1966
Born in Beijing, China
Lives and works in Beijing

Selected Solo Exhibitions
2008   
Song Dong Zendai Museum of Modern Art, Shanghai, China
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”, Time 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
“1997.6.30 - 1997.7.1 Writing Time with Water 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, Lahsa River, Tibet, China 
1995
“Heavenly Secret”, sound installation, Houhai Teahouse, Beijing, China
“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, Banshang Hutong No. 23, Beijing, China 
“Secret-Divulging”, installation, Banshang Hutong, Beijing, China
“Bei Fang”, installation, Zhao Yao Gallery, Beijing, China
1994
“Another Lesson: Do You Want to Play with Me?”, installation show and performance, Central Academy of Fine Arts Gallery, Beijing, China
1992
Show of Oil Paintings, Culture Palace, Beijing, China

Selected  Group Exhibitions
2008  
Community of Tastes Iberia Center for Contemporary Art, Beijing, China
Re-Imagining Asia HKW, House of World Cultures, Berlin, Germany
2007  
China Now COBRA Museum Voor Moderne Kunst, Amstelveen, Holland
2006
“Only One Wall”, Art Space, Sydney, Australia
“News”, Beijing Commune, Beijing, China
“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
2005 The Biennale of Contemporary Chinese Art in Montpellier, Montpellier, France
“On the Water”, Munich, Germany
“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
“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, 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 8th 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
“Everyday: 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
2002 ARCO, Madrid, Spain
2002 Gwangju Biennale, Gwangju, Korea
“On My Way to Timbouctoo…”, Ifa Gallery, Berlin, Germany
“Long March”, China
The 4th 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, China
2001
China & Germany Art show, Dahau, Germany
“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”, Shanghai, China
“Virtual and Real”, Wan Fung Art Gallery, Beijing, China
“Unusual & usual”, Yuan Gong Modern Art Museum, Shanghai, China
“Cancel: Exhibiting Experimental Art in China”, Smart Museum of Art, Chicago
“The Flying Circus Project”, Singapore
“New Games”, Nanjing, China
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
1997
“Wildlife Starting From 1997 Jing Zhe”, director curator and one of artists, Beijing; Shanghai; Chengdu; Guangzhou, China
’97 Contemporary Art in Fuzhou, Fujian, China
Steirischer Herbst 97, “Borderlines”, Graz, Austria
1996
“Out of the White Cube”, Hong Kong, China
“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
1995
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
1994
The Third Document Exhibition of Chinese Contemporary Art, Shanghai, China
'94 International Com - Art Show in Beijing, China•Korea•Japan, Capital Normal University Museum, Beijing, China
1992
The First Biennial Art Exhibition in Guangzhou, China
1989
The 7th National Exhibition of Fine Arts, Nanjing Museum, China, China
1987
First National Exhibition of Oil Painting, Shanghai, China

Award
2006
The Grand Award of Gwangju Biennale 2006, Gwangju
2000
UNESCO/ASCHBERG Bursary Laureate