BEKI SONG


Solo Exhibition (Upcoming )
      “A Quiet Wildness”
      “Love Me Anyway”

NYC
2024-5
  1. Swamie
  2. Sprout and Fortitude
  3. Siamesee
  4. Gloster tesem
  5. Lotuie
  6. Dionies
  7. Jingle Berry
  8. Let it lay
  9. it was the goose that lays golden eggs
  10. Tulip Land -mural

NYC
2024
  1. Only Visible to Kind-hearted  + Roof bear
  2. The Mirror Says… 
  3. Brian Griffin
  4. Jane Doe
  5. Spiritual animal
  6. Run!
  7. Untitled-01
  8. Untitled-02
  9. Untitled-03
  10. Untitled-04
  11. Untitled-05
  12. Untitled-06
  13. Untitled-07
  14. Untitled-08
  15. Untitled-09


NYC
2023
  1. Family Tree  
  2. EvE
  3. Parts of EvE
  4. A Chosen One
  5. and he was a fisherman
  6. Sin Offering of Money
  7. Sodom and Gomorrah
  8. Birth
  9. Curse Chameleon
  10. Virgin Mary
  11. Monkomainu
  12. Not chosen one
  13. Keep on Swimming
  14. Who cannot afford a lamb
  15. Death I Saw
  16. Trust Me
  17. because I am taking you to
  18. Sketches


NYC & KOREA
2022
  1. Brainwashed Monster running away from
  2. I was still there
  3. Where is He
  4. Insecure Me
  5. Human Birth
  6. First Tufting
  7. Absinth my Greed
  8. Hell I Ate


The  Destructive Harmony
2021
  1. Solo Exhibition
  2. I am Jude (Jigsaw)
  3. Love,Pray,Chaos
  4. Temptation
  5. Heart of temptation
  6. Human Mind
  7. Self-portrait (Abraxas)
  8. John
  9. Lord, why have you forsaken me?
  10. Leech
  11. The Depressioner
  12. Da
  13. Juice for you - Series
  14. Sketches


 CHICAGO
2020
  1. Remember Me?
  2. Golden ticket moment
  3. Anxiety
  4. The beatles
  5. MUD-series
  6. All Over the World
  7. BOMB
  8. Naughty Me 
  9. Not a Toy
  10. Party Alone
  11. Toy Gun
  12. HURT
  13. HALO
  14. Angle
  15. Comfort
  16. Drawings


BALTIMORE-CHICAGO
2017-2019
  1. Photo&Collages
  2. Pantings
  3. Drawings

KOREA
2016


About

I am a small god of this world. (This is not blasphemy.)
I explore the concept of love, but love is not simple. I am interested in infinite and unconditional love. And from its deep abyss, its opposite—darkness, lack, distortion—follows as well.

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Artist Statement of
BEKI SONG


I think my heart still feels like a child’s, especially when it comes to love. I don’t fully understand it. That’s where my work begins.

One story that’s stuck with me since I was little is Where the Wild Things Are. In it, Max gets in trouble and escapes into a world full of wild creatures. But those creatures aren’t just imaginary. They feel like parts of him—his anger, sadness, and desire. That scene always made me think of the story of the prodigal son. A kind of love that waits for you, no matter what. I still don’t completely understand that kind of love, and maybe I never will.

That’s why I make sculptures—trying to shape the kind of love I don’t really get yet. Love seen through a child’s eyes. Like Max facing his monsters, I bring out my own inner creatures and give them form. I call them wild babies. They want love, but they also carry all the messy parts of it—fear, obsession, confusion.

Their shapes are weird, sometimes even uncomfortable to look at. Some have two faces. Others have human-like hands or feet growing from strange parts of their bodies. I make them out of clay and plaster, and use wig hair or sculpted body parts to give them something close to human. They might look monstrous, but I don’t think they’re far from being human. They live in that space between what feels familiar and what doesn’t.

Inside each one, I put feelings I don’t know how to control—desires, questions, things I can’t explain. I also create the places where they live. Through installations and paintings, I make spaces where they can exist, breathe, and be cared for. Even if they seem strange to others, I want to protect them.

Love is not always beautiful or comforting. It can be flawed, chaotic, and even monstrous. My sculptures give physical form to the complicated faces of love.