Born in 1947, Seoul, Korea
Lives and works in Yangpyeong, Korea
Education
1980 MFA in Painting, Hongik University, Seoul, Korea
1975 BFA in Painting, Hongik University, Seoul, Korea
Selected Solo Exhibitions
2024 Distant and Faraway Utopia, Kukje Gallery, Busan, Seoul Hanok, Korea Latter Genesis : Ana & Carl, Bongsan Cultural Center (A Spot of Recollections), Daegu, Korea
2023 To the Last Generation, Kim Yong-Ik, Art Archives, Seoul Museum of Art, Seoul, Korea
2019 Speaking of Latter Genesis, Tina Kim Gallery, New York, US This is not the answer, Barbara Wien Galerie, Berlin, Germany
2018 untitled utopias, Cahiers d’Art, Paris, France Endless Drawing, Kukje Gallery, Seoul, Korea
2017 I believe my works are still valid, Spike Island, Bristol & Korean Cultural Centre, London, UK
Tina Kim Gallery, New York, US
2016
Kukje Gallery, Seoul, Korea Closer…Come Closer…, Ilmin Museum of Art, Seoul, Korea
2011 Timidly Resisting the No-Pain-Civilization, Art Space Pool, Seoul, Korea
2006
Gallery 175, Seoul, Korea
2003
Pyo Gallery, Seoul, Korea
2002
Gallery Sagan, Seoul, Korea
2001 Closer…Come Closer…, Gallery Woong, Seoul, Korea
2000 Yangpyeong Project/Project, National Folk Museum of Korea, Seoul, Korea
1997
Kumho Museum of Art, Seoul, Korea
1996
Gallery Woong, Seoul, Korea
1995
Gallery Hakcheon, Cheongju, Korea
1994
Inkong Gallery, Seoul, Korea
1993
Inkong Gallery, Seoul, Korea
1992
Da-in Gallery, Seoul, Korea
1989
Inkong Gallery, Seoul, Korea
1986
Inkong Gallery, Daegu, Korea
1983
Culture Center, Daejon, Korea
1982
Kwanhoon Museum, Seoul, Korea
1978
Gallery Te, Tokyo, Japan
1977
Seoul Gallery, Seoul, Korea
Selected Group Exhibitions
2023 Archive Highlight: Kim Yong-Ik, Kim Tchah-Sup, Rim Dong Sik, Art Archives, Seoul Museum of Art, Seoul, Korea
2022 An Exhibition with Little Information, Museum of Contemporary Art Busan, Busan, Korea
2021 Individuals, Networks, Expressions, M+, Hong Kong
2019 KLAPPE ZU, AFFE TOT: WERKE AUS DER SAMMLUNG BERGMEIER, KUNSTSAELE, Berlin, Germany Drawing-Korean Modern and Contemporary Drawings, Seoul Olympic Museum of Art, Seoul, Korea 2019 Pool Rising, Art Space Pool, Seoul, Korea WONDERLAND MUSEUM: HOW WE GOT TO NOW, Daejeon Museum of Art, Daejeon, Korea
2018 Flatland, Kumho Museum of Art, Seoul, Korea
2016 As the Moon Waxes and Wanes, National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Gwacheon, Korea Suzhou Documents: Histories of a Global Hub, Suzhou Art Museum, Suzhou, China Public to Private: Photography in Korean Art since 1989, National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Seoul, Korea
2014 ART Fahrenheit 451: Sailing into the Sea of Oblivion, Yokohama Triennale, Yokohama, Japan
2013 Sphere_Body_Landscape: Healing Ground, Seoul Olympic Museum of Art, Seoul, Korea Knowledge is Power: Post-Propaganda, Wumin Art Center, Cheongju, Korea Learning Machine, Nam June Paik Art Center, Yongin, Korea
2012 Garden of Learning, 2012 Busan Biennale, Busan Museum of Art, Busan, Korea SeMA Gold 2012: Hidden Track, Seoul Museum of Art, Seoul, Korea
2010 Korean Historical Conceptual Art 1970-80s, Gyeonggi-do Museum of Art, Ansan, Korea Nature and Peace, Geumgang Nature Art Biennale 2010, Gongju Yeonmisan Nature Art Park, Gongju, Korea Day of Confidence, Art Space Pool, Seoul, Korea Land Art Mongolia 360°, 1st Land Art Mongolia Biennale, Baga Gazriin Chuluu-Dunggobi, Mongolian National Modern Art Gallery, Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia Him of Gyeonggi-do,Gyeonggi Museum of Modern Art, Ansan, Korea Young Seek 1981-2010, National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Gwacheon, Korea
