A SINCE JOURNERY CAN CHANGE THCOUSE OF A LIFE
2010
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YUN Suknam
1936 Born in Manchuria, China
1966-67 English Literature, Sungkyunkwan University, Seoul
1983-84 Pratt Institute Graphic Center, New York
Art Student League, New York
Lives in Seoul and works in Hwaseong, Korea
Selected Solo Exhibitions
2015 Yun Suknam: This is not a coincidence but meant to be, Kamakura Gallery, Kamakura, Japan
Yun Suknam - the Heart, Jeju Stone Park Gallery, Jeju, Korea
SeMA Green: Yun Suknam - the Heart, Seoul Museum of Art, Seoul
2013 I’m Not a Pine Tree, Hakgojae Gallery, Seoul
2011 Pink Room 5, Incheon Art Platform, Incheon, Korea
With or Without Person - 282, Gallery Soo, Seoul
2009 Yun Suknam 108, Busan Art Center, Busan, Korea
Yun Suknam, Hakgojae Gallery, Seoul
2008 YUN Suknam 1,025: With or Without Person, Arko Art Center, Seoul
2004 Yun Suknam, Open Gallery, Busan, Korea
2003 To Be Lengthened, Ilmin Museum of Art, Seoul
To Be Lengthened, Kamakura Gallery, Kamakura, Japan
1998 The Seeding of Light, Kamakura Gallery, Kamakura, Japan
1997 The Seeding of Light, ChosunIlbo Art Gallery; Art Space Seoul; Hakgojae Gallery, Seoul
1996 Yun Suknam, Kamakura Gallery, Kamakura, Japan
Yun Suknam, Johyun Gallery, Busan, Korea
1993 The Eyes of Mother, Kumho Museum of Art, Seoul
1982 Yun Suknam, Korea Fine Arts Center, Seoul
Selected Group Exhibitions
2016 SeMA Biennale Mediacity Seoul 2016: NERIRI KIRURU HARARA, Seoul Museum of Art, Seoul
Oh Sweet Sweet Sweetness, Multipurpose Art Hall EMU, Seoul
Sculptural Turn, Moran Museum of Art, Namyangju, Korea
Atelier STORY, Hangaram Art Museum, Seoul
Contemporary Representation of Artists, Tokushima Prefectural Museum, Tokushima, Japan
2015 Mother, My First Love, Jeju Museum of Art, Jeju, Korea
The Hours, Artspace HUE, Paju, Korea
Korea Tomorrow 2015, Sungkok Art Museum, Seoul
Yunghancunjip(용한점집), Zaha Museum, Seoul
Pungru Namdo Art Project, Hangchon Art Museum, Haenam, Korea
Story of Animal in Museum, Pohang Museum of Steel Art, Pohang, Korea
Inner Voice, Danwon Art Museum, Ansan, Korea
2014 Retro_'86-'88, Seoul Olympic Museum of Art, Seoul
Voyage to Biennale, Busan Biennale, Busan, Korea
Burning Down the House, Gwangju Biennale, Gwangju, Korea
Korean Portraiture- Beyond Memories, Jeonbuk Meseum of Art, Wangju, Korea
Taehwa River Eco Art Festival 2014, Ulsan, Korea
SeMA GIFT-SeMA’s New Acquisitions 2013, Seoul Museum of Art, Seoul, Korea
2013 The Lost Archives, Multipurpose Art Hall EMU, Seoul
Haein Art Project 2013 – ‘Maum’, Haeinsa Temple, Hapcheon, Korea
Yun Suknam, Choi In Ho Exhibition, Gallery aHsh, Paju, Korea
The 3rd IPAP: SEA OF PEACE, Incheon Art Platform, Incheon, Korea
A Soldier’s Tale – 60 Years of Memories, 130 Years of Friendship, London Asia House, London
Person Panorama, Jeonbuk Museum of Art, Wanju, Korea
Stream of Contemporary Art in Korea VI - Feminism, Gimhae Art Center, Gimhae, Korea
Wanna be Your Family Members - Story of Companion Animals, Gyeonggi Museum of Modern Art, Ansan, Korea
Seek & Desire, Gyeongnam Art Museum, Changwon, Korea
Nature, Kim Jae Sun Gallery, Busan, Korea
2012 Woman+Body - Korean and American Women Artists Joint Exhibition, KEPCO Art Center Gallery, Seoul;
Media Cube 338, Gwangju, Korea
2nd IPAP: Sea of Peace, Incheon Art Platform, Incheon, Korea
Incheon - Terra Galaxia: Liverpool Biennial, Liverpool, UK
International Stone Sculpture Project, Central Athletic Park, Iksan, Korea
Breathe, KCDF gallery, Seoul
Women In-Between: Asian Women Artists 1984-2012, Fukuoka Asian Art Museum, Fukuoka, Japan
