Photo: Jack Sorokin

HYESEUNG SONG is a first-generation Korean American painter, writer and teacher interested in the question of who we are and the stories we tell ourselves in uncertainty. Called a “savagely beautiful memoir” by David Henry Hwang and a “revelation” by Chloé Cooper Jones, her debut Docile: Memoirs of a Not-So-Perfect Asian Girl (Simon & Schuster) was a“Most Anticipated” by Electric Literature, BookRiot and more, and the audiobook was a “Best” at Apple and BookRiot. A Korean language edition is forthcoming next year.

Raised in Texas, Song studied philosophy at Princeton and painting at the Grand Central Atelier. She is a Harvard Law School and Harvard Grad School drop-out (read the book). A two-time Greenshields award winner, TedX speaker, and resident artist of the Helene Wurlitzer Foundation of New Mexico, the Vermont Studio Center and the Alfred and Trafford Klots International Program, Song has also taught at the Maryland Institute College of Art, the Fashion Institute of Technology and the Queens Council on the Arts. Her paintings have been the subject of three solo shows, one three-person, and over fifty group shows. Her work is held in private collections internationally.

Song is currently at work on a memoir about her time working on Wall Street during the death of her mother. She lives in Brooklyn and upstate New York. 

(For art CV, please see here.)