Harin Song cultivates analog experiences

Circling Issue #10 featuring Harin Song

Harin Song is a visual artist who makes painting, sculpture, and interactive installations with a craft-oriented manipulation of materials: acrylic paint, fiber, and steel. Soft goes hard; hard goes soft. Her installations interpret architecture by making her work interact with the space out of the corner of her eye. Harin studied at the School of Art Institute of Chicago in Chicago and School of Visual Arts in New York. Her work has been exhibited in Seoul, Korea, and Chicago and New York in the United States. She currently lives and works in New York, NY. 

We first met during an exhibition earlier this year which featured both of our work, and reconnected this fall for a conversation about the touchstone objects which make her home and studio one in which art can survive. Whether in a gallery or at home, Harin is a thoughtful and candid conversationalist, and her objects span the concerns of navigating long-distance relationships, managing mental and physical health, living in an old…