BeLonging – 10 Curators & 10 Futures, Hangaram Art Museum, Seoul
Here are People, Daejeon Museum of Art, Daejeon, Korea
Motherhood - Mother Images in Korea Art, Ewha Womans University Museum, Seoul
Korean Art from the Museum Collection - Grand-Narrative Part I, National Museum of Modern and Contemporary
Art, Gwacheon, Korea
HUMAN 1-After 1980s, Chungmungyu Museum, Ansan, Korea
2nd Final Exhibition of Residency Artists, Incheon Art Platform, Incheon, Korea
2011 Nature Life·Art-100 years of Korean Art, Amway Gallery, Seongnam, Korea
Creative and Vigorous Lives, Gyeonggi Museum of Modern Art, Ansan, Korea
Nature, Life Human, Daegu Art Museum, Daegu, Korea
Sculptor’s Drawing, Seoul Olympic Museum of Art, Seoul
Sea of Peace, Incheon Art Platform, Incheon, Korea
Elegance and Grace: Beautiful People of East Asia, Ewha Womans University Museum, Seoul
Informal Argument, Zaha Museum, Seoul
Korean Rhapsody - A Montage of History and Memory, Leeum, Samsung Museum of Art, Seoul
Incheon Landing Operation - Incheon Art Platform Preview Exhibition, Incheon Art Platform, Incheon, Korea
2010 Walking Mammamia, National Women's History Exhibition Hall, Seoul
Korean Avant-Garde Drawing 30 years: 1970-2000, Seoul Olympic Museum of Art, Seoul
Spring and Autumn, Hakgojae Gallery, Seoul
Celadon Art Project, The 38th Gangjin Celadon Festival, Gangjin, Korea
The Masters of Korean Modern and Contemporary Art - 63 SKY ART MUSEUM+Korea University Museum Special
Joint Exhibition, 63 Sky Art Museum, Seoul
Cross over the Yellow Line, Kyunghyang Gallery, Seoul
Time Machine, Eul Gallery, Seoul
Strength of Gyeonggi-province, Gyeonggi Museum of Modern Art, Ansan, Korea
2009 Mirror Mirror on the Wall: Stories about People in Art, National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art,
Gwacheon, Korea
Luci & Orange Museum, Hello Museum, Seoul
The Opening Exhibition of the Pusan National University Arts Center, Pusan National University, Busan, Korea
2009 Peace Arts Festival, Jeju Museum of Contemporary Art, Jeju, Korea
Flare: A Brand New Start in Art, National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Seoul
No. 85 Crane: A History of Mangloo, Peace Museum, Seoul
10th Anniversary of Cultural Action, Bukchon Museum, Seoul
2008 Eonni is Back, Gyeonggi Museum of Modern Art, Ansan, Korea
Three of Feminists Artists in Korea Special Exhibition of 25th Anniversary of Korean Women’s Development
Institute, Korean Women’s Development Institute, Seoul
Three Feminists Artists in Korea Special Exhibition, Dangjin Culture Center, Dangjin, Korea
2nd Anniversary of Space+Peace, Peace Museum, Seoul
20 Years of the Lee Jung Seop Award, ChosunIlbo Art Gallery, Seoul
Daily Life in Korea, Queens Gallery, Bangkok
How Can This Place be Forgotten Even in Dream-Memorial Exhibition for Park Kyeong-ni, Festival House,
Tongyoung, Korea
Memorize, Kim Jae Sun Gallery, Busan, Korea
2007 Gyeonggi, National Highway No.1, Gyeonggi Museum of Modern Art, Ansan, Korea
2006 Woman, Work, Art: Portrayal of Woman at Work in Korea Art, Ewha Womans University Museum, Seoul
Spot Light 30 Women, Papertainer Museum, Seoul
The Power of Imagination - The 47th Special Exhibition of Korea University Museum, Korea University
Museum, Seoul
2005 People, House, Family, JeBiWool Museum, Gwacheon, Korea
100 Years of Korean Art, National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Gwacheon, Korea
10th Anniversary of Sungkok Art Museum - Cool & Warm, Sungkok Art Museum, Seoul
2004 The Breath of House, Ewha Womans University Museum, Seoul; Yeongam Pottery Culture Center, Yeongam, Korea
