Born in 1964, Seoul, Korea
Lives and works in Seoul, Korea
Currently a professor of Stage Art in Sangmyung University, Cheonan, Korea
Education
1996 Kunst Akademie Düsseldorf, Düsseldorf, Germany
1987 Seoul National University, Department of Visual Arts, Seoul, Korea
Selected Solo Exhibitions
2024 Normal order aimed at failure, Kukje Gallery, Seoul, Korea
2023 A suit with underwear inside out and a dress with a skirt as a hat, Space ISU, Seoul, Korea Lots of People, Busan Museum of Art, Busan, Korea
2020 Gimhongsok, Kukje Gallery, Busan, Korea
2018 EVERY, DAY, ACTS, LIKE, LIFE, Perrotin Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan Dwarf, Dust, Doubt, Tina Kim Gallery, New York, US
2017 Subsidiary Construction, Perrotin Gallery HK, Hong Kong
2016 Xijing is Not Xijing, Therefore Xijing is Xijing, 21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art, Kanazawa, Japan
2015 World of Xijing, National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Seoul, Korea
2014 Blue Hours, Kukje Gallery, Seoul, Korea
2013 Good Labor Bad Art, PLATEAU Samsung Museum of Art, Seoul, Korea I love Xijing-Xijing School, H&R Block Artspace at Kansas City Art Institute and Spencer Museum of Art, Kansas, US
2011 Ordinary Strangers, Artsonje Center, Seoul, Korea Xijing, Fondazione Bevilacqua La Masa, Venice, Italy
2010 Antithesis of Boundaries, Tina Kim Gallery, New York, US
2008 In through the outdoor, Kukje Gallery, Seoul, Korea
2005 Neighbor's wife, CAIS gallery, Seoul, Korea
2004 Cosmo Vitale, REDCAT Gallery, Los Angeles, US Antarctica, Artsonje Center, Seoul, Korea
2001 Retro Bistro, Space LOOP, Seoul, Korea
2000 Heromaniac, Gallery Hyundai, Seoul, Korea
Selected Group Exhibitions
2024 Collection Variable, National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Seoul, Korea Every Island is a Mountain, Palazzo Malta, Venice, Italy
2023 The Part In The Story Where Our Accumulating Dust Becomes A Mountain, Seoul Museum of Art, Seoul, Korea DMZ Exhibition: Checkpoint, Dora Observatory, Camp Greaves, Pyeonghwa Nuri, Paju, Korea Step on the Ground, Songhyeon green plaza, Seoul, Korea
2022 Hangang, 280, Yeouidong-ro, Yeongdeungpo-gu, Seoul, Korea My Sleep, Culture Station Seoul 284, Korea After Graybox: From Collecting to Exhibition, Museum of Contemporary Art Busan, Korea The Brilliant Days, Daewangam Park, Ulsan, Korea
2021 The Chronicle of Lost Time, Seoul National University Museum of Art, Seoul, Korea
2020 Artists in Their Times: Korean Modern and Contemporary Art, National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Gwacheon, Korea
2019 2019 Title Match: Gimhongsok vs. SEO Hyun-Suk—Incomplete Ruins, SeMA, Buk-Seoul Museum of Art, Seoul, Korea Animal Revolution: The Bremen Town Musicians in Art, Kitsch, and Society, Kunsthalle Bremen, Bremen, Germany Drawing-Korean Modern and Contemporary Drawings, Seoul Olympic Museum of Art, Seoul, Korea
2018 The Street, Where the World is Made, MAXXI, Rome, Italy
Xijing Men, Theater of the World, SFMoMA, San Francisco, US
Xijing Men, Theater of the World, Guggenheim Bilbao, Bilbao, Spain Harbour Arts Sculpture Park, Hong Kong Arts Centre (HKAC), Central and Western District Promenade & Wan Chai, Hong Kong Altering Home, 21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art, Kanazawa, Japan
Xijing Men, Dismantling the Scaffold, Tak Kwun Contemporary, Hong Kong Irony & Idealism, Kunsthalle Münster, Münster, Germany
2017
Xijing Men, Culture City of East Asia 2017 Kyoto: Contemporary Art Exhibition, Nijo Castle (Nijojo), Kyoto Art Center, Kyoto, Japan
The 1st Oku-Noto Triennale, Suzu City, Japan
Xijing Men, Theater of the World, Guggenheim Museum, New York, US Irony & Idealism, Gyeonggi Museum of Modern Art, Ansan, Korea Imaginative Geography: Intersecting Contemporary Art of Asia and Everyday Traditions of Europe and the Mediterranean, Space 4, ACC Creation, Asia Culture Center, Gwangju, Korea
