David Ho creates dark digital art with irony. Pieces expressing grief, despair, isolation and sexual disturbance become highly emotional statements in cold, metallic colours on the artist's Macintosh easel. And each is forceful. Within the various software he has chosen for his pallet, Mr Ho is a uniquely effective communicator of the grotesque. Randy M Dannenfelser.
| After receiving a bachelors degree in Sociology from UC Berkeley, I seriously decided in becoming an artist. I re enrolled in school and attained another bachelors degree in Art History with a Fine Arts minor at San Jose State University. After over 15 years of working as a freelance designer, illustrator and fine artist, I think creating art has become more of a necessity than anything. Productivity, distraction, a sense of immortality, an outlet for expression are but a few reasons.
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CLIENTS
Corona Beer, Simon & Schuster, Random House, The Source Magazine, Chicago Tribune, Interscope Records, Ziff Davis, the NRA, Wizards of the Coast, Infected Mushroom, Penguin Publishing, Seether, Ogilvy Advertising, Cradle of Filth
COMPETITIONS & PUBLICATIONS
Society of Illustrators Annuals, Spectrum Annuals, Applied Arts Photography and Illustration Annuals, Communication Arts Illustration Annuals, American Illustration Annual, MacWorld Expo Digital Gallery Gold & Silver Award , Alternative Pick Jury Voted Series Gold Award, Design Graphics, Heavy Metal, Computer Graphics World, DPI Magazine, Society for News Design, Luerzer's International ARCHIVE, ImagineFX, 3x3 Magazine.
EXHIBITIONS
2011 Disney Underground Art @ Disneyland, Anaheim
2011 POP Gallery, Santa Fe
2010 Fables & Follies @ Alternative Cafe, Seaside
2010 POP Gallery, Santa Fe
2010 Curios & Curioser @ Gallery Nucleus, Alhambra
2009 POWER IN NUMBERS @ Gallery Nucleus, Alhambra
2009 MacWorld Expo Digital Art Gallery, San Francisco
2008 World of Wonder Gallery, Los Angeles
2007 ThinkSpace Gallery, Los Angeles
2007 Roq La Rue Gallery, Seattle
2006 Strychnin Gallery, Berlin
2006 Awards exhibit at Alternative Pick, NY
2006 Solo exhibit at Taipei International Visual Arts Center, Taipei
2005 Group exhibit for Random Acts of Art at Loft11, San Francisco
2005 Group exhibit for Spectrum Fantasy Art at Society of Illustrators Museum, NY
2005 Group exhibit for MacWorld Expo Digital Art Gallery, San Francisco
2003 Group Halloween exhibit at Echo Gallery, Chicago
2003 Solo exhibition at Taipei International Visual Arts Center, Taipei
2002 Solo exhibit at the Rocky Mountain Digital Arts Center, Denver
2001 Group exhibit for Seybold Digital Art Gallery
1999 Group exhibit for Taiwanese Art Evolution, Taiwan
BOOKS
2011 3x3 ILLUSTRATION ANNUAL #8
published by The Illustrated Press, Inc.
2011 200 BEST ILLUSTRATORS WORLDWIDE
published by Luerzers Archive
2011 ALL HEADS TURN WHEN THE HUNT GOES BY
published by Centipede Press
2011 THE LIGHT IS THE DARKNESS
published by Infernal House
2010 DARK INSPIRATIONS: GROTESQUE ILLUSTRATIONS, ART & DESIGN
published by Viction:ary
2010 STAR WARS: VISIONS
published by Abrams Publishing
2009 EXOTIQUE 5
published by Ballistic Publishing
2009 200 BEST ILLUSTRATORS WORLDWIDE
published by Luerzers Archive
2009 FANTASY ART BIBLE
published by Quarto Publishing
2009 KNOWING DARKNESS: ARTISTS INSPIRED BY STEPHEN KING
published by Centipede Press.
2008 DESIGN STARS BOULEVARD
published by Handsome Tec. Co.
2007 ILLUSTRATION: A THEORETICAL & CONTEXTUAL PERSPECTIVE
published by AVA Publishing
2007 SECRETS OF POSER EXPERTS
published by Thomson Course Technology
2004 DIGITAL ART FOR THE 21ST CENTURY
published by Harper Design International
2002 SECRETS OF AWARD WINNING DIGITAL ARTISTS
published by Wiley Publishing
2002 SHADOW MAKER: THE DIGITAL ART OF DAVID HO
published by Abaya Studios
2002 DIGITAL FANTASY PAINTING
published by Watson Guptill
1999 THE DIGITAL ILLUSTRATIONS OF DAVID HO
published by SunGood Books
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