Traveling Art Museum, Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Gwacheon, Korea
BAHGDAD 551km, JeBiWool Museum, Gwacheon, Korea
Art with Life, Daejeon Museum of Art, Daejeon, Korea
Stillness and Movement, Seoul Olympic Museum of Art, Seoul
Composition & Center, Hangaram Art Museum, Seoul
2nd Exhibition of Korean and German Woman Artists, Siegerland Museum, Siegen, Germany
The 15th Anniversary Exhibition, Kumho Museum of Art, Seoul
Look & See: Absolutely Landscape, Sungkok Art Museum, Seoul
The Declaration for Peace by 100 Artists from All around the World, National Museum of Modern and Contemporary
Art, Gwacheon, Korea
Feminists Visions by 23 Artists Exhibition, Korea Art allery, Seoul
The Blue, Kamakura Gallery, Kamakura, Japan
Borderline Cases, A.R.T. and F.A.A.B Presents, Tokyo
2003 Hang, Kamakura Gallery, Kamakura, Japan
Whisper of Nature, JeBiWool Museum, Gwacheon, Korea
Mother; Encouraging Name, MunhwaIlbo Gallery, Seoul
Life and Humor of Our Times, Sejong Museum of Art, Seoul
The Exhibition of Korean and German Woman Artists, MunhwaIlbo Gallery, Seoul
Against for War, Make a Peace, Alternative Space Pool, Seoul
What is Sculpture? - Korean Contemporary Sculpture Exhibition, Hangaram Art Museum, Seoul
2002 The Opening Ceremony Exhibition, National Women’s History Exhibition Hall, Seoul
The Family: Imagination & Creation Exhibition III, Kasugai City Library, Culture and Art Center, Kasugai, Japan
Poem and Painting, Baekdamsa Temple, Inje, Korea
2nd Women`s Art Festival: East Asian Women and Herstories, National Women’s History Exhibition Hall, Seoul
33rd Special Exhibition of Ewha Womans University Museum - Another History of Art: Representation of Feminity,
Ewha Womans University Museum, Seoul
Minjung Art for 20 Years Exhibition, Cheongju Arts Center, Cheongju, Korea
2001 Missing, Gwangju Museum of Art, Gwangju, Korea
The Family, Seoul Museum of Art, Seoul
2000 Man + Space, Gwangju Biennale, Gwangju, Korea
Special Millennium Exhibition - Koreans by Koreans: Portraits from Prehistory to Modern Times, Ho-Am Art
Museum, Seoul
Earth’s Festival, Yeongam Pottery Culture Center, Yeongam, Korea; Ewha Womans University Museum, Seoul
Agents of Change: 12th Biennale of Sydney 2000, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney
1999 99 Women’ Art Festival: Patjis on Parade, Hangaram Art Museum, Seoul
The Circumstance of 1990’s, Ellen Kim Murphy Gallery, Seoul
Korea+Jala, Seoul Museum of Art, Seoul
10 Years of the Lee Jung Seop Award, ChosunIlbo Art Gallery, Seoul
Exhibition for 50th Anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, Hangaram Art Museum, Seoul
Art, People and Event in the Park, Yeouido Park, Seoul
Facing Up to the Reality, Eung-Jeon Gallery, Seoul
Art of Kum Gang from 18th Century to 20th Century in Korean Art, Ilmin Museum of Art, Seoul
Self-portrait of 1999, Art M&C Gallery Fusion, Seoul
The Sculptures in the Theater, National Theater of Korea, Seoul
1998 Site of Desire - Taipei Biennial, Taipei Fine Arts Museum, Taipei
Kim’s Outlet Off-Museum: Displacement Replacement, Kim`s Outlet, Seongnam, Korea
Ancient Traditions New Forms Contemporary Art from Korea, Joseloff Gallery: University of Hartford, Hartford, USA
Commemorate Exhibition for Building the Japanese Military Comfort Women Memorial Hall, The House of Sharing,
Gwangju, Korea
Nature+Environment+Human: Seoul Olympic 10th Anniversary Sculpture Symposium, Olympic Park, Seoul
1997 Portraits of Our Times - the Father, Sungkok Art Museum, Seoul
River - Minjung Art, Seoul Museum of Art, Seoul
VERSUS III, Velan Center for Contemporary Art, Turin, Italy
