Henry Hao is a graduate of the School of Visual Arts in New York City. Having lived and worked in NYC for 20 years then returning to his childhood home in Hawaiʻi, Mr. Hao brings a wealth of experience and accomplishment to his design team. He enjoys being selected as one of the few Hawaiian artists in a juried competition to display at the recently completed Disney Resort in Aulani. He enjoys teaching and has a passionate desire to pass along his skills that he learned in New York to budding artists here in Hawaiʻi to help further their careers and do what he can to spread Hawaiian culture. Having studied in the 1970ʻs in a studio as an apprentice for a number of years with David Asherman, who was an art consultant, art writer and having worked with Ms. Julie May Frazier, one of Hawaiʻiʻs most celebrated artist and with familial roots extending back at least 100 years to early Hawaiian Aliʻi, he is well suited to explore and present Hawaiian themes as few others are. Mr. Haoʻs apprenticeship with Mr. Asherman was at the Ala Moana Hotel, installing wall murals, frescos and doing restoration. Through these efforts he was commissioned by the State Foundation and created an 88 sq ft ceramic tile mural at the Olomana Boys and Girls Correctional Facility in their library.