1966 Born in Gimpo,
Korea
1990 BFA Painting,
College of Fine Arts, Hongik University, Seoul
1993 Freie
Malerei, Staatliche Akademie der bildenden Künste Stuttgart,
Stuttgart, Germany
1995 MFA Bildhauerei,
Staatliche Akademie der bildenden Künste Stuttgart, Stuttgart, Germany
Lives and works in Seoul
Solo Exhibitions
2018 Korean Mosaic, Maehyangri Studio, Hwaseong, Korea
2016 An Unfamiliar Path, Hakgojae Gallery, Seoul
2014 Handheld Shooting, Spinnerei Halle 12 - WERKSCHAU, Leipzig, Germany
2011 New Angel, PIN Gallery, Beijing
54th Venice Biennale Korean Pavilion - The Love is Gone, but the Scar will Heal, Venice
2006 Angel-Soldier, +Gallery, Nagoya, Japan
2005 Angel-Soldier, Kuandu Museum of Fine Arts, Taipei
1999 Tactile Documentary, Sungkok Art Museum, Seoul
1993 Installation and Drawings, Gallerie Zehentscheuer, Munsingen, Germany
1990 Material and Immaterial, Sonamu Gallery, Seoul
Selected Group Exhibitions
2016 Before the Beginning and After the End, K Museum of Contemporary Art, Seoul
Please Return to Busan Port: 21 Korean Contemporary Artists, Vestfossen Museum, Vestfossen, Norway
Nanjing International Art Festival (NIJAF), Nanjing, China
Suncheon Bay International Eco-Environment Art Festival (SEEAF), Suncheon, Korean
Seoul ArtStation Project, Seocho T-Center, Seoul
2015 Paradox of Place: Contemporary Korean Art, Seattle Asian Art Museum, Seattle, U.S.A.
Brilliant City, Sejong Hyundai Motorgallery, Seoul
7th DMZ International Documentary Film Festival, Paju, Korea
Malmo Photo Biennale, Malmo, Sweden
The 70th Anniversary of Liberation Day: NK Project, Seoul
Museum of Art, Seoul
Have a Good Day Mr.Kim!, Choi & Lager Gallery, Cologne,
Germany
Singapore Open Media Art Festival (SOMAF), Singapore
brilliant memories, Dongdaemun Design Plaza, Seoul
Media Salon de SeMA: SeMA's New Acquisitions 2014 Ⅱ, Seoul Museum of Art (Buk Seoul Museum of
Art), Seoul
2014
2nd Shenzhen Independent Animation Biennale, Shenzhen, China
The Moment, We Awe, Sanshang Contemporary Art Museum, Hangzhou,
China
Prism – Nam June Paik and New Media Art, Gyeongnam Art
Museum, Changwon, Korea
Liquid Times, Seoul Museum of Art, Seoul
2013 Distilling
Senses: A Journey through Art and Technology in Asian Contemporary
Art, Hong Kong Arts Center,
Hong Kong
NO Questions, Klingental Exhibition Space, Basel, Switzerland
The Moment, We Awe, HOW Art Museum, Wenzhou, China
A Soldier's Tale: 130 Years of Friendship, 60 Years of Memories,
Asia House, London
Transform, Korean Cultural Center, Bangkok
The Moment, We Awe, Hakgojae Gallery, Seoul
Biennale Cuv ée, OK Center for Contemporary Art,
Linz, Austria
Either – Or, Nikolaj Contemporary Art Centre,
Copenhagen; Haus am Waldsee, Berlin
Avesta Art 2013, Avesta, Sweden
Move on Asia. Video Art in Asia 2002~2012, ZKM, Karlsruhe, Germany
2012 Global
Groove, Eli and Edythe Broad Art Museum, East Lansing, U.S.A.
Road to 12 – 104 miles: Palais de Glace,
Buenos Aires
The Digital Aesthetic 2012, Harris Museum and Art Gallery,
Preston, U.K.
