Born in 1964
Lives and works in Seoul
Education
1987
BFA in Sculpture, Hongik University, Seoul.
Selected Solo Exhibitions
2011
Mori Art Museum, Tokyo (forthcoming in November)
2010
Lehmann Maupin, New York
2009
Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac, Paris
2008
PKM Trinity Gallery, Seoul
Lehmann Maupin, New York
2007
Fondation Cartier pour l'art contemporain, Paris
Galerie Thadaeus Ropac, Salzburg
PKM Gallery, Seoul
Domus Artium 02, Salamanca
2005
SCAI the Bathhouse, Tokyo
Govett-Brewster Art Gallery, New Plymouth, New Zealand
2004
Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney
PKM Gallery, Seoul
Deitch Projects, New York
2003
Henry Art Gallery, Seattle
Centre for Contemporary Arts, Glasgow
Ohara Museum of Art, Kurashiki, Japan
Japan Foundation, Tokyo
Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art, Scottsdale, Arizona
2002
The Power Plant, Toronto
MAC, Galeries Contemporaines des Musées de Marseille, Marseille
Jean Paul Slusser Gallery, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan
New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York
Le Consortium centre d'art contemporain, Dijon
PKM Gallery, Seoul
Rodin Gallery, Samsung Museum of Art, Seoul
Orange County Museum of Art, Newport Beach, California
2001
Fabric Workshop and Museum, Philadelphia
SCAI the Bathhouse, Tokyo
San Francisco Art Institute, San Francisco
BAWAG Foundation, Vienna
2000
Fukuoka Asian Art Museum, Fukuoka
Kukje Gallery, Seoul
1999
Korean Pavilion, 48th Venice Biennale *
Kunsthalle Bern, Bern
1998
Artsonje Center, Seoul
1997
"Projects," Museum of Modern Art, New York
1994
"Unforgiven," A Space, Toronto*
1988
IL Gallery, Seoul
* asterisk denotes two-person show
Selected Group Exhibitions
2010
"Tranformation," Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo (forthcoming in October)
"Fantasmagoria, le monde mythique," Les Abbatoirs, Toulouse
"New Décor," Hayward Gallery, London
"Morality, Act VI: Remember Humanity" Witte de With Center for Contemporary Art, Rotterdam
"The Flower of May," Gwangju Museum of Art, Gwangju, Korea
"New Art for a New Century: Contemporary Acquisitions, 2000 – 2010," Orange County Museum of Art, Newport Beach, California
"Itinéraires de l'élégance, entre l'Orient et l'Occident," Villa Empain, Boghossian Foundation, Brussels
"A Fragmentary Anatomy of Every Settting Sun," permanent installation, Hara Museum ARC, Gunma, Japan
2009
“Void of Memory,” curated by Mami Kataoka and Sunjung Kim, Platform Seoul 2009, Kimusa (Former Defense Security Command Site), Seoul
2008
Prospect.1, curated by Dan Cameron, Contemporary Arts Center, New Orleans
“Life? Biomorphic Forms in Sculpture,” Kunsthaus Graz, Graz, Austria
“Fluid Street – Alone, Together,” Kiasma Museum of Contemporary Art, Helsinki
“Fragile Beauty,” Museum Kunst Palast, Düsseldorf
“Mobile Art: Chanel Contemporary Art Container,” designed by Zaha Hadid, Hong Kong, travelled to Tokyo and New York
“Art is for the Spirit: Works from the UBS Collection,” Mori Art Museum, Tokyo
2007
"Tomorrow," Artsonje Center, Seoul
"Views from the Bosphorus," Istanbul Museum of Modern Art, Istanbul
10th International Istanbul Biennial, Curated by Hou Hanru
"Global Feminisms," Brooklyn Museum of Art, New York
2006
"Real Utopia," 21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art, Kanazawa
"Dirty Yoga," Curated by Dan Cameron, 2006 Taipei Biennial
"The Past Made Present: Contemporary Art and Memory," Museum of Fine Arts, Houston
"100 Years of Korean Art – Part 2," National Museum of Contemporary Art, Seoul
"Uneasy Nature," Weatherspoon Art Museum, Greensboro, North Carolina
2005
