Lee Ufan

• Born in 1936, Haman, Korea
  Lives and works in Kamakura, Japan and Paris, France

Education

• 1961     Nihon University with Bachelor’s in Philosophy, Tokyo, Japan
  1956     Dropped out from B.F.A. Oriental Painting, Seoul National University, Seoul, Korea

Selected Solo Exhibitions

• 2023
  Lee Ufan, Hamburger Bahnhof, Berlin, Germany
  Lee Ufan, Kukje Gallery, Seoul, Korea
  Lee Ufan: Watercolor and Drawing, Sekigahara Ningenmura Quotidian Museum of Art, Gifu, Japan
  
  2022
  Lee Ufan, Hyogo Prefectural Museum of Art, Kobe, Japan 
  Lee Ufan 15th Anniversary of the National Art Center, Tokyo, The National Art Center, Tokyo, Japan
  Lee Ufan: Matter in Contact, SCAI The Bathhouse, Tokyo, Japan
  Lee Ufan: Response, Galerie Kamel, Mennour, Paris, France
  
  2021
  Lee Ufan, Pace Gallery, East Hampton, New York, US
  Lee Ufan: Requiem, Alyscamps, Arles, France
  Lee Ufan: Response, Lisson Gallery, London, UK
  
  2020                
  Lee Ufan. Inhabiting time, SCAI The Bathhouse, Tokyo, Japan
  
  2019                
  Lee Ufan. Inhabiting time, Centre Pompidou-Metz, Metz, France
  Lee Ufan: Dialogue With Materials, Tokyo Opera City Art Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
  Lee Ufan: From Point, From Line: 1976 - 1982, Galerie Kamel Mennour, Paris, France
  Lee Ufan: Open Dimension, Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture garden, Washington D.C., US
  Lee Ufan, Dia: Beacon, New York, US (Long-term view)
  Lee Ufan: Acorns and Wildcat & Traces, Cahiers d'Art, Paris, France
  
  2018                   
  Relatum-Stage, Serpentine Galleries, London, UK
  Lee Ufan, PACE Gallery, New York, US
  
  2017                   
  Ceramics, PACE Gallery, New York, US
  Lee Ufan Pressentiment, Centre de Création Contemporaine Olivier Debré, Tours, France
  AU-DELÀ DES SOUVENIRS - Lee Ufan Chez Le Corbusier, Couvent De La Tourett, Éveux, France
  Lee Ufan: The Ha Jung-Woong Museum of Art’s Inaugural Exhibition, Gwangju Museum of Art, Gwangju, Korea
  
  2016                            
  Sculpture in the Courtyard: Lee Ufan. The Cane of Titan, State Hermitage Museum, St. Petersburg, Russia
  Lee Ufan, Château la Coste, Le Puy-Sainte-Réparade, France
  Manufacture Nationale de Sèvres, France
  Castello Di Ama, Siena, Italy
  Lee Ufan, Kamel Mennour Gallery, Paris, France
  
  2015                
  Lisson Gallery, London, UK
  Busan Museum of Art, Busan, Korea
  Palazzo Contarini-Polignac, Venice, Italy
  Pace Gallery, New York, US/ London, UK/ Hong Kong
  
  2014                
  Palace of Versailles, Versailles, France
  Kaikai Kiki Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
  Tatintsian Gallery, Moscow, Russia
  
  2013                
  Le Capitole, Arles, France
  Galerie Kamel Mennour, Paris, France
  Musée de la Chasse et de la Nature, Paris, France
  
  2012                
  Asia Society Texas Center, Houston, US
  
  2011                
  Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac, Salzburg, Austria
  Guggenheim Museum, New York, US
  SCAI The Bathhouse, Tokyo, Japan
  Gallery Hyundai, Seoul, Korea
  
  2010                
  Blum & Poe, Los Angeles, US
  Galeria Elvira Gonzàlez, Madrid, Spain
  
  2009                
  Kukje Gallery, Seoul, Korea
  Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac, Paris, France
  
  2008                
  The Royal Museum of Fine Arts of Belgium, Brussels, Belgium
  Dahlem Museum, Berlin, Germany
  Tokyo Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
  Pace Wildenstein, New York, US
  Lisson Gallery, London, UK
  
  2007                
  Galerie Nächst St. Stephan, Vienna, Austria
  52nd La Biennale di Venezia, palazzo Palumbo Fossati, Venice, Italy
  
