Dr ho chee lick biography
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Ho Chee Lick: Brief Biography
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Born in Singapore in 1950, DR HO CHEE LICK （何自力）was a student of Chinese High School in the 1960s—where he was taught by Chen Wen Hsi and Chen Chong Swee in both Western and Chinese arts. Later in the 1980s, he studied in the US and obtained a PhD degree in linguistics from Kansas University. Since 1990 he has been teaching in the National University of Singapore, first in the Department of English Language and Literature, then in the Department of Chinese Studies.
From an early age Ho Chee Lick has been deeply involved with music and painting. Since the mid/late 1990s, he has also contributed passionately to poetry translation in Singapore and started to write as a Lianhe Zaobao columnist.
Dr Ho has had three major solo art exhibitions in Singapore: Expressing Ubin (Soobin Art Gallery, 1999), Sequenza: Ho Chee Lick’s New Ink Work (Art Retreat Museum, 2011), and Homage to the Faithful (part of National Arts Council’s Singapore Art Week, 2015).
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Ho Chee Lick
Coming 30 May 1999, Soobin Art Gallery will present 58 beautiful oil paintings on Pulau Ubin by Ho Chee Lick.
Ho Chee Lick, a PhD in Linguistics, is currently an assistant professor in the Department of English Language and Literature, National University of Singapore. He is also known as a bilingual (English-Chinese) poet and translator, and a musician (singer and pianist). Not many know that he paints, and paints seriously.
Ho was taught by Chen Wen Hsi and Chen Chong Swee at Chinese High School in the 60s, and later studied under the former in his studio for two years. Since then, art has remained his lifelong passion. When he was in graduate school in the US, a group of painters sponsored a solo exhibition for him on his sketches of student life.
Today he visits Pulau Ubin religiously with his mentor and friend Lim Tze Peng in search of subjects. Each Saturday, equipped with only the most basic of materials, they would spend hours prolifically painting the rural island, which holds for them the last vestige of Singapore's past. Ho sums up his experience of "expressing Ubin" in these words: Houses and boats
Come and go
The sky remains
Rocks and trees
Utter not a word
The sea speaks "People sometimes ask me, seeing the