Lives and works in Beijing and New York
Xiangni Song is an artist based in Beijing and New York whose practice is rooted in daily observation and personal experience. Initially trained in illustration at the School of Visual Arts in 2016, she went on to pursue a transition from illustration to fine art, enrolling in the MFA Fine Arts program at Pratt Institute in 2020. Working across two-dimensional media and sculpture, with a primary focus on painting, drawing, and ceramics, Song builds a visual language that sits between the observed world and the interior one, consistently exploring themes of identity, self-observation, and imagination.
Song’s solo exhibition Incidentals was presented at VillageOneArt, New York, in 2026, gathering recent paintings and works on paper into a diaristic survey of everyday life rendered with quiet fantasy. Her work has been the subject of a review in Whitehot Magazine and an Insight story by CanvasRebel.
Exhibition Walkthrough
Education
2022 — MFA, Fine Arts (Painting and Drawing), Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, New York
2020 — BFA, Illustration, School of Visual Arts, New York
Exhibitions at VillageOneArt
2026 — Incidentals, solo exhibition, VillageOneArt, New York · Artsy
2024 — Artists Talk, In the Mood For Love, VillageOneArt, New York, April 3, 2024
2023 — Memory Deluge (solo), VillageOneArt, New York, July 6 – July 29, 2023
2023 — In the Mood For Love, group exhibition, VillageOneArt, New York, March 3 – April 1, 2023
2022 — Double Trouble, group exhibition, VillageOneArt, New York, August 2 – September 3, 2022
2022 — Contours and Crevices, group exhibition, VillageOneArt, New York, March 2022
Selected Exhibitions
2024 — ONE, group exhibition, School of Visual Arts, Shanghai, China
2024 — Infinite Games, group exhibition, Snap Gallery, Shanghai, China
2023 — Of Other Kin, group exhibition, Elza Kayal Gallery, New York
2022 — Two For Today, group exhibition, Shin Haus, New York
2022 — Heterotopic Home: A Familiar Site of Daily Life, Spring/Break Art Show, New York
2022 — flush and intimacy, group exhibition (co-curated), Flush Gallery, New York
2022 — MFA Fine Arts and Photography Thesis Exhibition, Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, New York
2021 — MFA Open Studio exhibition (online), Pratt Institute
2020 — Group exhibition, Biafarin (online)
2020 — AXA Art Prize, group exhibition, New York
2019 — Graduates Art Fair, group exhibition, Shanghai and Shenzhen, China
2024 — Juror, Apexart New York City Open Call
News
2025 — Xiangni Song Interviewed by Asian Art Contemporary
2023 — “Meet Xiangni Song,” Insight story by CanvasRebel
Selected Press
2026 — “Incidentals: Xiangni Song at VillageOneArt,” Whitehot Magazine
2023 — Creative Boom
2023 — CanvasRebel
2023 — Bold Journey
2023 — ShoutoutLA
2023 — Sino Vision Net, interview on her practice during the pandemic
2023 — Sino Vision, a feature on her work
2022 — Hyperallergic, “Art’s Conventional Signifiers Are No Longer Useful,” by Julia Curl
2022 — Hyperallergic, “Pratt’s 2022 Fine Arts and Photography MFA Thesis Exhibition Is on View in Brooklyn”
2022 — VoyageLA, “Rising Stars: Meet Xiangni Song of New York”
For inquiries regarding available works by Xiangni Song, please contact info@villageoneart.com.