YUN SUKNAM Biography
Born in Manchuria, China 1939
Present lives in Seoul Korea
Education
1983-84 Pratt Institute Graphic Center, New York, U.S.A.
Art Student League, New York, U.S.A.
One Person Shows
2003 "Yun Suknam" Kamakura Gallery, Kanagawa,
Japan
1998 "Yun Suknam" Kamakura Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
1997 "The Seeding of lights" Chosun Ilbo Art
Gallery, Art Space Seoul
and Hakgoja
Gallery, Seoul, Korea.
1996 "Yun Suknam" Kamakura Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
"Yun Suknam" Johyun Gallery, Pusan, Korea.
1993 "The Eyes of Mother" Kumpo Art Museum, Seoul,
Korea.
1982 "Yun Suknam" Fine Art Center, Seoul, Korea.
Selected Group Shows
2003 Korean Contemporary Sculpture Exhibition "What is
Sculpture?",
Seoul Arts Center,Seoul,Korea
2002 "The Family"Imagination & Creation
Exhibition Ⅲ,Kasugai City Library,Culture and Art Center,Japan
The 2nd Women's Art Festival "East Asian
Women and Her stories" Woman's History Exhibition Holl of
the Seoul Women's Community Center,Seoul,Korea
The 33th Special Exhibition of Ewha Womans
University Museum
- Another History of Art "Representation of
Feminity",Ewha Womans University Museum,Seoul,Korea
People Art for 20 years Exhibition,Chunbju Art
Center,Chungju,Korea
2001 "Missing",Kwangju Art Museum,Kwangju,Korea
"The Family",Seoul Museum of
Art,Seoul,Korea
2000 "Man+Space"Kwangju Biennale 2000,Kwangju,Korea
"Portraits from Prehistory to Modern Times"
Special Millennium Exhibition-Koreans by
Koreans,Ho-am Art Museum,Yongin,Korea
Earth's Festival,Yeongam Pottery Culture
Center,Yeongam,Korea
"Agents of change"12th Biennale of
Sydney 2000,Art Gallery of New South Wales Art
Space,Sydney,Australia
1999 "Patjis on Parade" '99 Women's Art
Festival,Seoul,Korea
10Years of the Lee,Joong-Sup Award,Chosun Ilbo
Gallery,Seoul,.Korea
Exhibition for 50th Anniversary of the Universal
Declaration of Human Rights,
Seoul Art Center,Seoul,Korea
Art,People and Event in the Park,Youido
Park,Seoul,Korea
"Facing up to the Reality" Exhibition for 5th
Anniversary of Woong-Jeon Gallery,
Woong-Jeon Gallery,Seoul,Korea
Art of Kum Gang(Diamond Mountain) from 18th
Century to 20th Century in
Korean Art,Ilmin Museum of Art,Seoul,Korea
Self Portrait of 1999,Art M&C-Gallery
Fusion,Seoul,Korea
The Sculptures in the Theater,The National Theater
of Korea,Korea
1998 "Sight of desire" Taipei Biennial, Taipei
Fine Arts Museum, Taipei, Taiwan.
"Deviation, Repetition" Kims outlet,
Sungnam, Korea.
"Ancient Traditions New Forms Contemporary
Art form Korea" Joseloff Gallery, University of Hartford,
Hartford Art Schllo, Hardford, U.S.A.
1997 "Portraits of Our Times" Sungkog Museum,
Seoul, Korea.
"Versus III" Velan, Torino, Italy.
"MANIF" Seoul Art Center, Seoul, Korea.
"Apartment" Art-Beam Gallery, Seoul, Korea.
1996 "Art 27'96 Basel" Basel, Switzerland
"'96 Seoul Art Fair" Seoul Art Center,
Seoul, Korea.
"'96 Korean Art, New Sensation" U.S.A.,
Mexico, Sweden.
"Exhibition of Environment Art, The 200th
Anniversary of Suwon
Fortification"
Suwon, Korea.
"An Aspect of Korean Art in the 1990s" The
National Museum of
Modern Art, Tokyo, Japan
"Tradition/Tension:Contemporary Art in Asia"
The Asia Society,
New York "Asia-Pacific of Contemporary Art
Triennial" Quensland Art
Gallery, Australia.
"Development of Korean Modernism, Conquest of
Modern 1970-1990"
Kumho Art
Museum, Seoul, Korea.
"Interpretation of Human" Gallery Savina,
Seoul, Korea.
1995 "Special Exhibition for Korean Contemporary Art,
Tiger's tail" Venice
Biennial,Venice, Italy.
"Korean Modern Art" Art Museum of Peking,
Peking, China.
"Korean Sculpture Now" Jongro Gallery,
Seoul, Korea.
