Song Dong (Chinese, born )

Timeline

1966
Born in Beijing, China
1985–1989
Attended the Capital Normal University, Beijing, China
Currently lives and works in Beijing, China

Exhibitions

2017
Song Dong Exhibitions in 2017:
Song Dong: I Don’t Know the Mandate of Heaven, Rockbund Art Museum, Shanghai, China
2016
Song Dong Exhibitions in 2016:
Song Dong: A World in A Well, chi K11 Art Space, Shanghai, China
Song Dong: A Flourishing Void, The NYU Shanghai Art Gallery, China
2015
Song Dong Exhibitions in 2015:
Song Dong: Surplus Value, Pace Beijing, China
Song Dong, Kunsthalle Dusseldorf, Germany
Song Dong: Sketch, Pace Hong Kong, China
Song Dong: Life is Art, Art is Life, Groninger Museum, The Netherlands
2014
Song Dong Exhibitions in 2014:
Song Dong: Regenerate, Baró, São Paulo, Brazil
Song Dong: Doomsday Vault, Songwon Art Center, Seoul, Korea
2013
Song Dong Exhibitions in 2013:
Song Dong: Broken Mirror, Burchfield Penny Art Center, Buffalo State College, State University of New York, NY
Song Dong: 36 Calenders, ArtisTree, Hong Kong, China
Song Dong Doing Nothing, Pace Gallery, 534 West 25th Street, New York, January 18–February 23, 2013, and 510 West 25th Street, New York, NY
Song Dong: Dad and Mum, Don’t Worry About Us, We Are All Well, 4A Centre for Contemporary Asian Art, Sydney, Australia
Song Dong: Waste Not, CARRIAGEWORKS, Sydney, Australia
2012
Song Dong Exhibitions in 2012:
Song Dong: Waste Not, Barbican Art Gallery, London, UK
2011
Song Dong: Wisdom of the Poor, Ullens Center for Contemporary Art, Beijing, July 16–September 8, 2011.
2011
Song Dong: Dad and Mom, Don’t Worry About Us, We Are All Well, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco, February 26–June 12, 2011. (Catalogue)
2010
Song Dong: A Blot on the Landscape, The Pace Gallery, Beijing, October 30–December 18, 2010.
2010
Song Dong: Waste Not, Vancouver Art Gallery, October 2, 2010–January 16, 2011.
2009
Re-Imagining Asia, The New Art Gallery Walsall, UK
2009
The end of Video, LOOP, Seoul, South Korea
2009
Waste Not, Museum of Modern Art, New York, USA (solo)
2009
SU:MBISORI, Jeju Museum of Art, South Korea (solo)
2008
Community of Tastes Iberia Center for Contemporary Art, Beijing, China
2008
Re-Imagining Asia HKW, House of World Cultures, Berlin, Germany
2008
Water Memory, Laing Art Gallery, Newcastle, UK (solo)
2008
Eating the city in Barcelona, Fundació Joan Miró, Barcelona, Spain (solo)
2008
"Song Dong Solo Exhibition," Shanghai Zendai Museum of Modern Art
2007–2008
"Made in China: Contemporary Chinese Art at the Israel Museum," Jerusalem, the Israel Museum
2007
"Between Past and Future: New Photography and Video from China", Nasher Museum of Art, Duke University, Durham, NC
2007
"Made in China: Works from the Estella Collection," Denmark, Louisiana Museum of Modern Art
2007
"Song Dong at Beijing Commune," Beijing Commune, Beijing
2006
Eating the City at Selfridges, Selfridges, London, UK
2006
Only One Wall, Artspace, Sydney, Australia
2006
News, Beijing Commune, Beijing
2004–2006
"Between Past and Future: New Photography and Video From China", International Center for Photography, and Asia Society, New York, Museum of Contemporary Art and Smart Museum of Art, Chicago, Seattle Art Museum, Seattle, Victoria and Albert Museum, London, House of World Cultures, Berlin, Santa Barbara
2005
2005 The Biennale of Contemporary Chinese Art in Montpellier, Montpellier, France
2005
Waste Not, Beijing Tokyo Art Project, Beijing 798 Factory, China
2005
The 59th Minute, Time Square, New York, USA
2005
Only One Wall, Beijing Commune, Beijing, China
2004–2005
"Xcentric Video Festival", Centre de Cultura Contemporˆnia de Barcelona, Barcelona
2004
"Visual Performance", Walsh Gallery, Chicago
2004
Sao Paolo Biennale, Brazil
2004
WATERWORKS, Chinese Arts Center, Manchester
2003
SARS TIMES: Song Dong and Yin XiuzhenÓ, video installations event, ISE Foundation, New York
2003
Òalors, la chine: Chinese Contemporary ArtÓ, Center Pompidou, Paris
2003
"Every Day: Contemporary Art from China Japan, Korea, and Thailand", Kunstforeningen Copenhagen, Denmark
2003
8th Istanbul Biennale, Istanbul
2002
Eyeball, video installation and event, Beijing International Switching System Corporation Ltd. BISC, Beijing
2002
Reinterpretation: a Decade of Experimental Chinese Art 1990-2000
2002
The First Guangzhou Triennial, Guandong Museum of Art, Guangzhou, China
2000
"Edible Pen Jing (Bonsai)", installation and performance, Gasworks International Art Studio, London
2000
"Song Dong in London", installation and performance, Tablet Gallery, London
2000
"Canceled: Exhibiting Experimental Art in China", Smart Museum of Art, Chicago
1999
Cities on the Move, Museum of Modern Art, Helsinki, Finland
1999
Transience: Chinese Experimental Art at the End of the Twentieth Century, Smart Museum of Art, Chicago
1999
Supermarket, alternative non-art space, Shanghai, China
1998
Living in Time, Hamburg Bahnhof Museum of Contemporary Art, Berlin
1998
Pause: The Fourth Kwangju Biennial, Kwangju, Korea
1998
The Fourth Asia-Pacific Triennial of Contemporary Art, Queensland Art
1998
Gallery, Brisbane, Australia
1997
The 18th World-Wide Video Festival, Amsterdam, the Netherlands
1997
Fuck Off, Eastlink Gallery, Shanghai
1997
Cancelled: Exhibiting Experimental Art in China, Smart Museum of Art, Chicago
1996
Song Dong in London, Gasworks, London
1995
Look, video installation, Contemporary Art Gallery, Beijing
1995
Slap, video installation, Ruins for Art, Berlin
1995
The First Kwangju Biennial, Kwangju, Korea
1995
Inside Out: New Chinese Art, Asia Society Galleries, PS1 Contemporary Art Center, New York
1995
Me!: A Profile of Chinese Contemporary Art in the Nineties, Beijing
1994
Another Lesson: Do You Want to Play with Me?, Gallery of the Central Academy of Fine Arts, Beijing

