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Lee Ufan (b. 1936)
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An artist and a philosopher, Lee Ufan is one of the founding members of Mono-ha, a movement largely defined by the artist's seminal texts from the late 1960s. Not only did Lee act as a vital conduit between the Korean and Japanese art scenes after his move to Japan in 1956, but was a pivotal figure who introduced Dansaekhwa to a wider international audience from these two countries. The artist's From Point and From Line series in particular, which Lee began in the early 1970s, established many profound connections to the principles of the Dansaekhwa movement. Lee's critically acclaimed body of work, which includes the aforementioned From Point and From Line series, explores themes of gesture and the connection between mark-making and the medium of paint itself. Such abiding interest is grounded in Lee's early studies in traditional calligraphy, which proved to have been a fundamental experiment in the discipline of repeatedly drawing single lines and frames the artist's fundamental investigation into the act of painting.
Lee Ufan was a professor at Tama Art University in Tokyo from 1973 through 2007; he is currently the emeritus professor at the same university. Lee’s work has been exhibited in many solo and group exhibitions in major institutions around the world including the Royal Museum of Fine Arts, Brussels, Yokohama Museum of Art, Palazzo Grassi, Venice, and the Museum of Modern Art, New York. Lee was the focus of a major sculpture exhibition held at the Château de Versailles (2014), along with his retrospective Lee Ufan: Marking Infinity organized by the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York (2011). He has also been widely exhibited in group exhibitions including When Process becomes Form: Dansaekhwa and Korean Abstraction in collaboration with the Boghossian Foundation, Brussels (2016), Dansaekhwa, an official Collateral Event in the 56th Venice Biennale (2015), Working with Nature: Traditional Thought in Contemporary Art form Korea at Tate Liverpool (1992), the 12th Bienal de São Paulo (1973), the 7th Biennale de Paris (1971), the 10th Bienal de São Paulo (1969), and the 4th Biennale de Paris (1965).

Lee Ufan

Born in 1936, Haman, Korea
Lives and works in Kamakura, Japan and Paris, France

Education

1961     Nihon University with Bachelor’s in Philosophy, Tokyo, Japan
1956     Dropped out from B.F.A. Oriental Painting, Seoul National University, Seoul, Korea

Selected Solo Exhibitions

2021
Lee Ufan, Pace Gallery, East Hampton, New York, US
Lee Ufan: Requiem, Alyscamps, Arles, France

2020                
Lee Ufan. Inhabiting time, SCAI The Bathhouse, Tokyo, Japan

2019                
Lee Ufan. Inhanbiting time, Centre Pompidou-Metz, Metz, France
Lee Ufan: Dialogue With Materials, Tokyo Opera City Art Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
Lee Ufan: From Point, From Line: 1976 - 1982, Galerie Kamel Mennour, Paris, France
Lee Ufan: Open Dimension, Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture garden, Washington D.C., US
Lee Ufan, Dia: Beacon, New York, US (Long-term view)

2018                   
Serpentine Galleries, London, UK
PACE Gallery, New York, US

2017                   
Ceramics, PACE Gallery, New York, US
Centre de Création Contemporaine Olivier Debré, Tours, France
Couvent de La Tourette, Éveux, France
Lee Ufan: The Ha Jung-Woong Museum of Art’s Inaugural Exhibition, Gwangju Museum of Art, Gwangju, Korea

2016                            
Sculpture in the Courtyard: Lee Ufan. The Cane of Titan, State Hermitage Museum, St. Petersburg, Russia
Lee Ufan, Château la Coste, Le Puy-Sainte-Réparade, France
Manufacture Nationale de Sèvres, France
Castello Di Ama, Siena, Italy
Lee Ufan, Kamel Mennour Gallery, Paris, France

2015                
Lisson Gallery, London, UK
Busan Museum of Art, Busan, Korea
Palazzo Contarini-Polignac, Venice, Italy
Pace Gallery, New York, US/ London, UK/ Hong Kong

