Biography:

Song Haidong (b. 1958, Yangzhou) is an artist lives and works in Shanghai.

Since graduating from the Department of Sculpture at the Zhejiang Academy of Fine Arts (now the China Academy of Art) in 1985, Song began teaching in the Fine Art College of Shanghai University. In 1986, Song and fellow artists formed the collective M Art Group and held a performance work at the Shanghai Workers Cultural Palace (Shanghai, 1986).

Song is considered to be one of the earliest artists to experiment with installation art in China. His work The Earth from Alien Eyes was exhibited at the ‘China/Avant-Garde Exhibition’ in Beijing in 1989.

Other selected exhibitions of Song’s work include 'Contemporary Chinese Art Now' (Tokyo Gallery, 1989), the 'Garage' exhibition (Shanghai, 1991), 'Solo Exhibition of Song Haidong' (Shanghai Oil Painting and Sculpture Institute, 1993), the 45th Venice Biennale (1993), ''85 New Wave' (Beijing Ullens Center for Contemporary Art, 2007) and ‘History in the Making: Shanghai, 1979–2009’ (Shanghai, 2009). Since 1994, Song studies Buddhism and traditional art.