I Reach Home, I am Serene
2024
In this series, I explore self-realization across time and place. Drawing from autobiographical memories of childhood and womanhood, I rediscover a sense of rest and contentment.
Ginok Song
Ginok Song is a Korean-Canadian visual artist who lives and works in Petty Harbour, Newfoundland & Labrador.
2024
In this series, I explore self-realization across time and place. Drawing from autobiographical memories of childhood and womanhood, I rediscover a sense of rest and contentment.
These recent paintings explore women’s experiences of memory, place, belonging, and selfhood. Through figures and landscapes, I consider how identity continues to shift through movement, reflection, and our relationship with place.
2022
In this series, women are the subjects themselves, who represent their thoughts and experiences from their own points of view. Inspired by courageous women, I express the embodied perspectives and experiences of how women choose to move, explore and live in Newfoundland and Labrador.
I’m grateful to have received recognition for my painting Afternoon Rowing at the 2026 Arts and Letters Awards Exhibition. Inspired by a family story, the painting gradually became an imagined self-portrait shaped by memory, movement, and place.
I was honoured to be invited to create a painting for the Mary MacDonald Award. Whispers of Light reflects on hope, tenderness, and the quiet strength we carry within us.
Ginok Song’s new works are currently on display at The Rooms, with the exhibition running from October 19, 2024 to January 19, 2025. The curator Mireille Eagan writes, “Ginok Song’s paintings take us on a journey with a young woman exploring her identity across time and space, weaving together her past and present. Drawing from… Read More
Ginok Song is the subject of Stacy Gardner’s short film The Gaze, which was part of the St. John’s International Women’s Film Festival and Reel East Coast, and is currently streaming on CBC Gem! You can find it on Reel East Coast Season 9, Episode 4. “As the film begins, Song turns around to look… Read More
New work by Ginok song is part of International Women’s Day, an exhibition at Christina Parker Gallery from March 8 to March 30, 2024.
Ginok was featured on CBC’s Here and Now with Anthony Germain, discussing the group exhibition Making Home Here, at The Rooms.
2019
I want to examine visually a woman’s psychological state, one that recollects memory fragments of detachment and difference. In my work, I investigate the experience of visualizing a woman’s memory.
2010–2014
This series serves as an introspective exploration of girlhood, delving into the psychological spaces of uncertainty and self-discovery.
© 2026 Ginok Song. Designed by Matthew Hollett.