1955 Born in Seoul, Korea
Lives and works in Seoul
1980 Studied at Seoul National University ( B.F.A.)
1982 Seoul National University ,College of Fine Art (M.F.A.)
Solo Exhibitions
2007 Kim Foster Gallery, New York, NY
2007 PKM GALLERY , Seoul, Korea
2005 Kim Foster Gallery, New York, NY
2004 PKM GALLERY, Seoul
2003 Kim Forster Gallery, New York
2001 Kim Foster Gallery, New York
1999 Kukje Galery, Seoul
1997 Gallery Shilla, Teagu
1996 Gallery Bhak, Seoul
1996 Gallery Shilla, Teagu
1994 Seohwa Gallery, Seoul
1994 Gallery Bhak, Seoul
1994 Gallery Shilla, Teagu
1993 Icon Gallery, Seoul
1991 Jean Gallery, Seoul
1989 Soo Gallery, Seoul
1987 Fine Art Center, Seoul
1987 Kwanhoon Gallery, Seoul
1982 Total Gallery, Seoul
Selected Group Exhibitions
2007 Percept/scape-concept/scape, Gallery Lux, Seoul
2006 Terrain, Kim Foster Gallery, New York, NY
2006 Camera Work, City Museum of Art, Seoul
2006 Simply Beautiful, Centre PasquArt, Biel,Bienne
2005 'The Diversity Show' Credit Suisse First Boston, curated by Betty Levin, New York, NY.
2005 Le Flux, Galerie Lumen, Paris
2005 Cool & Warm, Sunggok Museum of Art, Seoul
2005 Echo Beyond the Time, Ewha University Museum, Seoul
2004 Painting That Paint Themselves, Kresge Art Museum, East Lansing, MI.
2004 Collectors Gallery, Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, NY
2002 Inaugural Exhibition curated by Robert C Morgan, Chelsea Art Museum, NY.
2002 The Fourth Kwang-Ju Biennial, Kwang-Ju, Korea
2002 'An Hors D'oveure,' Kim Foster Gallery, NY.
2001 'Black & White,' Kim Foster Gallery, NY.
2000 The Third Kwang-Ju Biennial', Kwang-Ju, Korea
1999 Nature, Parkyusook Gallery, Seoul, Korea
1999 'Three Friends,' Simon Gallery, Seoul, Korea
1999 'Seoul 80 - Sweet Lips,' Contemporary Art in Seoul, Korea
1998 'Spiritual- scapes,' Generous Miracles Gallery, New York
1997 'Paik Nam June, Moon Beom, Park Hyun-Ki, Chun Kwang-Young,' Kim Foster Gallery, NY
1996 'Window Display Project,' Gallery Hyundai, Seoul, Korea
1996 'Anachrome,' Gallery Seowha, Seoul, Korea
1996 'Install – Scape,' Taegu Center of Culture, Taegu, Korea
1995 Red Mill Gallery, VSC, Vermont
1995 'Seoul 80 – Intertextuality, Speed,' Gaain Gallery, Seoul, Korea
1995 'Information & Reality, Korean Contemporary Art,' Fruitmarket gallery, Edinburgh
1995 'Fusing Cement in Art,' Sunggok Museum of Art, Seoul, Korea
1994 'Logos & Pathos,' Kwanhoon Gallery, Seoul
1993 'Contemporary-Communication Art,' Galerie Bhak, Seoul, Korea
1992 'Informel après Informel,' Chosunilbo Gallery, Seoul, Korea
1991 'Korean Contemporary Art,' Sonjae Museum of Contemporary Art, Kyungju, Korea
1990 'Nineties Artists of Korea,' City Museum, Seoul
1989 'Kim Yong-Ik, Moon Beom, Hong Myung-Sup,' Space Gallery, Seoul, Korea
1988 'Korean Contemporary Painting,' National Museum of History, Taipei
1987 'Tail of Elephant,' Kanagawa Gallery, Yokohama, Japan
1986 'Korean Art – Old and New,' City Hall, Kyoto, Japan
1985 'Seoul 16 Young Artists,' Kwanhoon Gallery, Seoul, Korea
