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Tsui Ho Yan, commonly known as Howie Tsui (born 19 January 1978), is a Canadian artist.

Early life and career
Tsui was born in Hong Kong, and started school in Lagos, Nigeria. His adolescence was spent in Thunder Bay. Tsui holds a BFA (2002) from the University of Waterloo. In 2005, he received the Joseph S. Stauffler prize from the Canada Council for most outstanding young artist. Tsui was the lead guitarist, and also played ukelele, for the Ottawa-based band, The Acorn.

Of Manga & Mongrels
In his 2006 exhibition, Of Manga & Mongrels, Tsui attached reproduced cut-outs of the Hokusai Manga to pieces of Mylar, and then overlaid them with his own ink drawings. The sketches revealed a dichotomy between the grotesque and the appealing.

Horror Fables
"Creep show at Carleton" The scroll painting series satirizes the climate of fear in contemporary society.

Maybe "Phantoms of Asia"

Influences
In a 2011 interview, Tsui stated some of his influences to be Hokusai, Akira Toriyama, Jim Henson, Yu-Fei Ji, Barry McGee, Ikeda Manabu, Akira Yamaguchi, Anders Nilsen, Toriyama Sekien, Hipkiss, Jockum Nordström, and Hanna-Barbera.

Selected collections

 * National Gallery of Canada
 * Art Gallery of New South Wales
 * Ottawa Art Gallery
 * Vancouver Art Gallery
 * Canada Council Art Bank

Selected solo exhibitions

 * Retainers of Anarchy: Art Gallery of Greater Victoria (2021); Ringling Museum of Art, Sarasota, Florida (2020); Ottawa Art Gallery (2019); OCAT Xi'an (2018); Vancouver Art Gallery (2017)
 * Parallax Chambers, Burrard Arts Foundation, Vancouver (2020); Gallerie LJ, Paris (2019)
 * Interloper and the Inverted Prism, Art Labor Gallery, Shanghai (2018)
 * Celestials of Gold Mountain, Wil Aballe Art Projects, Vancouver (2013)
 * Friendly Fire: Art Gallery of Southwestern Manitoba, Brandon (2013); Agnes Etherington Art Centre, Kingston (2012)
 * Horror Fables: Le Gallery, Toronto (2013); MAI, Montréal, arts interculturels (2010); Carleton University Art Gallery, Ottawa (2009); Ace Art Inc., Winnipeg (2009)
 * Radiant Specters, Gallery Wendl Norris, San Francisco (2012)
 * Celestials of Saltwater City, Centre A (Vancouver International Centre for Contemporary Asian Art) (2011)
 * Of Manga & Mongrels: Gallery Jones, Vancouver (2010); G+ Gallery, Toronto (2007); Gallery 101, Ottawa (2006)
 * Of Shunga & Monsters: Le Gallery, Toronto (2008)

Selected group exhibitions

 * Stories that animate us, Vancouver Art Gallery (2021)
 * New Ink, Tai Kwun Contemporary, Hong Kong (2021)
 * In the Present Moment: Buddhism, Contemporary Art and Social Practice, Art Gallery of Greater Victoria (2020)
 * Spring! A Group Show of Contemporary Drawing, Galerie LJ, Paris (2019)
 * Façade Festival, Vancouver Art Gallery and Burrard Arts Foundation (2019)
 * We’ll All Become Stories, Ottawa Art Gallery (2018)
 * Bites Back, Art Labor Gallery, Shanghai (2015)
 * Anatomica, Dalhousie University Art Gallery, Halifax (2015)
 * Shine a Light: Canadian Biennial 2014, National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa (2014)
 * A Journal of the Plague Year — Islands Off the Shore of Asia, Para Site, Hong Kong (2014)
 * Phantoms of Asia: Contemporary Awakens the Past, Asian Art Museum of San Francisco (2012)
 * Local Flora, Galerie SAW Gallery, Ottawa (2012)
 * Exploded View, Ottawa Art Gallery (2010)
 * Parcours et Perspectives, Musée d'art contemporain de Baie-Saint-Paul, Quebec (2008)
 * I am 8-Bit, Gallery 1988, Los Angeles (2006)
 * Enjoy Relax Happy, Niagara Gallery, Toronto (2005)
 * Fresh Produce 04, Gallery Anno Domini, San Jose, CA (2004)
 * Scatalogue: 30 Years of Crap in Contemporary Art, Galerie SAW Gallery, Ottawa (2003)
 * Luck Be a Weirdo Tonight, Zero to One Galllery, Kitchener (2002)