Sanghee Song (; born 1970) is a South Korean artist. Sanghee Song was born in

Seoul Seoul, officially Seoul Special Metropolitan City, is the capital city, capital and largest city of South Korea. The broader Seoul Metropolitan Area, encompassing Seoul, Gyeonggi Province and Incheon, emerged as the world's List of cities b ...

in 1970. She attended

Ewha Womans University Ewha Womans University () is a private women's research university in Seoul, South Korea. It was originally founded as Ewha Haktang on May 31, 1886, by missionary Mary F. Scranton. Currently, Ewha Womans University is one of the world's largest f ...

, earning her BFA in painting in 1992 and her MFA in 1994. 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 Yuk Young-soo (; 29 November 1925 – 15 August 1974) was the wife of the 3rd South Korean president Park Chung Hee and the mother of the 11th South Korean president Park Geun-hye. She was the First Lady of South Korea, first lady when Park w ...

, wife of South Korean president

Park Chung-hee Park Chung Hee (; ; November14, 1917October26, 1979) was a South Korean politician and army officer who served as the third president of South Korea from 1962 after he seized power in the May 16 coup of 1961 until Assassination of Park Chung ...

. From 2006 to 2007, Song was a resident at the

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in Amsterdam. Song won the Hermès Foundation Missulsang, an annual award recognizing emerging Korean artists, in 2008, for her "animation work exploring environmental issues." Song is also the recipient of the 201
Korea Artist Prize
from the

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, Korea. Song participated in th
2016 Aichi triennale
the 2004 Busan Biennale, the 2006

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, and the 2006

São Paulo Art Biennial The São Paulo Art Biennial ( Portuguese: ''Bienal de São Paulo'') was founded in 1951 and has been held every two years since. It is the second oldest art biennial in the world after the Venice Biennale (in existence since 1895), which serves as ...

. Her work was featured in the 200
''Global Feminisms''
exhibition at the Brooklyn Museum. Song has had solo shows at th
Seoul Museum of Art
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.

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Sanghee Song artist talk for the Global Feminisms exhibition
Elizabeth A. Sackler Center for Feminist Art Forum, March 2007. {{DEFAULTSORT:Song, Sanghee 1970 births Living people Artists from Seoul Ewha Womans University alumni Feminist artists South Korean artists 21st-century South Korean women artists