2014                
Palace of Versailles, Versailles, France
Kaikai Kiki Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
Tatintsian Gallery, Moscow, Russia

2013                
Le Capitole, Arles, France
Galerie Kamel Mennour, Paris, France
Musée de la Chasse et de la Nature, Paris, France

2012                
Asia Society, Houston, US

2011                
Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac, Salzburg, Austria
Guggenheim Museum, New York, US
SCAI The Bathhouse, Tokyo, Japan
Gallery Hyundai, Seoul, Korea

2010                
Blum & Poe, Los Angeles, US
Galeria Elvira Gonzàlez, Madrid, Spain

2009                
Kukje Gallery, Seoul, Korea
Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac, Paris, France

2008                
The Royal Museum of Fine Arts of Belgium, Brussels, Belgium
Dahlem Museum, Berlin, Germany
Tokyo Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
Pace Wildenstein, New York, US
Lisson Gallery, London, UK

2007                
Galerie Nächst St. Stephan, Vienna, Austria
52nd La Biennale di Venezia, palazzo Palumbo Fossati, Venice, Italy

2006                
GalerieMichelineSzwajcer, Antwerp, Belgium
IBU Gallery, Paris, France
Galerie m, Bochum, Germany
Konggan Gallery, Busan, Korea
Gallery Muramatsu, Tokyo, Japan
Shirota Gallery, Tokyo, Japan

2005                
Yokohama Museum of Art, Yokohama, Japan
Musée d’Art Moderne, Saint-Etienne, France

2004                
Musée St.Louis Fernet Branca, Saint-Louise, France
Lisson Gallery, London, UK

2003                
Samsung Museum of Contemporary Art, Seoul, Korea
Gallery Hyundai, Seoul, Korea

2002                
SCAI The Bathhouse, Tokyo, Japan

2001                
Kunstmuseum Bonn, Germany
Shirota Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
Sigong Gallery, Taegoo, Korea
Konggan Gallery, Busan, Korea

2000          
Galerie m, Bochum, Germany
Konggan Gallery, Busan, Korea

1999                
Liliane& Michel Durand-Dessert, Paris, France
Kamakura Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
Tokyo Gallery, Tokyo, Japan

1998                
Städtisches Museum im STÄDEL, Frankfurt, Germany
Mitaka City Gallery of Art, Nigata City Art Museum, Japan
Sigong Gallery, Daegu, Korea
Shirota Gallery, Tokyo, Japan

1997                
Gallery Bhak, Seoul, Korea
Gallery Hyundai, Seoul, Korea
Space Shimoda, Tokyo, Japan
GaleireNationale du Jeu de Paume, Paris, France
Lorenzelli Arte, Milano, Italy

1996            
Lisson Gallery, London, UK
Tokyo Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
Konggan Gallery, Busan,  Korea
Galerie J. Moussion, Paris, France

1995                
Städtisches Museum Leverkusen, Germany
Galerie m, Bochum, Germany
Inkong Gallery, Seoul, Korea
Tokyo Gallery, Tokyo, Japan

1994             
FondazioneMudima, Milano, Italy
The National Museum of Contemporary Art, Seoul, Korea

1993                
The Museum of Modern Art Kamakura, Japan
Shirota Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
Tokyo G1995, Galerie de Paris, Paris,France

1992                
Konggan Gallery, Busan, Korea
Galerie de Paris, Paris, France

1991                
Hara Museum ARC, Japan
Lorenzelli Arte, Milano, Italy
Gallery Ueda, Tokyo, Japan
Tokyo Gallery, Tokyo, Japan

1990                
Inkong Gallery, Seoul, Korea
Gallery Hyundai, Seoul, Korea
Kamakura Gallery, Tokyo, Japan

1989                
Galerie m, Bochum, Germany
Gallery Ueda, Tokyo, Japan
Tokyo Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
Shirota Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
Galerie de Paris, Paris, France

