Michael Joo

• Born in 1966, Ithaca, US
  Lives and works in New York, US

Education

• 1991      M.F.A. in Yale School of Art, Yale University, New Haven, US
  1989      B.F.A. in Washington University, St Louis, US

Selected Solo Exhibitions

• 2021
  On The Passage..., CLEA RSKY, Brooklyn, NY, US
  Michael Joo: Sensory Meridian, Kavi Gupta, Chicago, US
  
  2019
  Project: Michael Joo, Kavi Gupta, Chicago, US
  
  2018
  Art Sonje Project #4: Michael Joo – Verfremdungseffekt, Art Sonje Center, Seoul, Korea
  Simultaneity Biases, Blain | Southern, Berlin, Germany
  
  2017
  Single Breath Transfer, Kukje Gallery, Seoul, Korea
  Uniformitarian Assumptions, Galleria Carles Taché, Barcelona, Spain
  Michael Joo: 7 Sins, Carolina Nitsch Project Room, New York, US
  
  2016
  Barrier Island, SCAD Museum of Art, Savannah, US
  Perspectives: Michael Joo, Smithsonian Freer | Sackler Museum, Washington, D.C., US
  Radiohalo, Blain | Southern, London, UK
  
  2014
  Suture, The Bronx Museum of Arts, New York, US
  Transparency Engine, SCAD Moot Gallery, Sham Shui Po, Hong Kong
  Doppelganger, Cass Sculpture Foundation, Goodwood, UK
  Drift (Bronx), The Bronx Museum of Arts, New York, US
  Drift, The Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum, Ridgefield, US
  
  2013
  Michael Joo, M Building, Miami Beach, US
  
  2012
  Exit from the House of Being, Blain | Southern, London, UK
  
  2010
  Have You Ever Really Looked at the Sun?, Haunch of Venison, Berlin, Germany (with Damien Hirst)
  Galleria Marabini, Bologna, Italy
  
  2009
  Anton Kern Gallery, New York, US
  Bodhi Obfuscatus (Allegiance), Chelsea Art Museum, New York, US
  
  2008
  Circannual Rhythm, Anchorage Museum, Anchorage, Alaska
  PKM Gallery, Seoul, Korea
  
  2006
  Michael Joo, Rodin Gallery (Leeum, Samsung Museum of Art), Seoul, Korea
  
  2005
  Anton Kern Gallery, New York, US
  Bodhi Obfuscatus (Space-Baby), Asia Society, New York, US
  Still Lives, The Bohen Foundation, New York, US
  
  2004
  Michael Joo, Palm Beach Institute for Contemporary Art, Lake Worth, US
  
  2003
  Michael Joo, MIT List Visual Art Center, Cambridge, US
  
  2002
  Anton Kern Gallery, New York, US
  Curti/Gambuzzi & Co., Milan, Italy
  PKM Gallery, Seoul, Korea
  
  2001
  49th Venice Biennale, South Korean Pavilion, Venice, Italy (with Do-Ho Suh)
  
  1999
  Anton Kern Gallery, New York, US
  
  1998
  White Cube, London, UK
  
  1997
  Anton Kern Gallery, New York, US
  
  1996
  Thomas Nordanstad Gallery, New York, US
  
  1995
  Crash, Anthony D'Offay Gallery, London, UK
  Galerie Anne de Villepoix, Paris, France
  Nature vs. Nature at the Glass Ceiling, Stedelijk Museum Bureau, Amsterdam, The Netherlands (with Christiaan Bastiaans)
  Thomas Nordanstad Gallery, New York, US
  
  1994
  Salt Transfer Cycle, Thomas Nordanstad Gallery, in collaboration with Petzel/Borgmann Gallery, New York, US
  
  1992
  The Artifice of Expenditure, Nordanstad-Skarstedt Gallery, New York, US

Selected Group Exhibitions

• 2024
  Every Island is a Mountain, Palazzo Malta, Venice, Italy
  
  2023
  The Shape of Time: Korean Art after 1989, Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, USA
  INTROVERSE: ALLEGORY TODAY, 80 WSE, New York, US
  
  2022
  Hawai‘i Triennial 2022, Bishop Museum, Honolulu, Hawai'i, US
  Disruption: Works from the Vicki and Kent Logan Collection, Denver Art Museum, Colorado, US
  
  2021
  Glasstress. Window to the Future, The State Hermitage Museum, Saint Petersburg, Russia
  Breaking the Waves, chi K11 art museum, Shanghai, China
  Mirror / Mirror. Reflect Yourself!, Kunsthal KAdE, Amersfoort, Netherlands 
  The Slipstream: Reflection, Resilience, and Resistance in the Art of Our Time, Brooklyn Museum, NY, US
  
