Kim Yong-Ik

BIOGRAPHY

Kim Yong-Ik

Born in 1947, Seoul, Korea
Lives and works in Yangpyeong, Korea

Education

1980 MFA in Painting, Hongik University, Seoul, Korea
1975 BFA in Painting, Hongik University, Seoul, Korea

Selected Solo Exhibitions

2019
Speaking of Latter Genesis, Tina Kim Gallery, New York, US
This is not the answer, Barbara Wien Galerie, Berlin, Germany

2018
untitled utopias, Cahiers d’Art, Paris, France
Endless Drawing, Kukje Gallery, Seoul, Korea

2017
I believe my works are still valid, Spike Island, Bristol & Korean Cultural Centre, London, UK
Tina Kim Gallery, New York, US

2016
Kukje Gallery, Seoul, Korea
Closer…Come Closer…, Ilmin Museum of Art, Seoul, Korea

2011
Timidly Resisting the No-Pain-Civilization, Art Space Pool, Seoul, Korea

2006
Gallery 175, Seoul, Korea

2003
Pyo Gallery, Seoul, Korea

2002
Gallery Sagan, Seoul, Korea

2001
Closer…Come Closer…, Gallery Woong, Seoul, Korea
2000
Yangpyeong Project/Project, National Folk Museum of Korea, Seoul, Korea

1997
Kumho Museum of Art, Seoul, Korea

1996
Gallery Woong, Seoul, Korea

1995
Gallery Hakcheon, Cheongju, Korea

1994
Inkong Gallery, Seoul, Korea

1993
Inkong Gallery, Seoul, Korea

1992
Da-in Gallery, Seoul, Korea

1989
Inkong Gallery, Seoul, Korea

1986
Inkong Gallery, Daegu, Korea

1983
Culture Center, Daejon, Korea

1982
Kwanhoon Museum, Seoul, Korea

1978
Gallery Te, Tokyo, Japan

1977
Seoul Gallery, Seoul, Korea

Selected Group Exhibitions

2019
KLAPPE ZU, AFFE TOT: WERKE AUS DER SAMMLUNG BERGMEIER, KUNSTSAELE, Berlin, Germany
Drawing-Korean Modern and Contemporary Drawings, Seoul Olympic Museum of Art, Seoul, Korea
2019 Pool Rising, Art Space Pool, Seoul, Korea
WONDERLAND MUSEUM: HOW WE GOT TO NOW, Daejeon Museum of Art, Daejeon, Korea
Individuals, Networks, Expressions, M+, Hong Kong

2018
Flatland, Kumho Museum of Art, Seoul, Korea

2016
As the Moon Waxes and Wanes, National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Gwacheon, Korea
Suzhou Documents: Histories of a Global Hub, Suzhou Art Museum, Suzhou, China
Public to Private: Photography in Korean Art since 1989, National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Seoul, Korea

2014
ART Fahrenheit 451: Sailing into the Sea of Oblivion, Yokohama Triennale, Yokohama, Japan

2013
Sphere_Body_Landscape: Healing Ground, Seoul Olympic Museum of Art, Seoul, Korea
Knowledge is Power: Post-Propaganda, Wumin Art Center, Cheongju, Korea
Learning Machine, Nam June Paik Art Center, Yongin, Korea

2012
Garden of Learning, 2012 Busan Biennale, Busan Museum of Art, Busan, Korea
SeMA Gold 2012: Hidden Track, Seoul Museum of Art, Seoul, Korea

2010
Korean Historical Conceptual Art 1970-80s, Gyeonggi-do Museum of Art, Ansan, Korea
Nature and Peace, Geumgang Nature Art Biennale 2010, Gongju Yeonmisan Nature Art Park, Gongju, Korea
Day of Confidence, Art Space Pool, Seoul, Korea
Land Art Mongolia 360°, 1st Land Art Mongolia Biennale, Baga Gazriin Chuluu-Dunggobi, Mongolian National Modern Art Gallery, Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia
Him of Gyeonggi-do, Gyeonggi Museum of Modern Art, Ansan, Korea
Young Seek 1981-2010, National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Gwacheon, Korea

