Hai-Hsin Huang

Hai-Hsin Huang is a Taiwanese artist based in the United States, working in painting and drawing.

Biography of Hai-Hsin Huang

Hai-Hsin Huang was born in 1984 in Taipei, Taiwan. She earned her BA in the Department of Arts from the National Taipei University of Education in 2007 and later, in 2009, completed her MFA in Fine Arts at the School of Visual Arts in New York.

The artist has participated in numerous residency programs, including the Vermont Studio Center (USA), New York ISCP, Arteles Creative Residency Program, PILOTENKUECHE, and 3331 Arts Chiyoda.

Hai-Hsin Huang was a finalist for several awards, including the 4th Taoyuan Creation Award, the Amuse Art Jam, and the 11th Miami University Young Painters Competition, among others.

Her recent solo exhibitions include "Springtime Hills" at Double Square Gallery in Taipei (2021), "Have A Good Day" at Double Square Gallery in Taipei (2020), and "The Common Places" at Capsule Shanghai in Shanghai (2018), among others.

Hai-Hsin Huang's paintings have also been featured in various group exhibitions worldwide, such as "In the Name of Love: An Endearing Encounter between Traditional and Contemporary Art" at Beitou Museum in Taipei (2023), "I Have Not Loved (Enough OR Worked)" at the Art Gallery of Western Australia in Perth (2022), "You and I Don't Live on the Same Planet" at Centre Pompidou-Metz in Metz (2021), "Taipei Biennial 2020: You and I Don't Live on the Same Planet" at Taipei Fine Arts Museum in Taipei (2020), and "Diplomacy" at Yeh Art Gallery in Queens, New York (2019).

Hai-Hsin Huang's Art Style

Huang Hai-Hsin's art delves into images that reflect contemporary life, particularly mundane everyday scenes that carry an ambiguous atmosphere, teetering between humor and horror. Her inspiration is drawn from ordinary family photos, tourists at popular attractions sites, people-watching in museums, and the regular disaster drills. In her work, almost every facet of life have the potential to be simultaneously absurd, ridiculous, awkward, funny, and meaningless.

Huang's artistic approach combines irony, sarcasm, and wit with meticulous attention to detail. This enables her aesthetic to elevate the ordinary into something extraordinary, the trivial into something amusing, and the embarrassing into a thing of wonder. This process encourages each viewer to question authority and challenge the standardization of taste.