Public Collections

Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto
Asia Art Archive, Hong Kong
Auckland Art Gallery, New Zealand
Govett-Brewster Art Gallery, New Plymouth, New Zealand
Laing Art Gallery, Newcastle, United Kingdom
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
Museum of Fine Arts, Houston
The Museum of Modern Art, New York
Queensland Art Gallery, Brisbane, Australia
The Regional Funds of Contemporary Art of the Pays de la Loire, La Fleuriaye, France
Ullens Center for Contemporary Art, Beijing
Vancouver Art Gallery, Canada
Walker Art Center, Minneapolis

Literature

2016
Chinese Whispers: Recent Art from the Sigg and M+ Sigg Collections (exhibition catalogue). Munich, London and New York: Prestel, 2016: 210–3, illustrated.
2015
China 8: Contemporary Art from China on the Rhine and Ruhr (exhibition catalogue). Cologne: Stiftung für Kunst und Kultur e. V., 2015: 358–9, 390–1, 416–7, illustrated; Song Dong (exhibition catalogue). Ostfildern, Germany: Hatje Cantz Verlag, 2015.
2014
Buchhart, Dieter. The Nature of Disappearnce (exhibition catalogue). New York: Marianne Boesky Gallery, 2014: illustrated; Song Dong + Yin Xiuzhen: The Way of Chopsticks (exhibition catalogue). Texts by Sarah Archer, Eileen Boris and Britta Erickson. Interview with the artists by Philippe Vergne. Philadelphia: The Philadelphia Art Alliance, 2014; Stout, Katharine. Contemporary Drawing: From the 1960s to Now. London: Tate Publishing, 2014: 103, illustrated; The 21st-Century Art Book. London and New York: Phaidon Press, 2014: 250, illustrated.
2013
5th Moscow Biennale of Contemporary Art (exhibition catalogue). Texts by Keti Chukhrov, Alexei Penzin, Pascal Gielen and Svetlana Boym et al. Moscow: Moscow Biennale Art Foundation, 2013; Chanson, Maxime. 700 Artists’ Processes. Paris: editions jannick, 73; Chinese Art Book. London: Phaidon Press Limited, 2013: 13, illustrated; Ink Art: Past as Present in Contemporary China (exhibition catalogue). New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 2013: 64, fig. 45, illustrated; Yi shu Zhongguo nian du yi shu jia. 5, Song Dong. Chengdu, China: Si chuan mei shu chu ban she, 2013.
2012
ARSENALE 2012: The First Kyiv International Biennale of Contemporary Art (exhibition catalogue). Kiev: Mystetskyi Arsenal, 2012; Borysevicz, Mathieu; Yuanxing Hu and Philip Tinari. We Are Polit-Sheer-Form: Hong Hao, Xiao Yu, Song Dong, Liu Jianhua, Leng Lin. Hong Kong: Timezone 8, 2012: illustrated; 100 Notes – 100 Thoughts / 100 Notizen – 100 Gedanken—no. 084: Song Dong, Doing Nothing (exhibition catalogue). Ostfildern, Germany: Hatje Cantz, 2012; Sanderson, Edward. “Song Dong: Unexpected Encounters.” In The 7th Shenzhen Sculpture Biennale: Accidental Message: Art is Not a System, Not a World (exhibition catalogue). Edited by Ding Liu, Carol Lu and Su Wei. Guangzhou, China: Lingnan Art Publishing House, 2012: 88–91, illustrated; Smith, Karen. “Song Dong: Waiting.” In As Seen 2011 – Notable Artworks by Chinese Artists. Beijing: The Commercial Press Ltd, 2012: 196–9, illustrated.
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