Cynical Resistance, Canvas International Art, Amsterdam
One Must Imagine Sisyphus Happy, House of the Nobleman, London
Thoughts on Body, Seoul Olympic Museum of Art, Seoul
ReBooting, Yanhuang Art Museum, Beijing
Dare to Share, Barents Spectacle 2012, Norway
2011
Together – Gyeonggi Museum of Modern Art, Dr. Park Gallery,
Yangpyeong, Korea
3rd DMZ Korean International Documentary Festival Special
Section – We Are Who You Are, Gallery
Jijihyang, Paju, Korea
Root of Imagination, Gallery Absinthe, Seoul
Fool the Eye, Park Ryu Sook Gallery, Seoul
Abstract it! – National Museum of Modern
and Contemporary Art, Seoul
Chimera, National Museum of Singapore, Singapore
2010 Spring and
Autumn, Hakgojae Gallery, Seoul
Plastic Garden: Korean Contemporary Art, Minsheng Art Museum,
Shanghai
A Different Similarity, Bochum Art Association, Bochum,
Germany
2009 Image Nation, Salon
de H, Seoul
Boondocks, Kunsthalle Faust, Hanover, Germany
A Different Similarity, SantralIstanbul, Istanbul, Turkey
Moscow Biennale, Moscow
Ljubljana Biennial of Graphic Arts, Ljubljana, Slovenia
Korean Eye: Moon Generation, Saatchi Gallery, London
Passage_09, Universal Cube, Leipzig,
Germany; Spinnerei Leipzig, Leipzig, Germany
Beginning of New Era, National Museum of Contemporary Art, Seoul
IDA project: Vernacular Terrain Video and New
Media, China; Japan; Australia
APT Project, Artist Pension Trust, Beijing
Peppermint Candy: Contemporary Korean Art, National Museum
of Modern and Contemporary Art,
Gwacheon, Korea
2008 Modest Monuments
Contemporary Art from Korea, King's Lynn Art Centre, Norfolk, U.K.
3rd Nanjing Triennale – Reflective Asia, Nanjing
Museum, Nanjing, China
5th Busan Biennale – Expenditure, Busan, Korea
Fantasy Studio Project, The Blade Factory, Liverpool, U.K.
Extended Senses: Present of Korea, Japan Media Art, Alternative
Space Loop, Seoul
Peppermint Candy: Contemporary Korean Art, National Museum of Fine
Arts Argentina, Buenos Aires,
Argentina
Re-view: As a Characteristic of
the Contemporary Art, Gyeongnam Art Museum, Changwon, Korea
2007 Trans Pop: Korea
Vietnam Remix, Arko Art Center, Seoul
Soft Power, Korea Foundation Cultural Center, Seoul
Peppermint Candy: Contemporary Korean Art, Santiago Museum of
Contemporary Art, Santiago
Tina B. The Prague Contemporary Art Festival, Prague
2006 Through the
Looking Glasses, Asia House, London
ALLLooKSAME/TUTTTUGUALE: Art China Korea Japan Art, Fondazione
Sandretto Re Rebaudengo, Turin, Italy
Spotlight 30 Women, Papertainer Museum, Seoul
Softness, Seoul Olympic Museum of Art, Seoul
Circuit Diagram_London, Project Space CELL, London
Circuit Diagram_Seoul, Songwon Museum of Art, Seoul
SLOW TECH, Museum of contemporary Art, Taipei
EXPOSED: Black Box And Crystal Ball, Debating Chamber, London
County Hall, Harrods Department Store,
LG i Gallery, London
The Art of Passat-ism, Utsunomiya Museum of Art, gallery Q, Tokyo
On Difference, Würtenbergischer Kunstverein Stuttgart, Stuttgart,
Germany
Chunggye Media Theater, Seoul Museum of Art, Seoul
5th International film festival on clay and glass, Le Corum,
Montpellier, France
2005 Two Asia, Two
Europe, Duolun Museum of Modern Art, Shanghai
Banana Surfer, Ieum Gallery, Beijing
Post IMF, Art Ark Gallery, Shanghai
From Berlin to DMZ, Seoul Olympic Museum, Seoul
2004 Exhibition
JACK!, Contemporary Art and Spirits(CAS), Osaka, Japan
Digital Sublime in the 2nd Media City Seoul
Biennale in Taipei, MoCA, Taipei
Unusual Combination, +gallery, Tokyo
Out of the Window, The Japan Foundation Asia
Center, Tokyo
Hommage A PAIK, Space C, Seoul
2003 Mobile Project
01 Milano 'Pronto', Alternative Space Care of, Milano, Italy
Modern Art in Hardcore Dior, Won Gallery, Seoul
S.O.S, Galerie Weisser Elefant, Berlin
Jeonju International Film Festival, Jeonju, Korea
Electronic Power, KEPCO art center, Seoul
Crossing 2003: Korea/Hawaii I, Hawaii Art Gallery, Hawaii,
U.S.A.
2002
8th International Shoebox Sculpture Exhibition, Hawaii Art Gallery,
Honolulu, U.S.A.
