Po-Ren Huang

Poren Huang, born in Taichung in 1970, graduated from the sculpture program at Fu-Hsin Trade and Arts School.

Active in Taiwan’s sculpture scene since the 1990s, he was awarded First Prize and the Mayor’s Award in the Sculpture category at the Central Taiwan Art Exhibition in 1999, and has participated in the ART Taipei International art fair multiple times. In 2001, he presented “Emotion of Track” Sculpture Exhibition and in 2005, “The Dog’s Notes”: Huang Po-Ren Sculpture Exhibition at the Taichung County Cultural Center, which was accompanied by a monograph. His representative works, Wooden Horse (2004) and Happy Times from Dog Notes (2006), were acquired by the Taichung County Cultural Center and the National Taiwan Museum of Fine Arts, underscoring his significance in Taiwan’s artistic landscape.

Since 2003, Huang has taken the motif of the “dog” as a central theme, developing “The Dog’s Notes” series in materials such as bronze and stainless steel, a practice he continues to this day. Rather than focusing solely on realistic representation, his works employ streamlined lines, block-like structures, and a cartoon-inspired aesthetic to infuse humor and emotional resonance into his forms. Shaped in rhythm with music, his fluid lines capture the agility and sensitivity of dogs, gradually forging a distinctive artistic language that is at once lighthearted and profound. This unique sculptural vocabulary has earned him recognition not only in Taiwan but also on the international art stage.