  2006                
  Galerie Micheline Szwajcer, Antwerp, Belgium
  IBU Gallery, Paris, France
  Galerie M, Bochum, Germany
  Konggan Gallery, Busan, Korea
  Gallery Muramatsu, Tokyo, Japan
  Shirota Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
  
  2005                
  Yokohama Museum of Art, Yokohama, Japan
  Musée d’Art Moderne, Saint-Etienne, France
  
  2004                
  Musée St.Louis Fernet Branca, Saint-Louise, France
  Lisson Gallery, London, UK
  
  2003                
  Samsung Museum of Contemporary Art, Seoul, Korea
  Gallery Hyundai, Seoul, Korea
  
  2002                
  SCAI The Bathhouse, Tokyo, Japan
  
  2001                
  Kunstmuseum Bonn, Germany
  Shirota Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
  Sigong Gallery, Taegoo, Korea
  Konggan Gallery, Busan, Korea
  
  2000          
  Galerie M, Bochum, Germany
  Konggan Gallery, Busan, Korea
  
  1999                
  Liliane& Michel Durand-Dessert, Paris, France
  Kamakura Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
  Tokyo Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
  
  1998                
  Städtisches Museum im STÄDEL, Frankfurt, Germany
  Mitaka City Gallery of Art, Nigata City Art Museum, Japan
  Sigong Gallery, Daegu, Korea
  Shirota Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
  
  1997                
  Gallery Bhak, Seoul, Korea
  Gallery Hyundai, Seoul, Korea
  Space Shimoda, Tokyo, Japan
  GaleireNationale du Jeu de Paume, Paris, France
  Lorenzelli Arte, Milano, Italy
  
  1996            
  Lisson Gallery, London, UK
  Tokyo Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
  Konggan Gallery, Busan,  Korea
  Galerie J. Moussion, Paris, France
  
  1995                
  Städtisches Museum Leverkusen, Germany
  Galerie M, Bochum, Germany
  Inkong Gallery, Seoul, Korea
  Tokyo Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
  
  1994             
  FondazioneMudima, Milano, Italy
  The National Museum of Contemporary Art, Seoul, Korea
  
  1993                
  The Museum of Modern Art Kamakura, Japan
  Shirota Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
  Tokyo G1995, Galerie de Paris, Paris,France
  
  1992                
  Konggan Gallery, Busan, Korea
  Galerie de Paris, Paris, France
  
  1991                
  Hara Museum ARC, Japan
  Lorenzelli Arte, Milano, Italy
  Gallery Ueda, Tokyo, Japan
  Tokyo Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
  
  1990                
  Inkong Gallery, Seoul, Korea
  Gallery Hyundai, Seoul, Korea
  Kamakura Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
  
  1989                
  Galerie M, Bochum, Germany
  Gallery Ueda, Tokyo, Japan
  Tokyo Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
  Shirota Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
  Galerie de Paris, Paris, France
  
  1988                
  The Museum of Fine Arts, Gifu, Japan
  Galerie Anselm Dreher, Berlin, Germany
  PadiglioneD’ArteContemporanea, Milano, Italy
  
  1987                
  Gallery Hyundai, Seoul, Korea
  
  1986                
  Galerie de Paris, Paris, France
  Gallery Ueda, Tokyo, Japan
  Shirota Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
  Tokyo Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
  
  1985           
  Kamakura Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
  
  1984                
  Galerie de Paris, Paris, France
  Shirota Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
  Gallery Hyundai, Seoul, Korea
  
  1983                
  Tokyo Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
  Gallery Ueda, Tokyo, Japan
  
  1982                
  Studio Marconi, Milano, Italy
  
  1981          
  Shirota Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
  
  1980                
  Galerie Eric Fabre, Paris, France
  Gallery Ueda, Tokyo, Japan
  Tokyo Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
  
  1979                
  Jin Gallery, Seoul, Korea
  Marl Sculpture Museum, Germany
  Gallery Takagi, Nagoya, Japan
  Gallery Muramatsu, Tokyo, Japan
  
  1978                
  Galerie M, Bochum, Germany
  Düsseldorf Kunsthalle, Düsseldorf, Germany
  Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Belgium
  The Antwerp Gallery, Antwerp, Germany
  Shirota Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
  Gallery Hyundai, Seoul, Korea
  
