Ken Horii

Ken Horii has been working for over 40 years in a number of mediums and formats including drawings with ink on paper examining spatial phenomena, furniture that incorporates video display of motion graphics, furniture designs in experimental translucent materials and collaboration with robotic drawing to produce folded paper spatial installations. 
 
Horii’s work has been exhibited nationally—in New England, New York and Chicago in commercial and academic galleries and corporate spaces—and in special exhibitions in South Korea and with Shanghai Academy of Fine Arts, Shanghai, China. His work is in corporate, museum and private collections in Chicago, Boston and New York.  

Horii taught Spatial Dynamics in the Experimental and Foundation Studies division at RISD from 1993–2020, working with first-year students, and was head of the program for 10 years. He also taught all levels of undergraduate and graduate students in departments of design and fine art across the college and worked with Brown | RISD dual degree students.

He was a visiting artist teaching special projects in the International Art and Design Program at the Samsung Art and Design Institute in Seoul, South Korea; a visiting lecturer at the Shanghai Institute of Visual Arts and the Shanghai Academy of Fine Arts in Shanghai; and a visiting professor in the International Master of Fine Arts Program at the China Academy of Art in Hangzhou, China.