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Ho Tzu Nyen    B. Singapore, 1976

A plethora of historical references dramatised by musical scores and allegorical lighting make up the pillars of Ho Tzu Nyen’s (b. 1976, Singapore) complex practice that primarily constitutes video and installation. Features in their own right, each work unravels unspoken layers of Southeast Asian histories whilst equally pointing to our own personal unknowns. Permeating Ho’s work is a pervasive sense of ambiguity, theatricality and unease, augmented by a series of deliberate literary, art historical and musical references. Centrally, Ho charges the viewer emotionally and physically to deliver a multisensory consideration of what we know and crucially, do not.

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Ho Tzu Nyen

Singaporean contemporary artist and filmmaker

Ho Tzu Nyen (何子彥)
Born	1976 (age 48–49) Singapore
Nationality	Singaporean
Education	BFA (Victorian College of the Arts, University of Melbourne, 2001); MA (National University of Singapore, 2007)
Known for	Film, video art, installation art, performance art, virtual reality
Movement	Contemporary art
Awards	2014-15: Residency at DAAD Artists-in-Berlin Program, Germany 2015: Grand Prize. the APB Foundation Signature Art Prize, Singapore

In this Chinese name, the family name is Ho (Chinese: 何; pinyin: Hé).

Ho Tzu Nyen (Chinese: 何子彥; pinyin: Hé Zǐyàn; born 1976) is a Singaporeancontemporaryartist and filmmaker whose works involve film, video, performance, and immersive multimedia installations.^[1][2][3] His work brings together fact and myth to mobilise different understandings of Southeast Asia'shistory, politics, and religion, often premised upon a complex set of references from art history, to theatre, cinema, and philosophy.^[4] Ho has shown internationally at major exhibitions such as the Aichi Triennale, Japan (2019), the Sharjah Biennial 14, United Arab Emirates (2019), and the Gwangju Biennale