Song Ta, born in 1988 in Guangdong, China, he graduated from the Guangzhou Academy of Fine Arts in 2010. His work utilizes a wide range of mediums: calligraphy, painting, video, public interventions, and even urban sculpture; he has also worked as a curator of art museums, engaged in management work, and has appeared in the world's four major fashion weeks and the top show in the men's fashion sector, Pitti Uomo, as a fashion designer. He is also a singer and music producer. He was awarded the Rockefeller Foundation Asian Cultural Council Fellowship in New York in 2015 and the Paulo Cunha e Silva Art Prize by the City Council of Porto, Portugal in 2020.
In Song Ta's works, visual immediacy and fantasy are not represented in the works themselves, but are inextricably linked to them. By blurring the original inner point of reference through the heterogeneous transformation of symbolic language, he emphasizes that behind the creative intention of the “spontaneous” level is the artist's ability to move freely between the real and the imaginary, from the brush to the mind, to the realm of forgetting oneself and one's own world. Unlike the common practice of “hiding clumsiness in a painting”, Song Ta naturally reveals the “clumsiness” in his paintings, simplifying the language of painting and at the same time, using exaggerations and distortions with a playful, comic style to make the works abstract from their original specific context. Compared to the form of the artwork, the artist's gesture seems to be more important, and its implicit role is self-evident. Song Ta, who has multiple artistic identities, also has multiple artistic forms in his works. He establishes potential “order” with superficial “disorder” and emphasizes “subjectivity” with non-subjectivity and strengthens the “introspection” with the absence of introspection, thus reflecting on the art of calligraphy and painting by way of visual compensation.
Recent solo exhibitions include: “Song Ta’s Gel Pen Drawing” (GINKGO SPACE, Shanghai, 2025); “Song Ta's Selected Writings and Paintings” (GINKGO SPACE, Shenzhen, 2024); “Song Ta's Visit to Taiwan” (Hy-phen Art Center, Taipei, 2022); “Architecture in Chinese Clothing + Gel Brush Calligraphy” (Hanfu Architecture + Gel Brush Calligraphy, Taipei, 2022); Pen Calligraphy” (Magazine House, Shanghai, 2021); “Song Ta's Paintings: 1999-2020” (Beijing Commune, Beijing, 2020) and so on. His works have been exhibited at the National Museum of Indonesia, Julia Stoschek Collection Foundation, Düsseldorf, Germany, Nassau Art Association, Wiesbaden, Germany, Ullens Center for Contemporary Art, Beijing, Kunstmuseum Bern, Switzerland, Marres Center for Contemporary Art, Maastricht, Holland, CASS Sculpture Foundation, UK, Gwangju Asian Cultural Center, South Korea, Museu de Arte Paul Klee, Switzerland, Municipal Art Museum, Porto, Portugal. The artist has also participated in the 19th Jakarta Biennale, the 4th New York New Museum Triennial, the 8th Shenzhen Sculpture Biennale, and the 6th Home Works: A Forum on Cultural Practices (Ashkal Alwan, Beirut, Lebanon). His public collections include the M+ Museum of Visual Culture, Hong Kong; Kadist Art Foundation, San Francisco/Paris, USA; and New Century Art Foundation, Beijing.
