HUANG,Chien-Hua

HUANG Chien-Hua's images always have a built-in grammar of the relationship between nature and community. Its tense is pictorial and digital. In the symbolic layout full of games and theatrical sense, the eyes looking back in the images clearly express the survival experience of contemporary people.

b. 1979, Taiwan. Lives and works in Taiwan.

2017 Ph.D., Doctoral Program in Art Creation and Theory, Tainan National University of the Arts, Taiwan.

IMPORTANT EXPERIENCE

2005 Kaohsiung Award, First Prize, Kaohsiung, Taiwan.

2018 Selected as recommended artist by FOTOFEVER art fair in Paris, Paris, France.

2023 Artists-in-Residence, Cité International des Arts, Paris, France.

CREATIVE CONCEPT

Specializing in contemporary photography, Huang Chien-Hua earned his Ph.D. degree from the Doctoral Program in Art Creation and Theory, Tainan National University of the Arts. He majored in sculpture during his college years, and then focused on image presentation at the graduate school where he tried to introduce his opinion on the very being in physical space-time into contemporary digital images. He pays extra attention to non-human creatures and their relations to communities, seeking to investigate the identity of humankind in the era of photo manipulation.

His works features the combination of digital synthesis and installation, addressing the issues of ecosystem, sovereign territory, and the equality/balance between cultural ideologies that photography has encountered in this world. In addition to being interested in the qualitative change of image and viewing behavior, Huang responds to contemporary people’s real-life experiences via digital logic, linguistic symbols, and gameplay, which conjures multifaceted human fables with a humorous touch of disorder.

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