@raeyensong | working document
Rae-Yen Song 宋瑞渊 is an artist flowing with the immigrant experience of flux and resilience, hungry to ever-evolve and build things. Guided by Daoist ways of worlding, Song considers family as a hybrid organism, radically entwined with all other living things – continuously swirling in multi- space and time. Song masticates their vibrating qi, and grows a big belly to hold all of this entangled ancestry …plop plop plop… warm excretions of other life stories to be sewn, watered and sung.
CURRENT
•~TUA~• 大眼 •~MAK~• , Tramway, Glasgow | 15/11/25 – 16/08/26
Solo exhibitions include: Tramway, Glasgow, UK, 2025 (including Glasgow International performance commission 2026; touring: FACT Liverpool 2026-27); William Hine Gallery, London, UK (2025); CCA Glasgow (collated research exhibition & live programme, 2024); Aspex, Portsmouth, UK (2023); Quench Gallery, Margate, UK (2022); Dundee Contemporary Arts (2021); esea contemporary, Manchester, UK (2020).
Group exhibitions include: British Art Show 10: A Chorus of Strangers, Hayward Gallery Touring, UK (touring: Coventry, Swansea, Bristol, Sheffield, Newcastle-Gateshead, 2026-28, forthcoming); Drawing Biennial 2026, Drawing Room, London, UK; Material Worlds: Contemporary Artists and Textiles, Hayward Gallery Touring, UK (touring: Warwick Art Centre, Warwick; Djanogly Gallery, Nottingham; The Wilson Gallery, Cheltenham; Attenborough Arts Centre, Leicester, 2024-26); How Lies the Land?, Folkestone Triennial, UK (2025); 198th Royal Scottish Academy (RSA) Annual Exhibition, RSA, Edinburgh, UK (2024); Let the Song Hold Us, FACT Liverpool, UK (2022); Meet Me at the Threshold, Talbot Rice Gallery, Edinburgh, UK (2022); Dislocations, Hunterian Art Gallery, Glasgow (2021); Fabric of Society, Glasgow International, UK (2021); SURVEY, Jerwood Arts, London, UK (touring: BALTIC, Gateshead; Bluecoat, Liverpool and G39, Cardiff, 2018-19).
Song’s work is held in the public collections of the National Galleries of Scotland (UK), Arts Council Collection (UK) and The Hunterian Collection, University of Glasgow (UK).
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