David G. Ho is a Chinese-American artist. Ho was born in

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. He moved to

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with his family when he was a child, and moved back to California as a teenager. After getting his undergraduate Sociology degree from

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, his ambition in art motivated him to pursue another bachelor's degree in

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and fine arts from

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. Ho has created numerous

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works which were widely recognized and have been featured in competitions and publications including

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Annuals, Spectrum Annuals, Applied Arts Photography and Illustration Annuals, Communication Arts Illustration Annual, Design Graphics, Heavy Metal, Computer Graphics World, DPI Magazine,

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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", ''

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''. Ho also works as a freelancer illustrator and designer. His clients include Corona Beer,

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, ''

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'' magazine, ''

'', Interscope Records,

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, Acer, Hitachi, IBM, the NRA,

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, Seether,

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and

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. David Ho has illustrated cards for the ''

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'' 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

's ''Vicious Delicious'', Seether's ''

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'', Cradle of Filth's ''

Godspeed on the Devil's Thunder ''Godspeed on the Devil's Thunder'' (subtitled ''The Life and Crimes of Gilles de Rais'') is the eighth studio album by English extreme metal band Cradle of Filth. It was released on 28 October 2008, through record label Roadrunner. It is the ...

'' and

's '' Omen''.

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
{{DEFAULTSORT:Ho, David 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