Sok Song is an interdisciplinary artist whose practice is rooted in migration, transnational experience, and third-culture identity. Working across painting, printmaking, textiles, ceramics, folding, artist books, sculpture, installation, sound, light, and performance, he draws from his own history of moving between Korea and the United States and growing up within communities shaped by the U.S. military. His work examines how movement across borders reshapes memory, family, labor, cultural inheritance, sexuality, and belonging. Garments, textiles, found and inherited objects, archival material, text, and personal histories become carriers of memory, transformed through processes of pressure, transfer, layering, folding, sewing, weaving, casting, and repetition. Decades of folding inform a broader material methodology in which creases, seams, impressions, stains, and residues register transformation and the presence of bodies no longer there.

Collaboration, community engagement, and participation are central to Song’s practice. He works with artists, writers, poets, performers, and communities to develop artist books, performances, installations, workshops, and collective forms of making. His installations often extend beyond the static object through sound, light, performance, and audience interaction, asking viewers to move through, activate, handle, or otherwise participate in the work. Through these encounters, personal histories of migration intersect with broader experiences of displacement and cultural translation, creating spaces to consider how identity is continually formed between languages, cultures, places, and inherited histories.

Song has exhibited at Tina Kim Gallery, James Fuentes Gallery, the Yale School of Art, The Delaware Contemporary, Center for Book Arts, Brandywine Workshop and Archives, Gallery 263, Center for Contemporary Printmaking, Lower East Side Printshop, and other venues. His recent projects include serving as a lead fabricator for artist Tammy Nguyen for the 2026 Venice Biennale and founding Creased Press, a collaborative artist-book initiative developed during his Workspace Residency at the Center for Book Arts. Creased Press brings together artists, poets, writers, and performers through limited-edition and experimental publications that expand bookmaking into sculptural, sonic, and participatory forms.

His residencies and fellowships include the Center for Book Arts, Brandywine Workshop and Archives, Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, Haystack Mountain School of Crafts, Penland School of Craft, Peter Bullough Foundation, Scuola Internazionale di Grafica in Venice, Center for Contemporary Printmaking, MakerSpace NYC, and the Yale Center for Collaborative Arts and Media. At Yale, he was also a Mellon Pedagogy Fellow with the Center for the Study of Race, Indigeneity, and Transnational Migration and a Cultivating Conversation Fellow. His honors include the Monotype Guild of New England Presidential Award, a Lower Manhattan Cultural Council Creative Engagement Grant, an Awesome Foundation Grant, and selection as a finalist for the Southern Graphics Council International Emerging Printmaker Award.

Song has taught and developed public programs through institutions including the Yale University Art Gallery, MoMA, American Museum of Natural History, 92NY, Manhattan Graphics Center, Hunter College, and Yale University. In 2027, he will serve as the Phipps Visiting Artist in Printmaking at the University of Denver, where he will teach and present his first institutional solo exhibition at the Vicki Myhren Gallery. He holds an MFA from the Yale School of Art in Painting/Printmaking and previously completed an interdisciplinary degree focused on folding, fine arts, and Asian art studies through CUNY. He is the author of Creased + Fold and Origami Chic.