1966 Born in Ithaca, N.Y.
Lives and works in New York, N.Y.
1986-88 Wesleyan University, Middletown, Conn.
1989 BFA, Washington University, St. Louis, Mo.
1991 MFA, Yale School of Art, Yale University, New Haven, Conn.
Solo Exhibitions
2008 PKM GALLERY, Seoul, Korea (upcoming)
2008 Circannual Rhythm, Anchorage Museum of History and Art, Anchorage, Alaska
2006 Michael Joo, Rodin Gallery, Seoul, Korea
2005 Anton Kern Gallery, New York, N.Y.
2005 Bodhi Obfuscatus (Space-Baby), Asia Society, New York, N.Y.
2005 Still Lives, The Bohen Foundation, New York, N.Y.
2004 Michael Joo, Palm Beach Institute for Contemporary Art, Lake Worth, Fla.
2003 Michael Joo, MIT List Visual Art Center, Cambridge, Mass.
2002 Anton Kern Gallery, New York, N.Y.
2002 Curti/Gambuzzi & Co., Milan, Italy
2002 PKM GALLERY, Seoul, Korea
2001 49th Venice Biennale, South Korean Pavilion, Venice, Italy
1999 Anton Kern Gallery, New York, N.Y.
1998 White Cube, London, United Kingdom
1997 Anton Kern Gallery, New York, N.Y.
1996 Thomas Nordanstad Gallery, New York, N.Y.
1995 Crash, Anthony D'Offay Gallery, London, United Kingdom
1995 Galerie Anne de Villepoix, Paris, France
1995 Nature vs. Nature at the Glass Ceiling, Stedelijk Museum Bureau Amsterdam, Amsterdam, The Netherlands (with Christiaan Bastiaans)
1995 Thomas Nordanstad Gallery, New York, N.Y.
1994 Salt Transfer Cycle, Thomas Nordanstad Gallery, in collaboration with Petzel/Borgmann Gallery, New York, N.Y.
1992 The Artifice of Expenditure, Nordanstad-Skarstedt Gallery, New York, N.Y.
Selected Group Exhibitions
2008 NeoHoodoo : Art for a Forgotten Faith, The Menil Collection, Houston, Texas (Summer) ;
P.S. 1 Contemporary Art Center, Long Island City, New York (Winter)
2008 ReAsia, Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin, Germany
2008 Red, Sotheby's, New York, N.Y.
2007 New York States of Mind, Queens Museum of Art, Queens, N.Y.
2007 Shangri-la, Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin, Germany
2007 Timer 01/Intimita/Intimacy, Triennale Bovisa, Milano
2007 Post Object, Doris McCarthy Gallery, University of Toronto, Ontario, Canada
2006 In The Darkest Hour There Will Be Light, Serpentine Gallery, London, United Kingdom
2006 6th Gwangju Biennale2006, Gwangju, Korea
2006 Eretica, Palazzo Sant' Anna, Palermo, Italy
2006 RADAR: Selections From The Collection of Vicki and Kent Logan, Denver Art Museum,
Denver, Colo.
2005 Artwalk NY, Sotheby's, New York, N.Y.
2005 Monuments For The USA, CCA Wattis Institute For Contemporary Arts, San Francisco, CA ;
White Columns, New York, N.Y.
2005 This Must Be The Place, Center For Curatorial Studies, Bard College
2004 Art Basel 04 (film/video), Basel, Switzerland
2004 Field, Socrates Sculpture Park, curated by Alyson Baker, Long Island City, N.Y.
2004 Needful Things: Recent Multiples, Cleveland Museum, Cleveland, Oh.
2004 Standing on a Bridge, Arario Gallery, Cheonan, South Korea
2003 Black Belt, The Studio Museum in Harlem, New York, N.Y.
; Santa Monica Museum of Art
2003 Commodification of Buddhism, The Bronx Museum of the Arts, Bronx, N.Y.
2003 Full Frontal, Contemporary Asian Artists from the Logan Collection, Denver Art Museum,
Denver, Colo.
2003 Paradise/Paradox, Castle Gallery, The College of New Rochelle, N.Y.
2003 Short Cuts: Video Art and Photography, The Israel Museum, Jerusalem, Israel
2002 Black Mariah Film Festival, Jersey City, N.J.
2002 It's Unfair!, Museum de Paviljoens, Almere, The Netherlands
2002 Manifeste, oder: Ergriffenheit–was ist das?, Galerie Daniel Blau, Munich, Germany
2002 The Mind is a Horse, Bloomberg Space, London, United Kingdom
2001 A Contemporary Cabinet of Curiosities, Selections from the Vicki and Kent Logan Collection, California College of Arts and Crafts, Oakland, Calif.
