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Biography of Song Dong
1966 Born in Beijing, China
1989 Graduated from the Department of Fine Arts, Capital Normal University, Beijing
Current Lives and works in Beijing

Solo Exhibitions
2006 Eating the City Project, Selfridges Public Art Program, London
  The Way of Chopsticks, Chambers Fine Art, New York
2005 Waste Not, Beijing Tokyo Art Project, Beijing 798 Factory
The 59th Miunte, Times Square, New York
2004 WATER WORKS, Chinese Arts Center, Manchester
2003 SARS TIMES: Song Dong and Yin Xiuzhen, ISE Foundation, New York
2002 Eyeball, Beijing International Switching System Corporation Ltd. BISC, Beijing
Chopsticks: Song Dong and Yin Xiuzhen, Chambers Fine Art, New York
2000 Edible Pen Jing (Bonsai), Gasworks International Art Studio, London
Song Dong in London, Tablet Gallery, London
1999 Jump, Tian An Men, Beijing, and Venice
1998 Temporary Office Construction, Tao Gallery, Beijing
1997 Slap, Ruins for Arts, Berlin, Germany
1997.6.30 - 1997.7.1 Writing Time with Water 60 min, Shenzhen, China
Filling up the Sea with 158 Stones (1840 - 1997), Shenzhen, China
Look, Contemporary Art Museum, Beijing
1996 Taking It Out of Brocade Bag, Forty-one High School, Beijing
Uncovering, Capital Normal University Museum, Beijing
Stamping the Water, Lahsa River, Tibet
Breathing, Tian An Men and Hou Hai Lake, Beijing
1995 Heavenly Secret, Hou Hai Teahouse, Beijing
Secret Divulging, Ban Shang Hu Tong, Beijing
Chinese Medicine, Bao Fang Hu Tong, Beijing
Writing Diary with Water, Ban Shang Hu Tong, Beijing
Stone Throwing, China, Japan, Korea, Hong Kong, Holland, UK, USA, India, Macao, Germany, Austria, Italy, France…
Bei Fang, Zhao Yao Gallery, Beijing
1994 Video Installation Art Show, Forty-one Middle School, Beijing
Life with Cultural Noodles
, Ban Shang Hu Tong No.23, Beijing
One More Lesson: Do You Want to Play with Me?, the Central Academy of Fine Arts Gallery, Beijing
1992 Oil Paintings, Cultural Palace, Beijing