2016 Alice in Crisis, DIO HORIA Contemporary Art Platform, Mykonos, Greece The 3rd Nanjing International Arts Festival "HISTORICODE: Scarcity and Supply", Nanjing Bai Jia Lake Art Museum, Nanjing, China As the Moon Waxes and Wanes, National Museum of Contemporary Art, Gwacheon, Korea
2015 Space life, Ilmin Museum, Seoul, Korea
2014 Zeitgeist Korea, National Museum of Contemporary Art, Seoul, KoreaEbisu International Festival Art and Alternative Visions 2014: True Colors, Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography,Tokyo, Japan Utopian days x Freedom, Total Museum of Contemporary Art, Seoul, Korea K-P.O.P., Museum of Contemporary Art, Taipei(MOCATP), Taipei, Taiwan The 5th Yokohama Triennale 2014, Yokohama Museum of Art, Yokohama, Japan Koganecho Bazaar 2014: Fictive Communities Asia, Koganecho Bazaar, Yokohama, Japan Future Fictions, Z33 Kunstencentrum (Art Museum Z33), Hasselt, Belgium
2013 Better Than Universe, Daegu Art Factory, Daegu, Korea All You Need is LOVE, Mori Art Museum, Tokyo, Japan Festival Bo:m 2013, Arthouse MOMO, Seoul, Korea New START 2013, Museum of Art Seoul National University MoA, Seoul, Korea Korean Art: Era of Grand Navigation, Busan Museum of Art, Busan, Korea ZIZHIQU-Autonomous Regions, Times Museum, Guangzhou, China SITE: Places of Memories, Spaces with Potential, Hiroshima City Museum of Contemporary Art, Hiroshima, Japan
2012 APT7 – The 7th Asia Pacific Triennale of Contemporary Art, Brisbane, Australia
Art Gallery / Gallery of Modern Art, Brisbane, Australia Roundtable, Gwangju Biennale, Gwangju, Korea Artist of the Year 2012, National Museum of Contemporary Art, Gwacheon, Korea Lady Dior As Seen By, Wako Namiki Building in Ginza, Tokyo, Japan International Expo, Wumin Art Center, Cheong-ju, Korea Oriental Metaphor – The 6th Move on Asia, Alternative Space Loop, Seoul, Korea
2011 Abstract it!, National Museum of Contemporary Art, Deoksugung, Seoul, Korea The Global Contemporary Art Worlds After 1989, ZKM, Museum of Contemporary Art, Karlsruhe, Germany COUNTDOWN, Former Seoul Station Art Complex Culture Station Seoul 284, Seoul, Korea LOL: A Decade of Antic Art, Contemporary Museum, Baltimore, US
2010 Tricksters Tricked, Van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven, The Netherlands Trust: Media City Seoul 2010, Seoul Museum of Art, Seoul, Korea Memories of the Future, Leeum Samsung Museum of Art, Seoul, Korea Oblique Strategies, Kukje Gallery, Seoul, Korea Aichi Triennale 2010: Arts and Cities, Aichi Arts Center, Nagoya, Japan Asian Arts Collection, Contemporary Art Museum, Kumamoto CAMK, Kumamoto, Japan Media Art from NMCA Collection , National Museum of Contemporary Art, Seoul, Korea Linguistic Morphology: Art in Context, Sungkok Art Museum, Seoul, Korea Day of Confidence, Alternative Space Pool, Seoul, Korea
2009 The 10th Lyon Biennale: The spectacle of the Everyday, The Lyon Museum of Contemporary Art, Lyon, France The 4th Fukuoka Asian Art Triennale: Live and Let Live-Creators of Tomorrow, Fukuoka Asian Art Museum, Fukuoka, Japan Your Bright Future: 12 Contemporary Artists from Korea, MFAH(Museum of Fine Arts, Houston), Houston, US
2008 Laughing in a Foreign Language, Hayward Gallery, London, UK Too Early For Vacation, The Limerick City Gallery of Art, Limerick, Ireland Brave New Worlds, Fundacion/Coleccion Jumex, Mexico City, Mexico Peppermint Candy, Museo Nacional De Bellas Artes, Buenos Aires, Argentina The 3rd Guangzhou Triennial: Farewell to Post-Colonialism, Guangdong Museum of Art, Guangzhou, China The 3rd Nanjing Triennial: Reflective Asia, RCM The Museum of Modern Art, Nanjing, China Fiction and Non Fiction, Seoul Museum of Art, Seoul, Korea Platform 2008: I have nothing to say and I am saying it, Kukje Gallery, Seoul, Korea The Fifth Floor, Tate Liverpool, Liverpool, UK