  2020
  The Art of Collecting, Shoshana Wayne Gallery, Los Angeles, US
  
  2019
  If on a Winter’s Night a Traveler, Tel Aviv Museum of Art, Tel Aviv, Israel
  Reason Gives No Answers: Selected Works from the Collection, Newport Street Gallery, London, UK
  
  2018
  Second Edition of The Sculpture Park at Madhavendra Palace, Jaipur, India
  Der Duft der Bilder Werke der colección olor VISUAL, Barcelona, Kunst- und Kulturstiftung Opelvillen Rüsselsheim, Germany
  Real DMZ Project, Cheorwon, Korea
  NGORONGOROⅡ, Lehderstrasse 34, Berlin, Germany
  
  2017
  Ark, Chester Cathedral, UK
  Emanation 2017: An Invitational Contemporary Art Exhibit, Wheaton Arts and Cultural Centre, Millville, US
  Glasstress, Boca Raton Museum of Art, Boca Raton, US
  Vitreous Bodies: Assembled Visions in Glass, Stephen D. Paine Galleries, Massachusetts College of art and Design, Boston, US
  Naturalia, curated by Danny Moynihan, Paul Kasmin Gallery, New York, US
  
  2016
  Anyang Public Art Project, Anyang, Korea
  30 Years 1986-2016: As the Moon Waxes and Wanes, National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Gwacheon, Korea
  Still (the) Barbarians, curated by Koyo Kouoh, EVA International Biennale 2016, Limerick, Ireland
  Force of Nature, curated by James Putnam, GalerieValérie Bach, Brussels, Belgium
  
  2015
  Antoine d'Agata, Bosco Sodi, Cornelia Parker, Javier Pérez, Keith Tyson, Michael Joo, Sean Scully and Tony Cragg, Galeria Carles Taché, Barcelona, Spain
  Seoul, Vite, Vite!, curated by Jean-Max Colard, as part of Lille3000, Euralille, France
  America Is Hard To See, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, US
  Glasstress 2015, Palazzo Franchetti, Venice, Italy
  Sharjah Biennial 12: The past, the present, the possible, Sharjah Art Foundation, Sharjah, UAE
  
  2014
  Metaphysical, Mimmo Scognamiglio Gallery, Milan, Italy
  The Space Where I Am, Blain | Southern, London, UK
  Blood Flames, Paul Kasmin Gallery, New York, US
  On the Blue Shore of Silence, Tracey Williams Gallery, New York, US
  Global City, Surreal City, IVAM, Valencia, Spain
  
  2013
  White Light/White Heat, Wallace Collection, London, UK
  Amor Fati, Pioneer Works, Brooklyn, New York, US
  Come Together: Surviving Sandy, curated by Phong Bui, Industry City, Brooklyn, US
  Indivisible, Art Basel Unlimited, Organized by Kukje Gallery, Basel, Switzerland
  Vivere, Paddle8, New York, US
  Glasstress 2013, Palazzo Cavalli Franchetti, Venice, Italy
  
  2012
  Freedom Not Genius: Works from Damien Hirst’s Murderme Collection, curated by Elena Geuna, Pinacoteca Giovanni e Marella Agnelli, Turin, Italy; Multimedia Art Museum, Moscow, Russia
  Roundtable, 9^th Gwangju Biennale 2012, Gwangju, Korea
  Sculptor’s Drawings and Works on Paper, Pangolin London, London, UK
  Glasstrees New York, Museum of Art and Design, New York, US
  Transforming Minds: Buddhism in Art, works from the Rockefeller Collection of Asian Art, Asia Society Gallery, Hong Kong
  
  2011
  Surreal versus Surrealism in Contemporary Art, Institut Valencià d'Art Modern (IVAM), Valencia, Spain
  Best of Silver: Selected Sculptures in Silver. Pangolin, London, UK
  Glasstress 2011, Palazzo Cavalli Franchetti, Venice, Italy
  
  2010
  The Infinite Starburst of Your Cold Dark Eyes, PKM Gallery, Seoul, Korea
  Dirty Kunst, Seventeen Gallery, London, UK
  
  2009
  NeoHooDoo: Art of a Forgotten Faith, Miami Art Museum, Miami, US
  Incarnational Aesthetics, New York Center for Art & Media Studies (NYCAMS), New York, US
  Faces & Facts: Korean Contemporary Art in New York, Queens Museum of Art, New York, US
  
