Lee Ufan


1936    Born in Korea
1956    Interrupted studies at Seoul National University and came to Japan
1961    Graduated from Nihon University, Department of Philosophy, Tokyo
1969    Awarded prize for critical writing "From Object to Being"
1990    Cultural Decoration, Republic of Korea
1991    Chevalier de L'Ordre des Arts et des Letters, Republique Fran aise
1973-93   Professor of Tama Art University, Tokyo
1997-98   Invited Professor at Ecole National Superieure des Beaux-Arts, Paris
      Currently lives and works in Japan and France


Selected Solo Exhibition

1970 '74  Tamura Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
1973 '77 '80 '83 '86 '89 '93 '96 '99
      Tokyo Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
1975 '77 '80
      Galerie Eric Fabre, Paris, France
1976 '78 '89 '95
      Galerie m, Bochum, Germany
1978 '84 '87 '90 '94 '97
      Hyondae Gallery, Seoul, Korea
1978    Düsseldorf Kunsthalle, Düsseldorf, Germany
1978    Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Denmark
1980    Marl Sculpture Museum, Germany
1982    Studio Marconi, Milano, Italy
1984 '86 '89 '92 '95
      Galerie de Paris, Paris, France
1985 '90 '93
      Kamakura Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
1988    The Museum of Fine Art, Gifu, Japan
1988    Padiglione D'Arte Contemporanea, Milano, Italy
1991    Lorenzelli Arte, Milano, Italy
1991    Hara Museum ARC, Japan
1993    The Museum of Modern Art Kamakura, Japan
1994    The National Museum of Contemporary Art, Seoul, Korea
1994    Fodazione Mudima, Milano, Italy
1995    Städtisches Museum Leverkusen, Germany
1996    Lisson Gallery, London, United Kingdom
1997    Galerie National de ju de Paume, Paris
1998    Städtisches Museum im Städel, Frankfurt
1999    Kamakura Gallery, Tokyo
      Tokyo Gallery, Tokyo


Selected Group Exhibition

1968    Contemporary Art of Korea, The National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo,
      Japan
1969    The 5th Contemporary Art Exhibition of Japan, Tokyo Metropolitan
      Art Museum, Tokyo, Japan
1969 '73  Sào Paulo Biennial, Sào Paulo, Brasil
1970    Aspects of New Japanese Art, National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo
1971    7th Paris Biennial, Paris, France
1974    Japan Traditional Gegnwart, Stadische Kunsthalle, Düsseldorf,
      Germany
1975    3rd Triennial India, National Academy of Art, India
1976    2nd Sydney Biennial, Sydney, Australia
1977    13th Contemporary Art Exhibition of Japan, Awarded prize of The
      National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo, Kassel Documenta 6, Kassel,
      Germany
1978    Z.B. Sculpture, Stadtische Galerie im Stadeischen Kunstinstilut,
      Frankfurt, Germany
      Focus 78, Centre Culturel du Marais, Paris
1979    1st Henry Moore Grand Prize Exhibition, Hakone Open Air Museum,
      Awarded Superlative Prize, Kanagawa Japan
1980    Skluptur im 20 Jhrhundert, Basel, Switzerland
1982    Meister der Zeichung, Kunsthalle Nürnberg, Germany
      Material Gets Art, National Galerie, Berlin, Germany
      Japanese Contemporary Art Exhibition, Camden Arts Center, London,
      United Kingdom
1983    ARS 83 Helsinki, Finland
      M. Kawabata, Lee U Fan, and Y. Saito Exhibition Juda Rowan Gallery,
      London, United Kingdom
1984    Wiesbanderner Skulpturentage, Wiesbaden, Germany
1985    40 Yeards of Japanese Contemporary Art, Tokyo Metropolitan Art
      Museum, Tokyo, Japan
1986    Seoul-Paris, Centre National des Arts Plastiques, Paris, France
1986-87   Le Japon des Avant-Gardes, Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, France
1987    Mono-ha and Post Mono-ha, The Seibu Museum of Art, Tokyo, Japan
1988    Mono-ha Museo Laboratorio di Arte Contemporarnea, Roma, Italy
1989    Croisement de Signes, Instilut du Monde Arabe, Paris, France
      Japan 1989, Museum van Hedendaagse Kunst, Gent, Belgium
      Effels de Miroir, Bibliotheque Lois Aragon, Ile de France,
      Choisy, France
1990    Blau, Heidelberger Kunstverein, Heidelberg, Germany
1991-92   Aspects of Contemporary Japanese Art The Santa Monica
      Museum of Art, Portland Museum, U.S.A.
      Museo Rufino Tamayo, Mexico City, Mexico
1992    Contemporary Art from Korea, Tate Gallery, Liverpool,
      EnglandAvanguardie
      Giaponnesi degli Anni 70, Galleria d'Arte Moderna Bologna, Italy
1994    Japanese Contemporary Art, Guggenheim's Soho Museum, New York
1995    Asiana, Venezia, Italy
1996    Japon 1970 Mono-ha, Musée O'art Moderne Steliene France
      Project 8, Total Museum of Contemporary Art, Seoul
1997    "Two Approaches" Kamakura Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
      "Made in France:"Musée National d'Art Moderne, Centre Geroge
      Pompidou, Paris
1998    "SARAJEBO 2000", Museum Moderna Kunst stiftung Ludwimg, Wien
      "Korean Contemporary Art-Portics of Time", Samsung Museum of Art,
      Seoul


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