Ho Baron
Ho Baron was born in Chicago in 1941 and raised in El Paso on the Mexican border, Baron earned a BA and MA in English, writing his Master's thesis on Joyce Cary's concept of the "artist as child," a guiding theme by which he still abides. While serving in the Peace Corps in Nigeria and Ethiopia, he became intrigued with primitive, intuitive African art. Baron later lived in New York City, Philadelphia, Austin, and the Virgin Islands. In 1970, he settled in Antwerp, Belgium, working as the photographer for the art collective Ercola (Experimental Research Center of Liberal Arts).
In the late 1970s, Baron returned to the United States and studied sculpture, first at the Philadelphia College of Art and later at the University of Texas, El Paso, though he is largely self-taught and his expression is intuitive. He earned a second Master's degree in library science, and after a stint in retail, he worked part-time as a college librarian allowing him free time for his creative endeavors. A long-time proponent of the arts, he served on the City of El Paso Public Art Committee 2006-2007 and on the board of the Texas Society of Sculptors 2011–2015. Baron is also a writer and was the guiding force of the El Paso Lampoon.
Ho Baron was invited in 2023 to exhibit his work with that of Salvador Dali in a Surrealist Exhibition at the El PASO ART MUSEUM.
Information taken from “Gods for Future Religions”, a book of Ho Baron’s Surrealist sculptures Isbn# 978-0-9853497-0-7