Biography |
1935 | Born in Kyeong-Nam, Korea |
1959 | Graduated Painting Department of Hong-Ik University, Seoul, Korea |
Solo Exhibitions |
1972 | Gin Gallery, Tokyo, Japan |
1974 | Myung-Dong Gallery, Seoul, Korea |
1975 | Moon-Heum Gallery, Seoul, Korea |
1977 | Space Gallery, Seoul, Korea |
1979 | Muramatsu Gallery, Tokyo, Japan |
1984 | Hyun-Dai Gallery, Seoul, Korea |
1985 | Kamakura Gallery, Tokyo, Japan |
1990 | Kamakura Gallery, Tokyo, Japan |
1992 | NICAF Yokohama ’92 International Contemporary Art Fair, Nabis Gallery, Japan |
| Nabis Gallery, Seoul, Korea |
| WaBermann Galerie. Munchen, Germany |
1994 | Kamakura Gallery, Tokyo, Japan |
| WaBermann Galerie. Munchen, Germany |
1995 | Han Lim Gallery, Taejeon, Korea |
1996 | Biever-Risch Gallery, Luxembourg, Belgium |
1997 | Samtuh Gallery, Seoul, Korea |
| Kamakura Gallery, Tokyo, Japan |
2001 | Kamakura Gallery, Kamakura, Japan |
Selected Group Exhibitions |
1960–69 | Korean Contemporary Artists Exhibition (Held by Cho-Sun Press Group), Seoul, Korea |
1965 | The 4th Biennale de Paris, France |
| Cultural Freedom Contemporary Art Exhibition (Held by Congress for Cultural Freedom, Korea), Seoul, Korea |
1967 | The 9th Biennale de Sao Paulo, Brazil |
1968 | Korean Contemporary Painting Exhibition, (Held by Tokyo National Museum of Modern Art), Tokyo, Japan |
1969 | Exhibition of 11 Korean Young Artists, Solidaridad Gallery, Manila, Philippines |
1969–72 | Korean Contemporary Painting Exhibition, India, Afghanistan and Nepal |
1970 | Exhibition of selected 6 Korean Young Artists, Tokiwa Gallery, Tokyo, Japan |
1970 | The 1st Korean Art Grand-Prix Exhibition (Held by Hankook Press Group), Seoul, Korea |
1970–72 | A.G. Group Show (Held by Korean Avant-garde) |
1971 | Painting Today’s Korea Invited Exhibition (Projection by Myung-Dong Gallery, Seoul) |
| The 7th Biennale de Paris, France |
| A.G. Group Show “Realiser et la Realite” (National Museum of Modern Art), Seoul, Korea |
1973 | Exhibition of Korean Contemporary Art 1957–1972, Abstraction-Situation (Projected by Myong-Dong Gallery), Seoul, Korea |
| Exhibition of Seoul-13 Artists of Contemporary Art (Project by Gallery Signum), Kyoto, Japan |
| Exhibition of 100 Modern Painting (Projected by National Museum Modern Art), Seoul, Korea |
1974 | The 6th Cagnes International Painting Festival, Cagnes-Sur-Mer, France |
| The 1st Seoul Biennale (National Museum Modern Art), Seoul, Korea |
1975 | The 3rd India Triennial, India |
1975–79 | Dae-Gu, Busan, Kwang-Ju, Kang-Won, Chun-Buk, Contemporary Art Festival, Korea |
1976–92 | Ecole de Seoul National Museum of Modern Art, Seoul, Korea |
1977 | The 13th Biennale de Sao Paulo, Brazil |
| The Exhibition of Korea Contemporary Arts (Held by National Museum of Modern Art), Seoul, Korea |
| Korean Contemporary Paintings (Held by National Museum of History), Taipei, China |
1977–79 | Independents, National Museum of Modern Art, Seoul, Korea |
1977–83 | Seoul Contemporary Art Festival, National Museum of Modern Art, Seoul, Korea |
1978 | Secondes Rencontres Internationales d’Art Contemporain, Galleries |
