Benrei Huang reflects on life and emotions through paintings of her rabbit figure, Nini. Nini embodies Huang's thoughts on grief, love and existence. She portrays him looking fragile, with a neutral expression. Sometimes he plays the protagonist, at other times he’s a supporting role. Sometimes he’s a spotlit star on stage, other times he’s in love in the park, or swimming underwater in a dream. She combines her favourite motifs like flowers, umbrellas, and rolling landscapes with acrylics in pastel colours. This, combined with her use of soft shading and rounded outlines, give her images a li...
Bio
Benrei Huang (she/her) was born in Taipei, Taiwan in 1959. She now lives and works in New York, USA.
At auction
In 2021, Benrei Huang's painting Why Shop for New Fashion When You Are Naturally Stylish (2018) sold for HK $1,512,000 – well above its original estimate of HK $400,000 – at Phillip's 20th Century & Contemporary Art & Design Auction, Hong Kong.
Education
Huang studied for her BFA in fine arts at the National Taiwan Normal University in Taiwan in 1982. She then received her MFA in Illustration at the School of Visual Arts in New York in 1992.