  2008
  Friends and Family, Anton Kern Gallery, New York, US
  NeoHooDoo: Art of a Forgotten Faith, The Menil Collection, Houston; MoMA PS1, New York, US
  Re-imagining Asia, Haus der Kulturen, Berlin, Germany
  Focus: The Figure (Art form the Logan Collection), Denver Art Museum, Denver, US
  
  2007
  New York States of Mind, Queens Museum of Art, New York, US
  Triennale Bovisa: Timer 01, Milan, Italy
  Post Object, Doris McCarthy Gallery, University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada
  
  2006
  In The Darkest Hour There Will Be Light, Serpentine Gallery, London, UK
  The Bong Show, Leslie Tonkonow Artworks + Projects, New York, US
  Postcards From The Edge, Sikkema Jenkins & Co., New York, US
  6th Gwangju Biennale 2006, Gwangju, Korea
  Eretica, Palazzo Sant’ Anna, Palermo, Italy
  Flux Factory, Lennon Weinberg Gallery, New York, US
  Comunicato Stampo, Curti/Gambuzzi & Co., Milan, Italy
  Implosion!, Anton Kern Gallery, New York, US
  RADAR: Selections From The Collection of Vicki and Kent Logan, Denver Art Museum, Denver, US
  Wallin vs Joo, Galleri Ping-Pong, Malmö, Sweden
  
  2005
  Artwalk NY, Sotheby’s, New York, US
  e-Flux Video Rental, The Moore Space, Miami, US
  Incognito, Santa Monica Museum of Art, Santa Monica, US
  Monuments For The US, CCA Wattis Institute For Contemporary Arts, San Francisco; White Columns, New York, US
  Postcards From The Edge, Robert Miller Gallery, New York, US
  This Must Be The Place, Center For Curatorial Studies, Bard College, Annandale-On-Hudson, US
  In The Darkest Hour There Will Be Light, Serpentine Gallery, London, UK
  
  2004
  D.u.m.b.o. Short Film and Video Festival, Brooklyn, US
  Art Basel 04 (film/video), Basel, Switzerland
  Black Belt, Santa Monica Museum of Art, Santa Monica, US
  f#@k perfection, Vertex List, Brooklyn, US
  Field, curated by Alyson Baker, Socrates Sculpture Park, Long Island City, US
  Incognito, Santa Monica Museum of Art, Santa Monica, US
  Needful Things: Recent Multiples, Cleveland Museum, Cleveland, US
  Postcards From the Edge, Brent Sikkema Gallery, New York, US
  Standing on a Bridge, Arario Gallery, Seoul, Korea
  Video Program, Shore Institute of Contemporary Art, Long Beach, US
  
  2003
  Alumni Show, Center for the Arts at Wesleyan University, Middletown, US
  Black Belt, The Studio Museum in Harlem, New York, US
  Commodification of Buddhism, The Bronx Museum of the Arts, Bronx, US
  Fresh Talk Revisited, A/P/A Studies Gallery; New York University, New York, US
  Full Frontal, Contemporary Asian Artists from the Logan Collection, Denver Art Museum, Denver, US
  Paradise/Paradox, Castle Gallery, The College of New Rochelle, New Rochelle, US
  5: Art Sonje Collection Show, Art Sonje Center, Seoul, Korea
  
  2002
  Black Mariah Film Festival, Jersey City, US
  It's Unfair!, Museum de Paviljoens, Almere, The Netherlands
  Manifeste, oder: Ergriffenheit–was ist das?, Galerie Daniel Blau, Munich, Germany
  The Mind is a Horse, Bloomberg Space, London, UK
  
  2001
  A Contemporary Cabinet of Curiosities, Selections from the Vicki and Kent Logan Collection, California College of Arts and Crafts, Oakland, US
  I Love (benefit exhibition), Anton Kern Gallery, New York, US
  Translated Acts, Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin, Germany; Queens Museum of Art, New York, US
  
  2000
  The Whitney Biennale, New York, US
  Drawings 2000, Barbara Gladstone Gallery, New York, US
  Korean Embassy, New York, US
  Juvenilia, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco, US
  Koreamericakorea, Art sonje Center, Seoul; Sonje Museum, Kyungju, Korea
  The Korean War and American Art: Fifty Years Later, Guild Hall Museum, East Hampton, US
  Media_City Seoul 2000, National Historical Museum, Seoul, Korea
  Psycho, Art and Anatomy, Anne Faggianto Fine Art, London, UK
  Whitney Biennial 2000, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, US
  
  1998
  Matthew McCaslin, Susan Etkin, Michael Joo, PS1 Contemporary Art Center, Long Island City, US
  Nine International Artists at Wanås, Wanås Foundation, Knislinge, Sweden
  Selections from the Permanent Collection, Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, US
  
