Tzu Nyen Ho

Ho Tzu Nyen (b. 1976, Singapore) lives and works in Singapore. Tzu Nyen has a BA in Creative Arts from Victorian College of the Arts, University of Melbourne (2001), and an MA in Southeast Asian Studies from the National University of Singapore (2007). He is interested in investigating history and ideas through audio-visual means, often making films, videos and theatrical performances that are related to historical and philosophical texts and artifacts. Recent one-person exhibitions of his work include MAM Project #16 at the Mori Art Museum (2012), the Singapore Pavilion at the 54th Venice Biennale (2011), and Earth at Artspace, Sydney (2011). Some of his recent exhibitions include Homeworks 6, Beirut (2013); the 5th Auckland Triennial (2013); No Country, at Guggenheim Museum, New York (2013); the 6th Asia-Pacific Triennial (2009); the 1st Singapore Biennale (2006), the 3rd Fukuoka Asian Art Triennale (2005), and the 26th Sao Paulo Biennale (2004). His theatrical experiments have been presented at Theater der Welt (2010), the KunstenFestivaldesArts (2006, 2008) and the Singapore Arts Festival (2006, 2008). His first feature film HERE premiered at the 41st Directors’ Fortnight, Cannes Film Festival (2009) and his medium length film, EARTH, premiered at the 66th Venice International Film Festival (2009).