contemporary art works

1966 Born in Beijing, China

1989 Graduated from Fine Arts department, Capital Normal University, Beijing, China


Selected Solo Exhibitions

2008 "Song Dong Solo Exhibition," Shanghai Zendai Museum of Modern Art
"Water Memory," Laing Art Gallery, Newcastle, UK
"Eating the City in Barcelona," Fundació Joan Miró, Barcelona, Spain
2007 "“Song Dong in Beijing Commune," Beijing Commune, Beijing, China
2006 “Eating the City Project”, Selfridges public art program, London, UK

“The Way of Chopsticks: Song Dong & Yin Xiuzhen”, Chambers Fine Art, New York, USA

“Restroom M”, Gallery at REDCAT, Los Angeles, USA
2005 "Waste Not," Beijing Tokyo Art Project, Beijing 798 Factory, China
"The 59th Minute," Times Square, New York, USA
2004 “Water Works”, Chinese Arts Center, Manchester, UK
2003 ““SARS Times: Song Dong and Yin Xiuzhen," video installations event, ISE Foundation, New York, USA
2002 "Eyeball," video installation and event, Beijing International Switching System Corporation Ltd BISC, Beijing, China
"Chopsticks: Song Dong and Yin Xiuzhen," videos, installations and event, Chambers Fine Art, New York, USA
2000 "Edible Pen Jing (Bonsai)," installation and performance, Gasworks International Art Studio, London, UK
"Song Dong in London," installation and performance, Tablet Gallery, London, UK
1999 “Jump”, performance video, Tian’anmen Square, Beijing, China; Venice, Italy
1998 “Temporary Office Construction”, video installation and performance, Tao Gallery, Beijing, China
1997 "Look," video installation art show, Contemporary Art Gallery, Beijing, China
"Slap," Video Installation Art Show, Ruins for Arts Berlin, Germany
"Filling up the Sea with 158 Stones (1840-1997)," environmental performance, Shenzhen, China
"1997.6.30 - 1997.7.1 Writing Time with Water for 60 minutes," performance, ShenZhen, China
1996 “Breathing”, performance, Tiananmen Square and Houhai Lake, Beijing, China
“Uncovering”, Video Installation, Capital Normal University Museum, Beijing, China
“Stamping the Water”, performance, Lhasa River, Tibet, China
1995 “Heavenly Secret," sound installation, Houhai Teahouse, Beijing, China
"Writing Diary with Water," private and personal performance, Beijing, China
"Bei Fang," installation, Zhao Yao Gallery, Beijing

Selected Group Exhibitions

2008 "Community of Tastes," Iberia Center for Contemporary Art, Beijing, China

"Re-Imagining Asia," House of World Cultures, Berlin, Germany

2007 "China Now," Cobra Museum Voor Moderne Kunst, Amstelveen, Holland

"China Facing Reality," Mumok Museum, Monderner Kunst Stiftung Wein, Vienna, Austria

"Sixth Shenzhen Contemporary Sculpture Exhibition: A Vista of Perspectives," Shenzhen, China

2006 "Only One Wall," Art Space, Sydney, Australia

“News”, Beijing Commune, Beijing

“38 Solo Shows”, Shanghai, China

“Exposed: Black Box & Crystal Ball”, cross-culture contemporary media art project in public sites, London, UK

2006 Gwangju Biennale, Gwangju, Korea

2005 “Elegance of Silence”, Mori Art Museum, Tokyo, Japan

The Biennale of Contemporary Chinese Art in Montpellier, Montpellier, France

“On the Water”, Munich, Germany

"Water, Water Everywhere…," Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art, USA

“Only One Wall”, Beijing Commune, Beijing, China

“The Plain of Heaven”, 820 Washington Street, NYC at the end of the highline, New York, USA

“Two Asia, Two Europe”, Dulun Museum of Contemporary Arts, Shanghai, China

“Performance Art in China: Exhibition by Invitation”, Macao Arts Museum, Macao, China

“Indeterminate States”, Cisneros Fontanals Arts Foundation, Miami, USA

“Skin of the City”, Macao Arts Center, Macao, China

“The Other End”, He Xiang Ning Arts Museum, Shenzhen, China

2004 “Human Scale”, Guangzhou Contemporary Dance, Guangzhou, China

“Concrete Horizons: Chinese Contemporary Art Exhibition”, Adam Art Gallery, Wellington, New Zealand

“Visual Performance”, Walsh Gallery, Chicago, USA

“Asia Contemporary Art”, Contemporary Art Museum, Bologna, Rimini and Cesena, Italy

