About Song Tao

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Song Tao was born in Shanghai in 1979 and graduated from Shanghai School of Art and Crafts in 1998. He resides and works in Shanghai. Song Tao has exhibited widely. Selected shows include Architectural Photography–Made in China, Guest Exhibition of the International Photography Scene in Koeln Museum of Applied Arts, MAKK, Cologne, Germany (2012); PROSPECTIF CINEMA: SONG TAO le 27 janvier 2011, Centre Pompidou, Paris, France (2011); Move on Asia, the End of Video Art, Casa Asia-Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain (2011); China Power Station - Part 4, Pinacoteca Agnelli, Torino, Italy (2010); Shanghai Kino, Shanghai Kino, KUNSTHALLE BERN, Switzerland (2009); Focus Shanghai: New Video from China, Anthology Film Archives, New York, U.S.A. (2008); China Power Station: Part II, Astrup Fearnley Museum of Modern Art, Oslo, Norway (2007); China Poweer Station: Part I, Battersea Power Station, London, U.K. (2006); China Contemporary-Art, Architecture and Visual Culture, Museum Boijmans van Beuningen, Rotterdam, The Netherlands (2006); Restless, MoCA, Shanghai (2006); Birdhead, ShanghART Gallery, Shanghai (2005); Guangzhou Photo Biennale, Guangdong Museum of Art, Guangzhou (2005); First Lianzhou International Foto Festival: Double Vision, Culture Square Lianzhou, Guangdong (2005); Zooming Into Focus: Chinese Contemporary Photography and Video from Haudenschild Collection, National Art Museum, Beijing; Mexico City; Shanghai (2005); Shanghai Constructions, Shanghai Gallery of Art, Shanghai (2005) and Light as Fuck! Shanghai Assemblage 2000-2004, National Museum of Art, Oslo, Norway (2004).

Since 2004, Song Tao works together with Ji Weiyu under the name 'Birdhead' and they meanwhile became one of the most exhibited artist duos from China.