BIOGRAPHY

Youngmi Song-Organ was born in Kwangju, Korea where she received her BFA in Korean Painting from Chun-Nam University. She went on to earn a Post Baccalaureate Degree and MFA at the Maryland Institute College of Art. Youngmi currently resides in Norfolk, VA. She has shown in Washington D.C., Fairfax, VA, Wilmington, DE, New York City, Santa Fe, NM, in her hometown of Kwang-ju, Korea, and extensively in Baltimore, MD. In 2008, Youngmi was both a finalist of the Trawick Prize Award and a semi-finalist of the Janet & Walter Sondheim Prize. Her most recent body of work consists of drawings made with her own hair on Korean mulberry paper.