Hai-Ou Hou
Plein Air painter and Portrait artist
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Hai-Ou Hou
Title: "Passport Portrait" Oil Painting Image Size: 24 x 20 $2350 Framed - $1,800 unframed Commissions Accepted |
Hai-Ou Hou Biography
Hai-Ou Hou was born in Beijing China. She received a B.A. from the National Academy of Fine Art and Design in Beijing, China. After graduation Hai-Ou Hou taught at Hu Bei Fine Art College in Wu Han,China for five years. In 1988 she immigrated to the United States and began working on her Masters degree in Fine Arts from Towson State University.
Hai-Ou has received numerous awards and acknowledgments for her landscape, and figurative oil paintings. Also a portrait artist, she designed a unique portrait style called Passport Portraits incorporating documents, seals, and personal memorabilia painted into the portrait to tell that person’s story of their journey to America.
Peonies |
Waiting My Turn |
Age of Innocence |
Good Morning, Annapolis Giclee on Paper 15" x 7.5" $65 |
FIRST PLACE - Paint Annapolis Mid-Atlantic Plein Air Painters Association 2009
THIRD PLACE AWARD - Paint Annapolis Dueling Brushes Painting Competition, 2009
BEST IN THE SHOW - Paint Saint Michaels, Plein Air Competition 2009
HONORABLE MENTION - Havre de Grace Plein Air Painting Competition 2009
HONORABLE MENTION - San Bernardino County Museum 34th Int’l Exhibit, CA 1999
FINALIST WINNER- Experimental Category, Art Competition, “The Artist Magazine” 1999
BRONZE MEDAL - 20th Century Asian Pacific Art Competition, Asian Pacific Art Institute of America, Baltimore, MD 1999
AWARD OF EXCELLENCE- Manhattan Arts Int’l 8th Annual Competition, Soho, NY 1999
GRUMBACHER GOLD MEDALLION - Third National Juried Exhibition, Ridgewood Art Institute, NJ 1997
ARTIST SHOWCASE WINNER - Manhattan Arts Int’l 6th Annual Competition. SOHO, NY 1997
FIRST PRIZE - Art Resource Center of Fells Point Art Show Baltimore, MD 1997
BEST IN OILS CATEGORY- Hillcrest Art Center Int’l Juried Exhibition, Cambria, CA 1997
SELECTED SHOWS
2010 Oil Painters of America 19th Annual National Juried Exhibition Legacy Gallery Scottsdale, Arizona
2010 Art of the Figure, McBride Gallery, Annapolis, MD
2009 Oil Painters of America Eastern Regional Juried Exhibition Corse Gallery Jacksonville, Florida
2009 American Women Artists 2009 Competition South Street Gallery Easton, MD
2009 Invitational Autumn Celebration Exhibition, McBride Gallery, Annapolis, MD
1997 Cross Currents Exhibition Walter Anderson Museum of Art, MS
SELECTED PUBLICATIONS
Manhattan Arts International Magazine, March/April 2000 (Profile Article, p.4)
Globe Magazine, February 2000 Issue, China (Feature Article, pp. 56-58)
China Spectrum, April7, 2000, Washington, D.C. (Profile and Artworks Publication, B-9)
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