2008
Nature, Environment and Man through Art-Nature Peace, Geumgang Nature Art Biennale 2008, Gongju, Korea
Yeonmisan Nature Art Park, Gongju, Korea
The 40th Anniversary of Soo-Young Kim’s Death-Tribute Exhibition: An Account of Converting, Art Space Pool, Seoul, Korea
Neighborhood Facilities, Art Space Pool, Seoul, Korea

2007
Multi-functional Administrative City Public Art Project: Embracing Jongchon, Jongchonli, Yeongigun, Sejong, Korea

2005
Tripping the Balance, Anyang Public Art Project, Anyang, Korea

2004
You are my Sun, Total Museum of Contemporary Art, Seoul, Korea
Virtual Daughter, Seoul Women’s Plaza, Seoul, Korea

2002
After the Grid, Busan Museum of Art, Busan, Korea
Pause, Gwangju Biennale 2002, Project 4, Gwangju, Korea

2000
Public Art, Yangpyeong project, National Folk Museum, Seoul, Korea
Famous Artists’ Printing Works Exhibition for the Medicine Aid on Kids of North Korea, Dongsanbang Gallery, Seoul, Korea
The Citizens Assembly Fundraising Exhibition, Café Zalkove, Seoul, Korea

1999
North-East Asia and the 3rd World Art, Seoul Museum of Art, Seoul, Korea
Korean Pop, Sung-kok Art Museum, Seoul, Korea

1998
Inaugural Exhibition: Fond of the Frame, More than the Painting, Kumho Museum of Art, Seoul, Korea
Seoul in Media - Food, Clothing, Shelter, Seoul Museum of Art, Seoul, Korea
Inaugural Exhibition: 2000 Time Spirit, Daejeon Municipal Museum of Art, Daejeon, Korea

1997
Painting and Writing, Hanlim Museum, Daejeon, Korea
Kim Yong-Ik, Moon Beom, Hong Myung-Seop, Gallery Euro, Seoul, Korea
Korean Art '97- Humanism, Animalism, Mechanism, National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Gwacheon, Korea
DOT, Kumho Museum of Art, Seoul, Korea

1996
Development of Korean Modernism-Conquest of Modern 1970-90, Kumho Museum of Art, Seoul, Korea
Hong Myung-Seop, Kim Yong-Ik, Two-One Man show, Choi Gallery, Seoul, Korea & Ars Polona Gallery, Warsaw, Poland

1995
Kim Yong-Ik, Moon Beom, Hong Myung-Seop, Gallery Jo, Seoul, Korea

1994
Kim Yong-Ik, Moon Beom, Hong Myung-Seop, Inkong Gallery, Daegu, Korea
Opening the 21st Century, Gallery 21st Century, Seoul, Korea

1993
Kim Yong-Ik, Moon Beom, Hong Myung-Seop, Gaain Gallery, Seoul, Korea

1992
Kim Yong-Ik, Moon Beom, Hong Myung-Seop, The 3rd Gallery, Seoul, Korea

1991
Inaugural Exhibition, Sonje Museum of Contemporary Art, Gyeongju, Korea
Kim Yong-Ik, Moon Beom, Hong Myung-Seop, Space Museum, Seoul, Korea

1990
Contemporary Art Festival 90's, National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Gwacheon, Korea

1989
Seoul, March of 1989, 10 Artists, Korea Culture and Arts Foundation Art Center, Seoul, Korea

1988
Korean Modern Painting in the 70's, Walker Hill Art Center, Seoul, Korea
Late Modernism Show Part-Ⅱ, Hyundai Department Store Gallery, Seoul, Korea
Modernism in Korean Contemporary Art Scene: 1970-1979, Gallery Hyundai, Seoul, Korea
Seoul, March of 1988, Korea Culture and Arts Foundation Art Center, Seoul, Korea

1987
30/40 Abstract with Geometry, Korea Culture and Arts Foundation Art Center, Seoul, Korea
Seoul, March of 1987, Korea Culture and Arts Foundation Art Center, Seoul, Korea

