# Sanghee Song

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{{Short description|South Korean artist (born 1970)}}
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'''Sanghee Song''' ({{Korean|hangul=송상희}}; born 1970) is a South Korean artist. Sanghee Song was born in [Seoul](/source/Seoul) in 1970. She attended [Ewha Womans University](/source/Ewha_Womans_University), earning her BFA in painting in 1992 and her MFA in 1994.<ref name="BrooklynMuseum">{{cite web|title=Sanghee Song|url=https://www.brooklynmuseum.org/eascfa/feminist_art_base/sanghee-song|publisher=Elizabeth A. Sackler Center for Feminist Art|access-date=6 November 2015}}</ref> 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](/source/Yuk_Young-soo), wife of South Korean president [Park Chung-hee](/source/Park_Chung-hee).<ref>{{cite journal|last1=Choi|first1=Youngsook|title=Subversive Portraits of National Heroism in Contemporary Korean Photography|journal=Trans-Asia Photography Review|year=2011|volume=2|issue=1|hdl=2027/spo.7977573.0002.104}}</ref>

From 2006 to 2007, Song was a resident at the [Rijksakademie](/source/Rijksakademie) in Amsterdam.<ref>{{cite web|author1=Steven van Grinsven|title='O' - Sanghee Song|url=http://www.amsterdamart.com/event/o-sanghee-song|publisher=Amsterdam Art|date=2015}}</ref> Song won the Hermès Foundation Missulsang, an annual award recognizing emerging Korean artists, in 2008, for her "animation work exploring environmental issues."<ref>{{cite journal|title=Art news|journal=Art AsiaPacific Almanac |date=2009|volume=4|page=202}}</ref> Song is also the recipient of the 2017 Korea Artist Prize from the [National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art](/source/National_Museum_of_Modern_and_Contemporary_Art), Korea.<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://koreaartistprize.org/en/project/song-sanghee/?ckattempt=1 |title=Song Sanghee |publisher=Korea Artist Prize |access-date=2026-01-31}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.artforum.com/news/id=73856|title=Sanghee Song Wins 2017 Korea Artist Prize|work=artforum.com|access-date=2018-02-01|language=en-US}}</ref> Song participated in the 2016 Aichi triennale, the 2004 Busan Biennale, the 2006 [Gwangju Biennale](/source/Gwangju_Biennale), and the 2006 [São Paulo Art Biennial](/source/S%C3%A3o_Paulo_Art_Biennial).<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://aichitriennale2010-2019.jp/2016/english/artist/songsanghee.html |title=Song Sanghee |publisher=Aichi Triennale 2016 |access-date=2026-01-31}}</ref><ref name="BrooklynMuseum" /> Her work was featured in the 2007 ''[Global Feminisms](/source/Global_Feminisms)'' exhibition at the Brooklyn Museum.

Song has had solo shows at the [Seoul Museum of Art](/source/Seoul_Museum_of_Art) in 2021,<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://sema.seoul.go.kr/en/whatson/exhibition/detail?exNo=847104&acadmyEeNo=0&evtNo=0&glolangType=ENG |title=Exhibitions Detail |publisher=[Seoul Museum of Art](/source/Seoul_Museum_of_Art) |access-date=2026-01-31}}</ref><ref>{{cite web | url=https://www.e-flux.com/announcements/434356/sanghee-songhomo-natura/ | title=Sanghee song: Homo Natura - Announcements - e-flux }}</ref> 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.<ref>{{Cite book|title = Global Feminisms: New directions in contemporary art|year =2007|isbn = 9780872731578|last1 =Reilly|first1 =Maura|last2 =Nochlin|first2 =Linda}}</ref>

==References==
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==External links==
*[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HYvreCNUf0U Sanghee Song artist talk for the Global Feminisms exhibition], Elizabeth A. Sackler Center for Feminist Art Forum, March 2007.

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