About Huang Hai-Hsin (黃海欣)
Born in Taipei in 1984, Huang Hai-Hsin graduated from National Taipei Teachers College (now National Taipei University of Education). She obtained her MFA in Fine Arts from the School of Visual Arts, and currently lives and works in New York. Inspired by events and situations in daily life, Huang captures the amusing and awkward moments and focuses on all kinds of intriguing plots or the theatrical atmosphere. With humorous, entertaining composition reminiscing of journalistic photos and substantial and straightforward lines, she portrays the life of a spectrum of ordinary people in this world and exposes the subtle and neurotic moments of absurdity that inform the interpersonal relationships of the times, politics, society, and family. Her work is not only a form of satire to the reality but also a powerful coup to modern people's worry, fear and detachment. The sense of anxiety from the image sometimes gives rise to a contrasting sense of helpless joy because there is simply nothing more to be done. Other times, it reveals a festival-like, collective escape that is accurate without being aggressive. Her black humor stems from a perspective of child-like innocence, enabling the viewer to gaze into the reality through a fun mirror that still reflects the world's cruelty in a way that is easier to accept.
Artist website
Huang Hai-Hsin: Taiwan Contemporary Art Archive Link
HUANG HAI-HSIN ARTWORK LIST