송하린 (b.Korea)


is a visual artist whose work scope varies, orbiting around her interaction with the innate raw qualities of materials like plastic, steel, and fiber. With a labor-intensive, craft-oriented manipulation of material, her work has the characteristics of crossing the categories of drawing, painting, textile art, sculpture, and installation. Repetition is apparent within her meditative, almost ritualistic art-making process.
She attempts to break the association between the natural physicality of an object and the meaning vested artificially throughout the history of human society. i.e., she melts acrylic paint to underscore its plastic physicality while maintaining its illusionary effect.    

Concrete poetry is another practice of dealing with the fragility of life, mundane thinking, and relationship to others from her nomadic everyday experiences. They influence her art-making process by reflecting on how she treats the materials. 

She earned her BFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. She also studied at the School of Visual Arts in New York. Her work has been exhibited across Fort Worth Community Arts Center in Texas, Woman Made Gallery, Zhou B Art Center in Chicago, Evansville Museum in Evansville, Peoria Playhouse Children’s Museum in Peoria, Gallery Insaart, Temiorae Art Center, CICA Museum in Korea, Starta Arta Gallery in New York.

Harin is currently living and working in New York, U.S.