“The Monk & the Demon, Contemporary Art from China”, Contemporary Art Museum, Lyon, France

“Is it Art?”, Art Museum, Xi’ An, China

“Play with Energy”, House of Shiseido, Tokyo, Japan

“Asian Traffic”, 4A Gallery, Sydney, Australia

The 26th Sao Paolo Biennale, Brazil

“City Signal”, National Studio of Contemporary Art, France

“Faces in the Crowd: Picturing Modern Life from Manet to Today”, Whitechapel Art Gallery, London, UK

2003 “How Latitudes Become Forms: Art in a Global Age”, Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, USA

“Open Era”, National Art Museum of China, Beijing, China

“Alors la Chine: Chinese Contemporary Art”, Center Pompidou, Paris, France

The eighth Istanbul Biennale, Istanbul

“Left Hand, Right Hand”, Beijing 798 New Art Zone, China

“Second Hand Reality”, Today Art Gallery, Beijing, China

Lijiang International Art Workshop, Lijiang Mu Palace, China

“Every day: Contemporary Art from China, Japan, Korea, Thailand”, Kunstforeningen Copenhagen, Denmark

“Together with Farmer workers”, Today Art Gallery, Beijing, China

“Open Sky”, Duolun MoMA, Shanghai, China

“Left-Wing”, Beijing, China

2002 Gwangju Biennale, Gwangju, Korea

“On My Way to Timbouctoo…”, Ifa Gallery, Berlin, Germany

“Long March”, China

The fourth Asia-Pacific Triennial of Contemporary Art, 2002 (APT 2002), Queensland Art Gallery, Australia

“What? A Tale in Free Images”, Memling Museum, Brugge

2002 Guangzhou Triennial, Guangdong Museum of Art, China

2002 Taipei Biennale, Taipei Art Museum, Taiwan, China

2001 “Fictitious Future”, Guangdong Museum of Art, Guangdong, China

“Hot Pot: Chinese Contemporary Art Show”, Kunstnernes Hus, Norway

The 1st Architecture Biennale, National Art Museum of China, Beijing, China

“Travelers Tales”, inIVA Art Porject, inIVA, London, UK

“Up-Rising: Contemporary Visual Art Project”, Hong Kong, China

“Dancing with Farmer Workers”, East Modern Art Centre, Beijing, China

“Living in Time, Chinese Contemporary Art Exhibition”, Hamburger Bahnhof Museum, Berlin, Germany

“Shot in the Face”, Earl Lu Gallery, Lasalle Gallery, Singapore

2000 “At the New Century 1979-1999 Contemporary Art of China Invitation Arts Exhibition”, Chengdu Contemporary Art Museum, China

Microwave Festival 2000, Videotage, Hong Kong, China

“New Conceptual Photography: China Scene”, Century Theater, Beijing, China

“Home”, Chinese Contemporary Art Show, Shanghai, China

“EXPO 2000”, Hanover, Germany

The 18th World Wide Video Festival, Amsterdam, the Netherlands

“Fuck Off”, curated by Ai Weiwei and Feng Boyi, Shanghai, China

“Virtual and Real”, Wan Fung Art Gallery, Beijing, China

“Unusual & Usual”, Yuan Gong Modern Art Museum, Shanghai, China

“Cancelled: Exhibiting Experimental Art in China”, Smart Museum of Art, Chicago

1999 “Transience: Chinese Art at the End of 20th Century”, the Smart Museum of Art, Chicago, USA

“Transmedial-1999”, ’99 Video Fest, Berlin, Germany

“Supermarket, Art for Sale”, Shanghai, China

“Fast>>Forward: New Chinese Video Art”, Macao Contemporary Art Center, China

“I Am Here”, Bad Ems, Germany

“Beijing Document”, Goethe Institute, Beijing, China

“Cities on the Move 7”, Museum of Contemporary Art, Helsinki, Finland

KHOJ International Artists Workshop, India

Amsterdam Fest, the Netherlands

1998 “Trace of Existence: A Private Showing of China Contemporary Art ’98”, Art Now Studio, Beijing, China

“Site Art Project”, Tokyo, Japan

“Transmedial-1998”, ’98 Video Fest, Berlin, Germany

“Inside Out: New Chinese Art Exhibition”, P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center, USA

“Space and Vision”, Beijing Contemporary Art Gallery, Beijing, China

“It’s Me! A Profile of Chinese Contemporary Art in the 90s”, Beijing Forbidden City Taimiao, China