Song Dong
Song Dong is a Beijing artist who emerged from the early Chinese avant-garde art movement and became an important artist with international influence in the subsequent development of Chinese contemporary art. His artistic practice spans multiple fields such as performance, video, installation, sculpture, photograph, and painting. He explores the concept of impermanence and explores the transient nature of the human condition and creates his art and lives his life with the idea of ‘no boundaries’. Song graduated from the Fine Arts Department of Capital Normal University in 1989.
Song Dong has participated in numerous important international art exhibitions including Documenta 13, the Venice Biennale, the Sao Paulo Biennale, the Gwangju Biennale, and has held large-scale solo exhibitions at the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) in New York, the Groninger Museum in the Netherlands, the Kunsthalle, Düsseldorf in Germany, the Rockbund Art Museum in Shanghai and other public institutions. Song has won awards including the Grand Award presented by the Gwangju Biennale, the Chinese Contemporary Art Award (CCAA) for Outstanding Achievement, the Artron Art China (AAC) Video and Installation Artist of the Year, and the Power 100 of Chinese Contemporary Art: Artist of the Year. His works are collected by important museums and art institutions such as Museum of Modern Art (MoMA), the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, Tate Modern, Centre Pompidou, M+, and Ullens Center for Contemporary Art, among other important museums and art institutions.