Song Dong was born in 1966 in Beijing. He graduated from the Fine Arts Department of Capital Normal University in 1989. He currently lives and works in Beijing. Song Dong is one of the most important conceptual artists in China, with works embracing a variety forms of video, performance, installation and new media etc..He started to hold solo shows internationally since the mid-1990s. His recent solo exhibitions include “Projects 90: Song Dong” at the Museum of Modern Art in New York (2009) and “Waste Not” at the Vancouver Art Gallery (2010) etc. Song Dong also conducted performance in the public spaces, and has participated in many important art events, including the Gwanjiu Biennale (1995, 2002, 2006), “Inside out” - New China’ s Arts in the United States (1999), “Living in Time - Chinese Contemporary Art Exhibition ” at the Hamburger Bahnhof Museum, Berlin(2000), Asia-Pacific Triennial of Contemporary Art (2002), São Paulo Biennale (2004), Liverpool Biennale (2010) etc.. Song Dong was honored as UNESCO/ASCHBERG bursary laureate in 2000, and received the grand award of Gwangju Biennale in 2006. His works are included in the collections of New York MoMA, Walker Art Center, Queensland Art Gallery, and Metropolitan Museum etc.. Song Dong’s art creation is greatly inspired by the daily life objects, reflecting his profound thinking on the philosophical theme such as “existence”.