1959 B.A. in Painting, Hongik University, Seoul, Korea
Selected Solo Exhibitions
2023
Almine Rech Gallery, Paris, France
2022
Blum & Poe, Los Angeles, US
59th Venice Biennale Collateral Event, Palazzetto Tito, Venice, Italy
Kukje Gallery, Seoul, Korea
2021
Tina Kim Gallery, New York, US
2020
Almine Rech Gallery, London, UK
Daejeon Museum of Art, Daejeon, Korea
2019
Kukje Gallery, Busan, Korea
Cardi Gallery, Milan, Italy
Blum & Poe, Tokyo, Japan
2018
Tina Kim Gallery, New York, US
2017
Almine Rech Gallery, London, UK
Almine Rech Gallery, Paris, France
2016
Blum & Poe, Los Angeles, US
2015
Tina Kim Gallery, New York, US
Kukje Gallery, Seoul, Korea
2014
Blum & Poe, New York, US
Wooson Gallery, Daegu, Korea
2013
Pyo Gallery, Seoul, Korea
2012
National Museum of Contemporary Art, Gwacheon, Korea
Galerie Winter, Wiesbaden, Germany
2010
Severance Art Space, Seoul, Korea
2009
Seok Gallery, Daegu, Korea
Bluedot M Gallery, Changwon, Korea
Galerie Winter, Wiesbaden, Germany
2008
Gana Art Center, Seoul, Korea
2006
Pyo Gallery, Seoul, Korea
2004
Gyeongnam Art Museum, Changwon, Korea
Gallery Bijutsu Sekai, Tokyo, Japan
2003
Fondazione Mudima, Milan, Italy
2002
Gallery Bijutsu Sekai, Tokyo, Japan
Busan Museum of Art, Busan, Korea
2001
Kamakura Gallery, Kanagawa, Japan
Chosun Ilbo Museum of Art, Seoul, Korea
Park Ryu Sook Gallery, Seoul, Korea
2000
Hongik Museum of Art, Hongik University, Seoul, Korea
1999
Espace Paul Ricard, Paris, France
Wassermann Galerie, Munich, Germany
1997
Wellside Gallery, Seoul, Korea
Kamakura Gallery, Tokyo, Japan,
1996
Biever-Risch Galerie, Luxembourg, Luxembourg
1995
Hanlim Gallery, Daejeon, Korea
1994
Wassermann Galerie, Munich, Germany
Kamakura Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
1992
Nabis Gallery, Seoul, Korea
1990
Kamakura Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
1985
Kamakura Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
1984
Gallery Hyundai, Seoul, Korea
1979
Muramatsu Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
1977
Space Gallery, Seoul, Korea
1975
Munheon Gallery, Seoul, Korea
1974
Myeongdong Gallery, Seoul, Korea
1972
Gin Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
Selected Group Exhibitions
2021 Meeting the Monochrome: ZERO and Dansaekhwa, Zero Foundation, Düsseldorf, Germany
Rho Gallery, Seoul, Korea Jamunbak Museum Project: Part I, Gana Art Center, Seoul, Korea Resonance, Horim Museum, Seoul, Korea Un Hiver à Paris, Almine Rech Gallery, Paris, France
2020 Tina Kim Gallery Presents: Art Without Borders, Tina Kim Gallery, New York, US
2019 War Within, War Without, Collection 1940s-1970s, Museum of Modern Art, New York, US Awakenings: Art in Society in Asia 1960s-1990s, National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Gwacheon, Korea Abstraction, Song Art Museum, Beijing, China Approaches to Abstraction, Almine Rech Gallery, Shanghai, China Landlord Colors: On Art, Economy, and Materiality, Cranbrook Art Museum, Bloomfield Hills, US
2018 Korean Abstract Art: Kim Whanki and Dansaekhwa, Powerlong Art Museum, Shanghai, China Renegades in Resistance and Challenge, Daegu Art Museum, Daegu, Korea Topologies, curated by Mika Yoshitake, The Warehouse, Dallas, US SeMA Collection: The Lost World, Buk-Seoul Museum of Art, Seoul, Korea
