Scholarship · Publishing · Critical Reception
Books, peer-reviewed scholarship, artist monographs, conference proceedings, interviews, and reviews trace the intersections of studio practice, public art, teaching, and cross-cultural research.
Selected publications are presented here for web viewing. The complete professional publication record remains available in the CV.
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Books documenting memoir, mural practice, and artistic development.
A retrospective book drawing on more than eighteen years of mural practice and decades of teaching-artist experience.
Ho, K. (2016). Larger than life: Mural dreamscapes. Parker, CO: Outskirts Press.
A memoir reflecting on nearly three decades as a teaching artist and on the evolution of Ho’s transcendental paintings.
Ho, K. (2016). A stroke in time: An artist’s memoir of Kong Ho. Saarbrucken: Lambert Academic Publishing.
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Peer-reviewed scholarship spanning pedagogy, public art, cultural studies, and studio practice.
Examines student exemplars as a powerful component of balanced pedagogy.
Ho, K. (2015). Empowering learning: Using student exemplars in teaching. Teaching Artist Journal, 13(4), 193–203.
A review engaging cultural context and art teaching through Yvonne Wakefield’s Suitcase Filled with Nails.
Geiger-Ho, M., & Ho, K. (2015). Teaching and making art, and cultural context: Kuwait and Brunei. Teaching Artist Journal, 13(3), 184–187.
Explores entrepreneurship action and learning within university art education in Brunei.
Geiger-Ho, M., & Ho, K. (2014). University art students undertake entrepreneurship action in Brunei Darussalam. Teaching Artist Journal, 12(3), 155–167.
Two mural projects in Brunei offer insight into specific and universal aspects of public-art education and community art making.
Ho, K. (2014). Public art education in Brunei Darussalam: The cultural language of community murals. Teaching Artist Journal, 12(1), 24–36.
Practice-based research examining decorative patterns, vivid color, and symbolic motifs in Chinese folk arts and crafts.
Ho, K. (2013). Reverberating Chinese traditional folk art in a contemporary context. History Research, 3(1), 34–43.
A Fulbright scholar’s mural project with Bulgarian art students crosses cultural and artistic boundaries.
Ho, K. (2012). Out of America: Exploring collaborative mural teaching in Bulgaria. Teaching Artist Journal, 10(2), 77–87.
Historical, theoretical, and practical insights into the role mural painting can play in inclusive education.
Ho, K. (2010). Mural painting as inclusive art learning experience. Teaching Artist Journal, 8(2), 67–76.
Considers Taoist-Buddhist perspectives as a challenge to rational thinking as the primary path to truth and knowledge.
Ho, K. (2007). Taoist void and Buddhist smile. The International Journal of the Arts in Society, 1(5), 101–104.
Examines the careers and changing opportunities of two young self-employed artists in southern mainland China.
Ho, K. (2006). The rise of studio practice artists in contemporary China. Perspectives, 7(3), 132–136. Overseas Young Chinese Forum.
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Artist-authored and collaborative monographs documenting exhibitions, mural research, and evolving bodies of work.
Documents a joint exhibition in which photographic images become recorded traces open to repeated viewing.
Geiger-Ho, M., & Ho, K. (2015). A slice of light: A stroke in time – Digital art & photography exhibition by Dr. Martie Geiger-Ho & Prof. Kong Ho. Brunei: Authors.
Documents community murals commissioned by government departments and private corporations and created through the Hong Kong Mural Society.
Geiger-Ho, M., & Ho, K. (Eds.). (2014). Mural•list•mania: Multimedia art exhibition. Hong Kong: Hong Kong Mural Society.
Documents practice-based community-art research associated with Transcending Culture and Space in Brunei.
Geiger-Ho, M., & Ho, K. (2012). Community mural painting & multimedia art installation. Brunei: Authors.
Reflects on relocation from Pennsylvania to Brunei through paintings, photography, and digital installation.
Ho, K. (2012). Transfiguration of Space: Paintings, Photographs and Digital Art Installation. Brunei: Author.
Explores Ho’s evolving bicultural artistic identity and Taoist-Buddhist philosophy around the transitional painting Beauty of Complexity and the Spiral Series.
Ho, K. (2007). The beauty of complexity: The art of Kong Ho. Hong Kong: Author.
Explores transformation, escapism, and the movement of energy through paintings, mixed media, inkblots, and monoprints.
Ho, K. (1999). Flights of fancy. Hong Kong: Author.
Explores harmony through opposing forces, symmetry, Taoist philosophy, symbolic objects, and mirrored compositions.
Geiger-Ho, M., & Ho, K. (1996). Drawing on inspiration. Hong Kong: Authors.
Examines Taoism, Zen Buddhism, Western Humanism, nature, abstraction, geometry, and the “in-between state” that reconciles self and nature.
Ho, K. (1994). A Reconciliation of Self and Nature (M.F.A. thesis). Lubbock, Texas: Texas Tech University.
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Published research and practice-based studies presented through international conferences and proceedings.
Examines community murals in Hong Kong through art tourism and cultural reinvention.
Geiger-Ho, M. & Ho, K. (2018). Community murals serve as a meeting zone of art tourism in Hong Kong. In The Asian Conference on Arts & Humanities 2018 Official Conference Proceedings (pp. 137–148). Osaka: International Academic Forum.
