Song Dong
Biography
Song Dong 宋冬
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
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