Walsh Gallery

Song Dong

1966
  • Born in Beijing, China
1989
  • Graduated from Capital Normal University, Beijing, China

Solo Exhibitions and Performances

2009
  • SU:MBISORI, Jeju Museum of Art, South Korea
  • Waste Not, Museum of Modern Art, New York
2008
  • Song Dong Solo Exhibition, Shanghai Zendai Museum of Modern Art
  • Eating the city in Barcelona, Fundació Joan Miró, Barcelona
  • Water Memory, Laing Art Gallery, Newcastle
2004
  • "WATERWORKS", Chinese Arts Center, Manchester
2003
  • "SARS TIMES: Song Dong and Yin Xiuzhen", video installations event, ISE Foundation, New York
2002
  • "Eyeball", video installation and event, Beijing International Switching System Corporation Ltd. BISC, Beijing
  • "Chopsticks: Song Dong and Yin Xiuzhen" videos, installations and event, Chambers Fine Art, New York
2000
  • "Edible Pen Jing (Bonsai)", installation and performance, Gasworks International Art Studio, London
  • "Song Dong in London", installation and performance, Tablet Gallery, London
1999
  • "Jump", performance video, Tian An Men, Beijing and Venice
1998
  • "Temporary Office Construction", video installation and performance, Tao Gallery, Beijing
1997
  • "LOOK", Video Installation Art Show, Contemporary Art Museum, Beijing
  • "Filling up the Sea with 158 Stones (1840--1997)", environmental performance, ShenZhen, China
  • "Writing Time with Water", 60 minute performance, ShenZhen, China
  • "Slap", video installation, Ruins for Arts Berlin, Germany
1996
  • "Breathing", performance, Tian An Men square and Hou Hai Lake, Beijing
  • "Stamping the Water", performance, Lahsa River, Tibet
  • "Uncovering", video installation, Capital Normal University Museum, Beijing
  • "Song Dong in London", Gasworks, London
1995
  • "Look", video installation, Contemporary Art Gallery, Beijing
  • "Slap", video installation, Ruins for Art, Berlin
1994
  • "Another Lesson: Do You Want to Play with Me?", Gallery of the Central Academy of Fine Arts, Beijing

Group Exhibitions

2009
  • The end of Video, LOOP, Seoul, South Korea
  • Re-Imagining Asia, The New Art Gallery Walsall, UK
2008
  • Re-Imagining Asia HKW, House of World Cultures, Berlin
  • Community of Tastes Iberia Center for Contemporary Art, Beijing
2007
  • Song Dong at Beijing Commune, Beijing Commune, Beijing
  • Made in China: Works from the Estella Collection, Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Denmark
  • Between Past and Future: New Photography and Video from China, Nasher Museum of Art, Duke University, Durham, NC
  • Made in China: Contemporary Chinese Art at the Israel Museum, the Israel Museum, Jerusalem
2006
  • Only One Wall, Artspace, Sydney
  • Eating the City at Selfridges, Selfridges, London
2004-06
  • "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 Museum of Art, Santa Barbara
2004-05
  • "Xcentric Video Festival", Centre de Cultura Contempor`ania de Barcelona, Barcelona
2004
  • "Visual Performance", Walsh Gallery, Chicago
  • Sao Paolo Biennale, Brazil
  • "Officina Asia", Contemporary Art Museum, Bologna, Rimini and Cesena, Italy
  • "The Monk & The Demon: Contemporary Art from China", Contemporary, Lyon
  • "Is it Art?", Art Museum, Xi An
  • "Play With Energy", House of Shiseido, Tokyo
  • "Asian Traffic", 4A Gallery, Sydney
  • "City Signal", National Studio of Contemporary Art, France
2003
  • "alors, la chine: Chinese Contemporary Art", Center Pompidou, Paris
  • "Every Day: Contemporary Art from China Japan, Korea, and Thailand", Kunstforeningen Copenhagen, Denmark
  • 8th Istanbul Biennale, Istanbul
  • "How Latitudes Become Forms: Art in a Global Age", Walker Art Center, Minneapolis
  • "Second Hand Reality", Today Art Gallery, Beijing
2002
  • "Reinterpretation: a Decade of Experimental Chinese Art 1990-2000", The First Guangzhou Triennial, Guandong Museum of Art, Guangzhou, China
  • Fourth Asia-Pacific Triennial of Contemporary Art, Queensland Art Gallery, Brisbane, Australia
  • Taipei Biennale, Taipei Art Museum
  • ARCO, Madrid, Spain
2001
  • "Living in Time: Contemporary Artists from China", Hamburger Bahnhof Museum of Contemporary Art, Berlin
  • "Pause", The Fourth Kwangju Biennial, Kwangju, Korea
  • "Fictitious Future", GuangDong Museum of Art
  • 1st Architecture Biennale, China National Galley, Beijing
  • "Dancing with Farmer Workers", East Modern Art Centre, Beijing.
2000
  • "Canceled: Exhibiting Experimental Art in China", Smart Museum of Art, Chicago
  • "Fuck Off", Eastlink Gallery, Shanghai
  • 18th World-Wide Video Festival, Amsterdam, the Netherlands
1999
  • "Cities on the Move", CAPC, Bordeaux, PS1 Contemporary Art Center, New York, Louisiana Museum, Humblebaek, Denmark, Hayward Gallery, London, Museum of Modern Art, Helsinki, Bangkok
  • "Transience: Chinese Experimental Art at the End of the Twentieth Century", Smart Museum of Art, Chicago
  • "Supermarket", alternative non-art space, Shanghai, China
1998
  • "Inside Out: New Chinese Art", Asia Society and PS1 Contemporary Art Center, New York
1995
  • The First Kwangju Biennial, Kwangju, Korea