97 MANIF, Seoul Arts Centre, Seoul
97 Apartment, Gallery Art-Beam, Seoul
1996 The 200th Anniversary of Suwon Hwaseong - Exhibition of Environment Art, Suwon Hwaseong, Suwon, Korea
An Aspect of Korean Art in the 1990s – Story of Full Size, The National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo; The National
Museum of Art, Osaka, Osaka, Japan
2nd Triennial Asia-Pacific of Contemporary Art, Queensland Art Gallery, Brisbane, Australia
Traditions/Tensions, Asia Society Center, New York
Development of Korean Modernism: Conquest of Modern 1970-1990, Kumho Museum of Art, Seoul
Interpretation of Human, Savina Museum of Contemporary Art, Seoul
Minjung Art Exhibition, Seoul Museum of Art, Seoul
The Korean Historical Portraits of 20th Century in Art, Rho Gallery, Seoul
1995 Tiger’s Tail, Venice Biennale Special Exhibition for Korean Contemporary Art, Venice, Italy
6th Triennale Kleinplastik : Europa-Ostasien, SüdwestLB Forum, Stuttgart, Germany
Korea, 100 Self-Portraits - From Yi Dynasty to Contemporary, Seoul Museum of Art, Seoul
Ssak, Art Sonje Center, Seoul
Reviewing or Overcoming Women • History, Garam Gallery, Busan, Korea
Korean Art ‘95: Quality, Quantity, Sensation, National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Gwacheon, Korea
Where We Are (Art?): 1945-1995, Hangaram Art Museum, Seoul
Primitivism 1995, Moran Museum of Art, Namyangju, Korea
Korean Women Artists’ Festival 1995, Seoul Museum of Art, Seoul
Korean Modern Art, National Art Museum of China, Beijing
Korean Sculpture Now, Jongno Gallery, Seoul
Looking Mirror in Our Time, Dong-A Gallery, Seoul
The Road of Self-Respect, Kumho Museum of Art, Seoul
1994 Technology, Environment, Information, Daejeon Expo, Daejeon, Korea
Commemoration for Centennial Dong Hak Revolution, Hangaram Art Museum, Seoul
15 Years of Minjung Art, National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Gwacheon, Korea
Women, the Difference and the Power, Korea Art Gallery, Seoul
1993 Across the Pacific, Queens Museum of Art, New York; Kumho Museum of Art, Seoul
Open Show, Galerie Bhak, Seoul
The Exhibition for Opening, Koart Gallery, Seoul
Peak of Contemporary Korean Art, Grimmadang Min, Seoul
Herstory II, Batanggol Gallery, Seoul
1992 Women and Reality, Grimmadang Min, Seoul
1988 Cross Encounter of Woman Liberated Poets and Paintings, Grimmadang Min, Seoul
Women and Reality, Grimmadang Min, Seoul
1987 Women and Reality, Grimmadang Min, Seoul
1986 From Half to One, Grimmadang Min, Seoul
1985 October Group Show, Kwanhoon Gallery, Seoul
Awards
2015 29th Kim Sejoong Award, Kim Sejoong Memorial Foundation, Seoul
2007 4th Goh Jung-hee Award, Alternative Culture, Seoul
1997 Prime Minister Price for Women Development, Seoul
1996 8th Lee Jung Seop Award, ChosunIlbo, Seoul
Public Collections
National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Gwacheon, Korea
Tate Collections, London
Queensland Art Gallery, Brisbane, Australia
Fukuoka Art Museum, Fukuoka, Japan
Taipei Fine Art Museum, Taipei
Velan Art Association, Turin, Italy
Mie Prefectural Art Museum, Mie, Japan
Tochigi Prefectural Museum of fine Arts, Tochigi, Japan
Daejeon Museum of Art, Daejeon, Korea
Tokushima Prefectural Museum, Tokushima, Japan
Arko Art Center, Seoul
Olympic Park, Seoul
Gyeonggi Museum of Modern Art, Ansan, Korea
The House of Sharing, Gwangju, Korea
Ilmin Museum of Art, Seoul
Ewha Womans University Museum, Seoul
National Women’s History Exhibition Hall, Seoul
Kumho Museum of Art, Seoul
Ssamzie Art Space, Seoul
Kamakura Gallery, Kamakura, Japan
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