Sanghee Song

Background

Sanghee Song was born in Seoul in 1970.

Education

She attended Ewha Womans University, earning her Bachelor of Fine Arts in painting in 1992 and her Master of Fine Arts in 1994.

Career

Foreign her 2004 video The National Theater, Song reenacted the assassination of Yuk Young-soo, wife of South Korean president Park Chung-hee. From 2006 to 2007, Song was a resident at the Rijksakademie in Amsterdam. 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 Artist 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.

Achievements

• Song won the Hermès Foundation Missulsang, an annual award recognizing emerging Korean artists, in 2008. She won for her "animation work exploring environmental issues." Song participated in the 2004 Busan Biennale, the 2006 Gwangju Biennale and the 2006 São Paulo Art Biennial.