HO Kan
Ho Kan was born in Nanjing, China in 1932, and moved to Taiwan in 1949 when he started to study modern art with LEE Chun-Shan. In 1964, he traveled to Milan, Italy where he lived for fifty years, and now lives in Taipei, Taiwan.
As a member of “Tong Fan Art Group”, Ho was extremely influential to the development of modern art in Taiwan in the 1960s. Then, Ho went to study in Milan and had been influenced by Piet Mondrian, Josef Albers, Antonio Calderara, his style gradually shifted from surrealism to geometric abstraction. Ho Kan’s switch and combination of surrealism and geometric abstraction are quite rare among Modern and Post-War artists around the globe.
Biography
1932 Born in Nanjing
1953 Graduated from Taipei Teacher’s School/Department of Art
Solo Exhibition
2020 Vision in Space: HO Kan Unlimited, CHINI Gallery, Taipei, Taiwan
2019 Taipei Dangdai, Taipei Nangang Exhibition Center, Taipei, Taiwan
2018 Beyond Colors and Shapes：A Retrospective of HO Kan, Villa Reale of Monza, Italy
2018 Beyond Colors and Shapes：A Synchronous Exhibition in Taiwan, Chini Gallery, Taipei, Taiwan
2016 Contemplating the Original Point—The Oriental Abstract Language of HO Kan, Chini Gallery, Taipei, Taiwan
2016 Reverberations ‧ HO KAN, Taipei Fine Arts Museum, Taipei, Taiwan
2016 KAOHSIUNG TODAY, Kaohsiung, Taiwan
2016 KIAF 2016/ ART SEOUL, Seoul, Korea
2015 Ho Kan Solo Exhibition, Moon Gallery, Taichung, Taiwan
2015 Ho Kan Solo Exhibition, Moon 12 Art, Taipei, Taiwan
2014 Ho Kan Solo Exhibition, Moon 12 Art, Taipei, Taiwan
2014 ABSTRACT / SYMBOL / ORIENTAL – Exhibition of Taiwan’s Masters of Modern Art, Liang Gallery, Taipei, Taiwan
2014 Milan · Breathe · Taipei，Pro-Partner Foundation, Taipei, Taiwan
2014 Walking by Taiwanese Art: 1927-2014，Liang Galley，Taipei，Taiwan
2013 Ho Kan Original Sketch Exhibition, LOVE Space, Taipei, Taiwan
2013 Ho Kan: Time in Between, STARTS Studio, Taipei, Taiwan
2012 Age 80‧ Ho Kan’s Drawing Exhibition, Da Xiang Art Space, Taichung, Taiwan
2012 Exploring the Wasteland – The Eight Highwaymen of the East, Da Xiang Art Space, Taichung, Taiwan
2012 Formless Form – Taiwanese Abstract Art, Taipei Fine Arts Museum, Taipei, Taiwan
2011 Universal Eternity – Ho Kan Solo Exhibition, Tsing Hua University Art Center, Hsinchu; Providence University Art Center, Taichung; Cheng Kung University Art Center, Tainan, Taiwan.
2011 La Galerie Mines d’ Art, Geneva, Swizerland
2010 Da Xiang Art Space, Taichung, Taiwan
1999 Lee Chun-Shan and His Pupils Exhibition, Taiwan Province Museum of Fine Arts (now National Taiwan Museum of Fine Arts), Taichung, Taiwan
1997 The Memo of Ton Fan, Dimensions Art Center, Taipei, Taiwan
1994 Taiwan Province Museum of Fine Arts, Taichung, Taiwan
1993 Eslite Gallery, Taipei, Taiwan
1990 Eslite Gallery, Taipei, Taiwan
1986 Taipei Fine Arts Museum, Taipei, Taiwan
1985 Galleria Toni Brechbuhl, Switzerland
1981 Ton Fan Art Group and Fifth Moon Group: the 25th Anniversary Painting Exhibition, Taiwan Province Museum of Fine Arts, Taichung, Taiwan
1979 Pinacoteca Museicomunali, Italy
1973 Abbazia dei padre Benedettini, Italy
1971 Galleria Artecentro, Milan, Italy
1970 The 7th International Painting Exhibition, Italy
1969 International Painting Exhibition, Italy
1960 International Abstract Art Exhibition, Prato, Italy
1958 Asian Young Art Exhibition, Tokyo, Japan
1957 The 1st Ton Fan Group Exhibition, Taipei, Taiwan
Awards
1997 The 5th Lee Chun-Shan Foundation Modern Art Achievement Award, Taiwan
1969 The 1st Prize of Giuseppe Mori, Italy
1965 International Art Prize of Development, Italy