Selected
Solo Exhibitions
2026
Pensive : 思惟, Hakgojae Gallery,
Seoul, Korea
2018 Agora_Spring Is Here, Hakgojae Gallery,
Seoul, Korea
2016 Eye and
Mind of Korean Contemporary Art Ⅱ: Reinstatement of Realism, Gana Insa Art Center, Seoul,
Korea
2015 The Landscapes of the Temples, Mihwangsa,
Haenam, Korea
2010 Woohyun Arts Prize Winning Exhibition,
Incheon Art Platform, Incheon, Korea
2009 A Country: Three Landscapes, Hakgojae Gallery, Seoul; Shinsegae
Gallery, Gwangju, Korea
2006 Two Rooms Daechu-ri_Baghdad, Peace Museum,
Seoul, Korea
2005 Artist of the Year 2005 – Lee Jong-gu, National Museum of Modern
and Contemporary Art, Gwacheon, Korea
2004 Spirit of Soil, Face of Soil, Hangil Book House,
Paju, Korea
2003 National Land, Hakgojae Gallery, Seoul,
Korea
Journey on Iraq and Islam – Looking for the Owner, Shinsegae
Gallery, Incheon, Korea
1999 Homecoming – Oji-ri People 2, Seosan
Cultural Center, Seosan, Korea
1997 Invitational Exhibition, Haeban Gallery,
Incheon, Korea
1996 Gana Art Award Winning Exhibition, Gana
Art, Seoul, Korea
1992 People of Soil, Hakgojae Gallery, Seoul; Yeji
Gallery, Daegu, Korea
1991 Oji-ri People, Oji Primary School, Seosan,
Korea
1989 Invitational Exhibition, Ondara Art Center,
Jeonju, Korea
1986 People of Soil, Geurim Madang Min, Seoul,
Korea; Maek-Hyang Gallery, Daegu, Korea
1976 Lee Jong-gu's Etude Exhibition, Incheon Public
Information Office, Incheon, Korea
Awards
2010 Woohyun Arts Prize, Incheon Foundation for Art and Culture, Korea
2004 Artist of the Year, National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Gwacheon, Korea
1994 Gana Art Prize, Gana
Art, Korea
1983 2nd
Prize, JoongAng Fine Arts Prize, JoongAng
Ilbo, Korea
1982 Special
Selection, JoongAng Fine Arts Prize, JoongAng
Ilbo, Korea
Publication
2013 Lee Jong-gu 1980-2013, Hakgojae Books
2004 Spirit
of Soil, Face of Soil, Hangil Art
Selected
Collections
National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Korea, Gwacheon, Korea
Art Bank, Seoul, Korea
Government Art Bank,
Seoul, Korea
Seoul Museum of Art,
Seoul, Korea
Gwangju Museum of Art,
Gwangju
Daejeon Museum of Art, Daejeon, Korea
Jeonbuk Museum of Art, Wanju, Korea
Jeonnam Museum of Art,
Jeonnam
Jeju Museum of Art,
Jeju, Korea
Cheong Wa Dae, Seoul,
Korea
The Bank of Korea,
Seoul, Korea
Cheong Nam Dae,
Cheongju, Korea
Incheon Foundation for
Art & Culture, Incheon, Korea
Sungkok Art Museum, Seoul, Korea
OCI Museum of Art,
Seoul, Korea
Korea University
Museum, Seoul, Korea
Arirang Literature
Museum, Gimje, Korea
Ssamzie Art Collection, Paju, Korea
KEB Hana Bank, Seoul, Korea
Selected
Group Exhibitions
2026 Beneath Technology: Scenes at the Threshold, Seoul Museum of Art,
Seoul, Korea
2025 On the Ground, Beyond the Wind, Dangjin Culture & Art Center,
Dangjin, Korea
Flows
Slowly, SPACEMOM MUSEUM OF ART, Cheongju, Korea
Non-Duality
(不二) – Enlightenment and Beauty, Gana Art Center,
Seoul, Korea
2024 Lineages: Korean Art at The Met, The Metropolitan Museum of Art,
New York, US
Ordinary
People, Splendid History, Gyeongnam Art Museum, Changwon, Korea
2021 Before the Wind, Suwon Museum of Art, Suwon, Korea
Contemporary Buddhist Art Exhibit: Śūnyatā, Seosomun
Shrine History Museum, Seoul, Korea
2020 Portrait, Portrait
and People: Modern and Contemporary Korean Portraits, Gallery Hyundai, Seoul,
Korea
The
Way of Embracing The Horizontal World, INCHEON ART PLATFORM, Incheon, Korea
The Square: Art and Society in Korea, National
Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Gwacheon, Korea
2019 Two Perspectives:
Archive of Korean Artist Collectives in the 1980s, Gyeonggi Museum of Mordern
Art, Ansan, Korea
2018 Gyeonggi
Archive_Now, Gyeonggi Museum of Modern Art, Gyeonggi Sangsang Campus, Suwon,
Korea
Exhibition on Peace and Human Rights in East
Asia for 70th Anniversary of 4・3 - From Silence to Shouting, Jeju 4・3 Peace
Memorial Hall, Jeju, Korea
Gana Art Collection: Regrettable Times, Seoul Museum of Art,
Seoul, Korea
2017 Korea Tomorrow
2017: Interpreted Landscape, Sungkok Art Museum, Seoul, Korea
Keyword Korean Art 2017 Plaza Arts: From Torch to Candlelight, Jeju Museum
of Art, Jeju, Korea
Moontides for Jeju Haeneyo, Jeju Museum of Art, Jeju, Korea
2016 Facing Faces, Sungkyunkwan University
Museum, Seoul, Korea
Art in Society – Land of Happiness, Buk-Seoul
Museum of Art, Seoul, Korea
2015 Commemorative
Exhibition of the 70th Anniversary of Liberation: the Great Journey
with the Citizens Uproarious, Heated, Inundated, National Museum of Modern and
Contemporary Art, Seoul, Korea
70th anniversary of Korean Independence – Korean Modern Art, Daejeon
Museum of Art, Daejeon, Korea
Beyond the Borders, Culture Station
Seoul 284, Seoul, Korea
2014 Retro
’86~’88: The Origin of Korea Pluralism, Seoul Olympic Museum of Art, Seoul,
Korea
The Stream of Korean Contemporary Art Ⅶ –
Realism, Gimhae Arts & Sports Center Yunseul Art Gallery, Gimhae, Korea
Korean Beauty: Two Kinds of Nature, National Museum of Modern
and Contemporary Art, Seoul, Korea
People_Korea and Kazakhstan, National Museum of the Republic
of Kazakhstan, Astana, Kazakhstan
The Blue Bird of May, Gwangju Museum
of Art, Gwangju, Korea
2013 Bali Jeju – Determination of Two
Islands, National Gallery of Indonesia, Jakarta, Indonesia
Special Exhibition of Minjung Art Commemorating the June
Democratic Uprising – A Rabbit in a Submarine, Democracy Park, Busan, Korea
2012 Korean Art from the Museum Collection_Grand-Narrative Part I,
National Museum of Contemporary
Art, Gwacheon, Korea
Korean Modern Art – A man Here, Now, Daejeon Museum of
Art, Daejeon, Korea
Chea Yong Shin and Korean Portraits – Ideals and Illusions, Jeonbuk
Museum of Art, Wanju, Korea
The Aesthetics of Table Setting, Ewha Womans University
Museum, Seoul, Korea
Winter Winter Winter, Spring, Gyeonggi Museum of Modern
Art, Ansan, Korea
Sea of Peace, Boundary of Water, Incheon Art Platform,
Incheon, Korea
2011 Artist of
the Year 1995 - 2010, National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Gwacheon,
Korea
Korean Rhapsody: A Montage of History and Memory, Leeum
Museum of Art, Seoul, Korea
The Seoul Art Exhibition 2011, Seoul Museum of Art,
Seoul, Korea
Co-Existence & Co-Prosperity, Jeju Museum of Art,
Jeju, Korea
Sea of Conflict, Sea of Reconciliation, Incheon Art Platform,
Incheon, Korea
Today’s Asian Art, Jeonbuk Museum of Art, Wanju, Korea
Nature, Life, Human, Daegu Art Museum, Daegu, Korea
2010 Realism
in Asian Art, National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Gwacheon, Korea; National
Museum of Singapore, Singapore, Singapore
Realism
Interpreted through Contemporary Art, Gyeongnam Art Museum, Changwon, Korea
Beyond the Yellow Line, Kyunghyang Gallery, Seoul, Korea
Korean Avant-Garde Drawing 1970~2000, Seoul Olympic
Museum of Art, Seoul, Korea
2009 Art and Play: Art in Superstar, Seoul Arts
Center Hangaram Art Museum, Seoul, Korea
