Discipline: Visual Art – painting

Ho Tam

Discipline: Visual Art – painting
Region: Victoria, CANADA
MacDowell Fellowships: 1997
More: www.ho-tam.com
Ho Tam is a media/visual artist who was born in Hong Kong and has worked in advertising and community psychiatry. He received a B.A. from McMaster University and an M.F.A. from Bard College. From 1996 to 1997, he was a participant at the Whitney Museum Independent Study Program. Tam has exhibited in public galleries and alternative spaces across Canada, including the Canadian Museum of Contemporary Photography (2001). More than 15 of his experimental film/video works are in circulation, including screenings at Centre Pompidou, Paris; Toronto International Film Festival; Yamagata International Documentary Film Festival; and the travelling exhibition “Magnetic North: Canadian Experimental Video” organized by the Walker Art Center, Minnesota. Tam is a recipient of various grants and awards, including the Grand Marnier Video Fellowship from the Film Society of Lincoln Center (New York) and the Best Documentary Feature at Tel Aviv GLBT Film Festival. From 2004 to 2011, Tam taught in the Department of Visual Arts at the University of Victoria. He recently edited and published Frontline: Interviews with International Photo-based Artists. He is also the publisher of 88Books, an independent press of artist's books.

Studios

Eastman

Ho Tam worked in the Eastman studio.

Thanks to the generous support of MacDowell Fellow and board member Louise Eastman, this century-old farm building was reinvented as a modern, energy efficient live and workspace for visual artists. Originally built in 1915 to house a forge and provide storage when the residency program was expanding, this small barn was simply converted for…

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