1988                
The Museum of Fine Arts, Gifu, Japan
Galerie Anselm Dreher, Berlin, Germany
PadiglioneD’ArteContemporanea, Milano, Italy

1987                
Gallery Hyundai, Seoul, Korea

1986                
Galerie de Paris, Paris, France
Gallery Ueda, Tokyo, Japan
Shirota Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
Tokyo Gallery, Tokyo, Japan

1985           
Kamakura Gallery, Tokyo, Japan

1984                
Galerie de Paris, Paris, France
Shirota Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
Gallery Hyundai, Seoul, Korea

1983                
Tokyo Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
Gallery Ueda, Tokyo, Japan

1982                
Studio Marconi, Milano, Italy

1981          
Shirota Gallery, Tokyo, Japan

1980                
Galerie Eric Fabre, Paris, France
Gallery Ueda, Tokyo, Japan
Tokyo Gallery, Tokyo, Japan

1979                
Jin Gallery, Seoul, Korea
Marl Sculpture Museum, Germany
Gallery Takagi, Nagoya, Japan
Gallery Muramatsu, Tokyo, Japan

1978                
Galerie m, Bochum, Germany
Düsseldorf Kunsthalle, Düsseldorf, Germany
Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Denmark
The Antwerp Gallery, Antwerp, Germany
Shirota Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
Gallery Hyundai, Seoul, Korea

1977           
Galerie Eric Fabre, Paris, France
Tokyo Gallery, Tokyo, Japan

1976           
Galerie m, Bochum, Germany
Gallery Spectrum, Antwerp, Germany

1975            
Galerie Eric Fabre, Paris, France

1974           
Tamura Gallery, Tokyo, Japan

1973           
Tokyo Gallery, Tokyo, Japan

1972                
Myong-Dong Gallery, Seoul, Korea

1971                
Pinar Gallery, Tokyo, Japan

1970            
Tamura Gallery, Tokyo, Japan

1967                
Sato Gallery, Tokyo, Japan

Selected Group Exhibitions

2022
Now and Then : 1992 - Present, Gallery Shilla, Daegu, Korea

2021
Resonance, Horim Museum, Seoul, Korea
Abstraction and Calligraphy − Towards a Universal Language, Louvre Abu Dhabi, Abu Dhabi, UAE 
Afterglow Spirit, Museum SAN, Wonju, Korea
Ink Dreams: Selections from the Fondation INK Collection, Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA), Los Angeles, US 
MMCA Collection Exhibition: Meaningful Moments in the History of Korean Art, Jeongeup Museum of Art, Korea
Silence, Pace Gallery, Geneva, Switzerland
Modern Life, Daegu Art Museum, Daegu, Korea
Obayashi Collection: Self-History, WHAT Museum, Tokyo, Japan

2020       
NGV Triennial 2020, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, Australia            
Art Plant Asia 2020: Hare Way Object, Deoksugung Palace, Seoul, Korea
Hyundai 50, Gallery Hyundai, Seoul, Korea
The Modern and Contemporary Korean Writing, National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Deoksugung, Seoul, Korea
Stars: Six Contemporary Artists from Japan to the World, Mori Art Museum, Tokyo, Japan
The Eastern Gesture: Five Voices from the Korean Avant-Garde, Dep Art, Milan, Italy
Photographic Images and Matter: Japanese Prints of the 1970s (travelling exhibition), St. Petersburg Repin State Academic Institute of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture of Russian Academy of Arts, Saint-Petersburg; The Volgograd Museum of Fine Arts named after I. Mashikov, Volgograd, Russia
Tokyo Gallery 70th Anniversary (Part 2), Tokyo Gallery + BTAP, Tokyo, Japan

