Chuang Ho 臺灣, b. 1985

CHUANG Ho was born in 1985 in New Taipei and lives and works in Taipei City currently. He graduated from the Department of Digital Media Design at Asia University in 2009, and later earned his Master's degree in New Media Art from National Taipei University of the Arts in 2014. In 2008, he first attempted to create a hand-drawn animation, titled Human Subjective. The project ended up winning the Gold Award in the Digital Animation Design category at the 1st Taiwan International Student Design Competition. During his master's studies, CHUANG went through a period of doubt and reflection about his animation. This led to several experimental works, such as Animachine. He resumed creating animated shorts in 2012. His short animation film A time and A Place won the Best Animation Award in the 36th Golden Harvest Awards for Student Films in 2013. His spatial installation work Outside was selected for the National Art Exhibition R.O.C. in 2014. In 2019, he was selected for the 7th Nakanojo Biennale (Gunma, Japan), where he presented the animated installation work Into the Mountain. In 2021, he participated in the 8th Nakanojo Biennale (Gunma, Japan). In 2022, his solo exhibition See the Sea was held at the Project Seek of Hong Foundation (Taipei, Taiwan), and he was also selected to participate in the Tianmei Art Foundation's Taiwan Contemporary Artists Overseas Visit Program No.7 - Venice.Kassel.Berlin. In 2023, he exhibited in Here is where we meet at Chiayi Art Museum (Chiayi, Taiwan), C-LAB Future Media Arts Festival FUTURE VISION LAB 2023 at the Taiwan Contemporary Culture Lab (Taipei, Taiwan), and the artist residency for the 9th Nakanojo Biennale (Gunma, Japan).

 

CHUANG Ho began to work with other artists on commercial projects in 2016. He designed the visuals and produced a transitional animation for the song Early Sunset Clouds in the Great Yoga Concert by Yoga Lin. This marked his expansion into fields such as concert visuals, music videos, advertisements, and television dramas. Some of his recent animations appeared in music videos, including A Dream Where You Dreamt of Me by Yoga Lin (2017), To Be Together by Eason Chan (2018), Angel by Della (2020), and Preserved Vegetables by Sheng Xiang & Band (2020).