Ella Son is a textile designer focused on print, concept, and color and material integration design. 



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B. South Korea
Works and lives in New York, New York. 

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EDUCATION

2024 MFA Rhode Island School of Design
MFA–Textiles Design | Providence, RI, USA

2020 BFA The University of Suwon
BFA–Painting and Drawing | Hwaseong, South Korea

SELECTED EXHIBITIONS

SOLO

2022 Dynamism and Busyness of A Large City
Art Space TOMA | Daegu, South Korea | June 17–23

GROUP

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

Gupta, N., Cheung, H., Payra, S., Loke, G., Li, J., Zhao, Y., Balachander, L., Son, E, et al.
A Single-Fibre Computer Enables Textile Networks and Distributed Inference. Nature (manuscript under review)

 
2019 MAPS Magazine 
GLOBAL ART&YOUTH ISSUE 133