  1977           
  Galerie Eric Fabre, Paris, France
  Tokyo Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
  
  1976           
  Galerie M, Bochum, Germany
  Gallery Spectrum, Antwerp, Germany
  
  1975            
  Galerie Eric Fabre, Paris, France
  
  1974           
  Tamura Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
  
  1973           
  Tokyo Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
  
  1972                
  Myong-Dong Gallery, Seoul, Korea
  
  1971                
  Pinar Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
  
  1970            
  Tamura Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
  
  1967                
  Sato Gallery, Tokyo, Japan

Selected Group Exhibitions

• 2023
  The Part In The Story Where Our Accumulating Dust Becomes A Mountain, Seoul Museum of Art, Seoul, Korea
  Lineages: Korean Art at The Met, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, US
  Stories of Stones, Villa Medici, Rome, Italy
  Material & Immaterial in Korean Modern and Contemporary Art, Cleveland Museum of Art, Ohio, US
  Extraordinary Form Abstract and non figurative art from Miettinen Collection, 1970 - Present, Miettinen Collection, Berlin, Germany
  ICÔNES, Punta della Dogana, François Pinault Foundation, Venice, Italy
  Chewing Gum VI, Pace Hong Kong, Hong Kong
  A Summer On The Riviera, Galerie Kamel Mennour, Paris, France
  Minimal: The Art from East Asia, Humboldt Forum, Berlin, Germany
  To the Origin, Gana Art Center, Seoul, South Korea
  Lee Ufan and Claude Viallat: Encounter, Pace London, London, UK
  We Love China: Part 2, Whitestone Gallery, Beijing, China
  We Love China: Part 1, Whitestone Gallery, Beijing, China
  Secondary Market, Galerie Perrotin, Dubai, United Arab Emirates
  WORLD CLASSROOM: Contemporary Art through School Subjects, Mori Art Museum, Tokyo, Japan
  Transfer: Korean and British Abstract Painting and the Digital Document, Korean Cultural Centre, London, UK
  Winter 2023, Kamakura Gallery, Kanagawa, Japan
  
  2022
  Fear or Love, Seoul Museum, Seoul, Korea
  Now and Then : 1992 - Present, Gallery Shilla, Daegu, Korea
  From Monet to Richter: Focus on New Acquisitions, Pola Museum of Art, Hakone, Japan
  Breathing, Hamburger Kunsthalle, Hamburg, Germany
  MOT Collection I, II, Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
  New Abstracts: Recent Acquisitions, LACMA, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Park La Brea, Los Angles, US
  Being in the World: The Tenth Anniversary of the Long Museum, Long Museum, West Bund, Shanghai, China
  Collection Reflection And Inversion, Toyota Municipal Museum of Art, Toyota, Japan
  Monochrome Multitudes, SMART Museum of Art, Chicago, US
  Summer 2022, Kamakura Gallery, Kanagawa, Japan
  
  2021
  Resonance, Horim Museum, Seoul, Korea
  Abstraction and Calligraphy − Towards a Universal Language, Louvre Abu Dhabi, Abu Dhabi, UAE 
  Afterglow Spirit, Museum SAN, Wonju, Korea
  Ink Dreams: Selections from the Fondation INK Collection, Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA), Los Angeles, US 
  MMCA Collection Exhibition: Meaningful Moments in the History of Korean Art, Jeongeup Museum of Art, Korea
  Silence, Pace Gallery, Geneva, Switzerland
  Modern Life, Daegu Art Museum, Daegu, Korea
  Obayashi Collection: Self-History, WHAT Museum, Tokyo, Japan
  Collection Exhibition, National Museum of Art, Osaka, Japan
  A room with a..., Pace Gallery, Florida, US
  Abstraction and Calligraphy: Towards a Universal Language, Louvre Abu Dhabi, Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates
  Spring Story II, Gana Art Center, Seoul, Korea
  
  2020       
  NGV Triennial 2020, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, Australia            
  Art Plant Asia 2020: Hare Way Object, Deoksugung Palace, Seoul, Korea
  Hyundai 50, Gallery Hyundai, Seoul, Korea
  The Modern and Contemporary Korean Writing, National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Deoksugung, Seoul, Korea
  Stars: Six Contemporary Artists from Japan to the World, Mori Art Museum, Tokyo, Japan
  The Eastern Gesture: Five Voices from the Korean Avant-Garde, Dep Art, Milan, Italy
  Photographic Images and Matter: Japanese Prints of the 1970s (travelling exhibition), St. Petersburg Repin State Academic Institute of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture of Russian Academy of Arts, Saint-Petersburg; The Volgograd Museum of Fine Arts named after I. Mashikov, Volgograd, Russia
  Tokyo Gallery 70th Anniversary (Part 2), Tokyo Gallery + BTAP, Tokyo, Japan
  
