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Ho Ho Ying (Chinese: 何和应; pinyin: Hé Héyīng), also known by his writer's moniker, Zi Mu (Chinese: 子木; pinyin: Zǐ Mù), was a prominent Singaporean modern artist whose practice involved avant-garde Chinese calligraphy and abstract expressionist paintings. He co-founded the in Singapore during the 1960s, and was an art critic that wrote essays calling for Singapore's art to grow in a new direction, arguing the case for abstraction over realism. For his contributions to Singapore's visual arts, Ho was a recipient of the Cultural Medallion for Visual Arts in 2012.