Ho Kan
Born 1932 in Nanjing, China. Lives and works in Taipei.
EDUCATION
1953
B.A., Department of Art, National Taipei University of Education, Taipei
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2022
Where the Mind Goes, the Heart Follows: Paintings by Ho Kan, Soka Art Museum, Hualien, Taiwan
2021
Geometric Calligraphy, Eli Klein Gallery, New York
2020
Where the Mind Goes, the Heart Follows: Paintings by Ho Kan, Yancheng Cultural Center, Kaohsiung, Taiwan
Vision in Space: HO Kan Unlimited, Chini Gallery, Taipei
HOKAN: Spring Rhythm, Duo Gallery, Shanghai
2019
Ho Kan: Spring Rhythm, Duo Gallery, Shanghai
2018
Beyond Colors and Shapes: A Retrospective of HO Kan, The Villa Reale of Monza, Italy; Chini Gallery, Taipei
2016
Reverberations: HO KAN, Taipei Fine Arts Museum, Taipei
Contemplating the Original Point - The Oriental Abstract Language of Ho Kan, Chini Gallery, Taipei
2015
Ho Kan Solo Exhibition, Moon Gallery, Taichung, Taiwan
2014
Ho Kan Solo Exhibition, Moon 12 Art, Taipei
2013
Ho Kan Original Sketch Exhibition, LOVE space, Taipei
Ho Kan Exhibition - Time in Between, STARTS Studio, Taipei
2012
Age 80 • Ho Kan’s Drawing Exhibition, Da Xiang Artspace, Taichung, 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
2010
Ho Kan Solo Exhibition, Da Xiang Art space, Taichung, Taiwan
2005
Ho Kan’s Poetics of Space, Dimensions Art Center, Taipei
2001
Oriental Constructivism, Dimensions Art Center, Taipei
1998
Solo Exhibition, Di Là Dal Fiume E Tra Gli Alberi - Spazio Espositivo Per L’arte, Brescia, Italy
1996
Solo Exhibition, Studio Lattuada, Milan
1994
Solo Exhibition, Taiwan Museum of Art, Taichung, Taiwan
1993
Solo Exhibition, Galleria Cherng Piin, Taipei
1992
Solo Exhibition, Casa Veneta - Museo di Muggia, Trieste, Italy
Solo Exhibition, Gruppo 78, Comune di Muggia, Trieste, Italy
Solo Exhibition, Banca Popolare di Milano, Milan
Solo Exhibition, Galleria del tribunal, Bologna, Italy
1990
Ritrovamento Della Croce, Galleria Radice, Lissone, Italy
Solo Exhibition, Galleria Cherng Piin, Taipei
Solo Exhibition, Contemporary Art Gallery, Taichung, Taiwan
1988
Solo Exhibition, Galleria Artecentro, Milan
1987
Solo Exhibition, Galleria Civica d’Arte Moderna Palazzo dei Diamanti, Ferrara, Italy
1986
Solo Exhibition, Comune di Tavarnelle Val di Pesa, Florence, Italy
1985
Solo Exhibition, Galleria Artecentro, Milan
Solo Exhibition, Galleria Toni Brechbühl, Grenchen, Switzerland, Non Libreria, Milan
Solo Exhibition, Asiaworld Art Gallery, Taipei
1984
Solo Exhibition, Galleria Artecentro, Milan
1982
Solo Exhibition, Galleria Artecentro, Milan
1979
Solo Exhibition, Comune di Macerata Pinacoteca e Musei Comunali Amici dell’Arte, Macerata, Italy
Solo Exhibition, Galleria Plusart, Venice, Italy
Solo Exhibition, Galleria Brambach, Basel, Switzerland
1978
Solo Exhibition, Galleria Artecentro, Milan
1977
Solo Exhibition, Galleria Chutz, Solothurn, Switzerland
Solo Exhibition, Galleria Eco, Finale Ligure, Italy
1976
Solo Exhibition, Libreria al Castello, Milan
Solo Exhibition, Galleria Fumagalli, Bergamo, Italy
Solo Exhibition, Galleria Artecentro, Milan
1975
Solo Exhibition, Libreria al Castello, Milan
Solo Exhibition, Galleria Gemelli, Rimini, Italy
1974
Solo Exhibition, Comune di Alessandria, Alessandria, Italy
Solo Exhibition, Galleria Andromeda, Bologna, Italy
Solo Exhibition, Galleria Mercon lV, Rome
1973
Solo Exhibition, Istituto Italo Cinese, Milan
Solo Exhibition, Abbazia dei Padri Benedettini, Final Pia, Italy
Solo Exhibition, Galleria del Leone, Tradate, Italy