2008 Nature, Environment and Man through Art-NaturePeace, Geumgang Nature Art Biennale 2008, Gongju, Korea
Yeonmisan Nature Art Park, Gongju, Korea The 40th Anniversary of Soo-Young Kim’s Death-Tribute Exhibition: An Account of Converting, Art Space Pool, Seoul, Korea Neighborhood Facilities, Art Space Pool, Seoul, Korea
2007 Multi-functional Administrative City Public Art Project: Embracing Jongchon, Jongchonli, Yeongigun, Sejong, Korea
2005 Tripping the Balance, Anyang Public Art Project, Anyang, Korea
2004 You are my Sun, Total Museum of Contemporary Art, Seoul, Korea Virtual Daughter, Seoul Women’s Plaza, Seoul, Korea
2002 After the Grid, Busan Museum of Art, Busan, Korea Pause, Gwangju Biennale 2002, Project 4, Gwangju, Korea
2000 Public Art, Yangpyeong project, National Folk Museum, Seoul, Korea Famous Artists’ Printing Works Exhibition for the Medicine Aid on Kids of North Korea, Dongsanbang Gallery, Seoul, Korea The Citizens Assembly Fundraising Exhibition, Café Zalkove, Seoul, Korea
1999 North-East Asia and the 3rd World Art, Seoul Museum of Art, Seoul, Korea Korean Pop, Sung-kok Art Museum, Seoul, Korea
1998 Inaugural Exhibition: Fond of the Frame, More than the Painting, Kumho Museum of Art, Seoul, Korea Seoul in Media - Food, Clothing, Shelter, Seoul Museum of Art, Seoul, Korea Inaugural Exhibition: 2000 Time Spirit, Daejeon Municipal Museum of Art, Daejeon, Korea
1997 Painting and Writing, Hanlim Museum, Daejeon, Korea Kim Yong-Ik, Moon Beom, Hong Myung-Seop, Gallery Euro, Seoul, Korea Korean Art '97- Humanism, Animalism, Mechanism, National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Gwacheon, Korea DOT, Kumho Museum of Art, Seoul, Korea
1996 Development of Korean Modernism-Conquest of Modern 1970-90, Kumho Museum of Art, Seoul, Korea Hong Myung-Seop, Kim Yong-Ik, Two-One Man show, Choi Gallery, Seoul, Korea & Ars Polona Gallery, Warsaw, Poland
1995 Kim Yong-Ik, Moon Beom, Hong Myung-Seop, Gallery Jo, Seoul, Korea
1994 Kim Yong-Ik, Moon Beom, Hong Myung-Seop, Inkong Gallery, Daegu, Korea Opening the 21st Century, Gallery 21st Century, Seoul, Korea
1993 Kim Yong-Ik, Moon Beom, Hong Myung-Seop, Gaain Gallery, Seoul, Korea
1992 Kim Yong-Ik, Moon Beom, Hong Myung-Seop, The 3rd Gallery, Seoul, Korea
1991 Inaugural Exhibition, Sonje Museum of Contemporary Art, Gyeongju, Korea Kim Yong-Ik, Moon Beom, Hong Myung-Seop, Space Museum, Seoul, Korea
1990 Contemporary Art Festival 90's, National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Gwacheon, Korea
1989 Seoul, March of 1989, 10 Artists, Korea Culture and Arts Foundation Art Center, Seoul, Korea
1988 Korean Modern Painting in the 70's, Walker Hill Art Center, Seoul, Korea Late Modernism Show Part-Ⅱ, Hyundai Department Store Gallery, Seoul, Korea Modernism in Korean Contemporary Art Scene: 1970-1979, Gallery Hyundai, Seoul, Korea Seoul, March of 1988, Korea Culture and Arts Foundation Art Center, Seoul, Korea
1987 30/40 Abstract with Geometry, Korea Culture and Arts Foundation Art Center, Seoul, Korea Seoul, March of 1987, Korea Culture and Arts Foundation Art Center, Seoul, Korea
1986 Yokohama-Seoul Contemporary Art Show '86, City Museum of Yokohama, Japan meta-FORM. meta-MIND, Culture Center, Daejeon, Korea 11th Ecole de Seoul, Kwanhoon Museum, Seoul, Korea The 2nd Sino-Korean Modern Painting Exchange Exhibition, Taipei, Taiwan
