1954       Born in Seosan

1976       B.F.A. Department of Painting, Chung-Ang University,

1988       M.F.A. Major of Arts Education, Graduate School of Education, In-Ha Uinversity, Incheon, Korea

 

Currently Professor, Department of Painting, Chung-Ang University, Ansung, Korea

 

 

Solo Exhibitions

 

2010       The Anniversary of Woohyun Art Awards, Incheon Art Platform, Incheon, Korea

             Incheon Educational and Cultural Center for Students - Gaon Gallery, Incheon, Korea

2009       A Country: Three Landscapes, Hakgojae Gallery, Seoul

             Gwangju Shinsegae Gallery, Gwangju, Korea

2007       Gallery Bandi, Seoul

2006       Two Rooms: Baghdad_Daechu-Ri, SPACE＊PEACE, Seoul

2005       Artist of the Year 2005 - Lee Jong-Gu, National Museum of Contemporary Art, Gwacheon, Korea

2004       Spirit of Soil, Face of Soil, Book House Gallery, Paju, Korea 2003 A Country, Hakgojae             Gallery, Seoul

             Looking for the Owner - Journey on Iraq and Islam, Shinsegae Gallery, Incheon, Korea

1999       Homecoming - Ojiri People 2, Seosan Cultural Center, Seosan, Korea

1997       Haeban Gallery, Incheon, Korea

1996       Gana Art Prize Award Commemorating Exhibition, Gana Art Center, Seoul

1992       People of Soil, Hakgojae Gallery, Seoul

1990       Ojiri People, Ojiri Primary School, Seosan, Korea

1988       Ondara Museum, Jeonju, Korea

1986       People of Soil, Grimmadang Min, Seoul

             People of Soil, Maek-Hyang Gallery, Daegu, Korea

1976       Lee Jong-Gu Etude Exhibition, Incheon Metropolitan City Public Information Office, Incheon,Korea

 

 

Selected Group Exhibitions

 

2014       2014 The Korean People's Artists Association of Chungbuk Art Festival, Wumin Art Center,       Chungju, Korea

             Retro '86~'88-Origin of Korea Art Pluralism, Soma Museum, Seoul

             Flow of Korea Contemporary Art : Realism, Yunseul Museum, Kimhae, Korea

2013       Bali-Jeju : Resolution, National Gallery of Indonesia, Indonesia

             Rabbit in the Submarine, Democracy Park, Busan, Korea

             Korea Figure Painting, Muan Seungwoo Oh Museum of Art, Muan, Korea

2012       Korea Contemporary Art - Master Narrative, National Museum Contemporary Art, Seoul

             Korean Art Special Exhibition : Here Are People, Daejeon Museum of Art, Daejeon, Korea

             Korea Portraiture with Chae Young Shin, Jeonbuk Museum of Art, Korea

             The Aesthetics of Table Setting, Ihwa Women's University Museum, Seoul

             Winter, Winter, Winter, Spring, Gyeonggi Museum of Modern Art, Ansan

2011       Nature, Life, Human, Daegu Art Museum, Daegu, Korea

             The Earth of Dream, Insa Art Center, Seoul

             The 14th Yellow Sea Art Festival: Dear Animal & Plants, Incheon Culture & Art Center,             Incheon, Korea

             The 1st Incheon Peace Art Project, Incheon Art Platform, Incheon, Korea

             Imagine Textbooks - The Contemporary Art to Want to Know, Seoul Museum of Art, Seoul

             The Seoul Art Exhibition 2011, Seoul Museum of Art, Seoul

             Bridge to Bridge, Shinsegae Gallery, Incheon, Korea

2010       Korean Avant-Garde Drawing 1970-2000, Soma Museum of Art, Seoul

             Gangjin Celadon Art Project

             2010, Gangjin Celadon Museum, Gangjin, Korea

             Art-Road 77 - With Art, With Artist!, Heyri Art Village, Paju, Korea

             Struggle for Recognition - Your No.1, Incheon Culture & Art Center, Incheon, Korea

