National Taipei University of Technology (Taipei Tech) has invited emerging artist Huang Hua-Chen to serve as its artist-in-residence for the 2026–2027 academic year. From August through October 2026, she will create paintings on campus and engage with faculty and students through talks on her creative approach and artistic media, art workshops, and a subsequent solo exhibition. As a leading university in technical and vocational education, Taipei Tech continues to strengthen engineering, technology, and practice-based education while expanding interdisciplinary exchange across the arts, humanities, and design. By welcoming a working artist onto campus, the university is bringing art into everyday life in a setting rooted in science and engineering.

Huang Hua-Chen earned her Master of Fine Arts from Taipei National University of the Arts and pursued further studies in painting at the Finnish Academy of Fine Arts. Her work often draws on natural imagery—wilderness, mountains, and indigo seas—to explore experiences of solitude, being loved, healing, and freedom. Her works are held in the collections of the Taipei Fine Arts Museum, the National Taiwan Museum of Fine Arts, and Australia's White Rabbit Gallery, and have been exhibited widely in Taiwan and abroad. She currently also teaches in the Department of Fine Arts at Taipei National University of the Arts and the Department of Architecture at Tamkang University.

During her three-month residency, Huang will develop work around the concept of “New Drawing,” using part of the Taipei Tech Archive's special exhibition gallery and space at the Arts and Culture Center. Taking Taipei Tech's campus as a new setting for her practice, she will draw inspiration from observations of its ecology, combining innovative materials and artistic techniques to transform what she sees and experiences on campus into art.

Yi-Ting Huang, director of Taipei Tech's Arts and Culture Center, said that having an artist working on campus allows faculty and students to observe the creative process up close—from initial ideas through artistic practice to completed works—and experience how art takes shape in campus spaces. The residency program plans to host an artist talk in mid-October 2026, giving Huang Hua-Chen an opportunity to share her creative ideas and artistic experiences with faculty and students. A visual arts workshop is also planned for spring 2027, giving faculty and students hands-on experience in creating art.

Taipei Tech's Arts and Culture Center will also work with Huang Hua-Chen to organize a solo exhibition, tentatively scheduled for November 2027. Titled “Huang Hua-Chen Solo Exhibition,” it will highlight works created during her residency and extend the dialogue between the artist and the campus community.

Taipei Tech expressed the hope that its artist-in-residence program will create more direct connections between artistic practice and campus life, further expanding exchanges across art, design, and the humanities while building on the university's strengths in engineering, technology, and technical and vocational education. Through Huang's creative practice and artistic experience, the residency aims to introduce new ways of seeing to a campus rooted in science and engineering, weaving art into everyday campus life and enriching the learning and cultural experiences of faculty and students.