2017 Arts of Korea, Brooklyn Museum, New York, US Rhythm in Monochrome | Korean Abstract Painting, Tokyo Opera City Art Gallery, Tokyo, Japan The Ascetic Path: Korean Dansaekhwa, Erarta Museum of Contemporary Art, St. Petersburg, Russia Seeking Stillness, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, US Asian Diva: The Muse and The Monster, Seoul Museum of Art, Seoul, Korea Who Can Be Strangers? The Art of Mono-ha and Dansaekhwa, Adrian Rosenfeld Gallery, San Francisco, US Looking into Korean Art II: Dansaekhwa, Museum SAN, Wonju, Korea Thinking Out Loud: Notes for an Evolving Collection, The Warehouse, Rachofsky Collection, Dallas, US Unpacked: Contemporary Works from Private Collections of Northern California, Museum of Sonoma County, Santa Rosa, US
2016 New Beginnings: Between Gesture and Geometry, The George Economou Collection, Athens, Greece Hybridizing Earth, Discussing Multitude, Busan Biennale, Busan Museum of Art, Busan, Korea 30 Years 1986-2016: As the Moon Waxes and Wanes, National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Gwacheon, Korea Korean Abstract Art: Early Works, Waldorf Astoria Hotel, New York, US Dansaekhwa, l'aventure du monochrome en Corée, des années 70 à nos jours, Domaine de Kerguéhennec, Bignan, France KM 9346: Korea-Morbihan 9,346km, Domaine de Kerguéhennec, Bignan, France When Process Becomes Form: Dansaekhwa and Korean Abstraction, Boghossian Foundation – Villa Empain, Brussels, Belgium Dansaekhwa and Minimalism, Blum & Poe, New York, US Dansaekhwa and Minimalism, Blum & Poe, Los Angeles, US Masterworks on Loan, Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art, University of Oregon, Eugene, US Collection of Art Institute of Chicago, Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, US
2015 Five Dansaekhwa Artists, Rho Gallery, Seoul, Korea PROPORTIO, Palazzo Fortuny, Venice, Italy Dansaekhwa, 56th Venice Biennale Collateral Event, Palazzo Contarini-Polignac, Venice, Italy Korean Abstract Painting - 45th Anniversary of Gallery Hyundai, Gallery Hyundai, Seoul, Korea Bold Abstractions: Selections from the DMA Collection 1966-1976, Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas, US Avant Garde Asia: Lines of Korean Masters, Sotheby’s Hong Kong Gallery, Hong Kong
2014 Unconstraint Creation, Hakgojae Gallery, Shanghai, China Empty Fullness: Materiality and Spirituality in Contemporary Korean Art, Korean Cultural Center, Beijing, China; traveled to SPSI Art Museum, Shanghai, China; Koreanisches Kulturzentrum, Berlin, Germany; National Museum of Indonesia, Jakarta, Indonesia From All Sides: Dansaekhwa on Abstraction, Blum & Poe, Los Angeles, US The Art of Dansaekhwa, Kukje Gallery, Seoul, Korea Overcoming the Modern: Dansaekhwa, The Korean Monochrome Movement, Alexander Gray Associates, New York, US
2012 Dansaekhwa: Korean Monochrome Painting, National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Gwacheon, Korea Korean Painting Now, National Taiwan Museum of Fine Arts, Taichung, Taiwan
2011 The Spectrum of Contemporary Korean Art, Gyeongnam Art Museum, Changwon, Korea;
Kaohsiung Museum of Fine Arts, Kaohsiung, Taiwan The Great Artists of Korean Art, Ulsan Culture Art Center, Ulsan, Korea Qi is Full, Daegu Art Museum, Daegu, Korea
2010 Korean Avant-Garde Drawing: 1970-2000, Seoul Olympic Museum of Art, Seoul, Korea Him of Gyeonggi-do, Gyeonggi Museum of Modern Art, Ansan, Korea The 33rd Anniversary Special Exhibition, Sun Gallery, Seoul, Korea In the Midst of the Korean Contemporary Art, Gallery Hyundai, Seoul, Korea
