Frog King
Exhibited Artist
Kwok Mang Ho, born in 1947 in mainland China and grew up in Hong Kong, experienced Art life in New York for 15 years, returned and settled down in Hong Kong since 1995. His “Frog Fun Dimension,” focusing on the ideas of “Time as Art,” “Art as Play,” audience interaction/participation and improvisation, Kwok would like to show/perform “9 Million Works,” “Frog Fun Lum,” etc. During the exhibition he always improvises with the viewers and produces a “One Second d body Installation” and a “One Second Live Art.”
Kwok has produced numerous performances, sculptures, paintings and installations in over 5,000 art events all over the world since 1967. He has won several awards, including Hong Kong Arts Development Council Emeritus Fellowship in 1998. He started the “Frog King Kwok Museum” project in 2001.
In the late 1970s, he started to transform plastic bags into arts objects by connecting them in circles to establish a 3-dimention installations in an open space in Toronto. His daring art performances to tie plastic bags in Tiananmen Square and Great Wall also shock the conservative contemporaries. This “Great Wall Project” (1979) was the first documented performance in China.
As a multi-media artist, Kwok received his art training at the Fine Art Grantham College of Education Hong Kong (1967-1970), and furthered his studies in the extramural courses of the Chinese University of Hong Kong and the University of Hong Kong (1968-1973). He also pursued overseas studies at the Art Students League of New York (1980-1984).
