Yehwan Song
1995 born in Suwon, South Korea, lives and works in New York, USA
2020 BFA, College of Fine Arts, Hongik University, Seoul, South Korea
2026 MFA, School of the Arts, Columbia University, New York, United States
“It wasn’t “I need to learn to code → I study coding, ” but rather, “I’m curious about how things work → I study in reverse” – Yehwan Song for COEVAL
Yehwan Song is a Korean-born, New York–based web artist whose practice explores independently structured, non-user-centric internet spaces. Through websites, installations, sculptures, and performance-based interactions, Yehwan examines how the internet has shifted from a tool into an environment, redefining the role of the user as consumer and data provider. By challenging conventions of user-friendly design and standard UX, the work exposes the political, cultural, and technological assumptions embedded in digital systems, using friction, delay, and ambiguity to reveal what seamless interfaces are designed to conceal.
Selected exhibitions
2026
Victoria and Albert’s Museum, London, UK*
Edith Russ Haus, Oldenburg, DE*
The Other Internet, Subtitled, New York, US (s)
Lick Pic, Museum of the Moving Image, New York, US
drifts;, OFFICE IMPART, Berlin, DE
2025
Are We Still (Surfing?), Pioneer Works, New York, US (s)
The Internet Barnacles, G Gallery, Seoul, KOR (s)
Unfold X, Culture Station Seoul 284, Seoul, KOR
Electric Shock, Seoul Museum of Art, Seoul, KOR
DISTRACTION, Science Gallery, Melbourne, AUS
In Portrait: Sungkok Art Museum, Seonggok Art Museum, Seoul, KOR
Frieze Art Fair New York, New York, US
Young Artist 2025, National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art (MMCA), Seoul, KOR
24th SongEun Art Award Exhibition, SongEun, Seoul, KOR
2024
Asia Art Biennale, National Taiwan Museum of Fine Arts, Taichung, TWN
Installation Anyplace, Anytime, Anywhere, Grand Central Madison (MTA Arts & Design Commission), New York, US Doosan ArtLAB, Doosan Gallery, Seoul, KOR
Other Side of Hope, Gallery Joseph, Paris, FRA
Web as a Medium, NEORT++, Tokyo, JPN
SCREENSAVERS, Uncommon Gallery, Seoul, KOR
The Many Faces of Home Lighting Show, The Heckscher Museum of Art, New York, US
2023
Website as a Medium, Panke Gallery, Berlin, DE
Helsinki Biennial, HAM Helsinki Art Museum, Helsinki, FIN
2022
17th Istanbul Biennial, Istanbul, TUR
The Pieces I Am, UCCA Center for Contemporary Art, Shanghai, CHN
2021
CROSSROADS: Building the Resilient City, Seoul Biennale of Architecture and Urbanism, Seoul Urban Architecture Exhibition Hall, Seoul, KOR
Performances
2025
Late at Tate Britain, Tate Britain, London, United Kingdom
I’m Aging Like a Russian Nesting Doll, Arthub Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark
2024
I’m Aging Like a Russian Nesting Doll, National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art (MMCA), Seoul, South Korea
The Square, Screen Walks Program, Foto Museum, Online
Residencies/Fellowships
Edith Russ Haus Residency, Oldenburg, Germany ITP/IMA Project Fellowship, New York, USA
Pioneer Works Residency, New York, USA
La Becque Residency, La Tour-de-Peilz, CHE
New INC, New York, USA
ZeroOne Residency, Seoul, KOR
Visiting Artist, Otis College of Art and Design MFA Graphic Design, 2022, Los Angeles, USA
Journal
Im Gespräch: Qiufan Chen & Yehwan Songlas-art.foundation
Yehwan Song: Are We Still (Surfing)?brooklynrail.org
Against the Scroll: Yehwan Song and the Internet We Forgothypebeast.com
Socials
