Rae-Yen Song

William Hine is pleased to present a solo exhibition by the Glasgow-based artist Rae-Yen Song (b.1993, Edinburgh). The exhibition will feature a series of new ceramics and works on paper. The exhibition precedes the artist's largest institutional exhibition to date at Tramway, Glasgow (opening November 2025) and is Song's debut solo exhibition in London.

Rae-Yen Song 宋瑞渊 is an artist flowing with the immigrant experience of flux and resilience, hungry to ever-evolve and build things. Guided by Daoist ways of worlding, Song considers family as a hybrid organism, radically entwined with all other living things – continuously swirling in multi- space and time. Song masticates their vibrating qi, and grows a big belly to hold all of thi...

Rae-Yen Song 宋瑞渊 is an artist flowing with the immigrant experience of flux and resilience, hungry to ever-evolve and build things. Guided by Daoist ways of worlding, Song considers family as a hybrid organism, radically entwined with all other living things – continuously swirling in multi- space and time. Song masticates their vibrating qi, and grows a big belly to hold all of this entangled ancestry… plop plop plop… warm excretions of other life stories to be sewn, watered and sung. In 2024, Song collated a research exhibition and live programme, life-bestowing cadaverous soooooooooooooooooot, at CCA Glasgow.

Work has also been shown at Mead Gallery, Coventry (Hayward Gallery Touring, 2024-26), Royal Scottish Academy (2024), Aspex Portsmouth (2023), FACT Liverpool (2022), Quench Gallery, Margate (2022), Dundee Contemporary Arts (2021), LUX Scotland & BBC Scotland (2021), Glasgow International (2021), esea contemporary, Manchester (2020), Edinburgh Art Festival (2018; 2020), Jerwood Arts, London (2018). Residencies include Porthmeor Studios x Wilhelmina Barns-Graham Residency Award (2024), Launch Pad LaB, France (2022), Talbot Rice Residents, Edinburgh (2019-2021), Hospitalfield, Arbroath (2019), Sura Medura, Sri Lanka (2017).