Born in 1962, Seoul
Lives and works in New York and London
Education
1997
M.F.A. in Sculpture, Yale University School of Art, New Haven, CT
1994
B.F.A. in Painting, Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, RI
1987
M.F.A. in Oriental Painting, Seoul National University, Seoul
1985
B.F.A. in Oriental Painting, Seoul National University, Seoul
Selected Solo Exhibitions
2015
New York City Apartment/Bristol, Bristol Museum & Art Gallery, Bristol
2014
The Contemporary Austin, Austin, TX
Lehmann Maupin, New York, NY
2013
Lehmann Maupin, Hong Kong
Home within Home within Home within Home, National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Korea, Seoul
New thread drawings, Dieu Donne, New York, NY
2012
Perfect Home, 21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art, Kanazawa
In Between, Hiroshima City Museum of Contemporary Art, Hiroshima
Home Within Home, Leeum, Samsung Museum of Art, Seoul
2011
Luminous: The Art of Asia, Seattle Art Museum, Seattle, WA
Wielandstr. 18, 12159, DAAD Galerie, Berlin
Home within Home, Lehmann Maupin, New York
Do Ho Suh, Singapore Tyler Print Institute, Singapore
2010
A Perfect Home: Bridge Project, Slade School of Fine Art, University College London, United Kingdom
2007
Reflection, Lehmann Maupin, New York
Cause and Effect, Lehmann Maupin, New York
2006
The Speculation Project, Sun Contemporary, Seoul
2005
The Fabric Workshop and Museum, Philadelphia, PA
Reflection, Maison Hermés, Tokyo
2004
Galeria Soledad Lorenzo, Madrid
Freer Gallery of Art and Arther M. Sackler Gallery of Art: The National Museum of Asian Art at the Smithsonian Institute, Washington, D.C.
Lehmann Maupin, New York
2003
Brown University, Providence, RI
Lehmann Maupin, New York
Artsonje Center, Seoul
The Perfect Home, Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art, Kansas City, MI
Seattle Art Museum, Seattle, WA
2002
Serpentine Gallery, London
2001
Some/One, Whitney Museum of American Art at Philip Morris, New York
2000
Lehmann Maupin, New York
1999
Seoul Home/L.A. Home, Korean Cultural Center, Los Angeles, CA
Sight-Seeing, NTT InterCommunication Center, Tokyo
Selected Group Exhibitions
2015
Future Seasons Past, Lehmann Maupin, New York
Beyond the Buzz: New Forms, Realities, and Environments in Digital Fabrication, Minneapolis College of Art and Design, Minneapolis, MN
Apparitions: Frottages and Rubbings from 1860 to Now, The Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, CA; Menil Collection, Houston, TX
2014
Ullens Center for Contemporary Art, Beijing
Marguilies Collection, Miami, FL
Beyond and Between, Leeum, Samsung Museum of Art, Seoul
Shades of Time: An Exhibition form the Archive of Korean American Artists, Part Two 1989- 2001, Queens Museum, New York
Blood Flames Revisited, Paul Kasmin Gallery, New York
Look at Me: Portraiture from Manet to the Present, Leila Heller Gallery, New York
Myth/History: YUZ Collection of Contemporary Art, YUZM Shanghai, Shanghai
Perth International Arts Festival, Australia
2013
Unknown Forces, Tophanie-I Amire Gallery, Istanbul
Everyday Life Asian Art Biennial, National Taiwan Museum of Fine Arts, Taichung, Taiwan
Power, Where Does the Beauty Lie?, Seoul Olympic Museum of Art, Seoul
Homebodies, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago
5th Auckland Triennial, Auckland Art Gallery, Auckland, New Zealand
0 to 60:Contemporary Art, North Carolina Museum of Art, Raleigh, NC
2012
Dislocation, Daegu Art Museum, Daegu
Deogsugung Project, National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Korea – Deoksugung, Seoul
Roundtable, The 9th Gwangju Biennale 2012, Gwangju
Lehmann Maupin Gallery at Singapore Tyler Print Institute, STPI, Singapore
2011
East ex East, Brand New Gallery, Milan
Luminous: The Art of Asia, Seattle Art Museum, Seattle, WA
2011 Haein Art Project, Haeinsa, Hapcheon
Korean Rhapsody, Leeum, Samsung Museum of Art, Seoul
Human Nature: Contemporary Art From the Collection, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA
The Spirituality of Place, Gutstein Gallery, Savannah College of Art and Design, Savannah, GA
2010
Touched, Liverpool Biennial, Liverpool
Trust, Media City Seoul, Seoul
People Meet in the Architecture, Venice Architecture Biennale, Venice
Setouchi International Art Festival, Shodojima, Japan
Peppermint Candy: Contemporary Korean Art, National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Korea, Gwacheon
KAFA Awards Exhibition, Seoul National University Museum, Seoul
The Kaleidoscopic Eye: Thyssen-Bornemisza Art Contemporary Collection, Mori Art Museum, Tokyo
2007
Tomorrow, Kumho Museum of Art; Artsonje Center, Seoul
Red Hot: Asian Art Today from the Chaney Collection, Museum of Fine Arts Houston, TX
Façades, Krannert Art Museum, University of Illinois, Champaign, IL
Downtown Expansion, Seattle Art Museum, Seattle, WA
2006
This Is Not For You, Thyssen-Bornemisza Art Contemporary, Vienna, Austria
Facing East: Portraits from Asia, Freer + Sackler Galleries, Washington, D.C.
