Mira Song

Synthesizing expressive painterly gestures and hard edged linear sections of colour, Mira Song’s work abstracts the psychological exchange between interiors and exteriors and the natural and the constructed. Reflecting architectural spaces in two dimensions, she refracts their textures, colours and dimensions through personal memories and imagination, creating tableaus that convey the particular and universal through harmonious design.

Based in Seoul and Vancouver, Song’s bright and clean aesthetic channel a global contemporary imaginary with destabilizing dreamlike undertones. The imagery may reference a specific location but is de-contextualized and made omnipresent through her internalization. Song collapses the difference between the outerscape and the innerscape, suggesting that our external reality is created by our perceptive faculties and internal thought process. In this way, her art objects literally and figuratively furnish the lives and minds of those who step into their strangely beautiful worlds.

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Night Garden Planter

2017
Oil and acrylic on canvas
41.5” x 35.5”
$4,000.00

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City/Garden: Painting #2 City Groove

2016
Oil on canvas
39.25” x 28.5”
$3,400.00

Corner Bench in the Night Garden

2017
Oil and acrylic on canvas
41.5” x 35.5”
$4,000.00

Green Series: Afternoon Breeze

2016
Oil and acrylic on canvas
20” x 16”
$1,500.00

Pebble Series: Forest

2016
Oil and acrylic on canvas
13.25” x 13.25”
$1,200.00

Pebble Series: Rolling

2016
Oil and acrylic on canvas
13.25” x 13.25”
$1,200.00

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EDUCATION AND TRAINING

2014 Master of Fine Arts
Emily Carr University of Art + Design / Vancouver
2012 Certificate in Garden Design
University of British Columbia / Vancouver
2008 Bachelor of Fine Arts
Korea National University of Arts / Seoul

SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2018 Block Gardens, South Main Gallery (SoMa) / Vancouver
2017 New Paintings by Mira song AR & S showroom at Vancouver Art Gallery / Vancouver
2016 Mira Song Never Sings, Drawing Space SAALGOO / Seoul
2015 Moon Viewing Platform, Robert Lynds Gallery / Vancouver
2014 Things Which Can Be Seen Only If You Should Stop_ Part ll, DOS Gallery / Seoul
2014 Things Which Can Be Seen Only If You Should Stop_ Part l, Positive Negative Gallery / Vancouver
2008 Water, Sometimes, Flows, Continuously_ Water Series, Velvet Gallery / Seoul

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2021 Small Scale Right Hemisphere Part ll, Gallery Jones / Vancouver
2020 Small Scale Right Hemisphere Part l, Gallery Jones / Vancouver
2020 Out of the Dark and Into the Light, Mayberry Fine Art / Winnipeg
2020 Intercepting The Nature of Colour & Form, Gallery Jones / Vancouver
2019 Art window co-recipient artists group exhibition, Gallery Sein / Seoul
2018 Access Gallery Auction Fundraiser, Access Gallery / Vancouver
2018 Immerging artist co-recipient artist group exhibition, Gallery we / Seoul
2018 Center A Gala & Auction, Center A / Vancouver
2016 Affordable Art Fair / Hong Kong
2016 K-Art 20th Anniversary Exhibition, Art Sunje / Seoul
2015 Small Works, Robert Lynds Gallery / Vancouver
2014 Paper Presents, Gam Gallery / Vancouver
2014 Wise Answer for Silly Question, Kunstdoc Gallery / Seoul
2014 Asian Students and Young Artist Art Festival, Seoul Station Old Bldg. / Seoul
2013 IN THIS TOGETHER, Access Gallery / Vancouver
2013 Cut and Paste Exhibition, Project Gallery / Toronto
2013 Front Lines, Robert Lynds Gallery / Vancouver
2013 {49.161334, 123.75893} MFA Graduate Exhibition, Charles H. Scott Gallery / Vancouver
2012 Particle Collision, Concourse Gallery, Emily Carr University of Art + Design / Vancouver
2012 Inventory of Language, Concourse Gallery, 1st year MFA exhibition / Vancouver
2011 OCCUPY ART, IE gallery, Emily Carr University of Art +Design / Vancouver
2009 The Story of Space, Gallery S / Seoul
2008 Asian Students and Young Artist Art Festival, Seoul Station Old Bldg. / Seoul
2008 A Painting as a Home Assignment, SINHAN Gallery / Seoul

AWARDS, GRANT, PUBLICATION AND SCHOLARSHIPS

2017 La Source (Newspaper Interview) / Vancouver
2017 1340 Art Magazine 2017 Q4 (Paper) / Amsterdam
2016 Selected Artist, Drawing Space SAALGOO Artist Residency / Drawing Space SAALGOO / Seoul
2013 Magenta Magazine (web) / Toronto
2013 Winner of the FRONT LINES Audience Choice Award, Robert Lynds Gallery / Vancouver
2013 Co-Recipient of Emerging Artists Competition, Robert Lynds Gallery/ Vancouver
2012 Recipient of President’s Research Fund, Emily Carr University of Art + Design / Vancouver
2008 Co-Winner of the 1st Young Artist Competition, Valvet Gallery / Seoul
2008 Co-Recipient of Group Exhibition Proposal Competition, ShinHan Gallery / Seoul
2008 Selected Artist, 1st Asian Student and Young Artists’ Art Festival / Seoul