1966
Born in Beijing, China
1989
BA, Oil Painting at the Fine Arts Department of Capital Normal University, Beijing, China
Lives and works in Beijing

Selected Solo Exhibitions
2010
Song Dong: A Blot on the Landscape, Pace Beijing, Beijing, China
China in Four Seasons: Song Dong + Yin Xiuzhen, Govett-Brewster Art Gallery, New Zealand
2009
Tofu Kungfu Polit-Sheer-Form, Beijing Commune, Beijing, China
Waste Not, Museum of Modern Art, New York, U.S.A
2008
Library, Beijing Commune, Beijing, China
Eating the City in Barcelona, Fundació Joan Miró, Barcelona, Spain
Water Memory, Laing Art Gallery, Newcastle, UK
Song Dong, Zendai Museum of Modern Art, Shanghai, China
2007
PSFO in Shanghai, Bizart,Shanghai,China
Song Dong in Beijing Commune, Beijing Commune, Beijing, China
2006
Only One Wall, Art Space, Sydney, Australia
Only One Wall, Beijing Commune, Beijing, China
Eating the City Project, Selfridges Public Art Program, London, UK
The Way of Chopsticks: Song Dong & Yin Xiuzhen, Chambers Fine Art, New York, U.S.A
Restroom M, Gallery at REDCAT, Los Angeles, U.S.A
2005
Waste Not, Beijing Tokyo Art Project, Beijing 798 Factory, China
The 59th Minute, Time Square, New York, U.S.A
2004
Water Works, Chinese Arts Center, Manchester, UK
2003
SARS Times: Song Dong and Yin Xiuzhen: Video Installations Event, ISE Foundation, New York, U.S.A
2002
Eyeball: Video Installations Event, Beijing International Switching System Corporation Ltd BISC, Beijing, China
Chopsticks: Song Dong and Yin Xiuzhen: Videos Installations Event, Chambers Fine Art, New York, U.S.A
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; Germany
Filling up the Sea with 158 Stone(1840-1997): Environmental 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
Throwing a Stone: Environmental Performance (since 1995 to now), China, Japan, Korea, Hong Kong, The Netherlands, UK, USA, India, Macao, Germany, Austria, Italy, France...
Water Diary: 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
Life with Cultural Noodles, Banshang Hutong, Beijing, China
Forty-one Middle School: Video Installation Art Show, Beijing, China
1992
Show of Oil Paintings, Culture Palace, Beijing, China

Selected Group Exhibitions
2010
Great Performances, Pace Beijing, Beijing, China
China in Four Seasons: Song Dong + Yin Xiuzhen, Govett-Brewster Art Gallery, New Zealand
The 10th Liverpool Biennial, Liverpool, England
2009
Tofu, Shanghai Songjiang Creative Studio, Shanghai, China
Re-Imagining Asia, The New Art Gallery Walsall, UK
The end of Video, LOOP, Seoul, South Korea
SU:MBISORI, Jeju Museum of Art, South Korea
Everything, Then, Passes Between Us, Kolnische Kunstverein, Germany
2009 Shenzhen & Hongkong Bi-City of Urbanism/Architecture, Shenzhen, China
Government Building Complex R6 project, Oslo, Norway
2008
Re-Imagining Asia HKW, House of World Cultures, Berlin, Germany
Community of Tastes, Iberia Center for Contemporary Art, Beijing, China
2007
Asian Attitude/European Attitude, Art Hall Faust, Hannover, Germany; National Museum of Poznan,Poland
China Facing Reality, Mumok Museum, Monderner Kunst Stiftung Wein, Vienna, Austria
Soft Power: Asian Attitude, Shanghai Zendai Museum of Modern Art, Shanghai, China
The Sixth Shenzhen Contemporary Sculpture Exhibition: A Vista of Perspectives, OCT Contemporary Art Center, Shenzhen, China
Rejected Collection, Ke Center for Contemporary Arts, Shanghai, China
China Now, Cobra Museum Voor Moderne Kunst, Amstelveen, The Netherlands
2006
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
In and Out or In-between: N kinds of Space Displacement, SOKA Contemporary Space, Beijing, China
Elegance of Silence, Mori Art Museum, Tokyo, Japan
2005 The Biennale of Contemporary Chinese Art in Montpellier, Montpellier, France
