Sok Song, 2025 Henry Moore Foundation resident

July 14, 2025

The Yale Center for British Art, the Yale School of Art, and the Henry Moore Foundation (HMF) are thrilled to announce Sok Son as the 2025 resident. This monthlong residency is awarded annually to a current MFA student or recent MFA graduate of the Yale School of Art with an interest in Henry Moore’s art and life. Song, a rising second-year student with a concentration in painting and printmaking, will spend three weeks in residence at the HMF headquarters in Hertfordshire and one week at the Henry Moore Institute in Leeds, from July 15 through August 12. 

“Being in residence at the Henry Moore Foundation will provide me with ideal conditions to further explore the sculptural possibilities of folded impressions and pressure-based printmaking,” said Song. “I am particularly excited to study Moore’s works on paper and textiles, to experiment in situ, and to extend my own investigations into monumentality, absence, and inherited memory.”

Song’s interdisciplinary practice combines rigorous studio time, intense research, and public engagement. His work considers the concept of folding as both a material strategy and a conceptual framework to examine themes of identity, memory, and displacement. 

His recent series employed a unique graphite pressure printing technique, layering dry-cleaning plastic over military uniforms. Song ran these unique materials through a press with graphite transfer paper to create transparent, ghostly impressions of war with worn seams, dark creases, and other signifying textures.

Song is a Wurtele Gallery Teacher at the Yale University Art Gallery and recently completed the summer coordinator residency at the Yale Norfolk School of Art. He was a 2024 CCAM (Center for Collaborative Arts and Media) Studio Fellow, and he received a CRC (Centering Race Consortium) Pedagogy Fellowship, supported by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, at the Yale Center for the Study of Race, Indigeneity, and Transnational Migration (RITM).