Huang Po-Chih was born 1980 in Taoyuan, currently lives and works in Taipei, Taiwan. He completed his studies at the Taipei National University of the Arts in Taiwan in 2011. Most of his diverse artistic practices are long-term projects, and as the projects progress, a new story is added to the previous narrative that revolves around the circumstances and history of his family which enable him to be involved in issues like agriculture, manufacturing, production, consumption, etc.
Since 2013, exhibitions of his continuous art project Five Hundred Lemon Trees have been transformed to a crowd-funding platform allowing the appropriation of artistic resources for developing an agricultural brand, activating fallow farmland, and growing lemon trees for lemon liquor. On the other hand, the project has connected his family members, local farmers and consumers to make a new social relationship possible. In the same year, he published his first collection of essays Blue Skin: My Mother’s Story, the story about his mother. In a way, such a brief account of personal history can somehow reflect Taiwan's agriculture economic reform and social change over the past fifty years, which is essentially, a micro-level of observing his family history and society as a whole in Taiwan.
Huang Po-Chin received the grand prize of Taipei Arts Award in 2013, was nominated HUGO BOSS Asia arts Award in 2015 and received Prudential Eye Awards in 2016. Huang participated in Taipei Biennale in 2014 and 2016 and has been exhibited internationally including the 8th Shenzhen Sculpture Biennale in China in 2014, Performa 19 in New York in 2019, Busan Biennale in Korea in 2020, the 8th Yokohama Triennale in Japan in 2024, also many group exhibitions in museums, e.g., the National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art (MMCA) in Seoul, the Rockbund Art Museum in Shanghai, CHAT in Hong Kong, the Museum moderner Kunst Stiftung Ludwig Wie (mumok) in Vienna, and the Lousiana Museum of Modern Art in Denmark.