Yi-Sheng HUANG

Huang Yi-Sheng was born in 1981 in Kaohsiung, Taiwan. He graduated from the Department of Fine Arts at National Taiwan Normal University with a specialization in Western Painting. Huang is like a bystander who keeps a distance from the event with perfect calmness and concentration. His artworks intend not to excite us with life-threatening fights between predators and prey or territory battles among species but accentuate the hidden risk and implicit tension like a skyfall or a ready-to-explode color balloon. The fierce predators can hide their inner greed, desire, and violent intention with a serene and elegant appearance, while the weak prey can be exaggerated into the size as large as their predators. Individually or collectively, they are empowered to fight back from the side of the unprivileged. Huang footnotes the thin and diluted humanity one feels in our contemporary society.

Huang’s works have been exhibited in Osaka, Hong Kong, London, Düsseldorf, Shanghai, and Taiwan. His artworks are in the collection of the National Taiwan Museum of Fine Arts, the Bureau of Cultural Affairs of Kaohsiung City Government, Union Culture Foundation, and Taiwan National Exhibition Committee for Arts. He currently lives and works in Taiwan.