The Garden of Memory
An installation by Junli Song
Exhibit Details
On View: Feb. 6—April 1, 2026
Opening Reception: Friday, Feb. 6, 5-7 p.m.
Performance: Friday, March 6, 6:30 p.m.
Gallery 51
51 Main St.
North Adams, MA 01247
413-662-5320
mosaic@mcla.edu
Exhibit INformation
In The Garden of Memory, artist Junli Song invites viewers to enter into the In-Between Cosmos with an immersive installation. What happens to souls when they die? This site-specific installation explores one of her personal mythologies that arose from wondering and dreaming this question into being. The exhibition will be accompanied by a performance that will bring this narrative to life within the space during the first Friday in March.
Junli Song grew up in Chicago, but lived abroad from 2012-2018 in South Korea, England, Italy, and South Africa. Her studies are similarly widespread: she originally majored in economics and international development at the University of Chicago and the University of Oxford, respectively, before returning to the creative path. She completed her MFA at the University of Arkansas with a concentration in printmaking in 2023, and was then selected as the Grant Wood fellow in printmaking at the University of Iowa later that year. She is currently the 2024-2026 Gaius Charles Bolin fellow in the studio art department at Williams College. Song has been selected for artist residencies including the Vermont Studio Center and the Women's Studio Workshop. As an artist and storyteller, she works across a range of media from printmaking and painting to sculpture and animation to explore imagined worlds and personal mythologies.