Sanghee Song

Sanghee Song (송상희; born 1970) is a South Korean artist. Sanghee Song was born in Seoul in 1970. She attended Ewha Womans University, earning her BFA in painting in 1992 and her MFA in 1994.[1] Her works challenge the myths and repetitive narrativity of virtuous women. For her 2004 video The National Theater, Song reenacted the assassination of Yuk Young-soo, wife of South Korean president Park Chung-hee.[2]

From 2006 to 2007, Song was a resident at the Rijksakademie in Amsterdam.[3] Song won the Hermès Foundation Missulsang, an annual award recognizing emerging Korean artists, in 2008,[4] for her "animation work exploring environmental issues."[5] Song is also the recipient of the 2017 Korea Artist Prize from the National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Korea.[6] Song participated in the 2004 Busan Biennale, the 2006 Gwangju Biennale and the 2006 São Paulo Art Biennial.[1] Her work was featured in the 2007 Global Feminisms exhibition at the Brooklyn Museum.

Song has had solo shows at Gallery ICON, Seoul; Pool, Seoul; FreeSpace PRAHA, Sapporo, Japan; Insa Art Space, Seoul. Group shows include: Seoul Museum of Art; Hokkaido Museum of Modern Art, Sapporo; Sungkok Art Museum, Seoul; Total Museum of Contemporary Art, Seoul; KunstCentret Silkeborg Bad, Silkeborg, Denmark; Kunsthalle Darmstadt, Germany; and Leeum, Samsung Museum of Art, Seoul.[7]

References
  1. "Sanghee Song". Elizabeth A. Sackler Center for Feminist Art. Retrieved 6 November 2015.
  2. Choi, Youngsook. "Subversive Portraits of National Heroism in Contemporary Korean Photography". Trans-Asia Photography Review. 2 (1). hdl:2027/spo.7977573.0002.104.
  3. Steven van Grinsven (2015). "'O' - Sanghee Song". Amsterdam Art.
  4. Choi, Jayoon (16 February 2015). "Jang Min-Seung Wins 2014 Hermès Foundation Missulsang". ArtAsiaPacific.
  5. "Art news". Art AsiaPacific Almanac. 4: 202. 2009.
  6. "Sanghee Song Wins 2017 Korea Artist Prize". artforum.com. Retrieved 2018-02-01.
  7. Reilly, Maura; Nochlin, Linda (2007). Global Feminisms: New directions in contemporary art. ISBN 9780872731578.
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