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LEE Dong-youb

Lee Dong Youb received his B.s. and M.A. from Hong-Ik University. He is one of the most important founders of a Korean abstract painting movement, Dansaekhwa. He participated in a group show entitled Five Korean Artists, Five Kinds of White held in Tokyo Gallery in May 1975, which is often credited as an exhibition that introduced Dansaekhwa for the first time. 

Lee Dong Youb created white surface Dansaekhwa paintings for over fifty years until his death. The color white is a void for consciousness and a vessel for thought. From 1980s, the artist began the Between series with wide white brushstrokes on white backgrounds. This gesture made the paintings to generate and capture the natural overlap and the soaking of color. The artist repeated countless strokes to exclude materiality and realize spirituality like a truth-seeker. His white canvas reminds the viewer to fill the work with thought and interpretation. 

Lee Dong Youb marked his achievements in Korean modern art history by participating in many significant exhibitions, including the 1st Independent Exhibition and his artwork is a part of public collections at Tokyo National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo, The National Museum of Contemporary Art, Gwacheon, Korea.

 
 
 
 

 

Biography

1946      Born in Jeongeup, Jeollabuk-do, Korea

1973      BFA Art Education, College of Fine Arts, Hongik University

1985      MFA Art Education, College of Fine Arts, Hongik University

2013      Passed away

Solo Exhibitions

2015      Hakgojae Gallery, Seoul

2012      Choeunsook art & lifestyle Gallery, Seoul

2010      Gallery Date, Busan, Korea

2008      Hakgojae Gallery, Seoul

 Leeahn Gallery, Changwon, Korea

2005      Tong-in Gallery, Seoul

2003      CAIS Gallery, Seoul

2002      Gallery M, Daegu, Korea

2000      Galerie Bhak, Seoul

1993      Haena-Kent Gallery, New York

1992      Koart Gallery, Seoul

1988      Saem Gallery, Seoul

1985      Yoon Gallery, Seoul

1983      Space Gallery, Seoul

1977      Seoul Gallery, Seoul

    Mura Matsu Gallery, Tokyo

 

 

 

Selected Group Exhibitions

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

2014      Baiksaeksoomgyul (Lee Dong-Youb’s Painting & Ree Soo Jong’s White Porcelain Jar), SongArt Gallery, Seoul, Korea 

2013      White & White: Dialogue between Korea and Italy, Museo Carlo Bilotti - Aranciera di Villa Borghese, Roma, Italy

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

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

2011      Qi (, Energy) is Full, Daegu Art Museum, Daegu, Korea

2008      Inter-viewing Paintings: The Interface Between Eastern-style Paintings and Western-style Paintings, Seoul Olympic Museum of Art, Seoul, Korea

      Abstract Painting of Korea: 1958-2008, Seoul Museum of Art, Seoul, Korea

2007      Hommage 100: Korean Contemporary Art 1970-2007, Korea Art Center, Busan, Korea

2006      100 Years of Korean Art (Part 2): Tradition, Human, Art, Reality, National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Korea, Gwacheon, Korea

2002      Rereading of Korean Contemporary Art III: Critical Reviews of 1970s Monochrome Paintings, Hanwon Museum of Art, Seoul, Korea

      Korean Contemporary Art from the mid-1970s to mid-1980s: Age of Philosophy and Aesthetics, National Museum of Modern and 3Contemporary Art, Korea, Gwacheon, Korea 

      Beyond Korean Contemporary Art, Gallery Lamere, Seoul, Korea

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

              Trace–Eternal Trace and Pure Surface, CAIS Gallery, Seoul, Korea  

      Gwangju Biennale Special Exhibition – Aspect of Contemporary Korean–Japan Art, Gwangju, Korea

1998      2000 Spirit of the Time - Daejeon Museum of Art, Daejeon, Korea

1997      Korean Art 97 – HumanismAnimalismMechanism, National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Gwacheon, Korea

1996      Korean Monochrome Painting in the 1970s, Gallery Hyundai, Seoul, Korea

1995      Ecole de Seoul – 20 Years of Korean Monochrome Painting, KwanHoon Gallery, Seoul, Korea 

1993      Takeshi Kawashima, Cheonae Kim, Lee DongYoub, Haena-Kent Gallery, New York, US

  12 Contemporary Artists From Korea, Miyagi Museum of Art, Sendai, Japan

1991      A Grouping for the Identity of Contemporary Korean Art III, Hanwon Museum of Art, Seoul, Korea

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

1986      Pastel Contemporain Coreen, Korean Cultural Center, Paris 

  Korean Contemporary Arts, Grand Palais, Paris

  86’ ASIA Contemporary Art Exhibition, National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Korea, Gwacheon, Korea