1986
Yokohama-Seoul Contemporary Art Show '86, City Museum of Yokohama, Japan
meta-FORM. meta-MIND, Culture Center, Daejeon, Korea
11th Ecole de Seoul, Kwanhoon Museum, Seoul, Korea
The 2^nd Sino-Korean Modern Painting Exchange Exhibition, Taipei, Taiwan

1985
1985, The 3rd Gallery, Seoul, Korea
10th Ecole de Seoul, Kwanhoon Museum, Seoul, Korea

1984
Contemporary Korean Art Exhibition, Taipei Fine Arts Museum, Taipei, Taiwan
1984, The 3rd Gallery, Seoul, Korea
9th Ecole de Seoul, Kwanhoon Museum, Seoul, Korea

1983
Korean Contemporary Art Exhibition: A Trend of the Late 70's, Travelling exhibition held in Tokyo/Osaka/Utsunomiya/Sapporo/Fukuoka, Japan
Works by Controversial Artists in 1982, Seoul Museum of Art, Seoul, Korea
8th Ecole de Seoul, Kwanhoon Museum, Seoul, Korea

1982
Korean-Japanese Paper Works, National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Gwacheon, Korea
& the City Museum of Art, Kyoto, Japan
After (The) Logicalness, Su Gallery, Daegu, Korea
7th Ecole de Seoul, Kwanhoon Museum, Seoul, Korea

1981
The Winter of Sinchon, Sung-Gu Lee’s Studio, Seoul, Korea
6th Ecole de Seoul, Kwanhoon Museum, Gallery Goryeo, Myeongdong Gallery, Seoul, Korea
Exhibition of the Origin Fine Arts Association, Korea Culture and Arts Foundation Art Center, Seoul, Korea
Korea/Japan Contemporary Painting Exhibition 1981, Korea Culture and Arts Foundation Art Center, Seoul, Korea
Today’s Circumstance, Kwanhoon Museum, Seoul, Korea
The 1^st Korean Young Artists Biennale, National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Seoul, Korea

1980
Geumgang Contemporary Art Festival, Geumgang Beach, Gongju, Korea
Festival – Contemporary Asian Art Show, Fukuoka Art Museum, Fukuoka, Japan

1979
7th Independents, National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Seoul, Korea
5th Ecole de Seoul, National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Seoul, Korea
Korean Art – The Methods of Today, Korea Culture and Arts Foundation, Seoul, Korea

1978
6th Independants, National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Seoul, Korea
4th Ecole de Seoul, National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Seoul, Korea

1977
Korea: Facet of Contemporary Art, Tokyo Central Museum of Art, Tokyo, Japan
6th ST, Kyeon-Ji Gallery, Seoul, Korea
4 Artists’ Exhibition in July, Seoul Gallery, Seoul, Korea
5th Independants, National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Seoul, Korea
3rd Ecole de Seoul, National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Seoul, Korea

1976
2nd Ecole de Seoul, National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Seoul, Korea

1975
13th São Paulo Art Biennial, São Paulo, Brazil
1st Ecole de Seoul, National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Seoul, Korea
1st Seoul Contemporary Art Festival, National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Seoul, Korea
1974
2nd Independents, National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Seoul, Korea
4th Esprit, Myeongdong Gallery, Seoul, Korea
1st Daegu Contemporary Art Festival, Keimyung University, Daegu, Korea

Selected Public and Private Collections

Busan Metropolitan Art Museum, Busan, Korea
Daejeon Museum of Art, Daejeon, Korea
Gyeonggi Museum of Modern Art, Ansan, Korea
Ho-Am Art Museum, Seoul, Korea
Kumho Museum of Art, Seoul, Korea
Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, US
Leeum Museum of Art, Seoul, Korea
M+, Museum for Visual Culture, Hong Kong
The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, US
National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Gwacheon, Korea
Seoul Museum of Art, Seoul, Korea
POSCO Art Museum, Seoul, Korea
Tokyo Metropolitan Art Museum, Tokyo, Japan