Selected Group Exhibitions
2006 Only One Wall, Art Space, Sydney
News, Beijing Commune, Beijing
2005 Water, Water Everywhere…, Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art, USA
Two Asia, Two Europe, Dulun Museum of Contemporary Arts, Shanghai
The Plain of Heaven, 820 Washington Street, NYC at the end of the highline, New York
The Other End, He Xiang Ning Arts Museum, Shen Zhen
Skin of the City, Macao Arts Center, Macao
Performance Art in China Exhibition by Invitation, Macao Arts Museum, Macao
Only One Wall, Beijing Commune, Beijing
On the Water, Munich, Germany
Indeterminate States, Cisneros Fontanals Arts Foundation, Miami
Elegance of Silence, Mori Art Museum, Tokyo, Japan
DO NOT INTERRUPT YOUR ACTIVITIES, Royal College of Art Galleries, London
2005 The Biennale of Contemporary Chinese Art in Montpellier, Montpellier, France
2004 City Signal, National Studio of Contemporary Art, France
Visual Performance, Walsh Gallery, Chicago
The Monk & The Demon, Contemporary Art from China, Contemporary Art Museum, Lyon
Play with Energy, House of Shiseido, Tokyo
Officina Asia, Contemporary Art Museum, Bologna, Rimini and Cesena, Italy
Is it Art?, Art Museum, Xi An
Human Scale contemporary dance, Guangzhou
Faces in the Crowd - Picturing Modern Life from Manet to Today, Whitechaple Gallery, London
Concrete Horizons: Chinese Contemporary Art Exhibition, Adam Art Gallery, Wellington, New Zealand
Asian Traffic, 4A Gallery, Sydney
26th Sao Paolo Biennale, Brazil
2003 Together With Farmer Workers, Today Art Gallery, Beijing
Second Hand Reality, Today Art Gallery, Beijing
Open Sky, Duolun MOMA, Shanghai
Open Era, National Art Museum of China
Lijing International Art Workshop, Lijiang Mu Palace
Left-wing, Beijing
Left Hand, Right Hand, Beijing 798 New Art Zone
How Latitudes Become Forms: Art In A Global Age, Walker Art Center, Minneapolis
Alors, la Chine : Chinese Contemporary Art, Center Pompidou, Paris
8th Istanbul Biennale, Istanbul
Everyday - Contemporary Art from China, Japan, Korea, Thailand,Kunstforeningen Copenhagen, Denmark
2002 What? A Tale in Free Images, Memling Museum, Brugge
Fourth Asia-Pacific Triennial of Contemporary Art (APT 2002), Queensland Art Gallery, Australia
On my way to Timbuktu…, IFA Gallery Berlin
LONGMARCH, China
Taipei Biennale, Taipei Art Museum
Gwangju Biennale, Gwangju, Korea
Guangzhou Triennial, Guangdong Museum of Art
ARCO, Madrid, Spain
2001 UP-ricing: Contemporary Visual Art Project, Hong Kong
Shot in the Face, Earl Lu Gallery, Lasalle Gallery, Singapore
Living in Time, Chinese Contemporary Art Exhibition, Hamburger Bahnhof Museum, Berlin
Hot Pot: Chinese Contemporary Art Show, Kunstnernes Hus, Norway
Dancing with Farmer Workers, East Modern Art Centre, Beijing
China & Germany, Dahau, Germany
1st Architecture Biennale, China National Galley, Beijing
Travelers Tales, inIVA Art Porject, inIVA, London
2000 At the New Century, 1979-1999 Contemporary Art of China Invitation Arts Exhibition, Chengdu Contemporary Art Museum, China
The Flying Circus Project, Singapore
New Games, Nanjing
Fuck Off, Shanghai
Expo 2000, Hanover, Germany
Cancel, Exhibiting Experimental Art in China, Smart Museum of Art, Chicago
18 World Wide Video Festival, Amsterdam
Microwave Festival 2000, Videotage, HongKong
Virtual and Real, Wan Fung Art Gallery, Beijing
Unusual & Usual, YuanGong Modern Art Museum, Shanghai
Home, Shanghai
New Conceptual Photography: China Scene
, Century Theater, Beijing
1999 Fictitious Future,Guangdong Museum of Art
Amsterdam Fest
, Amsterdam, Holland
Khoj International Artists Workshop, India
Cities on the Move, Museum of Contemporary Art, Helsinki, Finland
Fast >> Forward: New Chinese Video Art, Macao Contemporary Art Center, Macao
Beijing Document, Geothe Institute, Beijing
I am Here, Bad Ems, Germany
Supermarket: Art for Sale, Shanghai
Transience: Chinese Art at the End of Twentieth Century, The Smart Museum of Art, University of Chicago, Chicago
Transmedial: 9th Video Fest, Berlin
1998 It's Me!: A Profile of Chinese Contemporary Art in the 90s, Beijing Forbidden City
Trace of Existence: A Private Showing of Chinese Contemporary Art
, Art Now Studio, Beijing
Inside Out: New Chinese Art Exhibition
, Asia Society and PS 1 Contemporary Art Center, New York
Space and Vision, Beijing Contemporary Art Gallery, Beijing
Site Art Project, Tokyo
Transmedial: 8th Video Fest, Berlin
1997-98 Wildlife Starting from 1997 Jingzhe, Beijing, Shanghai, Chengdu, and Guangzhou, China
1997 '97 Contemporary Art in Fuzhou, Fujian, China
Steirischer Herbst 97
, Graz, Austria
Demonstration of Video Art, Central Academy of Fine Arts Gallery
Suwan City–Beijing City, Beijing
1996 The First Academic Exhibition of Chinese Contemporary Art, China National Gallery, Beijing
Reality: Present and Future, Art Gallery of Beijing and International Art Palace, Beijing
'96 International Com-Art Show in Suwon: China, Korea and Japan, Suwon City, Korea
Keeper of Waters: United Project for Outdoor Experiment with American Artists, Tibet
In the Name of Art, Shanghai Art Museum, Shanghai
Documents of Chinese Avant-garde Art, Q Gallery, Japan
Out of the White Cube, Hong Kong
1995 Art Critics' Nomination Show of Sculpture and Installation, Beijing
File No. 1: Conceptual Documents for Impossible Art, New York
Open Your Eyes, Close Your Mouth, Beijing and Berlin Communication Exhibition, Capital Normal University Museum, Beijing
'95 Gwangju Biennial, Gwangju, Korea
New Asian Art Show, China, Korea, Japan, Tokyo and Osaka, Japan
'95 Outdoor Art, Beijing
Sound, Performance, Beijing
1994 '94 International Com-Art Show in Beijing, China, Korea, Japan, Capital Normal University Museum, Beijing
'94 Outdoor Art, Beijing
Post-October 1st , Zhoa Yao Gallery, Beijing
Hanmuo Art Agenda, Hanmuo Art Center, Beijing
The Third Document Exhibition of Chinese Contemporary Art, Shanghai
1993 Exhibition of Modern Art in China, Singapore
1992 The 1st Biennial Art Exhibition in Guangzhou, Guangzhou
1991 The 1st Annual Exhibition of Chinese Oil Painting, Chinese History Museum, Beijing
1990 The 1st Art Exhibition of Chinese Oil Painting in Japan, Tokyo and Osaka
1989 The 7th National Exhibition of Fine Arts, Nanjing Museum, China
1988 New Time Painting Exhibition, China National Gallery, Beijing
1987 The 1st National Exhibition of Oil Painting, Shanghai

Reviews, Publications and Selected Material
2007 Chinese Contemporary Art News, June 2007
2006 New York Times, July 21, 2006
2003 Art in America, May 2003, by Eleanor Heartney
  Yishu, March 2003
2002 Chopsticks, Chambers Fine Art, New York

Awards
2000
UNESCO/ASCHBERG bursary laureate

Collections
Capital National University Museum, Beijing
Chinese Artists Association
Beijing Artists Association
COM-ART Museum, Korea
Asian Art Museum, Fukuoka, Japan

 
 
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