Song Yuanyuan was born in China and trained in photography before turning to painting. He graduated from the Luxun Academy of Fine Arts in Shenyang and has since developed a distinctive practice that merges photographic sensibility with painterly expression.

Drawing inspiration from captured images, Song Yuanyuan embodies a sense of desire and tension between reality and illusion. His visual lexicon often arises from perceptions and feelings when confronted with everyday, mundane spaces.

Song’s work frequently carries a surrealist quality, analyzing ideas of aesthetics, decoration, and ornamentation to define values and tastes within domestic and social environments. His muted palette and experimentation with light create stri...