Sok Song is an interdisciplinary artist working across printmaking, painting, textiles, sculpture, folding, and installation, using material processes to reflect how lives are shaped by movement, displacement, and cultural translation. Pressure, layering, sewing, and repetition become ways to catalog memory and map shifting identity, while decades of folding and origami practice inform a methodology where creases record transformation and the continual negotiation of belonging. Garments, textiles, graphite transfers, and pressure prints serve as carriers of story, holding the form of absent bodies through seams, stains, and residues that speak to labor, touch, and lived history. These embedded traces anchor the work in migration and memory, revealing how presence lingers even after the figure has disappeared. Song’s recent installations and participatory environments invite viewers to move through layered surfaces, touch materials, and experience the work as an active space that unsettles expectations, opening room for reflection on power, belonging, and the histories we carry.

He has received fellowships from the Henry Moore Foundation through the Yale Center for British Art, the Yale Center for Collaborative Arts and Media (CCAM), and the Yale Center for the Study of Race Indigeneity and Transnational Migration (RITM). He was also a Cultivating Conversation Fellow sponsored by Yale’s Office of the Secretary and Vice President for University Life and served on the advisory board for the Poorvu Center for Teaching and Learning. His honors include a Lower Manhattan Cultural Council Creative Engagement Grant, an Awesome Foundation Grant, and the Presidential award by the Monotype Guild of New England as well as a recent finalist for a Southern Graphics Council International Emerging Print Making Award and a current nominee for an AICAD fellowship.

His residencies include the Scuola Internazionale di Grafica, Venezia, Vermont Studio Center (as a School Arts Fellow), Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, Millay Arts, Center for Contemporary Printmaking (CCP), MakerSpace NYC, and Brandywine Workshop and Archives. A former coordinator at the Yale Norfolk School of Art, he will be teaching a summer printmaking workshop re: his unique approaches to pressure printing, graphite transfer, and textile-based work at Penland School of Craft this year. 

Song has exhibited at Delaware Contemporary, Eli Center for Contemporary Art, Society of American Graphic Artists, Southern Graphics Council International, Lower East Side Printshop, Manhattan Graphics Center (MGC), Brooklyn Fine Art Print Fair, CCP, Tanya Weddemire Gallery, Delaware’s Children Museum, Korean Paper and Culture Museum, Monotype Guild of New England, LiC-A in Queens, Gallery 263 in Cambridge, MakerPark, American Museum of Natural History (AMNH), CUNY Hunter College Galleries as well as Yale’s Green Hall and Edgewood galleries. 

Additionally, Song has given artist talks worldwide and led workshops at MoMA, AMNH, MGC, 92NY, AS220, and Yale. His design work has appeared in The New Yorker, GQ, Vogue, Vanity Fair, Marie Claire, Elle, and other publications. The author of two origami books Creased + Fold (Penguin Random House) and Origami Chic (Capstone), he founded the origami magazine Creased. He currently serves as a Wurtele Gallery Teacher at the Yale University Art Gallery. Song holds an MFA in Painting/Printmaking from Yale School of Art and a customized dual degree in Folding & Fine Arts, and Asian Art Studies from CUNY Graduate Center via Hunter College.