1966年生于北京，现工作生活于北京。1989年毕业于首都师范大学美术系。他通过从表演、视频到照片、戏剧、雕刻等涉及多领域的制作来明确展现人们努力的非持续性和无常性。2009年在MoMA（纽约）举办个展。在莫斯科双年展、卡塞尔文献展、威尼斯双年展、利物浦双年展、光州双年展、圣保罗双年展、伊斯坦布尔双年展、亚太当代艺术三年展、广州三年展、台北三年展等大量国际展览上都发表了作品。
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.
