Min Joung-Ki | Media Coverage | KUKJE GALLERY

Min Joung-Ki

Born in 1949, Seoul, Korea
Lives and works in Yangpyeong, Korea

Education

1972       B.F.A Painting, Seoul National University, Seoul, Korea

Selected Solo Exhibitions

2019
Min Joung-Ki, Kukje Gallery, Seoul, Korea

2016
Min Joung-Ki, Kumho Museum of Art, Seoul, Korea

2007
Exhibition in Commemoration of Lee Joong Sup Award, Chosunilbo Museum, Seoul, Korea

2004
Min Joung-Ki—WalkScape, Marronnier Art Center (currently: Arko Art Center), Seoul, Korea

1999
Min Joung-Ki, Hakgojae, Seoul, Korea

1996
From Yanggeun to Odae Mountain, Garam Art Gallery, Insa Gallery, Seoul, Korea

1992
Drawing Yanggeun, Garam Art Gallery, Seoul, Korea

1986
Spring of Seoul, Seoul Art Museum Seoul, Korea

1983
1st Solo Exhibition, Seoul Art Museum, Seoul, Korea

Selected Group Exhibitions

2022
18 Artists who admire Baekgiwan, Baekgiwan Foundation, Seoul, Korea

2021
The 13th Gwangju Biennale – Minds Rising, Spirits Tuning, Gwangju Biennale Exhibition Hall, Gwangju, Korea
The other side of landscape: My Sansu(山水), Sojeon Art Museum, Siheung, Korea

2020
Checkpoint. Border Views from Korea, The Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg, Wolfsburg, Germany
A World Where Feces Become Flowers, Zaha Museum, Seoul, Korea
Negotiating Borders, Centre Culturel Coréen, Paris, France
Art and Words 2020, Hakgojae Gallery, Seoul, Korea
Prospect: Nature, Sea, Dokdo and Eyes of Artist, Woljeon Museum of Art Icheon, Icheon, Korea (traveled to: Hangaram Design Museum, Seoul Art Center, Seoul, Korea)

2019
PICK ME, Gyeonggi Museum of Modern Art, Ansan, Korea
Monyu Inwang, Danwon Art Museum, Ansan, Korea
I Love Eco, Insa Art Center, Seoul, Korea
SEONG: Fantastic City, Suwon Ipark Museum of Art, Suwon, Korea
MIN’s Chronicle, Position MIN Jeju, Jeju, Korea
Commemorative Exhibition of 19th Anniversary of June 15 North-South Joint Declaration, Gallery Lamer, Inyoung Gallery, Seoul, Korea
Peace, come together, ODUSAN UNIFICATION TOWER, Paju, Korea
Awakenings: Art in Society in Asia, 1960s-1990s, National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Gwacheon, Korea
Drawing - Korean Modern and Contemporary Drawings, Seoul Olympic Museum of Art, Seoul, Korea
DMZ, Culture Station Seoul 284, Seoul, Korea
2019 Pool Rising, Art Space Pool, Seoul, Korea

2018
This Side of Paradise, Anyang Museum, Anyang, Korea
Gyeomjae Jeong Seon Project, St. Ottilien Archabbey, Emming, Germany
Lee Joong Sup Award 30th Year Anniversary Special Exhibition, Chosunilbo Museum, Seoul, Korea
Gubo Park Taewon Special Exhibition, Cheong Gye Cheon Museum, Seoul, Korea
Jeju 4.3 70th Year Anniversary Special Exhibition, Jeju 4.3 Peace Memorial Hall, Jeju, Korea

2017
Mihwang Temple, Hakgojae Gallery, Seoul, Korea
2017 Pool Rising, Art Space Pool, Seoul, Korea

2016
Land of happiness, Seoul Museum of Art, Seoul, Korea
Eye and Mind of Korean Contemporary Art Ⅱ, Reinstatement of Realism, Insa Art Center, Seoul, Korea

2015
2015 Pyeongchang Biennale, An unrhymed verse of DMZ, Pyeongchang, Korea
Gyeomjae Jeongseon, Gyeomjae Jeongseon Art Museum, Seoul, Korea
SeMA Print Collection – Reflecting the Times, Buk Seoul Museum of Art, Seoul, Korea

2014
SeMA Biennale Mediacity Seoul 2014: Ghosts, Spies, and Grandmothers, Seoul Museum of Art, Seoul, Korea

2013
Inhabiting History Portraiture, the Mirror of an Era, Jeonbuk Museum of Art, Wanju-gun, Korea
In Between, Kumho Museum of Art, Seoul, Korea
Zeitgeist Korea, National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Seoul, Korea
A story of the Dongnong family: 27 years with the Korean Provisional Government, Seoul Museum of History, Seoul, Korea

2012
DMZ ART+BOOK PROJECT FOR PEACE (WINTER WINTER WINTER SPRING), Gyeonggi Museum of Modern Art, Ansan, Korea
Manner in Korean Paintings, HITE Collection, Seoul, Korea

