Huang Meng Wen was born in Taiwan. She graduated from Taipei National University of the Arts with an MFA in Trans-disciplinary Arts. Within her academic background on sociology and film art, she combines the two as her artistic practice. She focuses on gender issues in Taiwan and Asian cultural context. Through observation of gender issue, she expand another field of vision to understand Taiwan and East Asian history and culture. Her image style combines film methods with contemporary art video, and she interweave the narrative image aesthetics in photography and video.

Her recent projects focus on finding the history of marginal women. In the project of ” Suits and Corsages “, She discovered early queer ” Thirteen Teddy Girls ” community in Taiwan in the early 1950s. They demonstrated masculine lesbians as rebels of traditional gender culture and gender dissidents with ” The woman in pants ” . In the project ” Hertory and the Stigma “, she revealed how sex workers in Taiwan’s state system became a part of national mobilization in Taiwan’s recent history of regime change. She practiced her art project with photography, experimental film, video, installation, and essay writing.