1984 'Korean Art Now,' City Museum, Taipei
1983 'Contemporary Paper Works, Korea and Japan,' City Museum, Kyoto, Japan
1983 'Korea New Paper Works,' Spring Gallery, Taipei
1983 'Three Korean Artists in L.A.,' Artcore Gallery, Los Angeles
1982 'After Logicalness,' Su Gallery, Taegu, Korea
1982 'Common Sense, Susceptibility, Symptom,' Kwanghoon Gallery, Seoul, Korea
1981 '32e Salon de Jeune Peintre & Expression,' Grand Palais, Paris
1981 'Seoul 80 – Objecthood,' Space Gallery, Seoul, Korea
1981 'Seoul 80 – Work by Screen,' Dongduk Gallery, Seoul, Korea
1981 'Seoul 80 –Report on Masters,' Space Gallery, Seoul, Korea
1980 'Seoul 80 –Work with Photo,' Space Gallery, Seoul, Korea
1979 'Performance "The Thing which to See,"' Naengchun Valley, Taegu, Korea
1978 'Performance "See & Look,"' Naktong River, Taegu, Korea
Fellowship Program
1995 Vermont Studio Center(Johnson,VT.), sponsored by Freeman Foundation
1992 The Millay Colony for the Arts(Austerlitz,NY.), sponsored by Mid-America Art Alliance and USIA
Public Collection
National Museum of Contemporary Art, Seoul, Korea
Sonjae Museum of Contemporary Art, Kyungju, Korea
Samsung Museum of Modern Art, Seoul
Hoam Gallery, Seoul, Korea
Sunggok Museum of Art, Seoul, Korea
Kumho Museum of Art, Seoul, Korea
Posco Center, Seoul, Korea
STAR Tower, Seoul
Tower Palace, Seoul
Selected Bibliography
Art in America, review by Jonathan Goodmann, March, 2008
Catalogue for exhibition at PKM GALLERY with essay by Richard Vine 2004
Art Press, review by Robert C. Morgan, Sept 2003
Tema Celeste Contemporary Art, "Concepts by hand," review by Robert C. Morgan, Jan./Feb. 2002
Art in America, "Moon Beom at Kim Foster" review by Richard Vine, December, 2001
Art Forum, "Moon Beom: Kim Foster Gallery" review by Barry Schwabsky, May, 2001
Sculpture, "The Globalized Artist in the New Millennium" review by Robert C. Morgan, October 2000
The End of the Art World, by Robert C. Morgan, p, 46-47, Allworth Press, 1999
Catalogue for exhibition at Kukje Gallery, essay by Park Kyung-mee, May 1999, Korea
Korean Art Magazine Wolganmissol, review by Song Mi-Sook, April 1999, Korea
Flash Art, review by Grady T. Turner, Jan/Feb. 1998, Italy
Time Out, review by Martha Schwendener, July 31, 1997, New York
Review, review by Robert C. Morgan, 1997, New York
Gallery Shilla Feature, review by You Phila, November 1996, Korea
Korean Art Magazine Wolganmissol, review by Kim Hong-Hee, August 1995, Korea
Art Vivant, essay by Lee Yong-Woo, vol. 39, 1995, Korea
Korean Art Magazine Gana Art, review by Kim Hyun-Do, December 1994, Korea
Korean Art Magazine Wolganmissol, review by Song Mi-Sook, October 1994, Korea
Korean Art Magazine Space, review by Lee Yong-Woo, April 1994, Korea
Korean Art Magazine Wolganmissol, review by Park Jung-Ki, April 1993, Korea
Catalogue for exhibition at Icon Gallery, essay by Yoon Nan-Ji, 1993, Korea
Korean Art Magazine Wolganmissol, review by Lim Du-Bin, October 1989, Korea