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Manbo Key
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An artist based in Taipei, Taiwan.
His main media are photography, video, music, and installations, and he creates works themed around family memories and Identity.
Starting from videotapes his father filmed about pleasure and sexuality, he created a video trilogy consisting of "Father's Videotapes," "Avoid A Void," and "Diverse: Identity." Discovering these tapes as a child inspired him to explore Identity and family relationships.
Additionally, in 'Ā bǐ bǎi (Plastic Etiquette)', he also examines Identity and sexual awareness as Hakka (Hakka).
In 2019, he won the Grand Prize at the Taipei Art Awards for 'Father's Videotape.' In the 2022 exhibition "Home Pleasure (Home Entertainment)," the theme expanded from family stories to transgender and marginalized Identity, deepening its relationship with Taiwan's queer culture. That same year, he co-founded Homo Pleasure Collective to explore the relationship between art and party culture. In 2024, she presented works in Den MARK, Japan, and Barcelona, deepening debates on Asian Identity and the political nature of the body. In 2025, he will hold a solo exhibition titled "Home Pleasure" at PARCO MUSEUM TOKYO and published his first autobiographical photo book of the same name in Japan.
Taiwanese artist Manbo Key navigates contemporary art through an Asian queer lens, with his visual footprints spanning Taipei, Tokyo, Berlin, and Copenhagen. Raised by his grandmother in a rural Hakka town in Taichung, his world shifted when he discovered his father’s homemade sex videotapes in 90’s. Transforming this shock into creative fuel, Manbo explores family dynamics, marginal identities, carnal desire, and sexual energy. He also channels an atypical artistic brilliance by co-founding the "Homo Pleasure Collective" alternative space and staging cross-disciplinary curations. Seamlessly fusing fashion, underground music parties, and contemporary art, his wild, saturated, and fluid visual language dismantles binary frameworks, constantly driving international dialogues on Asian gender identities.
His main media are photography, video, music, and installations, and he creates works themed around family memories and Identity.
Starting from videotapes his father filmed about pleasure and sexuality, he created a video trilogy consisting of "Father's Videotapes," "Avoid A Void," and "Diverse: Identity." Discovering these tapes as a child inspired him to explore Identity and family relationships.
Additionally, in 'Ā bǐ bǎi (Plastic Etiquette)', he also examines Identity and sexual awareness as Hakka (Hakka).
In 2019, he won the Grand Prize at the Taipei Art Awards for 'Father's Videotape.' In the 2022 exhibition "Home Pleasure (Home Entertainment)," the theme expanded from family stories to transgender and marginalized Identity, deepening its relationship with Taiwan's queer culture. That same year, he co-founded Homo Pleasure Collective to explore the relationship between art and party culture. In 2024, she presented works in Den MARK, Japan, and Barcelona, deepening debates on Asian Identity and the political nature of the body. In 2025, he will hold a solo exhibition titled "Home Pleasure" at PARCO MUSEUM TOKYO and published his first autobiographical photo book of the same name in Japan.
Taiwanese artist Manbo Key navigates contemporary art through an Asian queer lens, with his visual footprints spanning Taipei, Tokyo, Berlin, and Copenhagen. Raised by his grandmother in a rural Hakka town in Taichung, his world shifted when he discovered his father’s homemade sex videotapes in 90’s. Transforming this shock into creative fuel, Manbo explores family dynamics, marginal identities, carnal desire, and sexual energy. He also channels an atypical artistic brilliance by co-founding the "Homo Pleasure Collective" alternative space and staging cross-disciplinary curations. Seamlessly fusing fashion, underground music parties, and contemporary art, his wild, saturated, and fluid visual language dismantles binary frameworks, constantly driving international dialogues on Asian gender identities.