  2019                   
  Landlord Colors: On Art, Economy, and Materiality, Cranbrook Art Museum, Bloomfield Hills, US
  Light Profoundness: The Worldlet of East Asian Artists, HIVE Center for Contemporary Art, Beijing, China
  2019 Asian Art Biennial: The Strangers From Beyond The Mountain And The Sea, National Taiwan Museum of Fine Arts, Taichung, Taiwan
  Silent Beauty, Ateneum Art Museum , Helsinki, Finland
  Upcoming The Nature Rules: Dreaming of Earth Project, Hara Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo, Japan
  Yves Klein, Lee Ufan, Ding Yi: The Challenging Souls, Power Station of Art, Shanghai, China
  Minimalism: Space. Light. Object., ArtScience Museum – National Gallery Singapore, Singapore
  Photographic Images and Matter: Japanese Prints of the 1970s (travelling exhibition), The Japan Cultural Institute in Cologne, Cologne, Germany; Palace of Culture, Algiers, Algeria; International Centre of Graphic Arts, Ljubljana, Slovenia
  
  2018
  Powerlong Museum, Shanghai, China
  Art and Space, Guggenheim Bilbao, Bilbao, Spain
  The Myriad Forms of Visual Art: 196 Works with 19 Themes, National Museum of Art, Osaka, Japan
  Photographic Images and Matter: Japanese Prints of the 1970s (travelling exhibition), The National Art Museum of the Republic of Belarus, Minsk, Belarus; Estonian Film Museum, Tallinn, Estonia
  SeMA Collection: The Lost World, Buk-Seoul Museum of Art, Seoul, Korea
  
  2017                   
  Arts of Korea, Brooklyn Museum, New York, US
  Unpacked: Contemporary Works from Private Collections of Northern California, Museums of Sonoma County, Santa Rosa, US
  Everything at Once, Lisson Gallery, London, UK
  Japanorama. Nouveau regard sur la création contemporaine, Centre Pompisou-Metz, France
  Couvent de la Tourette, Associated exhibition of 14th Biennale de Lyon, Lyon, France
  Korean Dansaekhwa, Erarta Museum of Contemporary Art, St.Peterburg, Russia
  Rhythm in Monochrome: Korean Abstract Painting, Tokyo Opera City Art Gallery, Tokyo
  Looking into Korean Art II: Dansaekhwa, Museum San, Wonju, Korea
  Photographic Images and Matter: Japanese Prints of the 1970s (travelling exhibition), Victoria Memorial Hall, Kolkata, India
  
  2016                   
  When Process Becomes Form: Dansaekhwa and Korean Abstraction, Boghossian Foundation, Brussels, Belgium
  Dansaekhwa & Minimalism, Blum & Poe, Los Angeles/ New York, US
  Reminiscing on Past Times…, Youngeun Museum of Contemporary Art, Gwangju The Earth, Fire and Spirit, Grand Palais, Paris, France
  Dansaekhwa, PIASA, Paris, France
  After Drawing, Gallery Hyundai, Seoul, Korea
  
  2015                
  Drawings: Bourgeois, Hesse, Molnar, Renouf, Ufan, Senior & Shopmaker Gallery, New York, US
  Simple Forms: Contemplating Beauty, Mori Art Museum, Tokyo, Japan
  Mono-Ha: Works on Paper, Beijing Tokyo Art Projects, Tokyo, Japan
  Dansaekhwa as part of the Collateral Events of the 56^th Venice Biennale, Palazzo Contarini-Polignac, Venice, Italy
  Avant Garde Asia: Lines of Korean Masters, Sotheby’s, Hong Kong
  Enrico Castellani and Lee Ufan: Surgaces et Correspondences, Lorenzelli Arte, Milan, Italy
  Korean Abstract Painting: 45th Anniversary of Gallery Hyundai, Gallery Hyundai, Seoul, Korea
  
