Song Dong

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

Solo Exhibitions
2009
Waste Not, Museum of Modern Art, New York, USA
SU: MBISORI, Jeju Museum of Art, Korea
2008
Eating the City in Barcelona, Fundació Joan Miró, Barcelona, Spain
Song Dong, Shanghai Zendai Museum of Modern Art, Shanghai, China
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
2009
Re-Imagining Asia, New Art Gallery, Walsall, UK
China Urban, Cooley Memorial Art Gallery, Reed College, Portland, USA
2008
Made in China: Contemporary Chinese Art, Israel Museum, Jerusalem, Israel
2007
Net: Re-imagining Space, Time and Culture, Chambers Fine Art, Beijing, China
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
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
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


Yin Xiu Zhen

1963
Born in Beijing, China
1985-89
Majored in Oil Painting at the Fine Arts Department of Capital Normal University, Beijing, Awarded B.A. degree
present
Lives and works in Beijing

Solo Exhibitions
2010
Project 92, Museum of Modern Art, New York, USA
Yin Xiuzhen: Works 1996-2008, Chambers Fine Art, New York, USA
2008
Commune, Galerie Weltecho, Chemnitz, Germany
Yin Xiuzhen: Introspective Cavity, Ullens Center for Contemporary Art, Beijing, China
2006
The Way of Chopsticks, Chambers Fine Art, New York
2004
Fashion Terrorism, Town Hall, Friedrichshafen, Germany
2003
SARS TIMES: Song Dong & Yin Xiuzhen, ISE Foundation, New York
2002
Chopsticks: Song Dong & Yin Xiuzhen, Chambers Fine Art, New York
2001
Clotheres Airplane—made in Siemens, Siemens art project “What are they doing here?” An artwork by Yin xiuzhen in collaboration with the employees of STDC
Installation and new media, Asian Fine Arts Berlin Gallery, Germany
2000
Building Materials, 200 Gertrude front gallery, Melbourne
1998
Brain, Manchester Craft Center, UK
1997
Sun Clothes, Hua Yan Li, Beijing
Dinning Table, Ruine for Arts, Berlin, Germany
1996
Ruined City, Capital Normal University Museum, Beijing
1995
Installations, Beijing Contemporary Art Museum, Beijing