2nd International Media Art Biennale – Media City
2002, Seoul Museum of Art, Seoul
5th Gwangju Biennale Project 4 – Pause,
Gwangju, Korea
The Color of Korea, Seoul Museum of Art, Seoul
Nam June Paik & Media Art, Yonsei University, Seoul
Media Art, Daejeon-NewYork, Daejeon Museum of Art, Daejeon,
Korea
CRASTO Festival, Chung Ang University, Seoul
Reconsideration of Media, Ichon Contemporary Art Center,
Ichon, Korea
Intersection: Architecture and Art, Space imA, Seoul
2001 A
Second, Alternative Space Loop, Seoul
2000 Seoul
International Performance Art Festival, SIPAF, Seoul
Venice Biennale 2000 (Archtecture), Arsenale, Venice,
Italy
Media City Seoul 2000: Digital Alice, Seoul Museum of Art,
Seoul
Enfant Terrible, Ssamzie Space, Seoul
Artificiality Emotion, Gallery Fusion, Seoul
Discussion, Exhibition of Small Group 80', The Korean
Culture & Arts Foundation, Seoul
Daejeon Media Art 2000, Daejeon Museum of Art, Daejeon, Korea
Shamanism of Cyber Space, Hanwon Museum of Art, Seoul
1999 The Turn of the
Century, Sungkok Museum, Seoul
Media & City: Century of Light, Seoul Museum of Art,
Seoul
1998 Media In &
Out, Seonam Museum, Seoul
1996 Technology Vs.
Anti-Technology, The Korean Culture & Arts Foundation, Seoul
96’Science and Art Show, Interactive Gallery COEX, Seoul
10th Anniversary Exhibition, Gallerie Zehentscheuer,
Munsingen, Germany
1995 Skulpturen und
Objekte, Kunst Haus, Ullum, Germany
Bereuhrung, Stadtmuseum Esslingen im Gelben Haus, Esslingen,
Germany
Touching, Esslingen National Museum, Esslingen, Germany
Music and Video, Willhelum Teather, Stuttgart, Germany
Sculpture, Glasskasten, Stuttgart, Germany
Academy 3rd Prize, Vereingung von Freunden Academie der Bildenden
Keunste, Stuttgart, Germany
1994 In der Feme so
Nah, Am Boschwerk, Stuttgart, Germany
Academy Group Prize, Vereiningung von Freunden der Akademie der
Bildende Keunste, Stuttgart, Germany
1991 Standard-bearer
of contemporary Art in Korea, Galleria Gallery, Seoul
1990 90’s
Contemporary Art Exhibition Toward the Unification, TaRe Gallery, Seoul
The 2nd Gold-Apple, Total Museum of Contemporary Art, Seoul
Collection Group, Sam Jeong Gallery, Na Gallery, Seoul
What Group Printmarking, Gallery 2000, Seoul
Nu-Reum Group Printmarking, Kwan Hoon Gallery, Seoul
Noise/OUT Group, Young Artist Gallery, Seoul
Dong-A Fine Art Festival: Special Prize, National Museum
of Modern and Contemporary Art, Gwacheon, Korea
1989 The 9th
Exhibition of Korea contemporary Prints Public Subscription: Special
Prize, Art Center of the Korean &
Culture Foundation, Seoul
Korea-Japan Exchange Exhibition, Fukuoka University Gallery,
Fukuoka, Japan
The 13th Independents, National Museum of Modern
and Contemporary Art, Gwacheon, Korea
1988 The 12th
Independents, National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art,
Gwacheon, Korea
Dong-A Art Festival, National Museum of Modern and Contemporary
Art, Gwacheon, Korea
Public Collections
National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Korea
Seoul Museum of Art, Seoul
Busan Museum of Art, Busan, Korea
Daejeon Museum of Art, Daejeon, Korea
ARKEN Museum of Modern Art, Denmark,
Deutsche Bank Collection, Germany
Hamburger Bahnhof, Museum fur Gegenwart, Germany
Museum Frieder Burda, Baden-Baden, Germany
The Sachsen Bank Art Collection, Germany
Sammlung Bankhaus Sal. Oppenheim. Koln, Germany
Sammlung Essl - Museum fur Gegenwartskunst, Austria
Sammlung Rheingold GbR, Dusseldorf, Germany
The Scheringa Museum of Realist Art, Spanbroek, The Netherlands
The Rubell Family Collection, Miami
Fondazione Orsi, Milan, Italy
Tiroche Deleon Collection, Israel
Eli and Edythe Broad Art Museum, Michigan State University, East Lansing, U.S.A
HOW Art Museum, Shanghai
