生於中華民國台灣台北。進入師大美術系前已接觸劇場與電影，赴法後再於巴黎第八大學造型藝術系親炙當代藝術的理論與現況，行動藝術的共時性與互動的異質界面從此深入。
1991 返台迄今，近三十寒暑，每年持續 2 至 3 件新計劃發表不綴，已完成五十餘件以《事件》計畫進行的創作。其作品複合行動藝術中行為、表演、文本、釋譯等互滲元素，跨接社會學、語言學領域，歷時既長，觸接厚碩，是國內少有專事行動藝術的創作者。
早期作品（1991~1998），直入個體之於社會與環境的衝突。中期「我去旅行」創作大系（1999～2013），擇取二十一世紀人類最頻繁的行為現象作為其寓言擬態之所指，十五年間完成十件跨越地域與事件、行動與展演的繁複作品；2014~2015 以「尤里西斯機器」為名，藉這位克服萬難終究堅持返抵人間溝通之門的英雄， 總詰其「我去旅行」之於此無極喑啞世紀的行為思辨。後近作品（2010～），深探社會集體記憶及重塑語言敘述之界域。
我去旅行Ⅴ/一張風景名信片〈台灣篇〉2006 獲第四屆台新藝術大獎〈視覺藝術類〉。我去旅行Ⅴ/一張風景名信片〈義大利篇〉2007 應邀第 52 屆威尼斯雙年展
─台灣館展出。
創作外，長期關注台灣藝術文化生態的締造。1997 發動爭取、保留、更生「華山藝文特區」，2008 發起「種植藝術」運動，2009 籌組「藝術創作者職業工會」， 2011 催生「臺北市藝術創作者職業工會」。
TANG, Huang-Chen
Performance Artist
Tang Huang-Chen was born in Taipei, Taiwan. Before she entered the Department of Fine Arts, National Normal University, she had already been involved in the theater and cinema. After she went to France and attended the Department of Plastic Art, University Paris VIII, she became immerged in the theories and the development of contemporary art, fully immersed herself in the synchronicity and interactive heterogeneity of performance art.
She returned to Taiwan in 1991. For 30 years, she persisted in presenting two to three new works each year, and completed over 50 works in the form of “event-based” projects. Her work bridges sociology and linguistics, and combines the interrelated elements of performance art such as action, performance, text and translation. With such long-term, vast and intensive cultivation, Tang is viewed as one of the few artists dedicated to performance art in Taiwan.
Her early works (1991~1998) are direct revelation of the conflicts between individuals and society/environment. Starting in 1999 to 2013, her I Go Traveling has chosen the most frequent behavior and phenomenon in the 21st century of the human race as the target of her allegorical simulations; in the past fifteen years, she completed ten elaborate projects that had crossed geographical boundaries and integrated actions and performances at different locales. Her works after 2010 in particular explore the domains of collective social memory and linguist narrative reconstruction.
In addition to artistic creation, Tang has been lastingly involved in the development of the art/culture environment in Taiwan. In 1997, she launched the campaign for the request, preservation and renovation of Hua-shan Art District. In 2008, she initiated the “Plant Art Act” movement. In 2009, she organized Art Creator Trade Union, and helped expedite the establishment of Taipei Art Creator Trade Union in 2011.
作品網站 Website | www.hctang.net
作者臉書 Facebook | Huang-Chen Tang
成忘老太太計畫臉書 | www.facebook.com/TangUlyssesMachine/
成忘老太太計畫官網 | www.ulysessmachine-tang.idv.tw/