Born in Beijing, China, 1966
Lives and works in Beijing, China

AWARD
2000
UNESCO/ASCHBERG bursary laureate

SOLO EXHIBITIONS AND ACTIVITIES (selection)
1992
Show of Oil Paintings, Culture palace, Beijing, China
1994
Another Lesson: Do You Want to Play with Me?, installation show and performance, Central Academy of Fine Arts Gallery, Beijing, China
Video Installation Art Show, Forty-one Middle School, Beijing, China
Life with Cultural Noodles, installation, Ban Shang Hu Tong No.23, Beijing. China
1995
Stone-throwing, environmental performance, since 1995 to now, China, Japan, Korea, Hong Kong, Holland, UK, USA, India, Macao, Germany, Austria, Italy, France…
Diary with Water, private and personal performance, Ban Shang Hutong No.23, Beijing, China
Chinese Medicine, installation and performance, Bao Fang Hutong No.12, Beijing, China
Secret-divulging, installation, Ban Shang Hu Tong, Beijing, China
Bei Fang, installation, Zhao Yao Gallery, Beijing, China
Heavenly Secret, sound installation, Hou Hai Teahouse, Beijing, China
1996
Breathing, performance, Tiananmen Square and Hou Hai Lake, Beijing, China
Uncovering, Video Installation, Capital Normal University Museum, Beijing, China
Stamping the Water, Performance, Lhasa River, Tibet.
Taking It out of Brocade Bag, video installation, Forty-one Middle School, Beijing, China
1997
LOOK, Video Installation Art Show, Contemporary Art Museum, Beijing, China
Filling up the Sea with 158 Stone (1840--1997), environmental performance, Shenzhen, China
1997.6.30----1997.7.1 Writing Time with Water 60 min, performance, Shenzhen, China
Slap, Video Installation Art Show, Ruins for Arts Berlin, Germany
1998
Temporary office construction, video installation and performance, Tao Gallery, Beijing, China
1999
Jump, performance video, Tiananmen, Beijing, China and Venice, Italy
2000
Award to Cai Guoqiang and Award to Rant Collector’s Courtyard, websites, www.Chinese -art.com and www. Tom.com
Edible Pen Jing (Bonsai), installation and performance, Gasworks International Art Studio, London, UK
Song Dong in London, installation and performance, Tablet Gallery, London, UK
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
2003
SARS TIMES: Song Dong and Yin Xiuzhen, video installations event, ISE Foundation, New York, USA
2004
WATER WORKS, Chinese Arts Centre, Manchester, UK