1984      Human Documents ’84/’85-2, Tokyo Gallery, Tokyo, Japan

              Korean Contemporary Art Exhibition, Taipei Fine Arts Museum, Taipei

      Exposition de La Peinture Blanche, Institut Français de Corée du Sud, Seoul, Korea

1983      Korean Contemporary Art Exhibition – The Latter Half of the 1970s - An Aspect, Tokyo Metropolitan Art Museum, Tokyo; Tochigi Prefectural Museum of Fine Arts, Utsunomiya, Japan;

      National Museum of Art, Osaka, Japan; Hokkaido Museum of Modern Art, Sapporo, Japan; Fukuoka Art Museum, Fukuoka, Japan

      Korea New Paper Works, Spring Gallery, Taipei

1982      The Phase of Korean Contemporary Art, Tokyo Metropolitan Art Museum, Tokyo, Korea

  The Contemporary Formative Exhibition of Paper of Korea & Japan, National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Korea, Seoul; Kyoto City Museum, Kyoto, Japan

  The Contemporary Artists Print & Drawing, Myung-Dong Gallery, Seoul, Korea

1981      Drawing 81, National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Korea, Seoul, Korea 

              Young Artists Exhibition, National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Korea, Seoul, Korea

      Korean Drawing Now, Brooklyn Museum, New York, US

1980      The 36 Contemporary Artists, KwanHoon Gallery, Seoul, Korea 

              Seoul Grand Exhibition of Korean Prints & Drawings, National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Korea, Seoul, Korea 

      Union Exhibition of Korean Contemporary Art (Origin Association & Korean Contemporary Sculpture Association), KwanHoon Gallery, Seoul, Korea 

      ASIA Contemporary Art Exhibition, Fukuoka Art Museum, Fukuoka, Japan

1979      Korean Arts Methods of Today, Fine Art Center Gallery, Seoul, Korea

  Union Exhibition of Art Groups, National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Seoul, Korea 

1978      The Trend for the Past 20 Years in Korean Contemporary Arts, National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Seoul, Korea 

      Korean Contemporary Painting & Sculpture Exhibition, National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Seoul, Korea 

1977      Korea Facet of Contemporary Art, Tokyo Central Museum, Tokyo, Japan

  Korea-China Contemporary Art, National Museum of History, Taipei

1976      Invited Exhibition of 5 Korean Contemporary Artists, Seoul Gallery, Seoul, Korea 

1975      Korea Five Artists – Hinsek (White), Tokyo Gallery, Tokyo, Japan 

 

Awards                         

1980      Grand Prize at the 7th Korean Fine Art Grand Prize Exhibition, Hankuk Ilbo, Seoul, Korea 

1978      Special Selection at the 1st Grand Exhibition, Joongang Ilbo, Seoul, Korea 

  Excellent Frontier Prize at the 5th Grand Exhibition of Korean Fine Arts, Hankuk Ilbo, Seoul, Korea 

1974      Prize at the 6th Cagnes International Painting Festival, Cagnes-sur-Mer, France, Paris

1972      Grand Prize at the 1st Independants, Korean Fine Arts Association, Seoul, Korea 

 

Public Collections

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

MMCA Art Bank, Gwacheon, Korea

Seoul Museum of Art, Seoul, Korea 

Sungkok Art Museum, Seoul, Korea 

POSCO Museum, Seoul, Korea 

Hongik University Museum, Seoul, Korea 

Busan Museum of Art, Busan, Korea

Daegu Art Museum, Daegu, Korea

National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo, Japan

Artworks
Interspace-Musing(cycle)

1981

Oil on Canvas

116x91cm

Interspace-Musing(cycle)

1981

Oil on Canvas

116x91cm

Interspace-Musing 2000#017

2000

Acrylic on Canvas

160x260cm

Interspace-Musing(cycle)

2000-2002

Acrylic on Canvas

80x180cm

Interspace - Void 908

1991

Acrylic on canvas

162.2 x 259 cm

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