2009 Bong Whang 137, Sunshine International Art Museum, Beijing, China The Three, Imazoo Gallery, Seoul, Korea
4th Prague Biennale, Prague, Czech Republic 8 Artists of the Korean Contemporary Art, Gallery Pakyoung, Paju, Korea Monochrome Art in Korea, Wellside Gallery, Shanghai, China
2008 Contemporary Art for 30 Years, Part 1, Kamakura Gallery, Kanagawa, Japan 9 Korean Contemporary Artists, Rho Gallery, Seoul, Korea
5th Busan Biennale, Busan, Korea Korean Abstract Art 1958-2008, Seoul Museum of Art, Seoul, Korea The Color of Nature: Monochrome Art in Korea, Pyo Gallery, Seoul, Korea
2007 Contemplation on a Space, Gana Art Busan, Busan, Korea Abstract Art: Amusement on the Border, Seoul Museum of Art, Seoul, Korea Homage100, Korea Art Gallery, Busan, Korea Korean Contemporary Art, Sejong Center for the Performing Arts, Seoul, Korea
2004 Korean Contemporary Paintings: Past and Now, Seoul Museum of Art, Seoul, Korea
2003 The Seoul Art Exhibition, Seoul Museum of Art, Seoul, Korea D.I.Y., Total Museum of Contemporary Art, Seoul, Korea
2002 Understanding of Abstract Art, Sungkok Museum of Art, Seoul, Korea Korean Contemporary Art from the mid-1970s to mid 1980s: Age of Philosophy and Aesthetics,
National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Gwacheon, Korea
2001 Journey of Contemporary Korean Art of the 21st Century, Sejong Gallery, Seoul, Korea Buncheong Ware Exhibition II, Hoam Gallery, Seoul, Korea Which ART Do You Like Best?, Kamakura Gallery, Kanagawa, Japan The Development of Korean Contemporary Art, National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Gwacheon, Korea
2000 12 Contemporary Artists, Sun Gallery, Seoul, Korea Nature, POSCO Art Museum, Seoul, Korea The Facets of Korean and Japanese Contemporary Art, 3rd Gwangju Biennale, Gwangju, Korea Postwar Abstract Art in Korea and West: Passion and Expression, Hoam Gallery, Seoul, Korea Plane as Spirits, Busan Museum of Art, Busan, Korea A Passage for a New Millennium: Korean Artists of Overseas Exhibitions, 1990-99, National Museum of Contemporary Art, Gwacheon, Korea The Horizontal for a New Millenium, Gallery Hyundai, Seoul, Korea
1999 Corée: Pays du Matin Calme, Musée des Arts Asiatiques, Nice, France
1998
98 JoongAng Biennale, JoongAng Ilbo, Seoul, Korea
PICAF, Busan Museum of Art, Busan, Korea Les peintres du silence - huit maitres contemporains, Musée du Château des ducs de Würtemberg, Montbéliard, France
1997 25 Korean Contemporary Artists, Gallery Hyundai, Seoul, Korea
1996 Korean Monochrome Paintings in 70’s, Gallery Hyundai, Seoul, Korea
96 JoongAng Biennale, JoongAng Ilbo, Seoul, Korea
1995 Nature of Korea, Park RyuSook Gallery, Seoul, Korea 20th École de Séoul: 20 Years of Monochrome, Kwanhoon Gallery, Seoul, Korea Art Contemporain Coréen, Couvent des Cordeliers, Paris, France The Tiger’s Tail: 15 Korean Contemporary Artists for Venice '95, Palazzo Vendramin, Venice, Italy Korean Contemporary Paintings, Hanlim Gallery, Daejeon, Korea Seoul International Painting Exhibition, National Museum of Contemporary Art, Gwacheon, Korea
1993 12 Contemporary Artists from Korea, Miyagi Museum, Sendai, Japan
45th Biennale de Venice, Venice, Italy Korean Contemporary Art, Total Museum of Contemporary Art, Seoul, Korea
1992 Flows from the Far East: Recent Korean Art Scene, Concourse Gallery, Barbican Centre, London, UK Korean Contemporary Art, Shimonoseki City Art Museum, Shimonoseki, Japan; traveled to Kasama Nichido Museum of Art Foundation, Kasama, Japan; Niigata City Art Museum, Niigata, Japan; and Mie Prefectural Art Museum, Tsu, Japan