To the Human Future: Flight From The Dark Side, Contemporary Art Gallery, Art Tower Mito, Mito, Japan
2005
Monuments for the USA, White Columns, New York
Staircase, 21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art, Kanazawa
The Elegance of Silence: Contemporary Art from East Asia, Mori Art Museum, Tokyo
2004
The Print Show, Exit Art, New York
Siting: Installation Art 1969 – 2002, MoCA Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA
Undomesticated, Smith College Museum of Art, Northampton, MA
Home and Away, Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver
Living inside the Grid, The New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York
2003
On the Wall: Wallpaper by Contemporary Artists, RISD Museum, Providence, RI
Istanbul Biennial, Istanbul, Turkey
Multiple/Multiples, curated by Dan Cameron, Nassau Country Museum of Art, New York
2002
Constructed Fabric, Kobe Fashion Museum, Kobe, Japan
Multitude, Artist Space, New York
Asia Pacific Triennial of Contemporary Art, Queensland Art Gallery, Brisbane, Australia
Biennale of Sydney, Sydney, Australia
International Contemporary Art, Museum of Modern Art, Mexico City, Mexico
2001
Lunapark: Contemporary Art from Korea, Württembergischer Kunstverein Stuttgart, Stuttgart
My Home is Yours. Your Home is Mine, Tokyo Opera City Art Gallery, Tokyo
Korean Pavilion, Venice Biennale, Venice
International Pavilion, Venice Biennale, Venice
Uniform, Order and Disorder, MoMA P.S. 1, Long Island City, NY
About Face, The Museum of Modern Art, New York
Subject Plural: Crowds in Contemporary Art, Houston Contemporary Art Museum, Houston, TX
2000
Greater New York, P.S. 1, Long Island City, NY
Koreamericakorea, Art Sonje Center, Seoul; Sonje Art Museum, Gyeongjoo
Open Ends, The Museum of Modern Art, New York
My Home is Yours. Your Home is Mine, Rodin Gallery (Plateau), Seoul
Commissions and Special Projects
2013
Home within Home within Home within Home, National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art – Seoul, Seoul
2012
Hamnyeongjeon Project, Deogsugung Project, Museum of Contemporary Art, Korea – Deogsugung, Seoul
In Between Hotel, 2012 Gwangju Urban Folly Project, Gwangju
Grass Roots Square, Regjeringskvartalet R6 (Government Building Complex Part 6, KORO), Oslo
Cause and Effect, Western Washington University, Bellingham, Washington, D.C.
Fallen Star, The Stuart Collection, University of California San Diego, CA
2011
Luminous: The Art of Asia, Seattle Art Museum, Seattle, Washington, D.C.
Staircase-III, Tate Modern, London
2010
Cause and Effect, HITE Foundation, Seoul
Karma, Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, New York
2009
Karma, Kyungbang Time Sqaure, Seoul
2007
Cause and Effect, Towada Art Center, Towada
2002
Some/One, Nerman Museum of Contemporary Art, Overland Park, Kansas
Unsung Founders Memorial, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC
Residencies
2011
STPI, Singapore
2010
DAAD, German Academic Exchange Program, Berlin
2007
Dieu Donné, New York
Selected Honors and Distinctions
2013
Wall Street Journal Art Innovator of the Year
Best of the best in “TV, Film, Cinema & Animation” – Red Dot Design Award, Berlin
Kim Se Joong Sculpture Award, Seoul
Grand Orchid – Fallen Star, Orchids & Onions 2013 Awards, San Diego Architectural Foundation, San Diego, CA
Public Art Network – Top 50 Public Art Project 2013, Washington State Arts Commission, Americans for the Arts, Washington, D.C.
2012
Honorary Doctorate Degree, Western Washington University, Bellingham, Washington, D.C.
2010
Graham Foundation for Advanced Studies in the Fine Arts Grant Winner, Regjeringskvartalet R6 Competition, Oslo
2009
DAAD Artist Residency Fellowship, Berlin
Singapore Tyler Print Institute Artist Residency Fellowship, Singapore
2007
Yoon Young Ja Award, Seoul
2006
Sun Art Award, Seoul
2003
Hermés Korea Missulsang, Seoul
2001
The Augustus Saint-Gaudens Memorial Award, Augustus Saint-Gaudens Memorial, New York, NY
2000
The Joan Mitchell Foundation Painting and Sculpture Award, Joan Mitchell Foundation, New York, NY
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