2011
Creative and Vigorous Lives, Gyeonggi Museum of Modern Art, Ansan, Korea

2010
Korean Avant-garde Drawing, Seoul Olympic Museum of Art, Seoul, Korea
Him of Gyeonggi-do, Gyeonggi Museum of Modern Art, Ansan, Korea
Between, One and J Gallery, Seoul, Korea
Olle, Jeju Olle Exhibition, Jeju Museum of Contemporary Art, Jeju, Korea
Commemorating 30th Years of Reality and Utterance Group, Insa Art Center, Seoul, Korea

2009
The Deification of Nature, JEJU, Jeju Museum of Contemporary Art, Jeju, Korea
Ji Sim-Do, Geoje Art Center, Geoje, Korea
Gubo Park Taewon’s A Landscape of the Riverside, Bunam Gallery, Seoul, Korea
100 Daehangro, Arko Art Center, Seoul, Korea

2008
Traveling Art Museum–Tongyeong, hosted by National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Tongyeong International Music Festival House, Tongyeong, Korea
Traveling Art Museum–Jangheung, hosted by National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Jangheung Culture & Arts Center, Jangheung, Korea
Inter_viewing Paintings, Soma Museum of Art, Seoul, Korea

2007
Jirisan, Jeonbuk Province Art Museum, Wanju-gun, Korea
Gyeonggi, National Highway No.1, Gyeonggi Museum of Modern Art, Ansan, Korea
Hommage 100, Korea Art Center, Busan, Korea

2006
Painting Reads the Novel, Bukchon Art Museum, Seoul, Korea
100 Years of Korean Art (Part 2): Tradition, Human, Art, Reality, National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Gwacheon, Korea

2005
Scenery beyond description Gyeonggi Do, Gyeonggi Provincial Museum, Yongin, Korea
The 60th Anniversary of Korea’s Liberation – Trial and Advance, The National Assembly of the Republic of Korea, Seoul, Korea
The Seoul Art Exhibition 2005, Seoul Museum of Art, Seoul, Korea

2004
Exhibition of Nature and History – Artists’ Sight of the Namhan River, Hakgoje, Seoul, Korea
Declaration - 100 Artists for Peace, National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Gwacheon, Korea
Painting Reads the Novel: Exhibition of Min Joung-Ki & Hwang Seok Young, Exhibition Hall of Kyobo Bookshop, Seoul, Korea

2003
Real Landscape – New Suggestion, National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Gwacheon, Korea
Landscape Prints of Dokdo, Independence Hall of Korea, Seoul National University, Seoul, Korea

2002
Wall painting at Seoul Museum of History, Seoul, Korea
History and Consciousness, Landscape of Dokdo Island, Museum of Seoul National University, Seoul, Korea
Why Live in Yangpyeong, Love Clean Water Art Gallery, Yangpyeong, Korea

2001
Exhibition after Reality and Utterance, Alternative Space Pool, Seoul, Korea
Beautiful Lives, Madang Sol, Daegu, Korea

1999
Exhibition of Korean Pop, Sungkok Art Museum, Seoul, Korea
Exhibition of Mountains, Waters and Landscapes, Art Sonje Museum, Gyeongju, Korea
Spontaneity of Korean Art, Posco Art Museum, Seoul, Korea
Dreaming about Geumgang (Mongyu Geumgang): Mt. Geumgang as Seen through 300 Years of Art, Ilmin Museum of Art, Seoul, Korea
Exhibition of Yangpyeong Artist Association, Love Clean Water Art Gallery, Yangpyeong, Korea
Grouping for Natural Environment and Its Alternative, Love Clean Water Art Gallery, Yangpyeong, Korea

1998
Exhibition of Wild Flowers in Korea, Savina Museum, Seoul, Korea
‘98 Exhibition of Divided Country, Twenty First Century Gallery, Seoul, Korea
Exhibition of Mountains and Waters of the Country, Unhyeon Palace Museum of Art, Seoul, Korea

1997
In Search of Korean Beauty, Savina Museum, Seoul, Korea
Exhibition to Express the Inexpressible, Posco Art Museum, Seoul, Korea

1996
Mountains and Waters of the Country, Seoul Museum of Art, Seoul, Korea
Korean Figures Seen by Paintings, Rho Gallery, Seoul, Korea
Reading Korean Poetry in Paintings, Silcheonmunhak, Seoul, Korea

1995
Gwangju Biennale: Sprit of May in Gwangju, Gwangju Art Museum, Gwangju, Korea
Mountains and Waters of the Country, Korean Culture and Arts Foundation, Seoul, Korea

1994
Evaluation of 15 years of People’s Art, National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Gwacheon, Korea
Centennial of Donghak Peasants’ Revolution, Seoul Art Center, Seoul, Korea
Aphorism of 27 People in Modern Art, World Gallery, Busan, Korea