2019                   
Landlord Colors: On Art, Economy, and Materiality, Cranbrook Art Museum, Bloomfield Hills, US
Light Profoundness: The Worldlet of East Asian Artists, HIVE Center for Contemporary Art, Beijing, China
2019 Asian Art Biennial: The Strangers From Beyond The Mountain And The Sea, National Taiwan Museum of Fine Arts, Taichung, Taiwan
Silent Beauty, Ateneum Art Museum , Helsinki, Finland
Upcoming The Nature Rules: Dreaming of Earth Project, Hara Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo, Japan
Yves Klein, Lee Ufan, Ding Yi: The Challenging Souls, Power Station of Art, Shanghai, China
Minimalism: Space. Light. Object., ArtScience Museum – National Gallery Singapore, Singapore
Photographic Images and Matter: Japanese Prints of the 1970s (travelling exhibition), The Japan Cultural Institute in Cologne, Cologne, Germany; Palace of Culture, Algiers, Algeria; International Centre of Graphic Arts, Ljubljana, Slovenia

2018
Powerlong Museum, Shanghai, China
Art and Space, Guggenheim Bilbao, Bilbao, Spain
The Myriad Forms of Visual Art: 196 Works with 19 Themes, National Museum of Art, Osaka, Japan
Photographic Images and Matter: Japanese Prints of the 1970s (travelling exhibition), The National Art Museum of the Republic of Belarus, Minsk, Belarus; Estonian Film Museum, Tallinn, Estonia

2017                   
Arts of Korea, Brooklyn Museum, New York, US
Unpacked: Contemporary Works from Private Collections of Northern California, Museums of Sonoma County, Santa Rosa, US
Everything at Once, Lisson Gallery, London, UK
Japanorama. Nouveau regard sur la création contemporaine, Centre Pompisou-Metz, France
Couvent de la Tourette, Associated exhibition of 14th Biennale de Lyon, Lyon, France
Korean Dansaekhwa, Erarta Museum of Contemporary Art, St.Peterburg, Russia
Rhythm in Monochrome: Korean Abstract Painting, Tokyo Opera City Art Gallery, Tokyo
Looking into Korean Art II: Dansaekhwa, Museum San, Wonju, Korea
Photographic Images and Matter: Japanese Prints of the 1970s (travelling exhibition), Victoria Memorial Hall, Kolkata, India

2016                   
When Process Becomes Form: Dansaekhwa and Korean Abstraction, Boghossian Foundation, Brussels, Belgium
Dansaekhwa & Minimalism, Blum & Poe, Los Angeles/ New York, US
Reminiscing on Past Times…, Youngeun Museum of Contemporary Art, Gwangju The Earth, Fire and Spirit, Grand Palais, Paris, France
Dansaekhwa, PIASA, Paris, France
After Drawing, Gallery Hyundai, Seoul, Korea

2015                
Drawings: Bourgeois, Hesse, Molnar, Renouf, Ufan, Senior & Shopmaker Gallery, New York, US
Simple Forms: Contemplating Beauty, Mori Art Museum, Tokyo, Japan
Mono-Ha: Works on Paper, Beijing Tokyo Art Projects, Tokyo, Japan
Dansaekhwa as part of the Collateral Events of the 56^th Venice Biennale, Palazzo Contarini-Polignac, Venice, Italy
Avant Garde Asia: Lines of Korean Masters, Sotheby’s, Hong Kong
Enrico Castellani and Lee Ufan: Surgaces et Correspondences, Lorenzelli Arte, Milan, Italy
Korean Abstract Painting: 45th Anniversary of Gallery Hyundai, Gallery Hyundai, Seoul, Korea

2014                
The Art of Dansaekhwa, Kukje Gallery, Seoul, Korea
From All Sides: Tansaekhwa on Abstraction, Blum & Poe, Los Angeles, US
Formes Simples, Centre Pompidou-Metz, France
Genius Loci (Spirit of Place), Palazzo Franchetti, Venice, Italy
Korean Beauty: Two Kinds of Nature, Seoul Museum of the National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Seoul, Korea
Other Primary Structures: Others 2, Jewish Museum, New York, US