1991 Korea Contemporary Paintings, Zagreb, National Museum Zagreb, Zagreb, Yugoslavia; traveled to Cankarjev Hall, Ljubljana, Yugoslavia; Collegium Artisticum, Sarajevo, Yugoslavia; Museum of Contemporary Art, Belgrade, Yugoslavia Inaugural Exhibition of Korean Contemporary Art, Sonje Museum of Contemporary Art, Seoul, Korea 25 Contemporary Artists, Gallery Hyundai, Seoul, Korea
1990 Korean Art Today, Seoul Arts Center, Seoul, Korea
1989 Hiroshima, Hiroshima City Museum of Modern Art, Hiroshima, Japan
1988 24th Seoul Olympiad: International Contemporary Art Exhibition, National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Gwacheon, Korea Korean Modern Painting in the 70s, Walker Hill Art Center, Seoul 4 Korean Artists, Tokyo Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
1987 4 Korean Contemporary Artists, Laboratory Gallery, Sapporo, Japan 31st Toyama International Arts Exhibition, Toyama, Japan
1986 Korean Arts Yesterday and Today, National Museum of Contemporary Art, Gwacheon, Korea Asia Contemporary Arts, National Museum of Contemporary Art, Gwacheon, Korea
1985 Modern Art from the Past 40 Years, National Museum of Contemporary Art, Deoksugung, Korea 70 Years of Korean Western Painting, Hoam Gallery, Seoul, Korea 3rd Human Documents 1984-1985, Tokyo Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
1984 Korean Contemporary Art in the 60s, Duson Gallery, Seoul, Korea Korean Art of the 1960s, Walker Hill Art Center, Seoul, Korea Korean Contemporary Art Exhibition 84’, Taipei Fine Arts Museum, Taipei, Taiwan Contemporary Korean Art: The Late ‘70s - A Situation, Korean Culture and Arts Foundation Art Center, Seoul, Korea
1983 Exchange Exhibition of Print and Drawing between Seoul and San Francisco, U.S.I.S., Seoul, Korea;
World Print Council, San Francisco, USA; Korean Cultural Service, Los Angeles, USA Korea: New Paper Works, Spring Gallery, Taipei, Taiwan Korean Contemporary Art Exhibition of the 1970s, Tokyo Metropolitan Art Museum, Tokyo, Japan; traveled to Tochigi Municipal Museum of Art, Tochigi, Japan;
National Museum of Contemporary Art, Osaka, Japan; Hokkaido Museum of Modern Art, Sapporo, Japan; Fukuoka City Museum, Fukuoka, Japan
1982 The Art of Contemporary Paper: Korea and Japan, Deoksugung Art Museum,
Seoul, Korea; traveled to Kyoto Municipal Museum, Kyoto, Japan; Museum of Modern Art, Saitama, Japan; Kumamoto Folk Museum, Kumamoto, Japan Korean Contemporary Art Exhibition, Dongduk Art Museum, Seoul, Korea
1981 Drawings by Korean Artists, Brooklyn Museum, New York, US Works on Paper: Korean Contemporary Drawings, Dongsanbang Gallery, Seoul, Korea; travgeled to Art Core Gallery, Los Angeles, US Drawing ‘81, National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Deoksugung, Korea
1980 Contemporary Asian Art Show, 1980, Fukuoka Museum, Fukuoka, Japan
1979 7th Indépendants, National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Seoul, Korea Korean Arts: Methods of Today, The Korean Culture and Arts Foundation of Fine Art Center, Seoul, Korea
1978 Works on Paper, Gallery Hyundai, Seoul, Korea Secondes Rencontres Internationales d’Art Contemporain, Galeries Nationales du Grand Palais, Paris, France The Trend for the Past 20 Years in Korean Contemporary Art, National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Seoul, Korea 6th Indépendants, National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Seoul, Korea
