Yun Suknam Biography



Born in Manchuria, China 1939


Education

1983-84  Pratt Institute Graphic Center, New York, U.S.A.
      Art Student League, New York, U.S.A.


One Person Shows

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

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

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.


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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