Taco (Yutong) Huo (霍禹同, b. 1993) is a Chinese painter and shamanic practitioner whose work explores the afterlife of symbolic power. Trained in Biological Sciences at Dalian Ocean University, Huo turned to art to investigate the limits of empirical knowledge and the unseen structures of authority and perception. He is currently pursuing a Master’s in Fine Arts at the Frank Mohr Institute in the Netherlands.

Huo’s paintings construct speculative fields where image, symbol, and ritual converge. The tiger, recurring in his work, is not an animal but a perceptual phenomenon—an unstable event arising between observer and observed. Working primarily in oil, he builds layered, turbulent surfaces where forms emerge, disintegrate, and oscillate—staging the collapse and metamorphosis of both figure and environment.

His practice examines the post-Leviathan condition, asking what remains of identity when governance and meaning become ambiguous. Operating at the edge of known systems, Huo invites viewers to dwell in essential questions of existence, perception, and power, without offering resolution.