Department of Fine Arts,
CUHK

Head, Graduate Division of Fine Arts; Assistant Professor

HO Ka Yi

B.A. (NCCU); M.A. (NCU); Ph.D. (UCLA)

Professor Ka-yi Ho received her Ph.D. degree from the Department of Art History at University of California, Los Angeles. Her research interests include ancient Chinese painting, Chinese court art, religious painting of the Ming and Qing periods, artistic and cultural interactions in East Asia, and the history of art collecting. Professor Ho teaches courses in the history of Chinese painting and calligraphy, including artistic traditions in China, court painting, literati painting, etc. Before joining the Department of Fine Arts in 2020, she was a postdoctoral fellow at the department and the Art Museum, CUHK, and an Andrew W. Mellon predoctoral fellow at the Metropolitan Museum of Art.

MAJOR PUBLICATIONS

  1. “Paintings and Politics in the Wanli Court: A Study on Imperial Procession Departing from and Returning to the Forbidden City and Buddhist Paintings Commissioned by Empress Dowager Cisheng.” Gugong xueshu jikan 39, no. 2 (2021.12): 77-127.
  2. “A Preliminary Study of Xia Jing Shan’s Arhat Paintings and the Transmission and Adaptation of Buddhist Painting Models.” Journal of Xia Jing Shan’s Art 11 (2021.3): 70-96.
  3. “A Study on the Realism and Social Functions of the Imperial Portraits of the Ming Dynasty from Textual Records and Portrait of Ming Xiaozong” Gugong wenwu yuekan 455 (2021.2): 82-89.
  4. (Catalogue entries) Minghua quanji, edited by Zhejiang daxue Zhongguo gudai shuhua yanjiu zhongxin. Hongzhou: Zhejiang daxue chubanshe. (Upcoming. Six entries on the paintings in the collection of Art Museum, CUHK)
  5. (Deputy editor; catalogue essays and entries) The Bei Shan Tang Legacy: Chinese Painting, edited by Harold Mok. Hong Kong: Department of Fine Arts and the Art Museum, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, 2019, “Xiang Shengmo’s (1597-1658) Paintings in the Collection of the Art Museum, The Chinese University of Hong Kong,” pp. 16-21; “Paintings of Deities for Observing Birthdays in the Ming Dynasty,” pp. 316-232; and cats. 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 9, 10, 11, 12, 16, 22, 24, 27, 28, 30, 31, 35, 40, 46, 47, 50, 61, 62, 63, 64, 65, 66, 67, 68, 69, 78, 95, 96, 98, 110, 111, 112, 113.
  6. “Exhibition Preview on the ‘Goryeo Buddhist Painting at the Sen-oku hakuko kan, Kyoto’.” Daguan Monthly 86 (2016.11): 62-65.
  7. “Exhibition Review on the ‘Global by Design: Chinese Ceramics from the R. Albuquerque Collection’ at the Met.” Daguan Monthly 81 (2016.06): 96-99.
  8. “Exhibition Review on the ‘Masterpieces of Chinese Painting from the Metropolitan Collection’.” Daguan Monthly 76 (2016.01): 102-105.
  9. “Exhibition Review on the ‘The Art of the Chinese Album’ at the Metropolitan Museum of Art.” Daguan Monthly 66 (2015.03): 102-104.
  10. “Chinese Pictorial Motifs in the Korean Monastery: Paintings of Thirty-Three Patriarchs at Sŏnamsa.” NMK 2012 Museum Network Fellowship Research Papers (2013.01): 124-143.
  11. (Catalogue entries) The Artful Recluse: Painting, Poetry, and Politics in Seventeenth-Century China, edited by Peter Sturman and Susan Tai. Santa Barbara: Santa Barbara Museum of Art, 2012, cats 9, 32, 55.
  12. “’Duke Wen of Jin Recovering His State’ Attributed to Li Tang.” Yih Yih Fenn Tzyy 8 (2006): 140-155.

CONFERENCES

  1. “A Preliminary Study of Xia Jing Shan’s Luohan Paintings and the Transmission and Adaptation of Buddhist Painting Models.” 2020 Xia Jing Shan Academic Seminar, Kaohsiung, June 14, 2020.
  2. “Invitation to Reclusion: Xiang Shengmo (1597-1658) and His Art beyond the Ming-Qing Transition.” Association for Asian Studies Annual Conference, Denver, March 21-24, 2019.
  3. “Transformation and Appropriation of Woodcut Illustrated Daoist and Buddhist Figures in the Late-Imperial Period.” Association for Asian Studies Annual Conference, Seattle. April 1, 2016.
  4. “Court Art from the Marketplace: Reconstructing the Pattern of Court Patronage in the Late Ming Period.” College Art Association Annual Conference, New York City, February 11, 2015.

TALKS

  1. “ Teaching Traditional Chinese Art and Art Museums in Hong Kong” [傳統中國藝術史教學與美術館在香港]. 2021藝術史教學研究趨勢座談會. National Central University, Taiwan, December 11, 2021
  2. “Exhibition Review: ‘The Artful Recluse: Painting, Poetry, and Politics in 17th Century China’.” Christie’s Education, May 26, 2020
  3. “The Three Perfections: Poetry, Calligraphy, and Painting.” Christie’s Education, May 19, 2020
  4. “Xiang Shengmo’s (1597-1658) Paintings in the Collection of the Art Museum, The Chinese University of Hong Kong” [香港中大文物館藏的項聖謨作品] and “Paintings of Deities for Observing Birthdays in the Ming Dynasty” [明代慶壽神仙人物畫]. The Bei Shan Tang Legacy: Chinese Painting Symposium, Art Museum, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, October 19, 2019
  5. “The Revival of Ming Court Painting during the Wanli Era (1573-1620).” Art History at Lunch, Department of Fine Arts and Art Museum, CUHK, February 2, 2018.
  6. “The Two Empress Dowager Cisheng’s Buddhist Paintings in the Met’s Collection and Cisheng’s Patronage Strategy.” Paper presented in the Spring Fellows Colloquia organized by the Metropolitan Museum of Art, March 4, 2016.

EXHIBITION

  1. “The Bei Shan Tang Legacy: Chinese Painting.” The Art Museum, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, 21/9-15/12/2019.

RESEARCH PROJECT

  1. Principal Investigator, “Ming court Painting of the Hongzhi Reign (1487-1505): Emperor, Painters, and Their Legacy.” Reference no. 24604521, Research Grants Council ECS, 1/1/2022-31/12/2024.