On the Water, Munich, Germany
Water, Water Everywhere…, Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art, Scottsdale, U.S.A
Only One Wall, Beijing Commune, Beijing, China
The Plain of Heaven, 820 Washington Street, NYC at the end of the highline, New York, U.S.A
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, U.S.A
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, U.S.A
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, Sao Paolo, 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, Left Bank Commune, Beijing, China
The Blue Sky Doesn't Establish to Defend ,Tokyo Art Project, Beijing, China
Distance, Guangdong Art Museum, Guangzhou, China
Return NatureⅡ: An Exhibition of International Contemporary Art, Nanjing Shenghua Arts Center, Nanjing, China
Humanism in China: A Contemporary Record of Photography, Guangdong Art Museum, Guangzhou, China
2002
ARCO, Madrid, Spain
Gwangju Biennale, Gwangju, Korea
On My Way to Timbouctoo…, Ifa Gallery, Berlin, Germany
Long March: a Walking Visual Exhibition, Beijing, China
The fourth Asia-Pacific Triennial of Contemporary Art, 2002 (APT 2002), Queensland Art Gallery, Australia
Harvest, Beijing National Agricultural Pavilion, Beijing, China
What? A Tale in Free Images, Memling Museum, Brugge, Belgium
2002 Guangzhou Triennial, Guangdong Museum of Art, China
2002 Taipei Biennale, Taipei Art Museum, Taipei, 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
Loft New Media Art Festival, Loft New Medium Art Center, Beijing, China
Next Wave News, Loft New Medium Art Center, Beijing, China
Basel Expo, Basel, Switzerland
Sound 2: Contemporary Art Exhibition, Jieziyuan, Beijing, China 
Crossroads, Chengdu Contemporary Art Museum, Cheng Du, China
Non-Linear Narrative:The New-Media Art Festival, China Academy of Fine Art, Hangzhou, China
Money Funny Honey, Taikang Top Space, Beijing, China
Knowledge is Power: Contemporary Art Exhibit, Xidan Book Emporium, Beijing, China
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
Video Circle Performances 2000, Hong Kong, China; Berlin, China
Home: Chinese Contemporary Art Show, Shanghai, China
EXPO 2000, Hanover, Germany
China Avant-garde Artists Documents, Fukuoka Art Museum, Fukuoka, Japan
The 18th World Wide Video Festival, Amsterdam, the Netherlands
Fuck Off, Eastlink Gallery, Shanghai, China
Portraits, Figures, Couples and Groups from the Mcaf Foundation, BizArt, 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, Theatworks, 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 Square, 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
Space and Vision, Beijing Contemporary Art Gallery, Beijing, China
Transmedial-1998, ’98 Video Fest, Berlin, Germany
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 90s, Beijing Forbidden City Taimiao, China
1997
Wildlife Starting From 1997 Jing Zhe, Director Curator and One of Artists, Beijing; Shanghai; Chengdu; Guangzhou, China, with Guo Shirui
’97 Contemporary Art in Fuzhou, Fujian, China
Steirischer Herbst 97: Borderlines, Graz, Austria, with Zhang Yonghe
1996
Out of the White Cube, Hong Kong, China
In the Name of Art, Shanghai Art Museum, China
’96 International Com-Art Show in Suwon, China·Korea·Japan, Suwon City, South Korea
Keeper of Water, United Project for Outdoor Experiment with American Artists, Tibet, China
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 University Museum, Beijing, China
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, Guangzhou, China
1989
The Seventh National Exhibition of Fine Arts, Nanjing Museum, Nanjing, China
1988
New Time Painting Exhibiton, National Art Museun of China, Beijing, 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