Wonderful Pictures, Ilmin Museum of Art, Seoul,
Korea
Realism Interpreted as Contemporary Art, Gyeongnam Art
Museum, Changwon, Korea
2008 Ssamzie Farmer, Gallery Ssamzie, Seoul,
Korea
Art Exhibition 2008, Seoul Museum of Art, Seoul, Korea
Finale of Baekdudaegan Jirisan, Jeonbuk Museum of Art,
Wanju, Korea
Asia and Rice, Sori Arts Center of Jeollabuk-do,
Jeonju, Korea
2007 Gyeonggi, National Highway No.1, Gyeonggi Museum
of Modern Art, Ansan, Korea
Power and Dream of People, Gana Art, Seoul, Korea
Jeju Landscape Exhibition: The Island that Swallowed Myth,
Jeju Museum of Contemporary Art, Jeju, Korea
Text in Bodyscape, Seoul Museum of Art, Seoul, Korea
The Pulsation of People: Realism in Korean Art
1945-2005, Fukuoka Asian Art Museum, Fukuoka, Japan
2006 100 Years
of Korean Art Part 2–Tradition, Human, Art, Reality, National Museum of Modern
and Contemporary Art, Gwacheon, Korea
[Woman / Work / Art] Portrayal of Woman at Work in Korean Art,
Ewha Womans University Museum, Seoul, Korea
Illusion/Disillusion, Seoul Museum of Art, Seoul, Korea
Korea Unification Art Exhibition, Gwangju Museum of Art,
Gwangju, Korea
The Truth of Six Rooms, SAVINA Museum, Seoul, Korea
2005 The Seoul Art Exhibition, Seoul Museum of
Art, Seoul, Korea
1st Pocheon Asian Art Festival, Pocheon Banweol
Art Hall, Pocheon, Korea
Portrait of the Times, The Sound of Daily Life, Park Soo Keun
Museum, Yanggu, Korea
2004 Bahgdad 551km, JeBiwool Museum, Gwacheon,
Korea
Declaration for Peace: 100 Artists from Korea and Overseas, National
Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Gwacheon, Korea
Eommoi Moak, Jeonbuk Museum of Art, Wanju, Korea
Existence and Illusion, Gwangju Museum of Art, Gwangju,
Korea
2003 Environmental Art – Water, Seoul Museum of
Art, Seoul, Korea
The Art of Rice:
Spirit and Sustenance in Asia, Fowler Museum at UCLA, Los Angeles, US
2002 Thoughts on Vegetables, GALLERY LAMER,
Seoul, Korea
Our Faces, JeBiwool Museum, Gwacheon, Korea
Another History of Art: Representation of Feminity, Ewha Womans
University Museum, Seoul, Korea
2001 The 1980’s Realism and the Age, Gana Art,
Seoul, Korea
Korean Contemporary Art. Expression of the Time – "Hurts
and Healing", Seoul Arts Center Hangaram Art Museum, Seoul, Korea
2000 Rice in Korean History, National Museum of
Korea, Seoul, Korea
1999 Money·Money·Money, Gallery Savina, Seoul,
Korea
JoongAng Fine Arts Prize - Winners' Special Exhibition, Hoam
Art Gallery, Seoul, Korea
Korea+JAALA, Seoul Museum of Art, Seoul, Korea
Koreans by Koreans: Portraits from Prehistory to Modern Times,
Hoam Art Gallery, Seoul, Korea; Rodin Gallery, Seoul, Korea
1998 Grand
Opening Commemorative Exhibition of DMA, Daejeon Museum of Art, Daejeon, Korea
Facing The New Millennium, Gwangju Museum of Art, Gwangju,
Korea
1997 2nd Gwangju Reunification Art
Festival, Mangwol-dong Cemetery, Gwangju, Korea
Portrait
of Our Times – Father, Sungkok Art Museum,
Seoul, Korea
Korean Art 97 – Humanism·Mechanism·Animalism, National Museum
of Modern and Contemporary Art, Gwacheon, Korea
1996 Reality 96, KEPCO Plaza Gallery, Seoul,
Korea
Development of Korean Modernism: 1970-1990 Conquest of Modern,
Kumho Museum, Seoul, Korea
1995 50th
Anniversary Liberation, Historical Paintings Exhibition: Where are We, Seoul
Arts Center Hangaram Art Museum,
Seoul, Korea
Gwangju Unification Art Exhibition, Mangwol-dong Cemetery,
Gwangju, Korea
Korean Contemporary Art, National Art
Museum of China, Beijing, China
