BIO

Shinwoo Song is a multidisciplinary artist whose practice explores the rhythm between presence and absence through time-based painting, ceramics, and performative gestures. Rooted in embodied movement and reflective awareness, his work traces how embodied gestures transform into material form and return as reflection. With an early background in computer graphics, Song’s visual language bridges digital precision and intuitive flow. He holds a BFA and MFA in Studio Art from Southern Methodist University (2022, 2025).

Artist Statement

My practice is a process of returning, a quiet movement back to what has always existed within me. It begins with the body before thought, before words. Each gesture becomes a trace of that return, a reflection of something long held and now remembered.

I was trained to explain, to define, to make sense of what I do. But I sensed that the more I tried to explain, the further I drifted from what felt Real. My work began when I stopped trying to prove and simply allowed my body to speak first. Through this way of working, I began to sense the hidden rhythm between fear and release, between tension and flow.

My process is not planned; it unfolds naturally. Moments of destruction and renewal coexist. A burned surface carries the memory of what once was. Nothing remains fixed; everything moves, transforms, and returns. This movement is not circular repetition but a living rhythm of remembering and letting go.

What I create is not resistance against others but liberation from what confines me, including the expectations, explanations, and the attachment to being understood. In that space of release, I find balance, where gesture becomes reflection, and reflection becomes a quiet awareness of being.