             Cross over the Yellow Line, Kyunghyang Gallery, Seoul

             About a Hyperrealism Painting, Yesong Gallery, Seoul

2009       Interpreted as a Contemporary Art Realism, Gyeongnam Art Museum, Gyeongnam,

             Korea Wonderful Pictures, Ilmin Gallery, Seoul

             A Fortuitous Meeting of The Day, Gallery The K, Seoul

             Art-Road 77 -Discovered 9 Artists, Gallery Hangil, Paju, Korea

2008       Ssamzie Nongbu, Gallery Ssamzie, Seoul

             Seoul Fine Arts Competition, Seoul Museum of Art, Seoul

             The end of Baek‐doo‐dae‐gan - Jirisan, Jeonbuk Province Art Museum, Wanju, Korea

             ASIA - and Rice, Sori Arts Center of Jeollabuk-do, Jeonju, Korea

             Mirror Mirror, National Museum of Contemporary Art Children’s Gallery, Gwacheon, Korea

2007       Gyounggi, National Highway No.1, Gyounggi Museum of Modern Art, Ansan, Korea

             Asia Art Now, Arario Beijing, Beijing

             The Power and Dream of Popular People, Gana Art Center, Seoul

             The Island Swallowing the Myth-Jeju, Jeju Museum of Contemporary Art, Jeju, Korea

             Hommage100 - Korea Contemporary Arts 1970~2007, Korea Art Center, Busan, Korea

             Text in Bodyscape, Seoul Museum of Art, Seoul

             The Pulsation of Popular People - Realism of Korea Art 1945~2005, Bandaijima Art Museum, Niigata, Japan

2006       100 Years of Korean Art, National Museum of Contemporary Art, Gwacheon, Korea

             Woman’s Labor in Korea Art - Woman, Labor, Art, Ehwa Womans University Museum, Seoul

             Illusion - Disillusion, Seoul Museum of Art, Seoul

             The Exhibition for Korea Unification, Gwangju Museum of Art, Gwangju, Korea

             The Truth of 6 Rooms, Savina Museum of Contemporary Art, Seoul

2005       Seoul Fine Arts Competition, Seoul Museum of Art, Seoul

             Pocheon Asian Art Festival, Banweol Art Hall, Pocheon, Korea     

             Portrait of the Period, Park Soo-Keun Museum, Yanggu, Korea

2004       Baghdad 550Km - Iraq Journey, Jebiwool Art Museum, Gwacheon, Korea

             Declaration for Piece - 100 Artists from Korea and Oversees, National Museum of Contemporary Art, Gwacheon, Korea

             Opening Exhibition, Jeonbuk Province Art Museum, Wanju, Korea

             Existence and Illusion, Gwangju Art Museum, Gwangju, Korea

2003       Environmental Art - Water, Seoul Museum of Art, Seoul

             The Art of Rice - Spirit and Sustenance in Asia, UCLA Fowler Museum of Cultural History, LA

2002       Thoughts on Vegetables, Gallery La Mer, Seoul

             Our Faces, Jebiwool Art Museum, Gwacheon, Korea

             Another History of Art - Representation of Feminity, Ewha Womans' University Museum, Seoul

2001       Realism in the 1980s, Gana Art Center, Seoul

             Restoration of Art, Insa Art Center, Seou

2000       Korea Modern Art - Expression of Age, Seoul Arts Center, Seoul

             The Life of Our People Seen through 'Rice', National Museum of Korea, Seoul

1999       MoneyㆍMoneyㆍMoney, Savina Gallery, Seoul

             Joongang Art Exhibition - Winners' Special Exhibition, Hoam Art Gallery, Seoul

             JALLA - East Asia`s Art, Seoul Museum of Art, Seoul

             Korea by Korean - Portraits from Prehistory to Modern Times, Hoam Art Gallery, Seoul

1998       Yellow Sea Art Festival, Incheon Multiculture & Arts Center, Incheonl, Korea

             Opening Exhibition, Daejoen Museum of Art, Daejoen, Korea

             Before the New Millenium, Gwangju Art Museum, Gwangju, Korea

             50th Anniversary of the Declaration of Human Rights, Seoul Arts Center, Seoul

1997       Art of Reunification in Gwangju, Mangwol-dong Cemetery, Gwangju, Korea

             Portrait of Our Times - Father, Sungkok Art Museum, Seoul

             Korean Art 97 - Humanismㆍ MechanismㆍAnimalism, National Museum of

             Contemporary Art, Gwacheon, Korea

1996       Reality 96, KEPCO Plaza Gallery, Seoul

             Development of Korean Modernism, Kumho Museum of Art, Seoul

1995       Mirroring Our Times, Donga Gallery, Seoul

             Korea Modern Art Festival, Museum of China, Beijing

             Gwangju Biennale Special Exhibition - The Spirit of May, Gwangju Art Museum, Gwangju, Korea

