Sanghee Song (Korean: 송상희; born 1970) is a South Korean artist. Sanghee Song was born in Seoul in 1970. She attended Ewha Womans University, earning her BFA in painting in 1992 and her MFA in 1994.[1] 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, wife of South Korean president Park Chung-hee.[2]
From 2006 to 2007, Song was a resident at the Rijksakademie in Amsterdam.[3] Song won the Hermès Foundation Missulsang, an annual award recognizing emerging Korean artists, in 2008, for her "animation work exploring environmental issues."[4] Song is also the recipient of the 2017 Korea Artist Prize from the National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Korea.[5] Song participated in the 2016 Aichi triennale, in the 2004 Busan Biennale, the 2006 Gwangju Biennale and the 2006 São Paulo Art Biennial.[1] Her work was featured in the 2007 Global Feminisms exhibition at the Brooklyn Museum.
Song has had solo shows at Seoul Museum of Art [6] in 2021, Gallery ICON, Seoul; Pool, Seoul; FreeSpace PRAHA, Sapporo, Japan; Insa Art Space, Seoul. Group shows include: 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.[7]