Song Dong     宋东

1966 born in Beijing
1985- studies at the Fine Arts Department of the Capital Normal University
Lives and works as independent artist in Beijing
 

Installations and performances

2007
“Song Dong in Beijing Commune”, Beijing Commune, Beijing, China (Solo)

2006

“Eating the City Project”, Selfridges public art program, London, UK  (Solo)
“The Way of Chopsticks: Song Dong & Yin Xiuzhen”, Chambers Fine Art, New York, USA ( Solo)
“Restroom M”, Gallery at REDCAT, Los Angeles, USA  (Solo)
“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

“Waste Not”, Beijing Tokyo Art Project, Beijing 798 Factory, China (Solo)
“The 59th Minute”, Time Square, New York, USA (Solo)
“Elegance 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, USA
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

Irreducible, Wattis Institute for Contemporary Art, San Francisco, USA
"Between Past and Future: New Photography and Video from China", Seattle Art Museum, Seattle; The David and Alfred Smart Museum of Art, Chicago; Musuem of Contemporary Art Chicago, USA
2004
Between Past and Future: New Photography and Video from China, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago; The David and Alfred Smart Museum of Art, Chicago, USA; International Center of Photography (ICP), New York, USA
La ville Qui fait Signes, Le Fresnoy, Studio National des Arts Contemporains, France
26th Bienal Internacional de São Paulo, Fundação Bienal de São Paulo, Sao Paulo, Brazil
Slow Rushes, SMC Contemporary Art Centre, Vilnius, Lithuania
Summer Breeze, Art Beatus Exchange Square, Hong Kong
The Logbook - An Art-Project about Communication and Cultural Exchange, Longmarchfoundation, 798, Beijing, China
Is It Art? - Black Show, Noanoa Center, Xian, China
Is It Art? - White Show, Shanxi Provincial Art Museum, Xian, China
Asian Traffic, Asia-Australia Arts Centre, Sydney, Australia
Doing Nothing anywhere is, Vitamin Creative Space, Guangzhou, China
Concrete Horizons: Contemporary Art from China, Adam Art Gallery, Wellington, USA
Chine: Génération Vidéo, Maison Européenne de la Photographie, Paris, France
Water Works, Chinese Arts Centre, Manchester, UK
Human Scale - Contemporary Dance, Guangzhou, China
Visual Performance, Walsh Gallery, Chicago, USA
Officina Asia, Contemporary Art Museum, Bologna , Rimini and Cesena, Italy
Le Moine et le Démon, Musée d'Art Contemporain de Lyon, Lyon, France
Is it Art? , Art Museum, Xi An, China
Play with Energy, House of Shiseido, Tokyo, Japan
City Signal, National Studio of Contemporary Art, France
2003
8th International Istanbul Biennial - Poetic Justice, Istanbul Foundation for Culture and Arts, Istanbul
SARS TIMES : Song Dong and Yin Xiuzhen, ISE Foundation , New York, USA
How Latitudes Become Forms: Art in a Global Age, Walker Art Center, Minneaplise
Open Era, National Art Museum of China
Alors, la Chine?, Centre Pompidou , Paris, France
Left Hand, Right Hand, 798 , Beijing, China
Second Hand Reality, Today Art Gallery, Beijing, China
Lijing International Art Workshop, Lijiang Mu Palace , China
Every Day - Contemporary Art from China, Japan, Korea, Thailand, Kunstforeningen Copenhagen, Denmark
Open Sky, Duolun MOMA, Shanghai, China
Left -Wing, Beijing, China
2002
Eyeball, Beijing International Switching System Corporation Ltd. BISC, Beijing, China
Chopsticks: Song Dong and Yin Xiuzhen, Chambers Fine Art, New York, USA
2002 ARCO, Madrid , Spain
2002 Gwangju Biennale, Gwangju, Korea
On my way to Timbouctoo…, CIFA 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
The 1st Guangzhou Triennial, : A Decade of Experimental Chinese Art (1990-2000), Guangdong Museum of Art, Guangzhou, China
2002 Taipei Biennale, Taipei Art Museum, Taipei, Taiwan
Paris-Pékin, Espace Pierre Cardin, Paris, France
2001
China & Germany Art Show, Dahau, Germany
Fictitious Future, Guangdong Museum of Art, Guangzhou, China
1st Architecture Biennale, China National Galley, Beijing, China
Hot Pot: Chinese Contemporary Art Show, Kunstnernes Hus, Norway
Travellers TalesArt Project, IVA, London, UK
UP-ricing: 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
2000
Edible Pen Jing (Bonsai), Gasworks International Art Studio, London, UK
Song Dong in London, Tablet Gallery, London, UK
At the New Century, 1979-1999 Contemporary art of China Invitation Arts Exhibition, Chengdu Contemporary Art Museum, China
Microwave Festival 2000, HongKong
