Xin Song (b. 1970, Beijing, China) is a Brooklyn-based artist whose practice draws on traditional Chinese folk techniques, including paper-cutting, crocheting, and quilting. She received her BFA from the Central Academy of Fine Arts, Beijing, in 1994, and has lived and worked in New York City for over two decades.
Song finds special significance and meaning in paper materials, employing them in ways that meld past and present in her contemporary installations and in art works like these four collage prints. A signature mark of Song’s work is her incorporation of the ancient tradition of paper-cut, a thousand-year-old Chinese folk art practice that dates back almost to the invention of paper itself in the Han dynasty.
Her work has been exhibited internationally, including at Chambers Fine Art, New York; Space Gallery Association, Shanghai; and the National Art Museum of China, Beijing. She has completed public commissions for MTA Arts for Transit and New York City’s Percent for Art program. In 2014, she was commissioned to create an installation marking the 100th anniversary of Grand Central Terminal.
Song has maintained a studio at the Elizabeth Foundation for the Arts since 2010 and is a recipient of the 2021 NYFA City Artists Corps Grant and the EFA North Fork Residency.
BIOGRAPHY
1990 Major in Fine Arts, Beijing Haidian Art Vocational School, Beijing, China
1994 Graduated from Dept. of Folk Art, Central Academy of Fine Arts, Beijing, China
Present Lives and works in New York, USA
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