BIO

Shinwoo Song is a multidisciplinary artist based in Dallas, Texas. His practice moves across painting, ceramics, digital imagery, and video, bringing together different ways of making and experiencing images. His work often moves between bodily and sensory experience and more conscious forms of thought, reflecting an ongoing interest in what may be felt before it is fully explained or put into words. Before studying fine art, Song worked for many years in computer graphics. He holds a BFA and MFA in Studio Art from Southern Methodist University (2022, 2025).

Artist Statement

What happens when we let go of what we think we know?

Sometimes an image does not immediately tell us what it is. We look again. Something familiar may appear for a moment, then disappear. Another image may come forward, or a memory, or simply a feeling that is difficult to name.

Painting has given me many such moments. Some happen while making the work, through movement and rhythm. Others happen later, in looking. What appears is not necessarily the same for the person who makes the work and the person who encounters it.

Perhaps not everything we experience needs to arrive as a meaning. Something more subtle can happen. A sensation, a memory, an image that briefly surfaces. Sometimes that may be enough.