SONG TAO 宋涛 Biography

Basic

1979	Born in Shanghai, Lives and works in Shanghai
2004	more information on BIRDHEAD
	work together with Ji Weiyu under the name 'Birdhead'

Education

2000	Graduated Shanghai School of Arts and Crafts

Solo Exhibitions

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2011	PROSPECTIF CINEMA : SONG TAO le 27 janvier 2011, Centre Pompidou, Paris, France
2007	Overcoming the Anxiety of Displacement, Song Tao and B6's Video Installation, 'Yard', MoCA, Shanghai
2006	Ya Cinema, Song Tao's solo exhibition, 2577 Creative Garden, Shanghai
2005	Some Day..., Installation by Song Tao, ShanghART Fuxing Park, Shanghai
2003	The Floor - Life is Wonderful, Song Tao Solo Exhibition, ShanghART Fuxing Park, Shanghai
	A Kind of Format, Song Tao Solo Exhibition, BizArt, Shanghai
2001	49368mm(2), Song Tao Solo Exhibition, BizArt, Shanghai

Group Exhibitions

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2014	15 Years Chinese Contemporary Art Award (CCAA), Power Station of Art, Shanghai
2012	Architectural Photography - Made in China, Guest Exhibition of the International Photography Scene in Koeln Museum of Applied Arts, MAKK, Cologne, Germany
2011	Move on Asia, the End of Video Art, Casa Asia-Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain
2010	China Power Station: Part IV, Pinacoteca Agnelli, Torino, Italy
2009	Shanghai Kino, Kunsthalle Bern, Switzerland
2007	China, Facing Reality, Museum of Modern Art Ludwig Foundation Vienna, Austria
	China Power Station: Part II, Astrup Fearnley Museum of Modern Art, Oslo, Norway
2006	Alllooksame/Tutttuguale?, Art from China, Japan and Korea, Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo, Turin, Italy
	China Contemporary, Architecture, Art and Visual Culture, Netherlands Architecture Institute; Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen; Netherlands Fotomuseum, The Netherlands
	China Power Station: Part I, Battersea Power Station, London, U.K.
2005	Mahjong, Contemporary Chinese Art from the Sigg Collection, Kunstmuseum Bern, Bern, Switzerland
2004	Light as Fuck! Shanghai Assemblage 2000-2004, The National Museum of Contemporary Art, Oslo, Norway
	Shanghai Surprise, Lothringer13 - Stadtische Kunsthalle München, Munich, Germany
2003	Chinese Maximalism, Millennium Art Museum, Beijing; University at Buffalo Art Galleries and Museum Studies, State University of New York at Buffalo, U.S.A.
2002	Daydream, Chinese Contemporary Art Exhibition, Nanjing Museum, Nanjing
2000	Uncooperative Approach (Fuck Off), Eastlink Gallery, Shanghai
1999	The Last 5 Minutes of the 20th Century, Eastlink Gallery, Shanghai

Projects

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2008	Allan Kaprow's Travelog at the haudenschildGarage - May 10th & 12th, U.S.A; China

Film Festivals

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Selected)

2007	Artissima Cinema, Shanghype!, Portrait of the City from Dawn to Dusk, Mirafiori Motor Village, Turin, Italy

Collections

	M+ Collection, Hong Kong
	Astrup Fearnley Museum of Modern Art, Oslo, Norway
	Hammer Museum, Gift of the Haudenschild Collection, Los Angeles, U.S.A.
	Uli Sigg Collection, Switzerland

