1941     Born in Haejoo, Hwanghae-do, Korea

1964     BFA in Painting, College of Fine Art, Hongik University, Seoul

1974     MFA in Painting, Graduate School, Hongik University, Seoul

Selected Solo Exhibitions 

2022 Gallery Bisunjae, Seoul

        The Page Gallery, Seoul 

2019 The Page Gallery, Seoul 

2000 Tokyo Gallery, Tokyo 

1997 Johyun Gallery, Busan, Korea 

1992 Conditional Planes, Mok Gallery, Seoul 

1986 Inax Gallery, Tokyo

        Dongsangbang Gallery, Seoul 

1981 Conditional Plane Surface Series 1976-1981, Kwanhoon Gallery, Seoul 

1980 Muramatsu Gallery, Tokyo 

1976 Seoul Gallery, Seoul

Award

1978 Grand Prize at the Korean Art Awards, Seoul

Collections

National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Korea, Gwacheon, Korea

MMCA Art Art Bank, Gwacheon

Seoul Museum of Art, Seoul

Busan Museum of Art, Busan, Korea

Daegu Art Museum, Daegu, Korea

Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo, Tokyo

Shimonoseki City Art Museum, Fukuoka, Japan

Leeum Museum of Art, Seoul

Selected Group Exhibitions

2023 Eui-geum-sang-gyeong: Over her embroidered robe she puts on a plain garment, Hakgojae Gallery, Seoul

2022 A Narrative of Korean Art, Duson Gallery, Seoul

        Dam Studio Gallery, Jeju, Korea

        Summer Project: Korean Modern and Contemporary Art, Yangpyeong Art Museum, Yangpyeong, Korea 

        A Painter of Our Time 2, Hanwon Museum of Art, Seoul  

2021 Hyeongyeong, Sibang, The Page Gallery, Seoul 

2020 Everywhere & Here, The Page Gallery, Seoul 

2019 The Perspective of Artists, Ha Jung-woong Museum of Art, Gwangju, Korea

2017 Rediscovery of Colors, Museum San, Wonju, Korea

        Looking into Korea Art, Part 2: Dansaekhwa, Museum San, Wonju, Korea

2016 Origin, Perrotin, Paris

2015 Empty Filling: The Physical and Spirituality of Contemporary Korean Art, MuBE Sculpture Museum, Sao Paulo

2012 Mapping the Realities: Korean Art in the 1970s and 1980s Reviewed Through the SeMA Collection, Seoul Museum of Art, Seoul

        Dansaekhwa: Korean Monochrome Painting, National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Gwacheon, Korea

2011 Fulfillment, Sibang, Space Purple, Paju, Korea

        Qi (氣, Energy) is Full, Daegu Art Museum, Daegu, Korea

2010 Kim Jeonghi, Quac Insik, Suh Seok, Lee Ufan, Choi Myoungyoung, Space Purple, Paju, Korea

2009 Monochrome Art in Korea, Wellside Gallery, Shanghai

2008 Korean Abstract Art: 1958-2008, Seoul Museum of Art, Seoul

2007 Abstract Art, Amusement of the Borders, Seoul Museum of Art Nam-Seoul Museum of Art, Seoul

        Focus on us, Gallery Athena-Paris, Daegu, Korea

        All Kinds, Museum of Contemporary Art Shanghai, Shanghai

2006 60th anniversary of Korea's liberation 100 Years of Korean Art (Part 2), National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Gwacheon, Korea

2003 Dynamics of expansion and reduction: Geometric abstraction and demodern atmosphere, KEPCO Art Plaza Gallery, Seoul

2002 Age of Philosophy and Aesthetics, National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Gwacheon, Korea

2000 What is so of itself, Posco Art Museum, Seoul

        Plane as spirits, Busan Museum of Art, Busan, Korea

        Gwangju Biennale Special Exhibition: The Facet of Korean and Japanese Contemporary Art, Gwangju, Korea

1999 Three Korean Modern Artists, Gallery Sae, Seoul 

        Five Meter Exhibition, Jongno Gallery, Seoul  

1998 Busan International Contemporary Art Festival, Busan Museum of Art, Busan, Korea 

        Memorial exhibition of Leeil, Whanki Museum, Seoul

1997 The Second Generation of Contemporary Art in Korea - Change and Circulation, Sigong Gallery, Daegu, Korea

1996 70s Korean Monochrome, Gallery Hyundai, Seoul 

1995 Korean Contemporary Art, Hecsacommunications, Seoul

1992 Special Exhibition on Contemporary Art: Painting, Sculpture, National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Gwacheon, Korea 

1991 The Search for Modern Art 1, Gallery Time, Seoul

      Korea Modern Art, Gallery Yemac, Seoul

1989        Five Artists Exhibition, Gallery Hilton, Seoul

1988        Korean Modern Art, National Museum of History, Taipei; National Taiwan Museum of Fine Arts, Taichung, Taiwan

                New Direction, Yoon Gallery, Seoul

1987        Black and White in Korean Art Today, National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Gwacheon, Korea

                Black and White Joint, Soo Gallery, Seoul

1986 Post-abstract exhibition of 9, Batangol Art Center, Seoul

        The verification of modern art, Baiksong Gallery, Seoul

1986-99 Post-abstract exhibition of 9, Batangol Art Center, Seoul

        Seoul Grand Art Exhibition, Seoul Museum of Art, Seoul

1984 Human Documents ‘84/’85-3, Tokyo Metropolitan Art Museum, Tokyo 

1983 The Korean Contemporary Art: An aspect of the late '70s, Tokyo Metropolitan Art Museum, Tokyo 

1983-85 Invited Exhibition of Contemporary Arts, National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Gwacheon, Korea 

1981 Korean Drawing Now, Brooklyn Museum, New York

1979 Work on Paper, Jean Gallery, Seoul

1977 Kwang Ju Contemporary Art Festival, Jeonil Museum, Gwangju, Korea