"Baroque and Neo-Baroque: The Hell of the Beautiful," Domus Artium 02, Salamanca
"Gorgeous Isn't Good Enough," Spazio Pirelli Hangar Bicocca, Milan
"California Modern," Orange County Museum of Art, Newport Beach, California
Art Unlimited, Art 36 Basel
"Visions of the Body," Seoul Museum of Art, Seoul
"IDYL," Openluchtmuseum voor Beeldhouwkunst Middelheim, Antwerp
"Encounters with Modernism," National Museum of Art, Deoksugung Palace, Seoul
"(My private) HEROES," MARTa, Herford, Germany
"New Acquisitions 2004," National Museum of Contemporary Art, Seoul
2004
"The Nature Machine," Queensland Art Gallery, Brisbane
"Encounters in the 21st Century: Polyphony – Emerging Resonances," 21st Century
Museum of Contemporary Art, Kanazawa
Inaugural exhibition, Leeum, Samsung Museum of Modern Art, Seoul
"Why Not Live For Art?," Tokyo Opera City Art Gallery, Tokyo
"Standing on a Bridge," Arario Gallery, Cheonan, Korea
"Andererseits: Die Phantastik," Landesgalerie, Linz
Artes Mundi Prize, National Museum and Gallery, Cardiff
2003
"world rush_4 artists," National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
"Five: The Artsonje Collection," Artsonje Center, Seoul
"Girls Don't Cry," Parco Museum, Tokyo
"The Uncanny," Mendel Art Gallery, Saskatoon, Canada
2002
"Shape," 21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art, Kanazawa
"BINGO," Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac, Paris
"Fusion Cuisine," Deste Foundation, Athens
"Walk Around Time: Selections from the Permanent Collection," Walker Art Center, Minneapolis
"The Uncanny," Vancouver Art Galley, Vancouver | Edmonton Art Gallery, Edmonton
"My Reality: The Culture of Anime," Contemporary Arts Center, Cincinnati
2001
"Record All Over," 9th Biennale de l'Image en Mouvement, Musée d'art moderne et contemporain, Geneva
"ARS 01: Third Space," Kiasma Museum of Contemporary Art, Helsinki
"Egofugal," Curated by Yuko Hasegawa, 7th International Istanbul Biennial
"Connivence," Curated by Laurence Hazout-Dreyfus, 6th Biennale de Lyon
"The Collection of 21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art," 21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art, Kanazawa, Japan
"Body as Byte," Kunstmuseum Luzern, Luzern, Switzerland
"01.01.01: Art in Technological Times," San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco
"My Reality: The Culture of Anime," Des Moines Art Center, Des Moines | Brooklyn Museum of Art, New York
"Let's Entertain," Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg, Wolfsburg | Miami Art Museum, Miami
2000
"Au-delà du Spectacle," Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris
Shanghai Biennale, Curated by Toshio Shimizu and Hou Hanru, Shanghai Art Museum
media_city seoul, Curated by Barbara London and Jeremy Millar, Seoul Museum of Art, Seoul
"Lust Warande," De Oude Warande, Tilburg, organized by Fundament Foundation
"Air Air," Grimaldi Forum, Monaco
Echigo-Tsumari Art Triennial, Selected by Nancy Spector, Echigo-Tsumari, Japan
"Zeitwenden," Künstlerhaus Wien | Museum Moderner Kunst Stiftung Ludwig Wien
"Tourlou, tourlou," Melina Mercouri Art Space, Hydra, Greece
"Der anagrammatische Körper," Zentrum für Kunst und Medientechnologie, Karlsruhe, Germany
"La casa, il corpo, il cuore," National Gallery, Prague
"Continuum 001," Curated by Rebecca Gordon Nesbitt, Centre for Contemporary Arts, Glasgow
"Let's Entertain," Walker Art Center, Minneapolis | Portland Art Museum, Portland
"Slowness of Speed," Artsonje Center, Seoul
1999
"Zeitwenden," Kunstmuseum Bonn, Bonn
"Cities on the Move 7," Kiasma Museum of Contemporary Art, Helsinki
"Der anagrammatische Körper," Kunsthaus Muerz in cooperation with Neue Galerie Graz, Austria
