Born in 1966 in Beijing, China, and currently lives and works there. Song graduated from the fine arts department of Capital Normal University in Beijing in 1989. His work reveals the impermanence and the transience of human endeavor, ranging from performance and video to photography, theatre and sculpture. A solo exhibition of his work was held in MoMA, New York, in 2009, and he was included in various prestigious international exhibitions such as the 5th Moscow Biennale (2013); documenta 13 (2012); the 54th Venice Biennale (2011); the 6th Liverpool Biennale (2010); Gwangju Biennale (2006, 2002 and 1995); the 26th Sao Paolo Biennale (2004); the 8th Istanbul Biennale (2003); the 4th Asia-Pacific Triennale of Contemporary Art (2002); the first Guangzhou Triennale (2002); and the 2002 Taipei Biennale.