  2014                
  The Art of Dansaekhwa, Kukje Gallery, Seoul, Korea
  From All Sides: Tansaekhwa on Abstraction, Blum & Poe, Los Angeles, US
  Formes Simples, Centre Pompidou-Metz, France
  Genius Loci (Spirit of Place), Palazzo Franchetti, Venice, Italy
  Korean Beauty: Two Kinds of Nature, Seoul Museum of the National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Seoul, Korea
  Other Primary Structures: Others 2, Jewish Museum, New York, US
  
  2013                
  Tension précaire, Capelle Saint-Laurent-Le Capitole, Arles, France
  Paradise, Pace Gallery, New York, US
  Takashi Collection: Mindfulness!, Kirishima Open-Air Museum, Kagoshima, Japan
  Prima Materia, Punta della Dogana, Venice, Italy
  Tokyo 1955–1970: A New Avant-Garde, Museum of Modern Art, New York, US
  Mingei: Are You Here?, Pace London, London, UK
  
  2012                
  Requiem for the Sun: The Art of Mono-ha, Blum & Poe, Los Angeles, US
  Requiem for the Sun: The Art of Mono-ha, Gladstone Gallery, New York, US
  Tokyo 1955–1970: A New Avant-Garde, Museum of Modern Art, New York, US
  
  2011                   
  The World Belongs to You, 54th Venice Biennale, Palazzo Grassi, Venice, Italy
  PERSONAL STRUCTURES, 54th Venice Biennale, Palazzo Bembo, Venice, Italy
  
  2010                
  Essential Experience, RISO Galleria Regionaledella Sicilia, Sicilia, Italy
  
  2009                
  Infinitum, Palazzo Fortuny, Venice, Italy
  Qui a peur des artistes?, François Pinault Collection, Palais des Arts, Dinard, France
  Essential Experience, RISO Galleria Regionale della Sicilia, Sicilia, Italy
  
  2008                
  Sensitive Systems, Hakgojae Gallery, Seoul, Korea
  The Thin Shadow Line, Fondazione Mudima, Milan, Italy
  SOTTO VOCE, Yvon Lambert, New York, US
  1^st Poznan Biennale, Poland
  
  2007                
  Elastic Taboos, Kunsthalle, Wien, Austria
  Living in the Material World: Things in Art of the 20th Century and Beyond, The National Art Center, Tokyo, Japan
  L’art de Monet etsaPostérité, The National Art Center, Tokyo, Japan
  Micro-Narrative, Beograd, Serbia
  
  2006                
  La force de l’art, Grand Palais, Paris, France
  Gwangju Biennale, Gwangju, Korea
  Shelter, National Galerie, Berlin, Germany
  
  2005                
  Reconsidering Mono-ha, The National Museum of Art, Osaka, Japan
  
  2004                
  Limpa – Ecole de Limpa, The National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo, Japan
  L’art au futurantérieur 1975-2004, Musée du Grenoble, Grenoble, France
  
  2003                
  Happiness, Mori Art Museum, Tokyo, Japan
  
  2002                
  The Pacific Triennale, Queensland Art Gallery Brisbane, Australia
  
  2002                
  Les années 70 l’arten cause, CAPC Musée d’Art Contemporain, Bordeaux, France
  
  2001                
  Century City, Tate Modern, London, UK
  Mono-ha – School of Things, Museum of Kettle’s Yard, Cambridge, Newlyn Art Gallery, Newlyn, UK
  Le Tribú dell Arte, Galleria Comunale d’Arte Moderna e contemporanea, Rome, Italy
  Ikiro-Be Alive, Kröller-Müller Museum, Otterlo, The Netherlands
  
  2000                
  Gwangju Biennale, Gwangju, Korea
  Shanghai Biennale (awarded prize UNESCO), Shanghai, China
  Bernard Frize, Katharina Grosse and Lee Ufan, Galerie Monika Reitz, Frankfurt, Germany
  
  
  1999                
  Kunstweltenim Dialog, Museum Ludwig, Köln, Germany
  
  1998                
  SARAJEBO 2000, Museum Moderna Kunst Stiftung Ludwig, Wien, Austria
  Contemporary Art of Korea-Time, Ho-am Art Gallery, Seoul, Korea
  Korean Monochromism, Busan Metropolitan Art Museum, Busan, Korea
  
  1997                
  Made in France, Musée National d’ArtModerne, Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, France
  
