Song Guangxun (1930) was born in Baxian, Hebei Province. He first studied art at the National Peking Art School in 1947. After graduating from the Painting Department of the Central Academy of Fine Arts in Beijing in 1951, he was appointed as editor of Xinhua Daily and Dazhong Pictorial in Chongqing. He has dedicated many years of his life to the Sichuan Artists' Association as a professional printmaker.

Most of Song's early work adapted the socialist realist themes that predominated in Chinese art during the 1960s and 1970s. Since the late 1970s, most of his woodcuts were printed with water-soluble ink techniques and more concerned with traditional Chinese aesthetics.