Artist Statement/ Biography

Jennifer Chia-Ling Ho is a Taiwanese interdisciplinary artist based in Brooklyn, New York. Her practice responds to her linguistic and cultural displacement as a first-generation immigrant. Living in the US and Canada for the past 7 years, she is frequently reminded of her identity as a Taiwanese, a foreigner, and a nonnative because of her inability to speak ‘perfect’ English and her ‘foreign’ accent. Ho considers the racial, cultural, and social power dynamics that language enacts and identity’s uncertainty and performativity in immigrants and foreigners. Coming from a research background, she often references philosophical and linguistic concepts and research findings as the foundation of her works, while observing how they are embedded in the everyday life. Her work exists in a state of constantly processing information and searching for connections and belongings

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Jennifer Chia-Ling Ho is a Taiwanese interdisciplinary artist based in Brooklyn. Her practice responds to her linguistic and cultural displacement as a first-generation immigrant. Ho considers the racial, cultural, and social power dynamics that language enacts and identity’s uncertainty and performativity. Ho has participated residencies at 18th Street Arts Center and LMCC Arts Center at Governors Island. Ho’s work has been exhibited at 18th Street Arts Center in California; Below Grand Gallery; Pratt Institute in New York (United States); Songshan Cultural and Creative Park in Taipei (Taiwan). Recent awards and fellowships include the 2022 Bronx Museum of the Arts AIM Fellowship and the National Culture and Arts Foundation of Taiwan-International Exchange fellowship. Ho received her MFA in Sculpture from Pratt Institute.