| Nationales du Grand Palais, Paris, France |
| Work on Paper, Kyeon-Ji Gallery, Seoul, Korea |
| Korea: The Trend for the Past 20 Years of Contemporary Arts (Projected by National Museum of Modern Art ), Seoul, Korea |
| The 5th Korean Art Grand-Prix Exhibition (Held by Hankook Press Group), Seoul, Korea |
1979 | Korean Arts: Methods of Today (Projected by Fine Art Center Gallery), Seoul, Korea |
| Korean Contemporary Arts: Unique Methods of Exhibition By 6 Artists (Projected by LEE Gallery), Dae-Gu, Korea |
1980 | Grand Exhibition of Korean Print and Drawing (Projected by National Museum of Modern Art), Seoul, Korea |
| 37 Contemporary Artists ’80 (Projected by Kwan Hoon Gallery), Seoul, Korea |
| Exhibition Marking the Fukuoka Art Museum’s Anniversary, Asian Artists Exhibition Part II, “Festival: Contemporary Asian Art Show, 1980”, Fukuoka, Japan |
| The 7th Korean Art Grand-Prix Exhibition (Held by Hankook Press Group), Seoul, Korea |
1981 | Exhibition of ’81, Korean Arts (Held by National Museum of Modern Art), Seoul, Korea |
| Exhibition of ’81, Drawing (Projected by National Museum of Modern Art), Seoul, Korea |
| Drawing Exhibition of Contemporary Korean Artists (Dong-San-Bang Gallery), Seoul and (Artcore Gallery), Los Angels, U.S.A |
| Korean Drawing Now (The Brooklyn Museum), New York, U.S.A |
1982–83 | Contemporary Paper Works (Korea and Japan), Seoul, Korea and Kyoto, Japan |
1983 | Korean Contemporary Arts Exhibition (The latter half of the 70’s: An Aspect ), Tokyo, Utsunomiya, Osaka, Sapporo and Fukuoka, Japan |
| Exchange Exhibition of Print and Drawing Between Seoul and San Francisco (World Print Council, San Francisco and Korean Cultural Service, Los Angels), U.S.A |
| Korea: New Paper Works (Projected by Spring Gallery), Taipei, China |
1984 | The Returning Exhibition of Korean Contemporary Arts. The latter half of the 70’s: An Aspect (Held by Fine Art Center Gallery), Seoul, Korea |
| Seoul: Paper Works ’84 (Projected by Kwan-Hoon Gallery), Seoul, Korea |
| ’84 Korean Contemporary Arts Exhibition, Taipei, China |
1984 | Korean Contemporary Art of the 60’s - The Outskirts of Informel, |
| Waker Hill Art Center, Seoul, Korea |
| Korean Contemporary Art of the 60’s - Paris Biennial, Duson Gallery, Seoul, Korea |
1985 | 3rd Human Document ’84/’85, Tokyo Gallery, Tokyo, Japan |
| 70’s of Korean Painting, Hoam Gallery, Seoul, Korea |
1986 | ’86 Seoul Contemporary Asian Art Shows, National Museum of Modern Art, Seoul, Korea |
1986–92 | Seoul Grand Art Exhibition, Seoul City Museum, Seoul, Korea |
| Korea Contemporary Arts: Past and Present, National Museum of Modern Art, Seoul, Korea |
1987 | The 3rd TOYAMA NOW ’87 - New Art Around the Pacific (The Museum of Modern Art. Toyama), Toyama, Japan |
| 4 Korean Contemporary Artists, Laboratory Gallery, Sapporo, Japan |
1988 | 4 Korean Painter (Tokyo Gallery), Tokyo, Japan |
| Olympiad of Art: The International Contemporary Painting Exhibition (National Museum of Modern Art), Seoul, Korea |
1989 | “Hiroshima” (Hiroshima City Museum of Contemporary Art), Hiroshima, Japan |