GROUP EXHIBITIONS: (selection)
1987
First National Exhibition of Oil Painting, Shanghai, China.
1988
New Time Painting Exhibition, National Art Museum of China, Beijing, China
1989
Seventh National Exhibition of Fine Arts, Nanjing Museum, China.
1990
First Exhibition of Chinese Oil Painting, Tokyo and Osaka, Japan
1991
First Annual Exhibition of Chinese Oil Painting, Chinese History Museum, Beijing, China
1992
First Biennial Art Exhibition in Guangzhou, Guangzhou, China
1993
Exhibition of Modern Art in China, Singapore.
1994
The Third Document Exhibition of Chinese Contemporary Art, Shanghai, China
Hanmuo Art Agenda, Hanmuo Art Center, Beijing, China
POST-OCTOBER 1ST, Zhao Yao Gallery, Beijing, China
’94 Outdoor Art, Beijing, China
'94 International Com-Art Show in Beijing, China·Korea·Japan, Capital Normal University Museum, Beijing, China                 
1995
SOUND, Performance, Beijing, China
’95 Outdoor Art, Beijing, China
New Asian Art Show, China·Korea·Japan, Tokyo and Osaka, Japan.
'95 Gwangju Biennial, Gwangju, Korea.
Open Your Eyes, Close Your Mouth, Beijing and Berlin Communication Exhibition,      
Capital Normal University Museum, Beijing, China
FILE No.1 CONCEPTUAL DOCUMENTS FOR IMPOSSIBLE ART, New York, USA
Art Critics' Nomination Show of Sculpture and Installation, Beijing, China
1996
Out of the White Cube, Hong Kong, China
Documents of Chinese Avant-garde Art, Q Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
In the Name of Art, Shanghai Art Museum, China
Keeper of Water, United Project for Outdoor Experiment with American Artists, Tibet, China
'96 International Com-Art Show in Suwon, China·Korea·Japan, Suwon City, Korea
’96 Chinese Contemporary Art “Reality: Present and Future”, Art Gallery of Beijing, International Art Palace, Beijing, China
The First Academic Exhibition of Chinese Contemporary Art, National Art Museum of China, Capital Normal University Museum, Beijing
1997
Suwan City -- Beijing city, Chinese and Korean Contemporary Art Exchange Program, Beijing, China
’97 Contemporary Art in Fuzhou, Fujian, China.
1997-98
Wildlife Starting From 1997 Jing Zhe, Director Curator and One of Artists, Beijing, Shanghai, Chengdu, Guangzhou, China.
1997
Demonstration of Video Art’97 China, The Central Academy of Fine Arts Gallery, Beijing.
Steirischer Herbst 97  Borderlines, Graz, Austria.
1998
Trace of Existence: A Private Showing of China Contemporary Art ’98, ART NOW STUDIO, Beijing.
Transmedial-98 8th video fest, Berlin, Germany
Site Art Project, Tokyo, Japan
space and vision, Beijing Contemporary Art Gallery, Beijing, China
Inside Out: New Chinese Art exhibition, P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center, U.S.A.
It’s me! A profile of Chinese Contemporary Art in the 90’s, Beijing Forbidden City TAIMIAO
1999
Transmedial-99 9th video fest, Berlin, Germany
Transience: Chinese Art At the end of 20th Century, The Smart Museum of Art Chicago, USA
Supermarket, Art for sale, Shanghai, China
Fast>> forward New Chinese Video Art, Macao Contemporary Art Center, Macau, China
I am here, Bad Ems, Germany.
BEIJING DOCUMENT, Goethe Institut, Beijing, China
Cities on the move 7, Museum of Contemporary Art, Helsinki, Finland.
KHOJ INTERNATIONAL ARTISTS WORKSHOP，India。
Amsterdam Fest, The Netherlands
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.
New Conceptual Photography: China Scene, Century Theater, Beijing, China
HOME, Chinese Contemporary Art Show, Shanghai, China.
EXPO 2000, Hanover, Germany.
18 World Wide Video Festival, Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
Fuck Off, Shanghai, China. 
Virtual and Real, Wan Fung Art Gallery, Beijing, China
Unusual & Usual; A Contemporary Art Exhibition, Yuan Gong Modern Art Museum in Shanghai, China
Cancel, Exhibiting Experimental Art in China, Smart Museum of Art, Chicago.
The Flying Circus Project, Singapore
New Games, Nanjing, China
CHINA &GERMANY Art Show, Dahau, Germany
Fictitious Future, Guangdong Museum of Art, Guangdong, China
2001
1st Architecture Biennale, China National Galley, Beijing, China
Hot Pot: Chinese Contemporary Art Show, Kunstnernes Hus, Norway
Travellers Tales, inIVA Art Project, inIVA, London, UK
UP-rising: Contemporary Visual Art Project, Hong Kong
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.
2002
2002 ARCO, Madrid, Spain
2002 Gwangju Biennale, Gwangju, Korea.
On my way to Timbouctoo…, ifa Gallery Berlin, Germany
LONGMARCH, 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, Belgium
2002 Guangzhou Triennial” Guangdong Museum of Art, Guangzhou, China
2002 Taipei Biennale, Taipei Art Museum, Taiwan
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
8th Istanbul Biennale, Istanbul, Turkey
Left Hand, Right Hand, Beijing 798 New Art zone. Beijing, China
Second Hand Reality, Today art Gallery, Beijing, China
Lijing International Art Workshop, Lijiang Mu palace
Every Day - Contemporary Art from China, Japan, Korea, Thailand,
Kunstforeningen Copenhagen, Denmark
Together with Farmworkers, Today Art Gallery, Beijing, China
Open sky, Duolun MOMA, Shanghai, China
Left-wing, Beijing, China
2004
HUMAN SCALE, contemporary dance, Guangzhou, China
“CONCRETE HORIZONS: Chinese Contemporary Art Exhibition” Adam Art Gallery, Wellington, New Zealand
Visual Performance, Walsh Gallery, Chicago, USA
Officina Asia, 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, Xian, China
Play with energy, House of Shiseido, Tokyo, Japan
Asian Traffic, 4A Gallery, Sydney, Australia
26th Sao Paolo Biennale, Sao Paolo, Brazil  
City Signal, National Studio of Contemporary Art, France
Faces in the Crowd - Picturing Modern Life from Manet to Today, Whitechapel Gallery, London, UK
2005
legance of Silence, Mori Art Museum, Tokyo, Japan
DO NOT INTERRUPT YOUR ACTIVITIES, Royal College of Art Galleries, London, UK.
Water, Water Everywhere…, Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art, Arizona, USA
2005 The Biennale of Contemporary Chinese Art in Montpellier, Montpellier, France
Water Project, Munich, Germany