Student Profile

Ho Rui Kai, Ayrton Bachelor of Arts (Honours) Fine Art

Biography

Ho Rui Kai, Ayrton (b. 2001) is a Singaporean artist and a graduating Bachelor of Arts (Honours) Fine Art student from the Nanyang Academy of Fine Arts, in collaboration with the University of the Arts London. He has participated in multiple projects and exhibitions, local and overseas, such as Singapore Art Book Fair (2024), The Paper Menagerie (Jakarta, 2025), and Crimes Against Art (London, 2024)

His practice specialises in Photography, Chinese Ink, and Calligraphy, among others, to explore themes of legacy, narratives, and one's relationship with inherited knowledge, manifesting in the form of cultural identities, history, language or lifestyles.

Awards & Achievements

2024, Certificate of Award for the UAS Facade Design Competition, University of the Arts Singapore

Events & Activities

2025, The Paper Menagerie, ISA Art Gallery & Omah Budoyo, Yogyakarta 2025, Fragments, Hopsfield Art, Singapore2025, The Paper Menagerie, ISA Art Gallery, Jakarta 2025, Downsizing: Menjadi, NAFA, Lim Hak Tai Gallery, Singapore 2024, It's Giving Art, The Fluxus House, Singapore2024, BAFA 3 Open Studio, NAFA, Singapore2024, Singapore Art Book Fair, Singapore2024, Lines, Hopsfield Art, Singapore 2024, 姓 , NAFA, Singapore2024, UAS Facade Design Competition, Singapore2024, Crimes Against Art, UAL, London2024, tip it, top it, tape it! , UAL, London2024, Family Ties: Faith, Laskar & NAFA, Singapore2023-2024, Stories of Care, Assisi Hospice & NAFA, Singapore2023, Subliminal Paradigms, NAFA, Singapore 2023, Sonder, Photography Society of Singapore, Singapore 2023, Unit 2 Fine Art Practices Open Studio, NAFA, Singapore

Artist Statement

Using photography, writing, Chinese ink, and calligraphy, among others, these mediums serve his drive to explore themes of legacies, narratives and one’s relationship with inherited knowledge. This manifests itself in the form of cultural identities, history, language, and lifestyles.

Recently, his works have delved into postcolonial and capitalist hegemony in the Singapore context, challenging these systems of knowledge and understanding by referring to queer and precolonial theories such as Queer Temporalities and Buddhism.

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