Sanghee Song

Sanghee Song (Korean: 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, for her "animation work exploring environmental issues."^[4] Song is also the recipient of the 2017 Korea Artist Prize from the National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Korea.^[5] Song participated in the 2016 Aichi triennale, 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 the Seoul Museum of Art ^[6] in 2021, Gallery ICON, Seoul; Pool, Seoul; FreeSpace PRAHA, Sapporo, Japan; and Insa Art Space, Seoul. Group shows include the 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]