Solo Exhibition, Galleria Artecentro, Milan
1972
Solo Exhibition, Galleria Giovio, Como, Italy
Solo Exhibition, Galleria Artecentro, Milan
Solo Exhibition, Galleria AeA, Taranto, Italy
Solo Exhibition, Studio Maspes-Romegialli, Sondrio, Italy
1971
Solo Exhibition, Galleria Giorgi, Florence, Italy
Solo Exhibition, Galleria ll Fondaco, Messina, Italy
Solo Exhibition, Galleria Del Barba, Castellanza, Italy
Solo Exhibition, Galleria Artecentro, Milan
Solo Exhibition, Galleria Studio, Matera, Italy
1970
Solo Exhibition, Galleria Orez, The Hague, Netherlands
Solo Exhibition, Galleria Toni Brechbul, Grenchen, Switzerland
Solo Exhibition, Galleria L’Entracte, Lausanne, Switzerland
Solo Exhibition, Galleria Brambach, Basel, Switzerland
Solo Exhibition, Galleria Artecentro, Milan
1969
Solo Exhibition, Galleria Artecentro, Milan
1968
Solo Exhibition, Galleria L’Entracte, Lausanne, Switzerland
Solo Exhibition, Galleria Wilm Falazik, Bochum, Germany
1967
Solo Exhibition, Galleria Pozzi, Novara, Italy
Solo Exhibition, Galleria Artecentro, Milan
1966
Solo Exhibition, Galleria Merlo, Vigevano, Italy
Solo Exhibition, Galleria ll Cenobio, Milan
Solo Exhibition, Galleria La Cornice, Cremona, Italy
Solo Exhibition, Galleria Sanpetronio, Bologna, Italy
Solo Exhibition, Studio Maspes-Romegialli, Sondrio, Italy
1965
Solo Exhibition, Galleria Artecentro, Milan
Solo Exhibition, Galleria Tao, Vienna, Austria (in Nansen-Haus)
Solo Exhibition, Galleria dell’Arnetta, Gallarate, Italy
Solo Exhibition, Galleria ll Benabbio, Milan
1960
Solo Exhibition, Galleria Numero, Florence, Italy
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2023
Art in Our Time, National Taiwan Museum of Fine Arts, Taichung, Taiwan
2022
Pure, Kinglun Art, Taipei
Abstract Radiance, Chini Gallery, Taipei
Not Self: Taiwanese Artists from Surrealism to Abstraction, Each Modern, Taipei
2020
Selection of NTMoFA’s Collection, National Taiwan Museum of Fine Arts, Taichung, Taiwan
Magistrate Residence Living Centre Inaugural Exhibition, Magistrate Residence Living Centre, Tainan, Taiwan
2019
Painting from Taiwan, Eli Klein Gallery, New York
Taipei Dangdai, Taipei Nangang Exhibition Center, Taipei
Lineage II- Li Chun Shan and Varied Voices, Double Square Gallery, Taipei
2018
Maybe there’s light. Contemporary Artist’s Journey of Concealed Earth, Da Xiang Art Space, Taichung, Taiwan
Minimalism · Cold Abstraction - Contemporary Abstract Art in Taiwan, Remarkable Art Gallery, Tainan; Chini Gallery, Taipei
HSIA Yan and His Times, Eslite Gallery, Taipei
2017
Taiwan 50 Golden Age, Arki Galéria, Taipei
2016
1960 - The Origin of Taiwan’s Modern Art, Asia Art Center, Taipei
2014
Milano, Breathing, Taipei, Pro-partner Foundation, Taipei
Abstract / Symbol / Oriental Exhibition of Taiwan’s Masters of Modern Art, Liang Gallery, Taipei
Walking by Taiwanese Art: 1927-2014, Liang Galley, Taipei
2013
Formless Form - Taiwanese Abstract Art, Guangdong Museum of Art, Guangzhou, China
2012
Formless Form - Taiwanese Abstract Art, Taipei Fine Arts Museum, Taipei
Exploring the Wasteland - The Eight Highwaymen of the East, Da Xiang Art Space, Taichung, Taiwan
2011
Massa Marittima, Grosseto, Italy
2009
Lo Spazio dello Spirito, Scoglio di Quarto, Milan
2008
Surrealists in Taiwan, Taipei Fine Arts Museum, Taipei
2007
Spazio Art-Line, Milan
2004
Between Modern and Postmodern: Master Chun-Shen Li and Modern Art in Taiwan, National Taiwan Museum of Fine Arts, Taichung, Taiwan
2001