New Conceptual Photography : China Scene, Century Theater, Beijing, China
Home - Chinese Contemporary Art Show, Shanghai, China
Expo2000, Hanover, Germany
18 World Wide Video Festival, Amsterdam, the Nederlands
Fuck Off, Shanghai, China
Virtual and Real, Wan Fung Art Gallery, Beijing, China
Unusual & usual ; A contemporary Art Exhibition, Yuan Gong Modern Art Museum, Shanghai, China
Cancel, Exhibiting Experimental Art in China, The David and Alfred Smart Museum of Art, Chicago, USA
The Flying Circus Project, Singapore
New Games, Nanjing, China
Everyday Attitude the Upriver Gallery, Changdu
Portraits, Figures, Couples and Groups from the Mcaf Foundation, BizArt, Shanghai
1999
Food for Thought, Mu Foundation Eindhoven, Holland
Jump, Tian An Men, Beijing, China; Venice, Italy
Transmedial-99 - 9th Video Festival, Berlin, Germany
Transience: Chinese Art At the end of 20th Century, The David and Alfred Smart Museum of Art, Chicago, USA
Supermarket - Art for Sale, Shanghai, China
Fast - forward - New Chinese video art, Macao Contemporary Art Center, Macao
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, Holland, The Nederlands
1998
Temporary Office Construction, Tao Gallery, Beijing., China
Trace of Existence: A Private Showing of China Contemporary Art'98, Art Now Studio, Beijing, China
Transmedial-98 - 8th Video Festival, 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 90s, Forbidden City Taimiao, Beijing, China
1997
Taking It out of Brocade Bag, Forty-one Middle School, Beijing, China
Filling up the Sea with 158 Stone (1840-1997), Shenzhen, China
1997.6.30----1997.7.1 Writing Time with Water 60 min, Shenzhen, China
Slap - Ruins for Arts, Berlin, Germany
Suwan City---Beijing City, Beijing, China
'97 Contemporary Art in Fuzhou, Fujian , China
Wildlife Starting From 1997 Jing Zhe, Beijing; Shanghai; Chengdu; Guangzhou China
Demonstration of Video Art'97 China, The Central Academy of Fine Arts Gallery, Beijing, China
Steirischer Herbst 97 "Borderlines", Graz, Austria
1996
Original Sound (ten artists' performances) Dong Bianmen, Beijing
Documents from Chinese Avant-Garde Art Gallery Q, Tokyo
1996 Inside Out: New Chinese Art San Francisco Museum of Modern Art and Asia Society Galleries, New York
Breathing, Tian An Men Square; Hou Hai Lake, Beijing, China
Uncovering, Capital Normal University Museum, Beijing, China
Stamping the Water, Lahsa River, Tibet
Taking It out of Brocade Bag, Forty-one Middle School, Beijing, China
Out of the White Cube, Hong Kong
Documents of Chinese Avant-garde Art, Q Gallery, Japan
In the Name of Art, Shanghai Art Museum, Shanghai, 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 the International Art Palace, Beijing, China
The First Academic Exhibition of Chinese Contemporary Art, National Art Museum of China, Capital Normal University Museum, 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, Ban Shang Hu Tong No.23, Beijing, China.
Chinese Medicine, Bao Fang Hu Tong No.12 , Beijing, China
Secret - Divulging, Ban Shang Hu Tong, Beijing, China
Bei Fang, Zhao Yao Gallery, Beijing, China
Heavenly Secret, Hou Hai Teahouse, Beijing, China
SOUND, Beijing., China
New Asian Art Show - China - Korea - Japan, Tokyo; 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
Breathing Beijing Performance
Water Writing Diary Performance
Printing on Water Lhasa Performance
1994
Video Art Group Project Contemporary Art Museum, Beijing
Another Lesson: Do You Want to Play with Me? - installation 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
The Third Document Exhibition of Chinese Contemporary Art, Shanghai. China
Hanmo Art Agenda, Hanmo Art Center, Beijing, China
Post-October 1st, Zhao Yao Gallery, Beijing, China
Exhibition of Modern Art in China, Singapore
'94 Outdoor Art, Beijing, China
'94 International Com-Art Show in Beijing, China - Korea - Japan, Capital Normal University Museum, Beijing, China
1993
Exhibition of Modern Art in China, Singapore
1992
Show of Oil Paintings, Culture Palace, Beijing, China
1st Biennial Oil Paintings, Guangzhou, China
1991
First Annual Exhibition of Chinese Oil Painting, Chinese History Museum, Beijing, China
1990
First Exhibition of Chinese Oil Painting, Tokyo; Osaka, Japan
1989
Seventh National Exhibition of Fine Arts, Nanjing Museum, China
1988
New Time Painting Exhibition, National Art Museum of China, Beijing
1987
First National Exhibition of Oil Painting, Shanghai, China