Huang Ko Wei

Huang Ko Wei, a Taiwanese artist born in Taipei in 1988, currently resides and works in Taipei. He earned both a BFA and an MFA degree from Taipei National University of the Arts. Through his acrylic paintings, Huang explores the theme of fluidity in both his painterly language and his identity as an academically trained painter. He deftly portrays human figures, animals, and architectural space with a tension between ambiguity and legibility, intentionally blurring the boundary between representation and abstraction. This active response to the history of painting reflects Huang's relentless attempt at breaking free from existing aesthetic conventions.

Huang's meticulously balanced treatment of dynamic and static tones on canvas seeks to provide a distant, achronological, yet universal visual experience, revealing the gaps in the art history of postcolonial Taiwan. Huang has held solo exhibitions, including Puzzle, Roll, One Die, Phantom Gray, Irrational Number, and Post-Paradise, and has participated in selected group exhibitions at Gallery Vacancy in Shanghai, the 2020 Taiwan Biennial at the National Taiwan Museum of Fine Arts in Taichung, Eslite Gallery and dmwe Art Gallery in Taichung, and the Kaohsiung Museum of Fine Art in Kaohsiung.

In 2023, Huang Ko Wei will have his first solo exhibition with Gallery Vacancy in Shanghai.