Song Lu holds an MFA in Photography, Video and Related Media from the School of Visual Arts. Her work explores AI, video, and photography through a playful lens, blending humor, surrealism, and childlike wonder. Deliberately avoiding sadness, she infuses her art with joy and lightness, inviting viewers to engage with unexpected perspectives.
Educations
2021 MFA Photography, Video and Related Media
School of Visual Arts, New York, United States
2016 BFA Radio and Television
Communications of Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, Zhejiang, China
Exhibition
2026AI Creation and Conundrum, Suny Brockport Tower Fine Arts Gallery, NY, United States
2025
Art & AI Festivals
MIT AI Filmmaking Hackathon, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Boston, MA, United States
Tiny Grants Salon, New York, NY, United States
Berlin Art Week, Berlin, Germany
AI Film Fest Amsterdam 2025, Amsterdam, Netherlands
YABISI Series Female Festival 2025, Paris, France
Neuro Masters AI Film Festival, Moscow, Russia
15th Beijing International Film Festival AIGC Film Unit, Beijing, China
HKUST AI Film Festival, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Hong Kong, China
Wuyuan River Nature Art Season, Haikou, China
Tidal Imprints: Narratives of Oceanic Civilizations and Symbiosis, Hainan Tanka Museum, Hainan, China
Island NanNan Poetry Life Festival, Haikou, China
Gallery Exhibitions
After School Special, SVA Theatre, New York, NY, United States
Chinese New Year, Sugar Mouse, New York, NY, United States Spring Festival, JUMP, Boise, ID, United States
Hum-AI-n, Surel’s Place, Boise, ID, United States
August Issue "RESONANCE", Labocine (Online), United States
Alsolation, Goethe-Institut China, Beijing, China
Who is Fabricating the Past, Photism, Chengdu, China Soulscapes, China Academy of Art, Hangzhou, China
Snake Wise, Snake Rise, Mango Art Museum, Changsha, China
Hidden Library #2, FLOOR_ Space, Seoul, South Korea
Art Book & Zine Fairs
ICP Photobook Fest, International Center of Photography, New York, NY, United States
Newark Zine Fest, Newark, NJ, United States
Other Islands Book Fair, Pratt Institute, New York, NY, United States
New England Art Book Fair, Portland, ME, United States
Rochester Indie Zine & Art Book Fair, Rochester, NY, United States
Unlimited Edition Art Book Fair, Seoul, South Korea
Taipei Art Book Fair, Taipei, Taiwan
Singapore Art Book Fair, Singapore
2024
Flatiron Gallery, New York, NY, United States
the BLANC Gallery, New York, NY, United States
RIVAA Gallery, New York, NY, United States
Plant-Human, Chengdu Times Art Museum, Chengdu, China
Around Publishing 2024: Reading Room, Kitchen, Garden, E.SCAPE Art Space, Shanghai, China
PHOTOFAIRS Shanghai, Shanghai Exhibition Center, Shanghai, China
Jiazazhi Artbook Festival, Shanghai, China
Chi K11 Museum, Shanghai, China
Happening Happenstance, Ephemere Space, Tokyo, Japan
Breeze Art Fair, Seoul Art Center, Seoul, South Korea
2021-2023
Office, iidrr Gallery, New York, NY, United States
Flatiron Project Space, New York, NY, United States
I want to Believe, LoosenArt Gallery, Rome, Italy
La Vita dell’Arte IV, Villa Venino, Milan, Italy
Becoming, Galerie Camille Pouyfaucon, Paris, France
Portraits Beyond Faces, FLOOR_ Space, Seoul, South Korea
Wonder Room: Art Exploration in the Web3, Metaverse, and AIGC Era, Advance Art Museum, Changsha, China
Depth Pressure Under The Lens, Photism Gallery, Chengdu, China
Love, CICA Museum, Gimpo, South Korea (Solo Exhibition)
UNFOLD 2023 Shanghai Art Book Fair, Start Museum, Shanghai, China
YES! Art Festival, Cang Art Museum, Hangzhou, China
YES! Art Festival, Beijing Friendship Store, Beijing, China
Untitled Art Fair, Miami, FL, United States
Art Conference & Summit
2025 MediaTech Summit, Cornell Tech University, New York, NY, United States
2023 CICA New Media Art Conference 2023, CICA Museum, Gimpo, South Korea
Art Workshop
2021-2023AI-Generated Image Workshop series:
Brooklyn Public Library, Brooklyn, NY, United States
Tiny Grant Salon, New York, NY, United States
Balance Art Center, New York, NY, United States
Surel’s Place, Garden City, ID, United States
Advance Art Museum, Changsha, China Haikou Public Library, Haikou, China
Art Residency
Artist-in-Residence, Surel’s Place, Garden City, ID, United States
(Duration: Jan 9 – Feb 5, 2025)Awards & Honors
2025 Gold Award (Invisible Women), Neuro Masters AI Film Festival, Moscow, Russia2024 20 artists to watch in, Art in America, New York, NY, United States
2023 Honorable Mention Award (Tomato), 5th Still Life International Juried Art Competition,
TERAVARNA Art Gallery, United States
Award of Excellence (Snow Drawing), THUxCAA Soulscapes AIGC Image Generation Exhibition, China
Premio Internazionale Michelangelo (Snow Drawing), Palazzo Ximenes Panciatici, Florence, Italy
Institutional Archives
Asian Art Archive in America, Brooklyn, NY, United States (Artist File/Collection)
Asian Art Archive in America, Hongkong, China (Artist File/Collection)
Advance Art Museum, Changsha, China
Selected Press & Publications
2025 Feature, Rouge Fashionbook, Issue 172024 Feature, "20 Artists to Watch," Fall "New Talent" Issue, Art in America
https://www.artnews.com/art-in-america/features/song-lu-photography-ai-everyday-uncanny- 1234715969/
Breath, New Media Art 2024, CICA Museum, South Korea
https://cicamuseum.com/new-media-art-2024/
Feature (Walking Away), Sohu, China
2023 Interview, Artwork Gallery, Kyiv, Ukraine
Feature (Working Women), The Paper, China
Feature (It Just Is), Miroir Project, China
Snow Drawing, Al-Tiba9 Magazine, Issue 13, Spain
Wonder Room: Art Exploration in the Web3, Metaverse, and AIGC Era, Artron, China Artist Interview, Al-Tiba9 Magazine, Spain https://www.altiba9.com/artist-interviews/song-lu-snow-drawing-digital-art-ai-generated
2021 Still Life, Musée Magazine, New York, NY, United States