1991 | Korean Contemporary Paintings, Yugoslavia Contemporary Art of 5 Artists Korea Gallery Seoul, Korea |
1992 | Flow from the Far East (Recent Korean Arts Scene), (Projected by Nabis Gallery), London, United Kingdom |
1993 | NICAF Yokohama ’93 International Contemporary Art Fair, Yokohama, Japan |
| 12 Contemporary Artists from Korea, The Miyagi Museum of Art, Sendai, Japan |
| The 45th Biennale de Venice, Italy |
1994 | NICAF Yokohama ’94 International Contemporary Art Fair, Yokohama, Japan |
| Art 25!94 The International Art Fair (Kamakura Gallery and WaBermann Galerie), Basel, Switzerland |
| Art Cologne, Koln Messe, Koln, Germany |
| Seoul in Venice, Gallery May, Seoul, Korea |
1995 | Art 26 ’5 The International Art Fair (Kamakura Gallery), Basel, Switzerland |
| The Tiger’s Tail, Venice, Italy |
| Korean Contemporary Paintings, Han Lim Gallery, Taejeon, Korea |
| Art Cologne, Koln Messe, Koln, Germany |
| East. West Today, Posco Gallery, Seould, Korea |
| Contemporary Korean Paintings in Paris, Paris City Museum, Paris, France |
1996 | Art 27 96 The International Art Fair (Kamakura Gallery), Basel, Switzerland |
| Monochromes in 70s, Hyundai Gallery, Seoul, Korea |
| 96 Joong Ang Biennale, Seoul, Korea |
| FIAC 96 Foire Internationale d’Art Contemporain (Samtuh Gallery and Gin Gallery), Paris, France |
| Korean Art Fair (Samtuh Gallery), Seoul, Korea |
| Art Cologne, Koln Messe, Koln, Germany |
1997 | NICAF Tokyo ’97 International Contemporary Art Festival (Sun Gallery), Tokyo, Japan |
| Grands et Jeunes d’aujourd’hui, Paris, France |
Awards |
1962 | Grand-Prix, the Public Subscription Exhibition of New-Shape Group (Held by New-Shape Group), National Museum of Contemporary Art, Seoul, Korea |
1975 | Grand-Prix, the 1st Space Grand-Prize Exhibition (Held by Space Group), National Museum of Contemporary Art, Seoul, Korea |
1980 | Grand-Prix, the 7th Korean Art Grand-Prize Exhibition (Held by Han-Kook Daily News), National Museum of Contemporary Art, Seoul, Korea |
Professional Organizations |
1969–74 | President of Korean A.G. Organization. |
1980 | General Commissioner of the 12th Cagnes International Painting Festival. |
1986–89 | President of the Federation of Artistic Organization of Korea, Seoul, Korea |
1987–88 | The Korean Steering Committee of the Olympiad of Art (Seoul Olympic Organizing Committee), Seoul, Korea |
1988 | General Commissioner of the 43rd Venice Biennale |
1992 | Commissioner of Cagnes International Painting Festival |
Museum Collections |
Tokyo Metropolitan Art Museum, Tokyo, Japan / The National Museum of Contemporary Art, Seoul, Korea / Fukuoka Art Museum, Fukuoka, Japan / The Ho-Am Art Museum, Yong-In, Korea / Seoul City Art Museum, Seoul, Korea / The Museum of Modern Art. Toyama, Toyama, Japan / Shimonoseki City Art Museum, Shimonoseki, Japan / Hiroshima City Museum of Contemporary Art, Hiroshima, Japan / The Museum of Hong-Ik University, Seoul, Korea / Kwangju City Art Museum, Kwangju, Korea / The Museum of E-Wha Woman’s University, Seoul, Korea / Mie Prefectural Art Museum, Mie, Japan |