Artists Song Kang
SUMMER 2025 RESIDENT · JUN – AUG
Song Kang
Pen & ink illustration · Atlanta, GA
Song Kang is a Korean-American illustrator and artist based in Atlanta, Georgia. Born in Busan, South Korea, and raised in the Atlanta suburbs, she studied illustration at the Rhode Island School of Design (2016). She joined Manchester AIR at The Factory on Willow in Manchester, New Hampshire, for the Summer 2025 session.
About the work
Kang creates intricately rendered environments in pen and ink, drawing everyday flora such as grasses, mushrooms, seedlings and leaves, then weaving them into dense, fantastical worlds. Her process begins with curiosity, asking how one form might look beside another, and her cross-hatched drawings reward close looking with layers of texture and hidden detail. By depicting overlooked plants, she raises the mundane to the marvelous.
Her illustration work has been adapted for editorial, textile, animation and packaging projects.
Selected highlights
Featured by Colossal (2021)
Artist in residence, Denver Botanic Gardens
BFA in Illustration, Rhode Island School of Design