Milano 90 Artisti per il Classico dei Tre Caratteri Edizioni Pulcinoelefante, Milan
11 Omaggi a Pierluca, Albissola Marina, Italy
Arti Visive, Circolo culturale Bertolt-Brecht, Milan
2000
Biblioteca Comunale di Binasco, Milan
Gruppo Amicizia Cooperativa Sociale, Varese, Italy
Spazio Santa Barbara, Milan
1999
The Momentum of the Ton-Fan Marked in Shanghai, Shanghai Art Museum, Shanghai
Li Chun-shan and his Pupils exhibition, Dimensions Art Center, Taipei
1997
The Memo of Ton-Fan, Dimensions Art Center, Taipei
1991
Contemporary Art Gallery, Taichung, Taiwan
Galleria La Bussola (ex Oriente Lux), Torino, Italy
Faenza Anni 90 L’Apprendista Stregone, Faenza, Italy
1990
Contemporary Artists Drawing Exhibition, Galleria Cherng Piin, Taipei
1986
A Retrospective Exhibition of Contemporary Chinese Art, Taipei Fine Arts Museum, Taipei
1984
Masterpieces by Overseas Chinese Artists, Taipei Fine Arts Museum, Taipei
Ponte delle Gabelle, Milan
Galleria Brambach, Basel, Switzerland
1982
The Chinese Response, Hong Kong Museum of Art, Hong Kong
Galleria Artecentro, Milan
1981
25th Anniversary Joint Exhibition of Ton Fan and Fifth Moon, Taiwan Provincial Museum, Taipei
1974
Premio Incontro d’arte a Bossico, Palazzo del Comune, Bergamo Bossico, Italy
1973
Incontro alle Fornaci di Cunardo, Cunardo, Italy
Galleria il Giorno (collettiva per l’estate), Milan
Del Barba, Castellanza (Varese), Italy
1971
9 Artisti Contemporanei Cinesi, Galleria Artecentro, Milan
Galleria Brambach, Basel, Switzerland
1970
Galleria La Darsena, Milan
Studio Del Beccaro, Milan
7ème Premio Internazionale di Pittura, Campione, Italy
1969
Premio Giuseppe Mori, 1ème premio, Lecco, Italy
Galleria la Bilancia, Varese, Italy
Galleria Milano, Milan
Acireale turistico-ternale, Rassegna Internazionale di Pittura d’arte, Acireale, Italy
Premio Concorso Nazionale di Pittura, Galleria Giovio, Como, Italy
Gruppo d’arte ‘la Cornice,’ Cremona, Italy
1968
Studio Cortesi, Milan
1967
Museo Internazionale d’Arte Contemporanea, Florence, Italy
Galleria Montrasio, Monza, Italy
Premio Nazionale di Pittura Corona Ferrea, Monza, Italy
ll Salotto, Galleria d’Arte, Como, Italy
Studio Maspes - Romegialli, Sondrio, Italy
1966
Museu de Arte Brasileira da Fundação Armando Álvares Penteado, São Paulo, Brazil
Galleria Mainieri, Milano
Signals London, London
Premio Vicolo Pasquirolo, targa d’oro, Padova, Italy
Punto, Galleria Fanesi, Ancona, Italy
Libreria Switch Giampaolo, Varese, Italy
1965
Pittura Moderna Cinese, Rome
Ottava Mostra Nazionale di Pittura, Capo d'Orlando, Italy
Galleria ll Fondaco, Messina, Italy
Galleria Centro Artistico, Genoa, Italy
Galleria Amici dell’Arte, Macerata, Italy
Galleria Garitta, Bergamo, Italy
Galleria Umetnostna, Maribor, Slovenia
Premio Gubbio - 2ème Premio Riservato ad Artisti Stranieri, Gubbio, Italy
Sesto Premio Bollate, Bollate, Italy
Cinisello Balsamo (premio di pittura), Cinisello, Italy
1963
Chinesische Künstler der Gegenwart, Museo Leverkusen, Leverkusen, Germany
1960
Mostra Internazionale d’arte Astratta, Prato, Italy
1958
Prima Esposizione della Giovane Pittura Asiatica, Tokyo
1956
Esposizione Nazionale di Pittura e Calligrafia, Taipei
SELECTED AWARDS
1997
The 5th Lee Chun-Shan Foundation Modern Art Achievement Award
1969
The 1st Prize of Giuseppe Mori
1965
International Art Prize of Development
SELECTED PUBLIC COLLECTIONS
Berkeley Art Museum, Berkeley, California
Kaohsiung Museum of Fine Arts, Kaohsiung, Taiwan
National Taiwan Museum of Fine Arts, Taichung, Taiwan
Taipei Fine Art Museum, Taipei