Reflects on decades of teaching-artist experience and the retrospective study of Ho’s transcendental paintings.
Ho, K. (2017). A stroke in time: An artist’s memoir. In The Asian Conference on Arts & Humanities 2017 Official Conference Proceedings (pp. 35–50). Osaka: International Academic Forum.
Draws on long experience as a teaching artist and muralist to consider future community mural practice and teaching artists.
Ho, K. (2016). Future development in community murals and future investment in teaching artists. In The Asian Conference on Arts & Humanities 2016 Official Conference Proceedings (pp. 67–85). Osaka: International Academic Forum.
A practice-based digital-art and photographic exploration of Ulu Temburong National Park in Brunei.
Ho, K. (2015). A slice of light: A stroke in time. In The Asian Conference on Arts & Humanities 2015 Official Conference Proceedings (pp. 55–65). Osaka: International Academic Forum.
Considers artists, teachers, and peers as three major sources through which art students learn.
Ho, K. (2015). Using student exemplars in empowering learning. In Global Academic Institute International Academic Conference Proceedings (pp. 63–75). Prague: Global Academic Institute.
Practice-based digital research reinterpreting colonial and historical architecture in Taiwan.
Ho, K. (2014). 29 days in Formosa: Colonial era architecture in Taiwan. In The Asian Conference on Arts & Humanities 2014 Official Conference Proceedings (pp. 1–13). Osaka: International Academic Forum.
Digital artworks constructed from memories, found objects, and images associated with Hong Kong, Taiwan, and Brunei.
Ho, K. (2014). Spliced journeys: Interconnected digital memories. In Malaysia – Brunei Forum Proceedings (pp. 1–11). Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia: University of Malaya.
Discusses community murals as a developing form within Brunei’s creative industries and public-art education.
Ho, K. (2013). Promotion of community murals and public art education in Brunei Darussalam. In 9th Asia-Pacific Symposium on Music Education Research/Arts Education Conference 2013 Official Conference Proceedings (p. Art 07). Singapore: Ministry of Education & National Institute of Education.
A practice-based inquiry into painting and digital art arising from relocation and changing environments.
Ho, K. (2013). Transfiguration of space: Practice-Based research in painting and digital art by Kong Ho. In The Asian Conference on Arts & Humanities 2013 Official Conference Proceedings (pp. 25–36). Osaka: International Academic Forum.
Examines the design challenge of integrating diverse concerns and ideas into successful collaborative mural design.
Ho, K. (2012). The logics of digital mural design: Collaboration, communication, interactivity and responsiveness. In Creative Industries Festival 2012 (pp. 32–39). Brunei: UBD Creative Industry Research Cluster.
Discusses collaborative mural painting within the traditional Bulgarian higher-art education context.
Ho, K. (2012). Collaborative mural painting teaching experience in Bulgaria. In The Asian Conference on Arts & Humanities 2012 Official Conference Proceedings (pp. 41–54). Osaka: International Academic Forum.
Frames mural production as an inclusive learning experience involving multiple processes and varied participant abilities.
Ho, K. (2012). Inclusive mural painting in contemporary art education. In The Visual and Performing Arts: An International Anthology 1 (pp. 323–334). Athens: Athens Institute for Education and Research (ATINER).
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Selected interviews, features, reviews, and professional publications documenting the reception of Ho’s work.
A feature on Ho’s artistic journey at the intersection of Eastern philosophy, Western visual traditions, painting, and education.
Salinas, H. (2026, May 19). Kong Ho: The Art of Holding the Fleeting. AATONAU.
Features The Immeasurable Depth of Red.
Zevitas, S. T. (Ed.). (2024). Kong Ho [Featured Ho’s painting, The Immeasurable Depth of Red]. Studio Visit Magazine, 52 (p. 36). Boston, MA: The Open Studios Press.
A special-edition interview featuring sixteen paintings from the Luminosity Series.
Ryder, J., & Williams, K. (2022, January). An interview with Kong Ho. Art Habens: Contemporary Art Review, special edition, 70–91.
Presents Ho’s bicultural background and practice as teaching artist, muralist, painter, photographer, and digital artist.
Ho, K. (2021). Kong Ho. In Observica, Issue 12 (pp. 188–193). Toronto: Discover the Artist.
Features True Nature of Philosophy and Ho’s practice during his period at the University of Brunei Darussalam.
Open Studio Press. (2012). Kong Ho [Featured Ho’s painting, True Nature of Philosophy]. Studio Visit, 17, 90. Boston, MA: Open Studio Press.
Features Ho’s artist statement and paintings including Summer Nautilus & Eclipsing Jade and Beauty of Complexity.
Book Art Press. (2010). Kong Ho [Featured artist statement and four paintings]. New Art International, 14, 22–23. Woodstock, NY: Book Art Press.
Reviews the changeable nature of cultural constructions in Ho’s paintings and his orientation within an international contemporary context.
Brown, G. R. (2004). Toward Complexity [Review of Kong Ho’s paintings]. Asian Art News, 14(4), 54–57.
Reviews the serene ambivalence and complex fluctuation of Ho’s multimedia painting.
Brown, G. R. (1994). Kong Ho [Review of Ho’s painting, The Shadow of Late Autumn]. The New Art Examiner, 21(5), 44.
Complete record
The downloadable CV includes the broader publication history, exhibition record, awards, teaching, presentations, and professional activities.