1977
14th Bienal de São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil 56 Korean Painters, Korea Gallery, Seoul, Korea Korean Contemporary Art, National Museum of History, Taipei, Taiwan 5th Indépendants, National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Seoul, Korea
1975
3rd Triennale-India, New Delhi, India 4th Avant Garde Exhibition, National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Seoul, Korea Figure Drawings and Abstract Artists, Arum Gallery, Seoul, Korea
1974 6th Festival International de La Peinture, Cagnes-sur-Mer, France
1st Seoul Biennale, Korean Avant Garde Association, Seoul, Korea
1973 100 Modern Korean Painters, National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Seoul, Korea 13 Contemporary Artists, Signum Gallery, Tokyo, Japan Korean Contemporary Art, 1957-1972: Formative and Informative, Myeongdong Gallery, Seoul, Korea
1972 3rd Avant Garde Exhibition, National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Seoul, Korea
1971 2nd Avant Garde Exhibition, Reality and Realization, National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Seoul, Korea
7th Biennale de Paris, Paris, France
1970 7th International Biennial Exhibition of Prints, National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo, Japan 1st Avant Garde Exhibition, Korean Information Center Gallery, Seoul, Korea
1969 6 Korean Contemporary Artists, Tokiwa Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
1969 11 Young Artists from Korea, Solidaridad Gallery, Manila, Philippines 13th Contemporary Art Exhibition, organized by Chosun Daily Newspaper, Korean Information Center, Seoul, Korea Korean Contemporary Painting Exhibition, National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo, Japan; traveled to Japan, India, Pakistan, and Nepal
1968 Korean Contemporary Painting Exhibition, Tokyo Metropolitan Art Museum, Tokyo, Japan
1967
9th Bienal de São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil
1965
4th Biennale de Paris, Paris, France 4th Cultural Freedom Invitational Exhibition, Yechong Gallery, Seoul, Korea
1961
2nd Paris Youth Biennale, Paris, France
Selected Public and Private Collections
Art and Culture Foundation of Ilshin, Seoul, Korea
Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, US
Centre Pompidou, Paris, France
Ewha Womens University Museum, Seoul, Korea
Fukuoka Museum, Fukuoka, Japan
Gwangju Museum of Art, Gwangju, Korea
Gyeonggi Museum of Modern Art, Ansan, Korea
Hiroshima City Museum of Contemporary Art, Hiroshima, Japan
Hoam Museum, Seoul, Korea
Hongik Museum of Art, Seoul, Korea
Hwajeong Museum, Seoul, Korea
Leeum, Samsung Museum of Art, Seoul, Korea
M+, Hong Kong
Mie Prefectural Art Museum, Tsu, Japan
Miyagi Art Museum, Miyagi, Japan
Museum of Modern Art, New York, US
Museum of Modern Art, Toyama, Japan
Museum Voorlinden, Wassenaar, The Netherlands
National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Gwacheon, Korea
OCT Boxes Art Museum, Guang Dong Province, China
POSCO Art Museum, Seoul, Korea
The Rachofsky Collection, Dallas, US
Seoul Museum of Art, Seoul, Korea
Seoul Olympic Museum of Art, Seoul, Korea
Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, US
Shimonoseki Art Museum, Shimonoseki, Japan
Tokyo Metropolitan Art Museum, Tokyo, Japan