2007 VIDEO in SEOUL, MIROSPACE, Seoul, Korea Elastic Taboos, Kunsthalle Wien, Vienna, Italy All about Laughter : Mori Art Museum, Tokyo, Japan Somewhere in Time, Artsonje Center, Seoul, Korea ART 38 Basel / Art Film, Stadtkino Basel, Basel, Switzerland Charge Your Imagination, Gyunggido Museum of Art, Ansan, Korea Soft Power, Hoam Art Gallery, Seoul, Korea The 10th International Istanbul Biennial-Not Only Possible, But Also Necessary, Istanbul, Turkey Peppermint Candy, Museo de Arte Contemporáneo, Santiago, Chille Beautiful New World: Contemporary Culture from Japan, Long March Space, Beijing, China Brave New Worlds, Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, US Tomorrow, Artsonje Center, Seoul, Korea Activating Korea: Tides of Collective Action, Govett-Brewster Art Gallery, New Plymouth, New Zealand The 2nd APAP: Anyang Public Art Project 2007, Anyang, Korea Beautiful New World: Contemporary Visual Culture of Japan, Guangdong Museum of Art, Guangzhou, China
2006 The 6th Seoul New Media Festival, Space LOOP, Seoul, Korea Alllook same: ArtChinaKoreaJapannext, Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo, Turin, Italy The 6th Gwangju Biennale: Fever Variations-Remapping Global Cities, Gwangju, Korea Symptoms of Adolescence, Rodin Gallery, Seoul, Korea Move on Asia 2006, Space LOOP, Seoul, Korea
2005 Tirana Biennale: Sweet Taboos, National Gallery of Art, Tirana, Albania The 3rd Valencia Biennale: Thoughts of a fish in deep sea, Convento di Carmen, Valencia, Spain The 51st Venice Biennale, The Korean Pavilion, Venice, Italy Seoul: Until Now!, Charlottenborg Udstillingsbygning, Copenhagen, Denmark
2004 Contemporary Senses-Zone of Urgency, Villa Zerbi, Reggio Calabria, Italy
2003 The 50th Venice Biennale-Dreams and Conflicts, Arsenal, Venice, Italy Everyday-Contemporary Art from Asia, Kunstforeningen, Copenhagen, Denmark Echigo Tsumari Triennale, Niigata, Japan 5: Art Sonje Collection Show, Art Sonje Center, Seoul, Korea
2002 Under Construction, Tokyo Opera City Art Gallery, Tokyo, Japan Listening to New Voices, P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center, New York, US The 4th Gwangju Biennale: Pause, Gwangju, Korea Fantasia-Under Construction, East Art Center, Beijing, China ASIANVIBE, Espai d'Art Contemporani de Castello, Castello, Spain
2001 Fantasia, Space imA, Seoul, Korea My home is yours / Your home is mine, Tokyo Opera City Art Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
2000 Double Space, Young-Un Museum of Contemporary Art, Gwangju, Korea My home is yours / Your home is mine, Rodin Gallery, Seoul, Korea New Ventures: Towards a New Millennium, National Museum of Contemporary Art, Seoul, Korea Taipei Biennial The Sky Is the Limit, Taipei Fine Arts Museum, Taipei, Taiwan
Selected Awards
2003
Cite International des Arts, Paris, France
2001
P.S.1 International Studio Program, New York, US
1999
Mattress Factory Museum of Art, Pittsburgh, US
1999
Art/Omi Artists Residency Program, New York, US
1998
Ssamzie Studio Program, Seoul, Korea
Selected Public and Private Collections
Art Sonje Center, Seoul, Korea
ArtNow International, San Francisco, US
Contemporary Art Museum, Kumamoto, Japan
Gyeonggi Museum of Modern Art, Ansan, Korea
Kadist Foundation, San Francisco, US & Paris, France
Le Consortium, Dijon, France
Leeum Museum of Art, Seoul, Korea
Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA), Los Angeles, US
Museum of Fine Arts, Houston (MFAH), US
National Museum of Contemporary Art (MMCA), Korea
National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa, Canada
Posco Museum, Pohang, Korea
Queensland Art Gallery / Gallery of Modern Art, Brisbane, Australia
Seoul Museum of Art (SeMA), Seoul, Korea
Toledo Museum of Art, Toledo, US
21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art, Kanazawa, Japan