"Looking Mirror in Our Time" Dong-a
Gallery, Seoul, Korea.
"The Road of Self-respect" Kumho Art
Museum, Seoul, Korea.
"Korea, 100 Self Portraits/From Choson to
Contemporary" Musse De
Seoul, Seoul, Korea.
"Exhibition Seeds" Sonjae Art Center,
Seoul, Korea.
"Korean Art 1995/Quality, Quantity, Sensation"
National Museum of
Contemporary Art Kwha/cheon, Korea.
"Where are you going?/Exhibition for 50 years
from 1945" Seoul Art
Center, Seoul, Korea.
1994 "Technology, Environment & Information"
Expo, Deajon, Korea.
"Commemoration for Cetennial Donghak Revolution"
Seoul Art Center,
Seoul, Korea.
"15 years of Minjoong Art" National Museum
of Modern Art, Seoul, Korea.
"Women, Difference and It's Power" Hankook
Art Museum, Seoul, Korea.
1993 "Across the Pacific" The Queens Museum of
Art, New York, U.S.A. and
Kumho Art Museum, Seoul, Korea.
"Open Show" Park, Youngduk Gallery, Seoul,
Korea.
"Re-open Show" Korea Gallery, Seoul, Korea.
"Peak of Contemporary Korean Art" Min Art
Gallery, Seoul, Korea.
1992 "Women and Reality" Min Art Gallery, Seoul,
Korea.
1988 "Cross Encounter of Women Liberated Poets and
Paintings" Min Art
Gallery, Seoul, Korea.
"Women and Reality" Min Art Gallery, Seoul,
Korea.
1987 "Women and Reality" Min Art Gallery, Seoul,
Korea.
1986 "From half to One" Min Art Gallery, Seoul,
Korea.
1985 "October Group Show" Kwanhoon Art Gallery,
Seoul, Korea.
Selected Reviews/Biographies
1998 "Ancient Traditions New Forms"Catalogue
Published by National Museum of Contemporary art,
pp.63-66,Seoul,Korea
"Yun Suk Nam"<Monthly Magazine
Mal>,pp.202-207,Seoul Korea
1997 "Yun Suk Nam's Eyes and Light" Back Ji-Sook,Catarogue
Published by Art Space Seoul,
Seoul,Korea
"Pacific Basin Futures",<Art in
America>June,p.61,U.S.A
1996 Yun Suknam, Art Asia Pacific, vol. 3 no. 3, 1996 p. 66-67,
Australia.
Today's Artist, YUN SUKNAM Paik Jeesook,
Wolganmisool, vol. 8 no. 7,
1996,Seoul, Korea.
An Aspect of Korean Art in the 1990s Catalog edited
by the National
Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo, Japan
1995 "The Tiger's tail" Published National Museum
of Modern Art,
Seoul, Korea.
"Korean Women Artist's Festival 1995"
Catalogue published Seoul City
Museum, Seoul, Korea.
1994 "The Portraits of 20th century Korea" Jeawon
publishing company.
"On Yun, Suknam" Gana Art Magazine, July/August,
P26, Seoul, Korea.
"Across the pacific" Catalogue published
The Queens Museum of Art,
October 15,Queens NY, U.S.A.
1993 "Sculpture for motherhood" Sisa Journal
weekly Magazine, Vol 189, P84,
Seoul, Korea.
"The story of half world that carved on wood"
The Monthly art magazine,
July/August, P 26, Seoul, Korea.
"For women, for Art, for wholeness" The
quarterly magazine Pine Hill,
Summer, P16, Seoul, Korea.
"The changing of feminism art" the Joo-Ang
daily newspaper, June 7,
Seoul, Korea.
"The eyes of the Mother" the Choson daily
newspaper, June 7,
Seoul, Korea.
"New Structure of feminism art" The Women's
News, June 11, Seoul, Korea.
"Self-Portraits of Korea" Hangyerea daily
newspaper, July 21,
Seoul, Korea.
Public Collection
National Museum of Modern Art, Seoul, Korea.
Queensland Art Gallery, Brisbana, Australia.
Mie Prefectural Art Museum., Mie, Japan
Fukuoka Art Museum, Fukuoka, Japan.
Velan Art Associetion, Torino, Italy.
National Museum of Contemporary Art ,Kwachun,Korea
Taipei Fine Art Museum,Taipei,Taiwan
'88 Olympic Park,Seoul,Korea
The House of Sharing, Kyunggi Province, Korea
Ssamzie Space, Seoul Korea
Ewha Womans University Museum, Seoul, Korea
Illmin Museum of Art, Seoul, Korea
Award
1997 The Vice-President Price for Woman Development.
1996 The 8th Lee, Joong-Sup Award, conducted under the
sponsorship of
the Chosun daily news paper, Seoul, Korea
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