Huang Po-chi was born in 1931 in Tungkang, Pingtung County, in southern Taiwan, and graduated from high school in Kaohsiung, where his family moved when he was nine.
黃伯驥，民國廿年出生於屏東東港，九歲遷往高雄，在那兒就讀初高中，他的水彩畫得不錯，曾得過全校第一名。