Michael Rikio Ming Hee Ho (b. 1996, Kamuela, Hawaiʻi) is a Japanese and Cantonese American artist raised on Hawaiʻi Island. Ho studied art at UCLA before relocating to Tokyo, where he now lives and works. His shaped, text-based paintings combine illusion and language to reflect on cultural dissonance, peripheral belonging, and the contradictions of identity. Shaped by a childhood rooted in local Hawaiian culture and diasporic tradition, Ho’s practice engages with how place is felt, how language shifts, and how cultural inheritance carries weight over time.