  1997
  2nd Johannesburg Biennial 1997, Museum of Africa, Johannesburg, South Africa
  Art Club Berlin, Berlin, Germany
  Art in the Anchorage, Creative Time, Brooklyn Bridge Anchorage, Brooklyn, US
  Group Show: Painting, Photography, Drawing, Anton Kern Gallery, New York, US
  Techno-Seduction, Cooper Union School of Art, New York, US
  Transmission, L´Ecole des Beaux Arts Galerie, Paris, France
  
  1996
  Against, Anthony D'Offay Gallery, London, UK
  The Damien Hirst Collection, Quo Vadis, London, UK
  Joo, Sheward & White, Wigram, The Post Office, London, UK
  Patrick Painter Editions, Bloom Gallery, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
  
  1995
  La Belle et la Bête (Beauty and the Beast), Musée d'Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, Paris, France
  Better Living Through Chemistry, Randolph Street Gallery, Chicago, US
  Configura 2: Dialog der Kulturen, Erfurt, Germany
  Gwangju Biennale, Gwangju Contemporary Museum, Gwangju, Korea
  Some Went Mad, Some Ran Away, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, US
  Portalen, Copenhagen, Denmark
  Thomas Nordanstad Gallery, New York, US
  
  1994
  Institute of Cultural Anxiety, Institute of Contemporary Arts, London, UK
  Some Went Mad, Some Ran Away, Serpentine Gallery, London, UK
  Nordic Arts Centre, Helsinki, Finland; Kunstverein, Hannover, Germany
  What Is in Your Mind?, Tekniska Museet, Stockholm, Sweden
  
  1993
  Across the Pacific, Queens Museum of Art, Queens, US
  Aperto-93, 45th Venice Biennale, Venice, Italy
  Changing I: Dense Cities, Shedhalle, Zurich, Switzerland
  The Final Frontier, New Museum for Contemporary Art, New York, US
  Galerie Max Hetzler, Cologne, Germany
  In Out of the Cold, Center for the Arts at Yerba Buena, San Francisco, US
  Nordanstad Gallery, New York, US (with Rachel Berwick)
  Recent Acquisitions, Moderna Museet, Stockholm, Sweden
  Künstlerhaus Bethanien, Berlin, Germany
  
  1992
  Galerie Metropol, Vienna, Austria
  Mimique, Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, US
  Unfair, Nordanstad Gallery at Balloni Halle, Cologne, Germany
  
  1988
  Demolition Daze, exhibition/auction, Rifle Sport Gallery, Minneapolis, US

Selected Awards

• 2012
  Smithsonian Artist Research Fellowship Program, Washington D.C., US
  
  2006
  United States Artists Fellowship, US
  Grand Prize, 6^th Gwangju Biennale, Gwangju,  Korea (with co-recipient Song Dong)
  Acadia Summer Arts Program, Mt. Desert, Main, US
  
  2003
  American Center Foundation Grant, US
  
  2002
  LEF Foundation Grant, US
  
  2001
  Warhol Foundation Grant, US
  
  2000
  Joan Mitchell Foundation Painters’ and Sculptors’ Grant, US
  
  1998
  John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowship, US
  International Artists Studio Program in Sweden (IASPIS), Stockholm, Sweden
  
  1996 – 1997
  Delfina Studio Trust, London, UK
  
  1995
  Royal Academy of Art, Stockholm, Sweden
  
  1994
  Royal Academy of Art, Copenhagen, Denmark
  
  1990
  Cité International Des Arts, Paris, France

Selected Public and Private Collections

• Amorepacific Museum of Art, Seoul, Korea
  Brooklyn Museum, New York, US
  Burger Collection, Hong Kong
  Denver Art Museum, Denver, US
  Farnsworth Art Museum, Rockland, US
  FNAC (Foundation National d’Art Contemporain), Paris, France
  Guggenheim Museum, New York, US
  Harvard Art Museums, Cambridge, US
  Henry Art Gallery, Seattle, US
  Hiscox Collection, London, UK
  M+, Kowloon, Hong Kong
  MIT List Visual Arts Center, Cambridge, US
  Moderna Museet, Stockholm, Sweden
  Museum of Modern Art, New York, US
  Samsung Centre for Art and Culture, Seoul, Korea
  Savannah College of Art and Design, Georgia, US
  Tel Aviv Museum of Art, Tel Aviv, Israel
  The Frances Young Tang Teaching Museum and Art Gallery, Saratoga Springs, US
  The Israel Museum, Jerusalem, Israel
  The Wanås Foundation, Knislinge, Sweden
  UCLA Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, US
  Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, US
  Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, US