2001 Translated Acts, Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin, Germany; Queens Museum of Art, Queens, N.Y.
2000 Drawings 2000, Barbara Gladstone Gallery, New York, N.Y.
2000 Juvenilia, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco, Calif.
2000 Koreamericakorea, Artsonje Center, Seoul, South Korea; Sonje Museum, Kyungju, South Korea
2000 The Korean War and American Art: Fifty Years Later, Guild Hall Museum, East Hampton, N.Y.
2000 Media_City Seoul 2000, National Historical Museum, Seoul, South Korea
2000 Psycho, Art and Anatomy, Anne Faggianto Fine Art, London, United Kingdom
2000 Whitney Biennial 2000, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, N.Y.
1998 Matthew McCaslin, Susan Etkin, Michael Joo, PS.1 Contemporary Art Center, Long Island City, New York, N.Y.
1998 Nine International Artists at Wanås, Wanås Foundation, Knislinge, Sweden
1998 Selections from the Permanent Collection, Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, Minn.
1997 2nd Johannesburg Biennial 1997, Museum of Africa, Johannesburg, South Africa
1997 Art in the Anchorage, Creative Time, Brooklyn Bridge Anchorage, Brooklyn, N.Y.
1997 Techno-Seduction, Cooper Union School of Art, New York, N.Y.
1997 Transmission, L´Ecole des Beaux Arts Galerie, Paris, France
1996 Against, Anthony D'Offay Gallery, London, United Kingdom
1996 Joo, Sheward & White, Wigram, The Post Office, London, United Kingdom
1996 Patrick Painter Editions, Bloom Gallery, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
1996 Urban Structures, Kunsthalle, Munich, Germany
1995 La Belle et la Bête, (Beauty and the Beast), Musée d'Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, France (ARC), Paris, France
1995 Better Living Through Chemistry, Randolph Street Gallery, Chicago, Ill.
1995 Configura 2: Dialog der Kulturen, Erfurt, Germany
1995 Institute of Cultural Anxiety, Institute of Contemporary Art, London, United Kingdom
1995 Kwangju Biennale, Kwangju Contemporary Museum, Kwangju, South Korea
1994 Crash, Thread Waxing Space, New York, N.Y.
1994 Drawing on Sculpture, Cohen Gallery, New York, N.Y.
1994 Some Went Mad, Some Ran Away, Serpentine Gallery, London, United Kingdom; Nordic Arts Centre, Helsinki, Finland; Kunstverein, Hannover, Germany; Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, Ill.; Portalen, Copenhagen, Denmark
1993 Across the Pacific, Queens Museum of Art, Queens, N.Y.; Kumho Museum, Seoul, South Korea
1993 Aperto-93, 45th Venice Biennale, Venice, Italy
1993 Changing I: Dense Cities, Shedhalle, Zurich, Switzerland
1993 The Final Frontier, New Museum for Contemporary Art, New York, N.Y.
Awards
2006 United States Artists Fellowship
2006 Grand Prize, 6th Gwangju Biennale 2006 (with co-recipient Song Dong)
2003 American Center Foundation Grant
2002 LEF Foundation
2001 Warhol Foundation Grant
2000 Joan Mitchell Foundation Painters' and Sculptors' Grant
1998 John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowship
Residencies
2007 Anchorage Museum at Rasmuson Center Artist in Residence (multi-year)
2006 Acadia Summer Arts Program, Mt. Desert, Maine
1998 International Artists Studio Program in Sweden (IASPIS), Stockholm, Sweden
1996-97 Delfina Studio Trust, London, United Kingdom
1995 Royal Academy of Art, Stockholm, Sweden
1994 Royal Academy of Art, Copenhagen, Denmark
1990 Cite International Des Arts, Paris, France
Collections
Denver Art Museum, Denver, Colo.
FNAC (Foundation National d'Art Contemporain), Paris, France
Guggenheim Museum, New York, N.Y.
Henry Art Gallery, Seattle, Wash.
The Israel Museum, Jerusalem, Israel
MIT List Visual Arts Center, Cambridge, Mass.
Moderna Museet, Stockholm, Sweden
Museum of Modern Art, New York, N.Y.
Samsung Foundation for Art and Culture, Seoul, Korea
UCLA Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, Calif.
Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, Minn.