Selected Group Exhibitions
2009
Harmonic Vision, Carnegie Hall, New York, USA
Urban China, Cooley Gallery, Reed College, Portland, USA
Art Map, CAOS (Siri Industrial Arts Centre), Terni, Italy
2008
Orients sans frontières, de Beyrouth à Pékin sur les traces de la croisière jaune, Espace Louis Vuitton, Paris
All Inclusive: a Tourist World, Schirn Kunsthalle, Frankfurt, Germany
2007
La Biennale di Venezia, Venice, Italy
Global Feminisms, Brooklyn Museum, New York, USA
Facing Reality, MuMok, Wien, Austria
2005
CONVERGENCE at E116°/N40°, International Contemporary Art Exhibition, Platform China, Beijing
In and Out or In-between: N Kinds of Space Displacement, SOKA Contemporary Space, Beijing
Follow Me!, Chinese contemporary art show, Mori art museum, Tokyo
Art-Robe: Women Artists At The Nexus of Art and Fashion, UNESCO Headquarters, France
2005 The Biennale of Contemporary Chinese Art in Montpellier, Montpellier, France
The Wall, Chinese Contemporary Art Exhibition, Beijing
Asian Traffic, Today Art Museum, Beijing
The Other End, Chinese Contemporary Art Exhibition, Shenzhen
2004
On the Edge: Contemporary Chinese Artists Encounter the West, Cantor Arts Center, Stanford University, USA
Officina Asia, Contemporary Art Museum, Bologna, Rimini and Cesena, Italy
Future Cities, Contemporary Art Museum, Hamilton, Canada
Between Past and Future: New Photography and Video from China, International Center of Photography, Asia Society and Museum, New York, Smart Museum of Art, University of Chicago, Museum of Contemporary Art
26th Sao Paulo Biennale, Sao Paulo, Brazil
2004 Sydney Biennale, Art Museum of New South Wales, Sydney
2003
CONCRETE HORIZONS: Chinese Contemporary Art Exhibition, Adam Art Gallery, Wellington, New Zealand
Home and Away: The New Globalism, Vancouver Art Gallery, Canada
Fabricated Paradises, Le Parvis Centre d'art Contemporain, IBOS, France
Second Hand Reality, Today Art Gallery, Beijing
Open Sky, Duolun MOMA, Shanghai
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
Everyday - From China, Japan, Korea, Thailand, Kunstforeningen Copenhagen, Denmark
2002
Time After Time: Asian a Moment, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco
Bumper Harvest: Chinese Contemporary Art Exhibition, Beijing Agriculture Museum, Beijing
2002 Guangzhou Triennial, Guangdong Museum of Art, Guangdong, China
The 2nd Fukuoka Triennale, Fukuoka Asian Art Museum, Japan
Here and Now, BueroFriedrich, Berlin, Germany
Making China, Ethan Cohen Fine Arts, New York
Site + Sight: Translating Cultures, Asian Civilizations Museum, Earl Lu Gallery, Singapore
Four Corners, Hong Kong
2002 Gwangju Biennale, Gwangju, Korea
2002 ARCO, Madrid, Spain
2001
De'rvie, Chapman University, Los Angeles, USA
Living in Time, Chinese Contemporary Art Exhibition, Hamburger Bahnhof Contemporary Art Museum, Berlin
Womanifesto Workshop, Thailand
The 4th Contemporary Sculpture Art Show, ShenZhen, China
Reinventing the Images and Signs, Universal Classical Cultural Arts Co. Ltd., Beijing
Le Paysage comme Babel, Galerie Les Filles du calvaire, Paris-Bruxelles
Crossroads, Cheng Du Contemporary Art Museum, China
Chronicles of Women: Illness as Metaphor, Shatin Town Hall Concert Hall, Hong Kong
1st Architecture Biennale, China National Galley, Beijing
2000-03
Text & Subtext, (Touring Exhibition) Earl lu Gallery, Lasalle Gallery, Singapore
2000
Unusuall & Usual; A Contemporary Art Exhibition, YuanGong Modern Art Museum, Shanghai
Fuori Uso 2000 "the Bridges," Pescara, Italy
Our Chinese Friends, ACC gallery and Bauhaus, Weimar, Germany
At The New Century, 1979-1999 Contemporary Art of China Invitation Art Exhibition, ChengDu Contemporary Museum, China
Virtual and Real, Wan Fung Art Gallery, Beijing
1999
Flooded Valley, Sao Paulo, Brazil
Food for thought: Chinese Characters, Amsterdam
Beijing Document, Goethe Institute, Beijing
I am Here, Bad Ems, Germany
Fast >>forward: New Chinese Video Art, Macao contemporary art center, Macao
Supermarket: Art for Sale, Shanghai
The Third Asia-Pacific Triennial of Contemporary Art, Brisbane, Australia
Transience: Chinese Art At the end of the 20th Century, The Smart Museum of Art, Chicago
In/from China: Art + Archictecture, Berlin, Germany
1998
It's me!: A profile of Chinese Contemporary Art in the 90s, Forbidden City, Beijing
Visiting Arts: South East Asian Artists' Residency Programme, Visiting Arts, London
Inside Out: New Chinese Art Exhibition, P.S. 1 Contemporary Art Center and Asia Society, New York
Half of the Sky: Contemporary Chinese Women Artists, Frauen Museum, Bonn
20th Century-Feminina, China National Gallery and Beijing Contemporary Art Museum, Beijing
Wildlife Starting From 1997 Jingzhe, Beijing, Shangai, Guangzhou and Chengdu, China
Trace of Existence: A Private Showing of China Contemporary Art '98, Art Now Studio, Beijing
1997-99
Cities on the move, Museum of Contemporary Art, Helsinki, Finland, Secession, Austria, Cape Museum d' Art Contemporary of Bordeaux, France and P.S. 1 Contemporary Art Center, New York
1997
Between Ego and Society: An Exhibition of Contemporary Female Artists in China, Artcmisia Gallery, Chicago
ART/OMI Visual Arts Program, ART/OMI Foundation, New York
Against the Tide, The Bronx Museum of Arts, New York
Another Long March: Chinese Contemporary Art Show, Chasse Kazerne-Breda, The Netherlands
Immutability and Fashion: Chinese Contemporary Art in the Midst of Changing Surroundings, Tokyo and Osaka and Fukuoka, Japan
1996
Suwon: Beijing Art Show, Beijing
The 2nd United Art Project with American Artists, Tibet, China
The 7th Com-Art Show of Artists from Korea, China and Japan, Suwon City, Korea
1995
File No. 1: Conceptual Documents for Impossible Art, New York
United Art Project with American Artists, Sichuan, China
Open Your Mouth, Close Your Eyes: Beijing and Berlin Art Communication Exhibition, Capital Normal University Museum, Beijing
Displacement, Capital Normal University Museum, Beijing
1994
12 o 12: Installation Art show of Women Artists, Zhao Yao Gallery, Beijing
'94 Outdoor Art, Beijing
Post October 1st, Zhao Yao Gallery, Beijing
1993
Exhibition of Modern Art in China, Singapore
The 1st Biennial of Chinese Oil Painting, China National Gallery, Beijing
1988
New Time Painting Exhibition, China National Gallery, Beijing
Reviews, Publications and Selected Material
2006
New York Times, July 21, 2006
2003
Art in America, May 2003
Yishu, March 2003
Awards
2000
China contemporary art award (CCAA)
UNESCO/ASCHBERG bursary laureate
1999
Scholarship Kuenstlerhaus Schloss Balmoral Bad Ems , Germany
1998
Visiting Arts South East Asian artists' residency program (visiting arts, London ), UK
1997
ART/OMI foundation New York , USA

Collections
Capital Normal University Museum, Beijing
COM--ART Museum, Korea
Asian Art Museum, Fukuoka, Japan