1993
Hwangsan and Landscape, Sketching from the Nature, Gallery de Seoul, Seoul, Korea
Exhibition of December, Ten Years after That, Dukwon Gallery, Seoul, Korea
Exhibition of United Korea, Tokyo Central Museum of Art, Tokyo, Japan
Exhibition of United Korea, Osaka Contemporary Art Center, Osaka, Japan
Traveler’s Journal of Art: Silk Road, Donga Gallery, Seoul, Korea

1992
Section of Korean Art in the 1990s, Uri Art Culture Institute, Seoul, Korea
The end of the land under Eastern Sky, Love Dokdo Association Inc., Seoul, Korea

1991
In the Forest of Chaos, Jahamoon Museum, Seoul, Korea
18 Artists, Seoul Art Museum, Seoul, Korea
Humans and Nature, Exhibition of the Looks in Our Time, Geurimmadang Min, Seoul, Korea
Looking Back at the Art of the 80’s, Geurimmadang Min, Seoul, Korea

1990
Suggestion for Tomorrow Art, Seoul Art Center, Seoul, Korea

1989
The 3rd Asian Contemporary Art Festival, National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Gwacheon, Korea

1988
Minjung Art, Artist Space, New York, US

1987
86 Exhibition of Critical Artists, Seoul Art Center, Seoul, Korea

1986
Reality and Utterance Group Members' Exhibition, Geurimmadang Min, Seoul, Korea
Special Exhibition of Representative Works of the 80’s, Geurimmadang Min, Seoul, Korea
JAALA (Japan Asia Latin America) exhibition, Tokyo Metropolitan Art Museum, Tokyo, Japan

1985
Reality and Utterance Group Members' Exhibition: 6.25, Arab Culture Center, Seoul, Korea
Commemorative Exhibition: 4th Anniversary of Seoul Art Center, Seoul Art Center, Seoul, Korea
Reality and Utterance Group Members' Exhibition: Woodcutting, Dongduk Art Center, Seoul, Korea

1984
Reality and Utterance Group Members' Exhibition, Art of Life, Kwanhoon Gallery, Seoul, Korea

1983
82 Exhibition of Critical Artists, Seoul Art Center, Seoul, Korea
Seoul Art Center – Exchange Invitation Exhibition of Angoulême, Seoul Art Center, Seoul, Korea
Exhibition of People, Glorious Spirits, Seoul Art Center, Seoul, Korea
Commemorative Exhibition: 2nd Anniversary of Galley Opening, Seoul Art center, Seoul, Korea
The 11th Exhibition of December, The Third Gallery, Seoul, Korea

1982
Exhibition of Today’s Artists, Korean Culture and Arts Foundation, Seoul, Korea
The 10th Exhibition of December, Korean Culture and Arts Foundation, Seoul, Korea
Reality and Utterance Group Members' Exhibition, Appearance of Happiness, Deoksu Gallery, Seoul, Korea

1981
Preview of 11 New Artists Selected by Art Quarterly, Lotte World Gallery, Seoul, Korea
Reality and Utterance Group Members' Exhibition, City and Perspective, Lotte World Gallery, Seoul, Korea
The 9th Exhibition of December, Korean Culture and Arts Foundation, Seoul, Korea
The 2nd Paris Biennale, Paris, France

1980
The 10th Exhibition of the Third Group, Korean Culture and Arts Foundation, Seoul, Korea
The 7th Exhibition of December, Nam-do Art Center, Gwangju, Korea
The 8th Exhibition of December, Korean Culture and Arts Foundation, Seoul, Korea
Reality and Utterance Group Members' Exhibition, Korean Culture and Arts Foundation, Seoul, Korea
Exhibition of Today’s Artists, Korean Culture and Arts Foundation, Seoul, Korea

1979
The 6th Exhibition of December, Korean Culture and Arts Foundation, Seoul, Korea
The 9th Exhibition of the Third Group, Deoksu Gallery, Seoul, Korea
 
1978
The 5th Exhibition of December, Korean Culture and Arts Foundation, Seoul, Korea
The 8th Exhibition of the Third Group, Korean Culture and Arts Foundation, Seoul, Korea
Exhibition of 3 Artists, Gyeonji Gallery, Seoul, Korea

1977
The 4th Exhibition of December, Korean Culture and Arts Foundation, Seoul, Korea
The 7th Exhibition of the Third Group, Korean Culture and Arts Foundation, Seoul, Korea

1976
The 3rd Exhibition of December, Munheon Gallery, Seoul, Korea

1975
The 2rd Exhibition of December, Korean Culture and Arts Foundation, Seoul, Korea

1974
The 1st Exhibition of December, American Center Korea, Seoul, Korea

1972
Exhibition of 6 Artists, Education Hall, Seoul, Korea

Selected Awards

2006
Lee Joong Sup Award, Chosun Ilbo, Seoul, Korea

Selected Public and Private Collections

Seoul Museum of Art, Seoul, Korea
National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Korea
Seoul Museum of History, Seoul, Korea
Korean Embassy, Toronto, Canada
Seoul National University Museum of Art, Seoul, Korea
Gyeonggi Museum of Modern Art, Ansan, Korea
Yangpyeong Art Museum, Yangpyeong, Korea