Hyeseung Marriage-Song

New York Artists Equity is excited to invite you into the studio of NYAEA Member and Brooklyn based contemporary figurative artist Hyeseung Marriage-Song! In this episode of Studio Breaks, Marriage-Song reflects on the psychology of creating figurative art and how this act of creation forges human connections.

About The Artist:

Hyeseung Marriage-Song is an American contemporary representational painter best known for her large-scale figurative oil paintings and prints whose visual idioms toggle between resolution and fragmentation. Her last body of work, a contemporary response to the mythology of the golem, is an exploration of the themes of creativity, psychological incipience and the life of the artist. Born in Seoul, South Korea, Marriage-Song grew up in Houston, Texas. She did her arts training at the Water Street Atelier, now the Grand Central Atelier, after which she was awarded the Elizabeth Greenshields Foundation grant twice. She has taught at the Maryland Institute College of Art and was named Baltimore Magazine’s “40 Under 40” for her work creating synergies between the science and art communities in that city. Marriage-Song is often invited to address high school and college audiences, and was a featured speaker at Princeton University at its TedX Conference in 2016. Her work is frequently exhibited and resides in private collections internationally. She lives and works in Brooklyn, New York.


Interested in learning more about the artist or owning a portrait of your own? Please visit her Commission Studio page here!