2013                
Tension précaire, Capelle Saint-Laurent-Le Capitole, Arles, France
Paradise, Pace Gallery, New York, US
Takashi Collection: Mindfulness!, Kirishima Open-Air Museum, Kagoshima, Japan
Prima Materia, Punta della Dogana, Venice, Italy
Tokyo 1955–1970: A New Avant-Garde, Museum of Modern Art, New York, US
Mingei: Are You Here?, Pace London, London, UK

2012                
Requiem for the Sun: The Art of Mono-ha, Blum & Poe, Los Angeles, US
Requiem for the Sun: The Art of Mono-ha, Gladstone Gallery, New York, US
Tokyo 1955–1970: A New Avant-Garde, Museum of Modern Art, New York, US

2011                   
The World Belongs to You, 54th Venice Biennale, Palazzo Grassi, Venice, Italy
PERSONAL STRUCTURES, 54th Venice Biennale, Palazzo Bembo, Venice, Italy

2010                
Essential Experience, RISO Galleria Regionaledella Sicilia, Sicilia, Italy

2009                
Infinitum, Palazzo Fortuny, Venice, Italy
Qui a peur des artistes?, François Pinault Collection, Palais des Arts, Dinard, France
Essential Experience, RISO Galleria Regionale della Sicilia, Sicilia, Italy

2008                
Sensitive Systems, Hakgojae Gallery, Seoul, Korea
The Thin Shadow Line, Fondazione Mudima, Milan, Italy
SOTTO VOCE, Yvon Lambert, New York, US
1^st Poznan Biennale, Poland

2007                
Elastic Taboos, Kunsthalle, Wien, Austria
Living in the Material World: Things in Art of the 20th Century and Beyond, The National Art Center, Tokyo, Japan
L’art de Monet etsaPostérité, The National Art Center, Tokyo, Japan
Micro-Narrative, Beograd, Serbia

2006                
La force de l’art, Grand Palais, Paris, France
Gwangju Biennale, Gwangju, Korea
Shelter, National Galerie, Berlin, Germany

2005                
Reconsidering Mono-ha, The National Museum of Art, Osaka, Japan

2004                
Limpa – Ecole de Limpa, The National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo, Japan
L’art au futurantérieur 1975-2004, Musée du Grenoble, Grenoble, France

2003                
Happiness, Mori Art Museum, Tokyo, Japan

2002                
The Pacific Triennale, Queensland Art Gallery Brisbane, Australia

2002                
Les années 70 l’arten cause, CAPC Muséed’ArtContemporain, Bordeaux, France

2001                
Century City, Tate Modern, London, UK
Mono-ha – School of Things, Museum of Kettle’s Yard, Cambridge, Newlyn Art Gallery, Newlyn, UK
Le Tribú dell Arte, Galleria Comunaled’ArteModerna e contemporanea, Rome, Italy
Ikiro-Be Alive, Kröller-Müller Museum, Otterlo, The Netherlands

2000                
Gwangju Biennale, Gwangju, Korea
Shanghai Biennale (awarded prize UNESCO), Shanghai, China
Bernard Frize, Katharina Grosse and Lee Ufan, Galerie Monika Reitz, Frankfurt, Germany


1999                
Kunstweltenim Dialog, Museum Ludwig, Köln, Germany

1998                
SARAJEBO 2000, Museum Moderna Kunst Stiftung Ludwig, Wien, Austria
Contemporary Art of Korea-Time, Ho-am Art Gallery, Seoul, Korea
Korean Monochromism, Busan Metropolitan Art Museum, Busan, Korea

1997                
Made in France, Musée National d’ArtModerne, Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, France

1996                
Japon 1970 Mono-ha, Musée d’art Moderne, Saint-Etienne, France
Projet 8, Total Contemporary Art Museum, Seoul, Korea
Small Truths, John Hansard Gallery, Southampton, UK

1995           
Mono- ha, The Museum of Fine Art Gifu, Gifu, Japan
ASIANA-Monoha, Palazzo Vendramin, Venice, Italy
Joongang Biennale, Ho-am Art Gallery, Seoul, Korea

