BIO

Shinwoo Song is an interdisciplinary artist whose practice centers on ritual gesture, abstract painting, and ceramics. With an early background in computer graphics, his visual language has evolved into one shaped by instinctive mark-making, embodied memory, and emotional resonance. His recent works explore the unconscious through gestures that blur the line between painting and process. These gestures emerge not as studied references but as instinctive movements unfolding through the body, reconnecting with something long held within. He received both his BFA and MFA in Studio Art from Southern Methodist University in 2022 and 2025.

Artist Statement

My work begins with the body—through gestures that arise before language, guided by rhythm, memory, and reflection. Each act traces the meeting point between the seen and the unseen, where perception becomes experience.

Rather than depicting form, I work with the passage of time itself. Ink, thread, ash, and paper become extensions of movement, carrying the residue of what has been felt. The surface records both disappearance and return, allowing each work to remain open, like a breath that continues beyond its moment.

Rooted in Korean sensibility and embodied rituals, my practice moves across painting, installation, and time-based processes. What connects them is not medium but presence—the awareness that creation and dissolution, absence and renewal, are part of the same cycle.

I aim to create spaces of quiet resonance, where gestures slow perception and invite reflection. In these spaces, the viewer encounters what cannot be named yet can be sensed—the living trace of time within the act itself.