2023	Radical Joy: 2000AD, Suplus Space, Wuhan
	Cruel Youth Diary: Chinese Photography and Video from the Haudenschild Collection, Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, U.S.A.
2021	M+ Sigg Collection: From Revolution to Globalisation, M+ Museum, Hong Kong
2018	Walking On The Fade Out Lines, Rockbund Art Museum, Shanghai
2015	Essential Matters-Moving Images from China, Borusan Contemporary Perili Kosk, Istanbul, Turkey
2014	15 Years Chinese Contemporary Art Award (CCAA), Power Station of Art, Shanghai
2013	Shanghai Surprise, A Group Show on Contemporary Art in Shanghai, K11 Art Mall, Shanghai
2012	Architectural Photography - Made in China, Guest Exhibition of the International Photography Scene in Koeln Museum of Applied Arts, MAKK, Cologne, Germany
	TransMedia Art & Fashion Exhibition, Shanghai Sculpture Space, Shanghai
2011	Alternative Narrative, V Art Center, Shanghai
	High-Rise Idea and Reality, Museum für Gestaltung Zürich, Zurich, Switzerland
	Move on Asia, the End of Video Art, Casa Asia-Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain
	N Minutes Video Art Festival, Shanghai
2010	China Power Station: Part IV, Pinacoteca Agnelli, Torino, Italy
	Dial 62761232, A Document On A Contemporary Art Event, ShanghART Taopu, Shanghai
	Will to Height, Contemporary Art Exhibition, epSITE, Shanghai
2009	Shanghai History in Making from 1979 till 2009, 436 Jumen Rd., Shanghai
	Shanghai Kino, Kunsthalle Bern, Switzerland
	Another Scene, Artists' Projects, Concepts and Ideas, ShanghART H-Space, Shanghai
	Mahjong: Contemporary Chinese Art from the Sigg Collection, Peabody Essex Museum, Salem, Mass, U.S.A.
2008	Five Years of Duolun, Chinese Contemporary Art Retrospective Exhibition, Duolun Museum of Modern Art, Shanghai
	Focus Shanghai, New Video from China, Anthology Film Archives, New York, U.S.A.
	Facing Reality, Chinese Contemporary Art, National Art Museum of China, Beijing
	SHANGHYPE, Futura, Prague, Czech Republic
	Fokus Kina, Riksutst, Llningar, Swedish Travelling Exhibitions, Museum of Far Eastern Antiquities, Sweden
2007	Passages-Passagen-Pasaze, The videos are presented in Bratislava (Panenska street); transmitted electronically to the Jeu de Paume in Paris, the Goethe Institut, New York; g-mk art center, Zagreb
	China, Facing Reality, Museum of Modern Art Ludwig Foundation Vienna, Austria
	2nd Documentary Exhibition of Fine Arts, Forms of Concepts, Hubei Museum of Art, Wuhan
	China Power Station: Part II, Astrup Fearnley Museum of Modern Art, Oslo, Norway
	Rejected Collection, More the 40 Chinese Artists /Over 60 Rejected Proposals, Ke Center for Contemporary Arts, Shanghai
	Borderline International Video Festive, Platform China, Beijing
	Keep an Eye on China, N.O.Gallery, Milan, Italy
	Remote Control, MoCA, Shanghai
	Intervention, Various Places, Shanghai
2006	Alllooksame/Tutttuguale?, Art from China, Japan and Korea, Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo, Turin, Italy
	Mahjong: Contemporary Chinese Art from the Sigg Collection, Hamburger Kunsthalle, Hamburg, Germany
	China Contemporary, Architecture, Art and Visual Culture, Netherlands Architecture Institute; Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen; Netherlands Fotomuseum, The Netherlands
	Thirty-Eight Solo Exhibitions, Creative Garden, Shanghai
	Everyday people, Festival of Creativity, Fortezza dA Basso, Florence, Italy
	China Power Station: Part I, Battersea Power Station, London, U.K.
	Restless, Photography and New Media, MoCA, Shanghai
2005	Zooming into Focus, Contemporary Chinese Photography and Video from the Haudenschild Collection, National Art Museum of China, Beijing
	Mahjong, Contemporary Chinese Art from the Sigg Collection, Kunstmuseum Bern, Bern, Switzerland
	Back to the Future: Shanghai Arts, IF Museum Inner Spaces, Poznan, Poland; Kunsthalle Faust, Hannover, Germany
	Shanghai Constructions, Group exhibition by 10 artists, Shanghai Gallery of Art, Shanghai
	Videozoom: Chinese Video Artists, The City: Mirage and reflection, Galeria Sala 1, Centro Internazionale d'Arte Contemporanea, Rome, Italy
2004	Dial 62761232 (Express Delivery Exhibition), Contemporary Art Exhibition, BizArt, Shanghai
	Light as Fuck! Shanghai Assemblage 2000-2004, The National Museum of Contemporary Art, Oslo, Norway
	Shanghai Surprise, Lothringer13 - Stadtische Kunsthalle München, Munich, Germany
	Zooming into Focus (SAM), Chinese Contemporary Photography and Video from the Haudenschild Collection, Shanghai Art Museum, Shanghai
	Beyond Boundaries, Shanghai Gallery of Art, Shanghai
	Zooming into Focus (Singapore), Chinese Contemporary Photography and Video from the Haudenschild Collection, Earl Lu Gallery, LASALLE-SIA College of the Arts, Singapore
	Zooming into Focus (Tijuana), Chinese Contemporary Photography from the Haudenschild Collection, Cultural Tijuana, Tijuana, Mexico
	Is It Art?, White show, Shanxi Provincial Art Museum, Xi'an
2003	Chinese Maximalism, Millennium Art Museum, Beijing; University at Buffalo Art Galleries and Museum Studies, State University of New York at Buffalo, U.S.A.
2002	Daydream, Chinese Contemporary Art Exhibition, Nanjing Museum, Nanjing
2001	Homeport, Fuxing Park, Shanghai
2000	Uncooperative Approach (Fuck Off), Eastlink Gallery, Shanghai
1999	The Last 5 Minutes of the 20th Century, Eastlink Gallery, Shanghai

2008	Allan Kaprow's Travelog at the haudenschildGarage - May 10th & 12th, U.S.A; China
	Pre-order Birdhead 2006 Album, Shanghai