"La casa, il corpo, il cuore," Museum Moderner Kunst Stiftung Ludwig Wien
"dAPERTutto," Curated by Harald Szeemann, 48th Venice Biennale
"Hot Air," Curated by Fumio Nanjo, Granship Center, Shizuoka, Japan
"Slowness of Speed," Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney
"Cities on the Move 5," Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Humblebæk, Denmark
"Cities on the Move 4," Hayward Gallery, London
1998
"Sarajevo 2000," Museum Moderner Kunst Stiftung Ludwig, Vienna
"Slowness of Speed," National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
"The Natural World," Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver
Hugo Boss Prize 1998, Guggenheim Museum SoHo, New York
"Cities on the Move 3," capc Musée d'art contemporain, Bordeaux
"Cities on the Move 2," P.S. 1 Contemporary Art Center, New York
"Traffic Jam," Büro Friedrich, Mitte, Berlin
"Cities on the Move," Curated by Hans-Ulrich Obrist and Hou Hanru, Secession, Vienna
1997
"Fast Forward," The Power Plant, Toronto
"L'autre," Curated by Harald Szeemann, 4th Biennale de Lyon
"619 KBB 75," Car installation project with Pipilotti Rist, Georgina Starr, and others, curated by Laurence Hazout, Paris and Berlin
1996
"Join Me!," Curated by Yuko Hasegawa, Spiral/Wacoal Art Center, Tokyo
"Arcos da Lapa," Public projection, Rio de Janeiro, organized by Laboratoire (Grenoble)
1995
"Information and Reality," Fruitmarket Gallery, Edinburgh
6th Triennale Kleinplastik, Curated by Lóránd Hegyi, Südwest LandesBank Forum, Stuttgart
"Korean Contemporary Art," 1st Gwangju Biennale, Gwangju, Korea
"New Asian Art," Japan Foundation, Tokyo
"Ssack," Artsonje Center, Seoul
"Body and Recognition," Korean Culture & Arts Foundation, Seoul
1994
"Technology, Environment & Information," Recycling Art Pavilion, Expo Science Park, Daejeon, Korea
Untitled installation and performance, Before Building, Myeong-dong, Seoul
"This Kind of Art–Dish Washing," Kumho Museum, Seoul
"Woman: The Difference and the Power," Hankuk Museum, Seoul and Yongin, Korea
"The Vision of the Next Generation," Seoul Arts Center, Seoul
1993
1st Asia-Pacific Triennial, Queensland Art Gallery, Brisbane, Australia
"Plastic Spring," Curated by Yongwoo Lee, Duk Won Gallery, Seoul
Conversation, Performance, Proto Theater, Tokyo
Impromptu Amusement, Performance, Kunitachi Art Hall, Tokyo
1992
Diet: Diagramming III, Performance, Sagak Gallery, Seoul
Year of Ears: Diagramming II, Performance, Live House Nanjang, Seoul
1991
"At the Forest of Chaos," Jahamoon Gallery, Seoul
"DMZ: Art and Cultural Movement," Seoul Arts Center
"Dish Washing," Sonamu Gallery, Seoul
"BIO," Space Ozone, Seoul
Interaction, Five-day performance with Chino Shuichi, Suwon Castle, Korea
1990
"Tokyo–Seoul Traffic," K Gallery, Tokyo
"Sunday Seoul," Sonamu Gallery, Seoul
Artoilet II, Performance, Space Theater, Seoul
Song of the Fish, Performance, Dong Soong Art Center, Seoul
Sorry for Suffering–You Think I'm a Puppy on a Picnic, Twelve-day performance beginning in Gimpo Airport, Korea, and continuing throughout various sites in Tokyo
1989
Cravings, Performance, National Museum of Contemporary Art, Seoul
Abortion, Performance, Dong Soong Art Center, Seoul
Korean Installation Art Festival, Total Art Museum and Sculpture Park, Jang Heung, Korea
1988
"U. A. O.," Renoir Art Hall, Seoul
"Anti-Idea," Total Art Museum, Seoul
"Point of View and Point in Time II," Batang Gol Gallery, Seoul
Hong Ik Sculpture Association Annual, Korean Culture & Arts Foundation, Seoul
1987
"Museum III," Soo Gallery, Seoul
"Print of Concept," P&P Gallery, Seoul
"Point of View and Point in Time," Batang Gol Gallery, Seoul
"Museum," Kwanhoon Gallery, Seoul