1994                
Scream Against the Sky, Guggenheims Soho Museum, New York, US
Postwar Art in Japan, Yokohama Museum of Art, Yokohama, Japan

1993                
Spiritual in Art, Fukuyama Museum of Art, Fukuyama, Japan

1992                
Contemporary Art from Korea, Tate Gallery, Liverpool, UK
Seven Artists of Japan, Nagoya City Art Museum, Nagoya, Japan
Avand Guardie Giapponesi Degli Anni 70, Galleria D’ArteModernaComune di Bologna, Bologna, Italy

1991 – 1992    
Aspects of Contemporary Japanese Art, Santa Monica Museum of Art, California/ Portland Art Museum, Portland/ Oregon Art Institute, Oregon/ Museo Rufino Tamayo, Mexico/ Contemporary Art Center, New Orleans, US

1990                
Blau, Heidelberger Kunst museum, Heidelberg, Germany
Minimal Art, National Museum of Art, Osaka, Japan

1989                
Croisement des Signes, Institut du Monde Arabe, Paris, France
Biennale Middelheim Japan, Middelheim Open-Air Museum, Antwerp, Belgium
Japan 1989, Museum van HedendaagseKunst, Gent, Belgium
Effets de Mirror, Bibliothèque Louis-Aragon, Choisy, France

1988                
Monoha, Museo Labatorio di Arte Contemporanea, Rome, Italy
Symposium of Olympic Sculpture, Seoul, Korea

1987                
Mono-ha and Post Mono-ha, Seibu Museum of Art, Tokyo, Japan
Painting 1977-87, National Museum of Art, Osaka, Japan
Le Japon des Avant-Gardes, Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, France

1986                
Seoul-Paris, Centre National des Arts Plastiques, Paris, France
Mono-ha, Kamakura Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
Contemporary Japanese Calligraphy and Painting, Galerie Nationale de Prague, Czech Republic
Le Japon des Avant-Gardes, Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, France

1985                
40 Years of Japanese Contemporary Art, Tokyo Metropolitan Art Museum, Tokyo, Japan
Ecole de Seoul, Seoul, Korea

1984                
Wiesbaderner Skulpturentage, Germany
Trends of Contemporary Japanese Art, Tokyo Metropolitan Art Museum, Tokyo, Japan

1983                
ARS 83 Helsinki, Finland
M. Kawabata, Lee Ufan and Y.Saito Exhibition, Juda Rowan Gallery, London, UK

1982                
Meister der Zeichnung, Kunsthalle Nürnberg, Germany
Material Gets Art, Berlin National Galerie, Berlin, Germany
Japanese Contemporary Art Exhibition, Camden Arts Center, London, UK

1980                
Skulptur im 20 Jahrhundert, Basel, Switzerland
Contemporary Art in Japan, Museum of Modern Art, Stockholm, Sweden

1979                
11^th International Prints Biennale in Tokyo (Awarded prize of National Museum of Modern Art), Kyoto, Japan
1^st Henry Moore Grand Prize Exhibition, Hakone Open-Air Museum (Awarded Superlative Prize), Kanagawa, Japan

1978                
Z. B. Sculpture, Städtisches Museum im STÄDEL, Frankfurt, Germany
Focus 78, Centre Culturel du Marais, Paris, France

1977                
13^th Contemporary Art Exhibition of Japan, Awarded prize of The National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo, Japan
Kassel Documenta 6, Germany
Drawing 5 Artists, Minami Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
100 Prints Acquisitions 1973-1976, Museum of Modern Art, New York, US

1976                
2^nd Sydney Biennale, Sydney, Australia
Ecole de Seoul, Seoul, Korea
Cagnes-Sur-Mer, International Painting Fair, France

1975                
3^rd Triennale India, National Academy of Art, New Delhi, India
Contemporary Art of Japan, Museum of Letevorg, Stockholm, Sweden
Contemporary Art of Japan, Sonja Henle-Niels Onstad Museum, Oslo, Norway

