Oscar yi Hou, 1998
Writers · January 1, 1998
Oscar yi Hou
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Oscar yi Hou is 28 years old, born January 1, 1998 · Capricorn.
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About
Oscar yi Hou paints portraits that blur figuration with dense cultural reference—Dragon Ball Z meets art history in oil-on-canvas. Born 1998, the British Chinese artist and poet is based in New York City and creates work that positions characters as "richly complex ciphers" engaging with community semiotics. Capricorn energy: ambitious visual storytelling grounded in material skill.
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Biography
Oscar yi Hou makes portraits that are never just figurative. His oil-on-canvas works layer pop culture icons—Dragon Ball Z, visual histories—with art-historical reference, creating what he calls engagements with the "subterranean semiotics" of his communities. Based in New York City, the British Chinese painter and poet positions characters as richly complex ciphers rather than straightforward representations.
As a poet, yi Hou works across image and language. Born in 1998, he channels Capricorn discipline into material craft and conceptual density. His practice refuses easy legibility, instead layering cultural deposits—from Martin Wong to contemporary pop—into formally rigorous portraits. The work reads as a kind of visual archaeology, where figuration becomes a site for unpacking identity, community, and visual inheritance.
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- His portraits reference Martin Wong, the late Nuyorican painter and photographer known for documenting LGBTQ+ street life in the East Village.
- yi Hou engages with Dragon Ball Z in his paintings, treating manga and anime as legitimate visual-cultural material—not kitsch, but archive.
- He positions himself as a British Chinese artist working from New York, navigating multiple cultural and geographic coordinates in his practice.
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- Oscar yi Hou is 28 years old (born January 1, 1998).
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- Oscar yi Hou is a Capricorn, born January 1, 1998.
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- Oscar yi Hou was born in 1998, the year of the Earth Tiger.
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- Oscar yi Hou is a writer.
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- Yes — Oscar yi Hou is alive and 28 years old.
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