  1996                
  Japon 1970 Mono-ha, Musée d’art Moderne, Saint-Etienne, France
  Projet 8, Total Contemporary Art Museum, Seoul, Korea
  Small Truths, John Hansard Gallery, Southampton, UK
  
  1995           
  Mono- ha, The Museum of Fine Art Gifu, Gifu, Japan
  ASIANA-Monoha, Palazzo Vendramin, Venice, Italy
  Joongang Biennale, Ho-am Art Gallery, Seoul, Korea
  
  1994                
  Scream Against the Sky, Guggenheims Soho Museum, New York, US
  Postwar Art in Japan, Yokohama Museum of Art, Yokohama, Japan
  
  1993                
  Spiritual in Art, Fukuyama Museum of Art, Fukuyama, Japan
  
  1992                
  Contemporary Art from Korea, Tate Gallery, Liverpool, UK
  Seven Artists of Japan, Nagoya City Art Museum, Nagoya, Japan
  Avand Guardie Giapponesi Degli Anni 70, Galleria D’Arte Moderna Comune di Bologna, Bologna, Italy
  
  1991 – 1992    
  Aspects of Contemporary Japanese Art, Santa Monica Museum of Art, California/ Portland Art Museum, Portland/ Oregon Art Institute, Oregon/ Museo Rufino Tamayo, Mexico/ Contemporary Art Center, New Orleans, US
  
  1990                
  Blau, Heidelberger Kunst museum, Heidelberg, Germany
  Minimal Art, National Museum of Art, Osaka, Japan
  
  1989                
  Croisement des Signes, Institut du Monde Arabe, Paris, France
  Biennale Middelheim Japan, Middelheim Open-Air Museum, Antwerp, Belgium
  Japan 1989, Museum van HedendaagseKunst, Gent, Belgium
  Effets de Mirror, Bibliothèque Louis-Aragon, Choisy, France
  
  1988                
  Monoha, Museo Labatorio di Arte Contemporanea, Rome, Italy
  Symposium of Olympic Sculpture, Seoul, Korea
  
  1987                
  Mono-ha and Post Mono-ha, Seibu Museum of Art, Tokyo, Japan
  Painting 1977-87, National Museum of Art, Osaka, Japan
  Le Japon des Avant-Gardes, Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, France
  
  1986                
  Seoul-Paris, Centre National des Arts Plastiques, Paris, France
  Mono-ha, Kamakura Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
  Contemporary Japanese Calligraphy and Painting, Galerie Nationale de Prague, Czech Republic
  Le Japon des Avant-Gardes, Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, France
  
  1985                
  40 Years of Japanese Contemporary Art, Tokyo Metropolitan Art Museum, Tokyo, Japan
  Ecole de Seoul, Seoul, Korea
  
  1984                
  Wiesbaderner Skulpturentage, Germany
  Trends of Contemporary Japanese Art, Tokyo Metropolitan Art Museum, Tokyo, Japan
  
  1983                
  ARS 83 Helsinki, Finland
  M. Kawabata, Lee Ufan and Y.Saito Exhibition, Juda Rowan Gallery, London, UK
  
  1982                
  Meister der Zeichnung, Kunsthalle Nürnberg, Germany
  Material Gets Art, Berlin National Galerie, Berlin, Germany
  Japanese Contemporary Art Exhibition, Camden Arts Center, London, UK
  
  1980                
  Skulptur im 20 Jahrhundert, Basel, Switzerland
  Contemporary Art in Japan, Museum of Modern Art, Stockholm, Sweden
  
  1979                
  11^th International Prints Biennale in Tokyo (Awarded prize of National Museum of Modern Art), Kyoto, Japan
  1^st Henry Moore Grand Prize Exhibition, Hakone Open-Air Museum (Awarded Superlative Prize), Kanagawa, Japan
  
  1978                
  Z. B. Sculpture, Städtisches Museum im STÄDEL, Frankfurt, Germany
  Focus 78, Centre Culturel du Marais, Paris, France
  
  1977                
  13^th Contemporary Art Exhibition of Japan, Awarded prize of The National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo, Japan
  Kassel Documenta 6, Germany
  Drawing 5 Artists, Minami Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
  100 Prints Acquisitions 1973-1976, Museum of Modern Art, New York, US
  
  1976                
  2^nd Sydney Biennale, Sydney, Australia
  Ecole de Seoul, Seoul, Korea
  Cagnes-Sur-Mer, International Painting Fair, France
  
