Ho Lai

Ho Lai is a ceramic artist from Hong Kong. Her work explores the contemporary nature of ceramics, experimenting with the materials and processes involved in its creation. The interrogation of an idea, colour combinations, and material experimentation are prominent in her practice.

In 2016, she graduated from the Academy of Visual Arts Hong Kong Baptist University attaining a BA in Visual Arts, and was awarded the AVA Keeper of Studies Collection Award. In 2019 Ho graduated from the Royal College of Art attained MA in Ceramics & Glass and was awarded The Grocer’s Hall Scholarship. Upon graduation, she was shortlisted as one of the FRESH exhibition emerging artists at the British Ceramics Biennial. In 2021, she was shortlisted as the British Ceramics Biennial AWARD exhibition headline artist and was commissioned to create a wall installation exhibited in Stoke-on-Trent, the ceramics capital of the UK. She was also shortlisted for the European Prize for Applied Arts and the XVII International Contemporary Ceramics Award in the same year.

Her works are exhibited widely in the UK, Spain, Belgium, France, Japan, and Hong Kong. In 2024, Ho was awarded the Hong Kong Arts Development Council Cultural Exchange Grant to attend an artist-in-residence programme at the Shigaraki Ceramics Cultural Park.