Ella Son is a NYC-based color, concept, print, and textile designer.
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Based in Brooklyn, New York.
Please request a commercial portfolio via ellaseoheeson@gmail.com
Resume ︎︎︎
EDUCATION
2024 Rhode Island School of Design
M.F.A in Textiles Design
2020 The University of Suwon
B.F.A in Painting
SELECTED EXHIBITIONS
SOLO
2022 Dynamism and Busyness of A Large City
Art Space TOMA | Daegu, South Korea | June 17–23
GROUP
2025 NYC X DESIGN, “Material Matters” A Show of Work by RISD Alumni
7 Lispenard St. | New York, NY, USA | May 15–May 19
2024 RISD GRAD SHOW
Rhode Island Convention Center | Providence, RI, USA | May 23–June 1
2024 Point A to Point B: A Triptych of Transformation
One Small Gallery | Chelsea, MA, USA | April 27–28
2023 Textiles Biennial
Sol Koffler Gallery | Providence, RI, USA | November 10–December 3
2023 Ecobrutalist Reverberations
Salon94 | Blood Transfusion Inc. x Eiden x Ella Son | Providence, RI, USA | April 15
2021 Familiar but Unfamiliar Things
Space+ Gallery | Gyeonggi, Anseong-si, South Korea | July 1–15
2021 Seoul Living Design Fair (SLDF)
Coex | Seoul, South Korea | May 26–30
PUBLIC ART PROJECTS
2023 Interactive Space
RISD Fleet Library | Providence, RI, USA | May 13–17
WORKSHOPS
Weaving with Colors
Rhode Island School of Design | Fall 2023
How to Document Your Work
Rhode Island School of Design | Fall 2023
HONORS AND AWARDS
2022–2024 RISD Fellowship
2019 SAMSUNG Project Prism Design Contest
TOP 10 Finalist | #Bespoke, Designed titled “Rush” | November 13
PUBLICATIONS
2025 Nature Magazine, Co-author ︎︎︎
“A single-fibre computer enables textile networks and distributed inference”
2025 Google Scholars
“A single-fibre computer enables textile networks and distributed inference”
2024 Google Books
“Urban Looms, Recoloring City”
2024 Digital Commons @RISD, MASTER THESES
“Urban Looms, Recoloring City”
PRESS & MEDIA
2026 Bold Journey Magazine
Meet Ella Son – How do I keep my creativity alive ︎︎︎
2026 Close Knit NYC
Issue 01: Pathways
2025 The Brown Daily Herald
MIT, RISD and Brown researchers develop computers you can wear ︎︎︎
2024 The Providence Journal
“2024 RISD Graduate Thesis Exhibition”
2022 Maeil Business Newspaper
“The Dynamism And Bustle of a Big City Expressed Abstractly…Ella Son’s First Solo Exhibition”
2022 The Yeongnam Ilbo
“First Solo Exhibition of ‘Ella Son’, a 20-Something Artist”
2021 Weekly Seoul
“A Special Exhibition of Six Young Artists… ‘Familiar but Strange Things’ ”
2021 News & View
“Exhibition of Familiar but Strange Things”
2021 News Lock
“Anseong Bonacava Space Plus Gallery, Planning Exhibition ‘Familiar but Strange Things’
2021 Korea News Today
“[Exhibition Tour] Special Exhibition.. ‘Familiar but Strange Things’ ”
2019 Samsung Newsroom
#Bespoke, Designed titled “Rush”
2019 MAPS Magazine
Global Art & Youth Issue 133