1985 1985, The 3rd Gallery, Seoul, Korea 10th Ecole de Seoul, Kwanhoon Museum, Seoul, Korea
1984 Contemporary Korean Art Exhibition, Taipei Fine Arts Museum, Taipei, Taiwan 1984, The 3rd Gallery, Seoul, Korea 9th Ecole de Seoul, Kwanhoon Museum, Seoul, Korea
1983 Korean Contemporary Art Exhibition: A Trend of the Late 70's, Travelling exhibition held in Tokyo/Osaka/Utsunomiya/Sapporo/Fukuoka, Japan Works by Controversial Artists in 1982, Seoul Museum of Art, Seoul, Korea 8th Ecole de Seoul, Kwanhoon Museum, Seoul, Korea
1982 Korean-Japanese Paper Works, National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Gwacheon, Korea
& the City Museum of Art, Kyoto, Japan After (The) Logicalness, Su Gallery, Daegu, Korea 7th Ecole de Seoul, Kwanhoon Museum, Seoul, Korea
1981 The Winter of Sinchon, Sung-Gu Lee’s Mime Studio, Seoul, Korea 6th Ecole de Seoul, Kwanhoon Museum, Gallery Goryeo, Myeongdong Gallery, Seoul, Korea Exhibition of the Origin Fine Arts Association, Korea Culture and Arts Foundation Art Center, Seoul, Korea Korea/Japan Contemporary Painting Exhibition 1981, Korea Culture and Arts Foundation Art Center, Seoul, Korea Today’s Circumstance, Kwanhoon Museum, Seoul, Korea The 1st Korean Young Artists Biennale, National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Seoul, Korea
1980 Geumgang Contemporary Art Festival, Geumgang Beach, Gongju, Korea Festival – Contemporary Asian Art Show, Fukuoka Art Museum, Fukuoka, Japan
1979 7th Independents, National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Seoul, Korea 5th Ecole de Seoul, National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Seoul, Korea Korean Art – The Methods of Today, Korea Culture and Arts Foundation, Seoul, Korea
1978 6th Independants, National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Seoul, Korea 4th Ecole de Seoul, National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Seoul, Korea
1977 Korea: Facet of Contemporary Art, Tokyo Central Museum of Art, Tokyo, Japan 6th ST, Kyeon-Ji Gallery, Seoul, Korea 4 Artists’ Exhibition in July, Seoul Gallery, Seoul, Korea 5th Independants, National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Seoul, Korea 3rd Ecole de Seoul, National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Seoul, Korea
1976 2nd Ecole de Seoul, National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Seoul, Korea
1975 13th São Paulo Art Biennial, São Paulo, Brazil 1st Ecole de Seoul, National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Seoul, Korea 1st Seoul Contemporary Art Festival, National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Seoul, Korea
1974 2nd Independents, National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Seoul, Korea 4th Esprit, Myeongdong Gallery, Seoul, Korea 1st Daegu Contemporary Art Festival, Keimyung University, Daegu, Korea
Selected Public and Private Collections
Busan Metropolitan Art Museum, Busan, Korea
Daejeon Museum of Art, Daejeon, Korea
Gyeonggi Museum of Modern Art, Ansan, Korea
Ho-Am Art Museum, Seoul, Korea
Kumho Museum of Art, Seoul, Korea
Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, US
Leeum Museum of Art, Seoul, Korea
M+, Museum for Visual Culture, Hong Kong The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, US
National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Gwacheon, Korea
Seoul Museum of Art, Seoul, Korea
POSCO Art Museum, Seoul, Korea
Tokyo Metropolitan Art Museum, Tokyo, Japan