Junli Song
Semifinalist
Junli Song (born 1990, Berlin, Germany; lives Williamstown, MA) originally studied economics and international development at, respectively, the University of Chicago, IL, and the University of Oxford, UK, before completing her MFA at the University of Arkansas, Fayetteville, in 2023. As an artist and storyteller, she works across a range of media from printmaking and painting to sculpture and animation to explore imagined worlds and personal mythologies. She has exhibited at the Drewelowe Gallery at the University of Iowa, Iowa City, and her work is held in the collection of the Arkansas State University, Jonesboro. Song has received a Gaius Charles Bolin Fellowship at Williams College, a Grant Wood Fellowship at the University of Iowa, and residencies at MI-LAB Mokuhanga Artist Residency and Vermont Studio Center, as well as a Windgate Accelerator Grant.
Statement from the Artist:
I create across diverse media including printmaking and installation to explore personal mythologies informed by a feminist diasporic perspective. My narratives form the ‘In-Between Cosmos,’ an imaginary realm where the liminal becomes a space of alternative existence.