroom's ''Vicious Delicious'',
Seether
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's ''
Finding Beauty in Negative Spaces'',
Cradle of Filth
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's ''
Godspeed on the Devil's Thunder'' and
Soulfly's ''
Omen
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''.
Exhibitions
*2008 Group exhibit at World of Wonder Gallery, Los Angeles
*2007 Group exhibit at Think Space Gallery, Los Angeles
*200
Group exhibit at Roq La Rue Gallery, Seattle*2006 Group exhibit at Strychnin Gallery, Berlin
*2006 Awards exhibit at Alternative Pick, NY
*2006 Solo exhibit at Taipei International Visual Arts Center, Taipei
*2005 Group exhibit for Random Acts of Art at Loft11, SFO
*2005 Group exhibit for Spectrum Fantasy Art at Society of Illustrators Museum, NY
*2005 Group exhibit for MacWorld Expo Digital Art Gallery, SFO
*2003 Group Halloween exhibit at Echo Gallery, Chicago
*2003 Solo exhibition at Taipei International Visual Arts Center, Taipei
*2002 Solo exhibit at the Rocky Mountain Digital Arts Center, Denver
*2001 Group exhibit for Seybold Digital Art Gallery
*1999 Group exhibit for Taiwanese Art Evolution, Taiwan
Awards
*MacWorld Expo Digital Art Gallery – Best of Show, Gold & Silver Awards Alternative
*Pick Jury Voted Series – Gold Award
*Spectrum 7 – Gold and Silvers Awards
*International Digital Art Awards (IDAA)
*California Hapi New Year T-shirt Designing Competition champion
Books
*2007 ''Illustration: A Theoretical & Contextual Perspective'' – published by AVA Publishing
*2007 ''Secrets of Poser Experts'' – published by Thomson Course Technology
*2004 ''Digital Art for the 21st Century'' – published by Harper Design International
*2002 ''Secrets of Award Winning Digital Artists'' – published by Wiley Publishing
*2002 ''Shadow Maker: The Digital Art of David Ho'' – published by Abaya Studios
*2002 ''Digital Fantasy Painting'' – published by Watson Guptill
*1999 ''The Digital Illustrations of David Ho'' – published by SunGood Books
Articles
''Digital ImageMaker presents David Ho''
by David Ho
References
External links
The Art of David Ho
Official website
David Ho – Surreal Art Collective
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1969 births
American artists
American people of Taiwanese descent
Artists from New Jersey
Game artists
Living people
San Jose State University alumni
Album-cover and concert-poster artists