1974                
Japan Traditional Gegenwart, StädtischesKunsthalle, Düsseldorf, Germany
Japanese Art in Louisiana, Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Humlebæk, Denmark

1973                
São Paulo Biennale, São Paulo, Brazil
11^th Contemporary Art Exhibition : A Retrospective 20 Years of Contemporary Japanese Art, Tokyo and Kyoto, Japan

1972                
2^nd Seoul Prints Biennale, Seoul, Korea
Napoli International Exhibition, Napoli, Italy
7^th, 8^th International Prints Biennale in Tokyo, Japan

1971                
7^th Paris Biennale, Paris, France

1970         
7^th, 8^th International Prints Biennale in Tokyo, Japan
Mono- ha, Museum of Fine Art Gifu, Japan
Aspects of New Japanese Art, National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo, Japan

1969                
Trends in Contemporary Art, National Museum of Modern Art, Kyoto, Japan
5th International Young Artists Exhibition (Awarded Prize of Japan Cultural Forum), Tokyo, Japan
9th Contemporary Art Exhibition of Japan, Tokyo Metropolitan Art Museum, Tokyo, Japan

1968                
Contemporary Art of Korea, National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo, Japan

Selected Awards

2013 
National Order of Cultural Merit, Korea

2007 
Ordre national de la Légion d'honneur, France

2001 
11th Hoam prize (Art), Seoul, Korea
13th Praemium Imperiale (Painting), Tokyo, Japan

2000    
UNESCO Prize (in Shanghai Biennale). Paris – Beijing

1979    
1^st Henry Moore Grand Prize, awarded Superlative Prize

Selected Public and Private Collections

Berlin National Galerie, Berlin, Germany
The Brooklyn Museum, New York, US
Centre Georges Pompidou, Musée National d’Art Moderne, Paris, France
The Museum of Fine Arts, Gifu, Japan
Leeum Museum of  Art, Seoul, Korea
Kröller-Müller Rijksmuseum, Otterloo, The Netherlands
Le Musée de Sculpture en Plein Air, Paris, France
The Museum of Modern Art, New York, US
São Paulo Art Library, São Paulo, Brazil
Sonja Henle-Niels Onstad Museum, Oslo, Norway
Staats Kunstsammlungen Dresden, Dresden, Germany
Kunsthalle Nurnberg, Germany
Stuttgart Staats Galerie, Stuttgart, Germany
The National Museum of Contemporary Art, Seoul, Korea
Hakone Open-Air Museum, Kanagawa, Japan
Hara Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo, Japan
Hiroshima City Museum of Contemporary Art, Hiroshima, Japan
Iwaki City Art Museum, Iwaki, Japan
Ohara Museum of Art, Kurashiki, Japan
Setagaya Art Museum, Tokyo, Japan
Sezon Museum of Modern Art, Nagano, Japan
The Museum of Modern Art, Kamakura & Hayama, Japan
The National Museum of Modern Art, Kyoto, Japan
The National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo, Japan
The National Museum of Art, Osaka, Japan
Galerie Nationale de Prague, Czech Republic
Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo, Japan
Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia
Hokkaido Museum of Modern Art, Sapporo, Japan
Kunstsammlungen der Ruhr-Universität Bochum, Germany
Städtisches Museum Leverkusen, Germany
Toyota Municipal Museum of Art, Japan
Tate Modern, London, UK
FNAC, Paris, France
Städtisches Museum Städel Frankfurt, Germany
Fondazione Mudima, Milano, Italy
Queensland Art Gallery, Brisbane, Australia
Seoul  Municipal Museum of Art, Korea
Kunstmuseum Bonn, Germany
Kunsthaus Zürich, Switzerland
Situation Kunst, Bochum, Germany
Fukuoka Art Museum, Japan
Contemporary Art Museum, Kumamoto, Japan