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黃海欣的創作靈感來源於日常生活中的事件和情境，她捕捉那些饒有趣味又令人尷尬的瞬間，並著重描繪各種引人入勝的情節或戲劇性的氛圍。透過繪畫和素描，她運用幽默風趣的構圖以及樸實直率的線條，來描繪這這個世界中各色普通人的生活，並揭示了在當代人際關係、政治、社會和家庭中那些微妙而令人不安的荒誕時刻。她的作品不僅是對現實的一種諷刺，也是對現代人的憂慮、恐懼和疏離感的一次有力反擊。畫面中傳遞出的焦慮感有時會引發一種對比強烈且無可奈何的喜悅，因為往往一切都已成定局，無力可回天。而有些時候，它則展現了一種節慶般的集體逃避，精準地捕捉到了現實，卻又並非全然的批判。她的黑色幽默源於一種孩子般的純真視角，引導觀者透過一面哈哈鏡來審視現實，這面鏡子仍然映照出世界的殘酷，但卻以一種更容易被接受的方式呈現出來。

身處於享樂的世代，人們似乎知道得越多卻感覺得越少，災難成為一種假設，人們甚至在嬉笑中演練如何承受苦難。從黃海欣的作品中能看見她試圖強調安逸世代的生命之輕。同時，也試圖呈現給觀眾生命中美麗與怪異的片刻、人的幽默性與悲劇性、生命的宏偉和人類的脆弱。

Inspired by events and situations in daily life, Huang captures the amusing and awkward moments and focuses on all kinds of intriguing plots or the theatrical atmosphere. Through paintings and drawings, she employs humorous, entertaining composition and direct and unpretentious lines to portray the life of a spectrum of ordinary people in this world and expose the subtle and neurotic absurdities within contemporary interpersonal relationships, politics, society, and family. Her work is not only a form of satire to reality but also a powerful counter to modern people’s worry, fear, and detachment. The anxiety conveyed in her images sometimes evokes a contrasting sense of helpless joy. This arises from the feeling that nothing more can be done. Other times, it reveals a festival-like, collective escape that is accurate without being aggressive. Her black humor originates from a child-like innocence, allowing viewers to gaze at reality through a fun mirror. This mirror still reflects the world's cruelty, but in a more palatable way.

As part of a generation marked by hedonism, people seem to know more but feel less. Catastrophes become mere assumptions, and people even practice suffering and crisis with laughter. Huang seeks to highlight the lives of this easy and comfortable generation, particularly their lightness of being. Simultaneously, she aims to show audiences the beauty and uncanniness of individual moments, the inherent humor and tragedy within us, and both the grandeur and frailty of humanity.

關於藝術家 About Artist

黃海欣 

黃海欣1984年生於臺灣臺北，並在2007年從國立臺北教育大學獲藝術學士學位。2009年畢業於紐約視覺藝術學院藝術創作研究所，獲藝術碩士學位。目前生活和工作在臺北與紐約布魯克林。

黃海欣作品取材自日常生活情境，擷取滑稽與尷尬的特殊當下，聚焦於各式古怪情節或戲劇氛圍中，敏銳勾勒出芸芸眾生中各式小人物的生存場景，揭露人在大時代、政治社會與家庭等各種人際關係中，種種微妙且神經質的荒謬片刻。

她曾參與國立臺灣美術館、紐約臺北文化中心、萊比錫當代美術館、以色列赫茲利亞市當代美術館、東京森美術館、龐畢度中心、南特當代藝術中心等美術館展出。黃海欣的作品被眾多私立和公共機構收藏，這些機構包括臺北市立美術館、國立臺灣美術館、瑞銀藝術藏品、臺北國巨基金會、澳大利亞悉尼白兔美術館、西澳美術館及墨西哥AMMA基金會等。受邀駐地創作於紐約ISCP、Vermont Studio Center、芬蘭Arteles創意中心、萊比錫飛行者進駐、東京3331 Arts Chiyoda、維也納白屋當代藝術中心以及紐約上州 The Shandaken: Storm King residency。近期榮獲2024紐約藝術基金會（NYFA）繪畫類獎助受獎人。

Hai-Hsin Huang

Hai-Hsin Huang was born in Taipei in 1984 and received her BA degree from National Taipei University of Education in 2007. In 2009 she received a MFA from the School of Visual Arts in New York. She currently lives and works in Brooklyn and Taipei.  Huang composes works that explore the space between humor, tragedy, and horror. Her works delve into the threat of violence and fear in society and the contradictions ones encounters in daily life. While often executed in a colorful and lighthearted palette, at their heart, her whimsical narratives express a dark and unique sense of humor. Her work has been included in group exhibitions at Taipei Fine Arts Museum, National Taiwan Museum of Fine Arts, Museum der bildenden Künste Leipzig, Taipei Cultural Center in New York, and Herzliya Museum of Contemporary Art in Israel, Centre Pompidou-Metz, and Le Lieu Unique in Nantes, France, Das Weisse Haus in Vienna. Her paintings are in the permanent collections of the Taipei Fine Arts Museum, White Rabbit Gallery in Sydney, Artbank in Taiwan, UBS Art Collection and Art Gallery of Western Australia and AMMA Foundation in Mexico City.  

Huang has also participated in several artist residency programs, including The Shandaken: Storm King residency (NY 2025), Das Weiss Haus (Vienna 2025), 3331 Arts Chiyoda (Tokyo, Japan, 2018), PILOTENKUECHE (Leipzig, Germany, 2017), Arteles Creative Residency Program (Finland, 2016), New York ISCP (NY, USA, 2013), and Vermont Studio Center (VT, USA, 2013). Huang was recently selected as one of the 2024 NYSCA/NYFA Artist Fellows.