  1975                
  3^rd Triennale India, National Academy of Art, New Delhi, India
  Contemporary Art of Japan, Museum of Letevorg, Stockholm, Sweden
  Contemporary Art of Japan, Sonja Henle-Niels Onstad Museum, Oslo, Norway
  
  1974                
  Japan Traditional Gegenwart, StädtischesKunsthalle, Düsseldorf, Germany
  Japanese Art in Louisiana, Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Humlebæk, Denmark
  
  1973                
  São Paulo Biennale, São Paulo, Brazil
  11^th Contemporary Art Exhibition : A Retrospective 20 Years of Contemporary Japanese Art, Tokyo and Kyoto, Japan
  
  1972                
  2^nd Seoul Prints Biennale, Seoul, Korea
  Napoli International Exhibition, Napoli, Italy
  7^th, 8^th International Prints Biennale in Tokyo, Japan
  
  1971                
  7^th Paris Biennale, Paris, France
  
  1970         
  7^th, 8^th International Prints Biennale in Tokyo, Japan
  Mono- ha, Museum of Fine Art Gifu, Japan
  Aspects of New Japanese Art, National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo, Japan
  
  1969                
  Trends in Contemporary Art, National Museum of Modern Art, Kyoto, Japan
  5th International Young Artists Exhibition (Awarded Prize of Japan Cultural Forum), Tokyo, Japan
  9th Contemporary Art Exhibition of Japan, Tokyo Metropolitan Art Museum, Tokyo, Japan
  
  1968                
  Contemporary Art of Korea, National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo, Japan

Selected Awards

• 2013 
  National Order of Cultural Merit, Korea
  
  2007 
  Ordre national de la Légion d'honneur, France
  
  2001 
  11th Hoam prize (Art), Seoul, Korea
  13th Praemium Imperiale (Painting), Tokyo, Japan
  
  2000    
  UNESCO Prize (in Shanghai Biennale). Paris – Beijing
  
  1979    
  1^st Henry Moore Grand Prize, awarded Superlative Prize

Selected Public and Private Collections

• Berlin National Galerie, Berlin, Germany
  The Brooklyn Museum, New York, US
  Centre Georges Pompidou, Musée National d’Art Moderne, Paris, France
  The Museum of Fine Arts, Gifu, Japan
  Leeum Museum of  Art, Seoul, Korea
  Kröller-Müller Rijksmuseum, Otterloo, The Netherlands
  Le Musée de Sculpture en Plein Air, Paris, France
  The Museum of Modern Art, New York, US
  São Paulo Art Library, São Paulo, Brazil
  Sonja Henle-Niels Onstad Museum, Oslo, Norway
  Staats Kunstsammlungen Dresden, Dresden, Germany
  Kunsthalle Nurnberg, Germany
  Stuttgart Staats Galerie, Stuttgart, Germany
  The National Museum of Contemporary Art, Seoul, Korea
  Hakone Open-Air Museum, Kanagawa, Japan
  Hara Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo, Japan
  Hiroshima City Museum of Contemporary Art, Hiroshima, Japan
  Iwaki City Art Museum, Iwaki, Japan
  Ohara Museum of Art, Kurashiki, Japan
  Setagaya Art Museum, Tokyo, Japan
  Sezon Museum of Modern Art, Nagano, Japan
  The Museum of Modern Art, Kamakura & Hayama, Japan
  The National Museum of Modern Art, Kyoto, Japan
  The National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo, Japan
  The National Museum of Art, Osaka, Japan
  Galerie Nationale de Prague, Czech Republic
  Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo, Japan
  Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia
  Hokkaido Museum of Modern Art, Sapporo, Japan
  Kunstsammlungen der Ruhr-Universität Bochum, Germany
  Städtisches Museum Leverkusen, Germany
  Toyota Municipal Museum of Art, Japan
  Tate Modern, London, UK
  FNAC, Paris, France
  Städtisches Museum Städel Frankfurt, Germany
  Fondazione Mudima, Milano, Italy
  Queensland Art Gallery, Brisbane, Australia
  Seoul  Municipal Museum of Art, Korea
  Kunstmuseum Bonn, Germany
  Kunsthaus Zürich, Switzerland
  Situation Kunst, Bochum, Germany
  Fukuoka Art Museum, Japan
  Contemporary Art Museum, Kumamoto, Japan