Song Watkins Park
CV
Born in South Korea, Based in St. Louis, MO, US.
Education
2018
MFA in visual arts, Washington University in St. Louis, Sam Fox School of Design & Visual Arts, St. Louis, MO.
2017
Study Abroad Berlin Sommerakademie, Berlin.
2016
BFA in Painting, University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA.
Selected Honors and Awards
2020
Futures Fund Artist Emergency Grant, The Luminary, St. Louis, MO.
2nd Place, Women Speak 1920 – 2020, Jacoby Arts Center, Alton, IL.
2019
Artist Grant, Intersect Arts Center, St. Louis, MO.
Award of Excellence, Soulard Art Gallery, St. Louis, MO.
2018
2nd Place, Viridian Artists, The 29th Annual International Juried Exhibition, NYC, NY.
Best of Show Award, Pink Pearl, Art Saint Louis, St. Louis, MO.
2016
The Mildred Suliburk Dennis Memorial Scholarship recipient: Washington University in St. Louis.
Best of Show Award, The Exhibition XXXII, Art Saint Louis, St. Louis, MO.
2015
2nd Place People’s Choice Award, Benchmarks2015, Iowa City Downtown District.
Guest Lecture/ Panel
2023
Gest Critic, St. Louis Community College, Florissant Valley, Ferguson, MO.
2021
Panel, If It Wasn't for the Women: Ancestral Threads, Saint Louis Art Museum, St. Louis, MO.
2019
Guest Critic (Place and Space Spring 2019), Washington University in St. Louis, Sam Fox School of Design & Visual Arts, St. Louis, MO.
Publication
2023
Bond&Grace (forthcoming)
Boulevard Magazine, Cover Art (forthcoming)
2021
St. Louis Magazine, 10 Artists Show Off The Works They've Produced During The Pandemic
Spectacle Magazine, issue 9
2019
All The Art: The Visual Art Quarterly of St. Louis, Summer 2019, 09p In Review, “Song Park: Kitty White in The Layered Place” by Katryn Dierksen
2018
Park, Song, "Strange Woods", Washington University Graduate School of Art Thesis, ETD 99. https://doi.org/10.7936/K7W095CQ
Spectacle Magazine issue 5
Studio Visit Magazine vol. 40
Commission
2023
Bond&Grace, Artist Book Collaboration (Forthcoming)
2017
Sons & Brothers, Prize Recipients Portraits
2015
Iowa City Downtown District, Benchmarks 2015, Iowa City, IA.
Exhibition
2023
Houska Gallery, Winter Group Show, St. Louis, MO.
Saint Louis University, Faculty Show, St. Louis, MO.
Angad Arts Hotel, Life's A Beach: Group Show, St. Louis, MO.
2022
Houska Gallery, Summer Group Show, St. Louis, MO.
2020
FV Galleries at St. Louis Community College – Florissant Valley, Hit Me, Baby, One More Time, Ferguson, MO.
Jacoby Arts Center, Women Speak 1920 - 2020, Alton, IL.
2019
Saint Louis University, Art Show, St. Louis, MO.
Art Saint Louis Gallery, Honor Awards 2019, St. Louis, MO.
Intersect Arts Center, Landscape, St. Louis, MO.
Soulard Art Gallery, Driven to Abstraction, St. Louis MO.
2018
Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum, MFA Show, St. Louis, MO.
Location 1980, CELEBRATING WOMEN, Costa Mesa, CA.
Viridian Artists, The 29th Annual International Juried Exhibition, New York City, NY.
CSPS Hall, group show, Cedar Rapids, IA.
St. Louis Artists' Guild, For Every Negative There Is A Positive, St. Louis, MO.
Old Courthouse Arts Center, Real People 2018, Woodstock, IL.
Art Saint Louis Gallery, Pink Pearl, St. Louis, MO.
2017
ARC Gallery, SHOUT!, Chicago, IL.
Greese 3, ACLU Art Auction, St. Louis, MO.
Des Lee Gallery, MFA 1st Year Show: Part 1, St. Louis, MO.
2016
Art Saint Louis Gallery, Art St. Louis XXXII, The Exhibition, St. Louis, MO.
Upstream People Gallery, 13th Annual Color: Bold/Subtle, Omaha, NE.
Atrium Gallery in the University of Iowa, Honors Show, Iowa City, IA.
Atrium Gallery in the University of Iowa, BFA Show, Iowa City, IA.
Haba Salon, Solo Show, Iowa City, IA.