1st Gwangju
Biennale: The Spirit of Gwangju Resistance
in May, Gwangju Museum of Art, Gwangju, Korea
Following the Silk Road, Donga Gallery, Seoul, Korea
1994 Korean
Minjoong Art: 1980~1994, National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art,
Gwacheon, Korea
100th Donghak Commemoration – Bird, Bird,
Blue Bird, Seoul Arts Center Hangaram Art Museum, Seoul, Korea
1993 DMZ Peace Project, Tokyo Central Art
Museum, Tokyo, Japan
Across the Pacific: Contemporary Korean and Korean American
Art, Queens Museum of Art, New York, US; Kumho Gallery, Seoul, Korea
Reality of the Land – Exhibition of Kim Jung-Heun and Lee
Jong Gu, Seoin Gallery, Seosan, Korea
Moved by Eyes, Read by Heart, Donga Gallery, Seoul, Korea
1992 Today's Life, Today's Art, Kumho Gallery,
Seoul, Korea
JALLA – World and Us, Tokyo Metropolitan Art Museum, Tokyo,
Japan
Searching for the Korean Identity in Korean Contemporary Art,
Hanwon Gallery, Seoul, Korea
Face
of Our Time – Human and Nature, Geurim Madang Min, Seoul, Korea
1991 Reunification Exhibition, Geurim Madang Min, Seoul, Korea
A View In The Change Of Art, Kumho Gallery, Seoul, Korea
A
Groping for the Identity of Korean Contemporary Art, Hanwon Gallery, Seoul, Korea
1990 The Reality of the Rural Communities and
the Life of the Farmers, Ondara Art Center, Jeonju,
Korea
Landscape
of Fatherland Ⅱ, Geurim
Madang Min, Seoul, Korea
May! Gwangju!, Geurim Madang Min,
Seoul, Korea
1989 4 People Traveling Our Land, Coal Industry
Promotion Hall, Taebaek, Korea
From
Hwangtohyeon to Gomnaru: Homage to ‘Kumgang’ by Shin Dong-yup, Yesul Madang Geumgang, Seoul, Korea
‘80s Visual Art, Kumho Gallery, Seoul, Korea
1988 Our Land, Geurim Madang Min, Seoul, Korea
6th JALLA, Tokyo Metropolitan Art Museum, Tokyo,
Japan
Minjung Art in Korea – Politic & Art, Artists Space, New
York, US
1987 Today’s
Art in Incheon, Incheon Cultural Center, Incheon, Korea
Imsulyeon, From 98,992km2, Taebaek Gallery, Daegu,
Korea; Haein Gallery, Busan, Korea
22 Artists
of Our Times, Geurim Madang Min, Seoul,
Korea
Problematic Artists' Works of 1986, Seoul Museum, Seoul,
Korea
1986 30 Pioneers of Our Times, Geurim Madang
Min, Seoul, Korea
Imsulyeon, From 98,992km2, Geurim Madang Min,
Seoul, Korea
1985 Jipyung Inaugural Exhibition, Incheon Public
Information Office, Incheon, Korea
85 Years of Korean Art, Arab
Cultural Center, Seoul, Korea
Imsulyeon, From 98,992km2, Hangang Museum, Seoul,
Korea
1984 History of 40 Years after the Liberation,
Gwangju Academy Museum, Gwangju, Korea; Cheonnam National University, Gwangju,
Korea; Catholic Center Exhibition Hall, Busan, Korea; JEAN GALLERY, Masan,
Korea; Yonsei University, Seoul, Korea; Korea University, Seoul, Korea
Art of Life, Arab Cultural Center, Seoul, Korea; KWANHOON
Gallery, Seoul, Korea
Imsulyeon, From 98,992km2, Gwangju Academy Museum, Gwangju, Korea; Baeksang Memorial Hall, Seoul, Korea
1983 Imsulyeon, From 98,992km2, Arab Cultural Center, Seoul, Korea; SOO GALLERY, Daegu, Korea
JoongAng Fine Arts Prize, National Museum of Modern and
Contemporary Art, Seoul, Korea
1982 Imsulyeon, From 98,992km2, Deoksu Museum, Seoul,
Korea
30
Years of Incheon Art, Incheon Public Information Office, Incheon, Korea
JoongAng Fine Arts Prize, National Museum of Modern and
Contemporary Art, Seoul, Korea
1980 Visual Art, The Korean Culture & Arts
Foundation, Seoul, Korea
1st Modern
Fine Arts Situation ’80 – Incheon Exhibition, Nambin Gallery, Incheon, Korea