             Artistic Journey on the Silk Road, Donga Gallery, Seoul

1994       The Fifteen Years of Minjung Art, National Museum of Contemporary Art, Gwacheon, Korea

             The Hundredth Anniversary of Donghak Uprising, Seoul Arts Center, Seoul

1993       Korea Reunification Art Exhibition, Central Art Museum, Tokyo

             Across the Pacific - Korean Contemporary Art, The Queens Museum of Art, New York

             The Reality of Land - Exhibition of Kim Jung-heun & Lee Jong-Gu, Seoin Gallery, Seosan, Korea

             Experience through the Mind and the Eyes, Donga Gallery, Seoul

1992       Today's Life - Today's Art, Kumho Museum of Art, Seoul

             JALLA - The 3rd World and Us, Tokyo Metropolitan Art Museum, Tokyo

1991       Reunification, Grimmadang Min, Seoul

             The Horizontal of Art at the Turning Point, Kumho Museum of Art, Seoul

             Searching for the Korean Identity in Korean Contemporary Art, Hanwon Gallery, Seoul

1990       Gwangju in May, Grimmadang Min, Seoul

             The Reality of the Rural Communities and the Life of the Farmers, Ondara Museum, Seoul

1989       4 People Traveling Our Land, Taebaek Culture & Arts Center, Taebaek, Korea

             From Hwangtoheon to Gomnaru, Yesulmadang Geomgang, Seoul

             Figurative Art in the1980s, Kumho Museum of Art, Seoul

1988       JALLA, Tokyo Metropolitan Art Museum, Tokyo

             4 People Traveling Our Land, Grimmadang Min, Seoul

             Folk Art – New Cultural Movement of Korea, Artists Space, New York

1987       The Recent Tendencies of Art in Incheon, Incheon Multiculture & Arts Center, Incheon, Korea

             Problematic Artists' Works, Seoul Art Museum, Seoul

1986       Standard - Bearer in Thirties of Our Generation, Grimmadang Min, Seoul

             JALLA - Asia of Minjung, Tokyo Metropolitan Art Museum, Tokyo

1985       Horizon, Incheon Metropolitan City Public Information Office, Incheon, Korea

             Imsulyeon, HanGang Museum, Seoul 1984 Liberation - 40 Years History, Arab Cultural Center, Seoul

             The Art of Life, Arab Cultural Center, Seoul 1983 Imsulyeon, Arab Cultural Center, Daegu, Korea

             Joongang Art Exhibition, National Museum of Contemporary Art, Seoul

1982       Imsulyeon, In Ninety-nine Thousand Nine Hundred Ninety Two, Deoksoo Museum, Seoul

1981       30 Years of Art in Incheon, Incheon Metropolitan City Public Information Office, Incheon, Korea

             Joongang Art Exhibition, National Museum of Contemporary Art, Seoul

1980       Visual Art, The Korean Culture & Arts Foundation, Seoul

             The Current of Contemporary Art - Incheon, Nambin Gallery, Incheon Awards

2004       Winning the Prize of' Artist of the Year, National Museum of Contemporary Art, Gwacheon, Korea

 

 

Awards

 

2014       Today's Artist, National Museum of Contemporary Art, Seoul

2010       Woo Hyun Art Awards, Incheon Foundation for Art & Culture, Incheon, Korea

2005       2005' Today's Artist, National Museum of Contemporary Art, Gwacheon, Korea

1994       Gana Art Award, Gana Art, Korea

1983       Encouragement Award, Joongang Art Exhibition, Joongang Newspaper, Korea

1982       Special Selection, Joongang Art Exhibition, Joongang Newspaper, Korea Publication Spirit of Soil, Face of Soil, Hangil Art,

2004       Public Collections Korea University Museum, Seoul National Museum of Contemporary Art, Gwacheon, Korea Daejoen Municipal Museum of Art, Daejeon

             Korea Art Bank(National Museum of Contemporary Art, The Ministry of Culture, Sports ＆ Tourism), Gwacheon,

             Korea Seoul Museum of Art, Seoul Sungkok Art Museum, Seoul Ssamzie Art Collection, Seoul Incheon Foundation for Arts & Culture, Incheon, Korea

             Jeonbuk Province Art Museum, Wanju,

             Korea Cheong-Wa-Dae (Office of the President), Seoul Cheong Ju District Public Prosecutor's Office,Cheongju, Korea Hana Bank, Seoul The Bank of Korea, Seoul