안녕! My name is Beki Song!
Beki Song is a Korean artist based in New York, NY. She graduated from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago in 2021 with a Bachelor of Fine Arts and received her Master’s degree from Parsons, the New School for Design, in 2024. In 2022, Song had her debut solo show in Seoul and has participated in group exhibitions since 2020. Her work explores the themes of infinite and unconditional love, as well as its opposites—darkness, lack, and distortion. She sculpts life-like beings using materials such as clay, plaster, and synthetic hair, creating spaces for them to inhabit. While acknowledging that these creatures may evoke discomfort, she embraces every aspect of them, using her work to explore the relationship between creator and created.In 2025, Song held two solo exhibitions: Love Me Anyway at Artpan in New Jersey and A Quiet Wildness at Temple Gallery in New York.
CV
Beki (Jieun) Song
Born in 1996 in Jeonju, South Korea, lives & works in Korea and the USA
Profile
Email: bekisong730@gmail.com
Website:https://bekisong.come/
Instagram:https://www.instagram.com/bbekisong
Education
2024 MFA in Fine Art, Parsons The New School, New York, NY, USA
https://amt.parsons.edu/finearts/2024-mfa-thesis/beki-song
2021 BFA in Fine Art, The School of the Art Institute of Chicago, IL, USA
Solo Exhibition
2025 Solo Exhibition, A Quiet Wildness, Temple Gallery, New York, NY
(Curated by Jianrui Li)
2025 Solo Exhibition, Art Pan,10 Elizabeth St, Ste 302A, River Edge, NJ
(Curated by Lina Hae Lin Hwang)
2022 Solo Exhibition, The Destructive Harmony, Project W299, Gallery Woong, Seoul, Korea (Curated by Sera Choi)
Group Exhibition
2025 STUDY X PLAS ASIA Fair, Booth C1, Gallery Woong, Osaka, Japan
2025 Emerging Artists 2025, Dodomu Gallery, online group exhibition, based in Brooklyn, NY
2025 Artificial Nature Life and Death, Group Exhibition, 410 B Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
(curated by Aleessandeo Seccareccia)
2025 Melted City 5, Blanc Gallery, Quezon City, Metro Manila, Philippines
(curated by Louie Cordero and Jordin Lsip)
2024 New York Artist Meet Up, 40-09 21st street, Long Island City, NY
(curated by DOLO, Ketone Records)
2024 yet traces linger, Group Exhibition, 66 Fifth Ave, 13th St, New York, NY
(curated by Sarah Cho)
2023 Art and Music, Group Exhibition, 67 West, Brooklyn, NY
(curated by Jeste Gloria)
2023 Don’t Be Chicken, Group Exhibition, 25 East Gallery, New York, NY
(curated by Ally Lorico)
2022 Youth Archive, Group Exhibition,8, Gangnam-daero 78-gil, Gangnam-gu, Seoul, Korea
(curated by Won Choi)
2022 Urban Break, Booth G-34, Coex, Seoul, Korea
(curated by Gallery Woong)
2021 The JoongAng painting exhibition, The Korean Museum of Art in Insa-dong, Seoul,
Korea (special award) (curated by The JoongAng company)
2021 Jeonbuk Female Artist Exhibition, Cheongmok Museum of Art, Jeonju, Korea
(curated by Korean Art Association, Jeonju branch)
2021 Raising Funds for Love Exhibition, Eunpa Palace Hotel, Gunsan, Korea
(curated by Korean Art Association, Jeonju branch)
2021 Step-by-step exhibition, Gwanggyo Elliway, Seoul, Korea
(curated by Art on Hanger company)
2020 Interconnected Dimensions exhibition, School of the Art Institute of Chicago, IL, USA
(curated by Danny Floyd)
2018 Drawing Exhibition, Maryland Institute College of Art, MD, USA
(curated by Andrea Evans)
2018 Intro to GFA exhibition, Maryland Institute College of Art, MD, USA
(curated by Andrea Evans)
2017 Primary color abstract exhibition, Maryland Institute College of Art, MD, USA
(curated by Andrea Evans)
Award
2025 Rondo Residency, Mexico City
2025 Sierra Madre International Artist Residency, Mexico City
2021 The JoongAng painting exhibition, The Korean Museum of Art in Insa-dong, Seoul, Korea (special award)
2022 The New School Institution Scholarship
2019 SAIC Institution Scholarship
Press
2025 Bold Journey, Artist interview
(https://boldjourney.com/meet-beki-song/)
2025 Korea Times, Solo Exhibition
(http://www.koreatimes.com/article/20250527/1565910)
2025 Joenbuk Libo, Solo Exhibition
(https://www.jjan.kr/article/20250529580177)
2025 Shoutout LA, Artist interview
(https://shoutoutla.com/meet-beki-song-artist/)
2025 The Korean Daily
(https://www.koreadaily.com/article/20250522180506031)
2025 Jeola Libo, Artist feature
(https://www.jeollailbo.com/news/articleView.html?idxno=764265)
2025 Awita New York Art Magazine, Artist interview (https://www.awitanewyorkartmagazine.com/interviews1/beki-song-sculpting-worlds-in-clay-plaster-and-hair)
2025 DRIFTI.space, Artist Interview, (https://drifti.space/interview-beki-song/)
2025 Artistic Tribe NYC|Est. 2022, February Newspaper V3-No. 1 (physical newspaper)
2025 Spotify, Creative Critique with Your Studio Crush, Interview
(Ally Lorico)
2023 i-D Korea Interview (https://www.instagram.com/p/CynWR3uvQ_y/?img_index=1
(https://i-d.co/)
2021 Joenbuck Libo, Solo Exhibition
(https://www.jjan.kr/article/20220426580332)
Art-Related Experience
2024- Current Gallery Assistant, Anya and Andrew Shiva Gallery, New York.
2024- Current Galley sitter, Long Story Short Gallery, New York.
2023-2025 Gallery Assistant, Anna-Maria and Stephen Kellen Gallery, New York.
2021 Member of the Jeonju branch of the Korean Fine Art Association.
2015 to 2016 Teaching Assistant, GreenSum Art Academy, Jeonju, Korea.
Artist Statement
Love Like a Child
I think my heart still feels like a child’s, especially when it comes to love. I don’t fully understand it. That’s where my work begins.
One story that’s stuck with me since I was little is Where the Wild Things Are. In it, Max gets in trouble and escapes into a world full of wild creatures. But those creatures aren’t just imaginary. They feel like parts of him—his anger, sadness, and desire. That scene always made me think of the story of the prodigal son. A kind of love that waits for you, no matter what. I still don’t completely understand that kind of love, and maybe I never will.
That’s why I make sculptures—trying to shape the kind of love I don’t really get yet. Love seen through a child’s eyes. Like Max facing his monsters, I bring out my own inner creatures and give them form. I call them wild babies. They want love, but they also carry all the messy parts of it—fear, obsession, confusion.
Their shapes are weird, sometimes even uncomfortable to look at. Some have two faces. Others have human-like hands or feet growing from strange parts of their bodies. I make them out of clay and plaster, and use wig hair or sculpted body parts to give them something close to human. They might look monstrous, but I don’t think they’re far from being human. They live in that space between what feels familiar and what doesn’t.
Inside each one, I put feelings I don’t know how to control—desires, questions, things I can’t explain. I also create the places where they live. Through installations and paintings, I make spaces where they can exist, breathe, and be cared for. Even if they seem strange to others, I want to protect them.
Love is not always beautiful or comforting. It can be flawed, chaotic, and even monstrous. My sculptures give physical form to the complicated faces of love.
