1936 Born in Korea
1956 Interrupted studies at Seoul National University and came to Japan
1961 Graduated from Nihon University, Department of Philosophy, Tokyo
1969 Awarded prize for critical writing From Object to Being, Tokyo
1969 Leads the Mono-ha movement after having successfully attracted artists following until then the vision tricks trends launched around 1968, Tokyo
1973 through 2007 Professor of Tama Art University, Tokyo
1997 Invited professor at Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-Arts, Paris
2000 UNESCO Prize (in Shanghai Biennale), Paris-Shanghai
2001 13th Praemium Imperiale (Painting), Tokyo
2005 Artists Summit, Kyoto

Selected Solo Exhibitions
1967 Sato Gallery, Tokyo
1970, 74 Tamura Gallery, Tokyo
1971 Pinar Gallery, Tokyo
1972 Myong-Dong Gallery, Seoul
1973, 77, 80, 83, 86, 89, 91, 93, 95, 96, 99, 08 Tokyo Gallery, Tokyo
1975,77, 80 Galerie Eric Fabre, Paris
1976 Gallery Spectrum, Antwerp
1976, 78, 89, 95, 00, 06 Galerie m, Bochum, Germany
1978, 84, 87, 90, 97, 03 Gallery Hyundai, Seoul
1978 Düsseldorf Kunsthalle, Düsseldorf
1978 Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Denmark
1978 The Antwerp Gallery, Antwerp
1978, 81, 84, 86, 89, 93, 98, 01, 06 Shirota Gallery, Tokyo
1979 Gallery Takagi, Nagoya
1979, 06 Gallery Muramatsu, Tokyo
1979 Jin Gallery, Seoul
1979 Marl Sculpture Museum, Germany
1980, 83, 86, 89, 91 Gallery Ueda, Tokyo
1982 Studio Marconi, Milano
1984, 86, 89, 92, 95 Galerie de Paris, Paris
1985, 90, 99 Kamakura Gallery, Tokyo
1988 The Museum of Fine Arts, Gifu, Japan
1988 Galerie Anselm Dreher, Berlin
1988 Padiglione D’Arte Contemporanea, Milano
1990, 91, 94 Inkong Gallery, Seoul
1991, 97 Lorenzelli Arte, Milano
1991 Hara Museum ARC, Japan
1992, 96,00, 01, 06 Konggan Gallery, Busan, Korea
1993 The Museum of Modern Art Kamakura, Japan
1994 Fondazione Mudima, Milano
1994 The National Museum of Contemporary Art, Seoul
1995 Städtisches Museum Leverkusen, Germany
1996, 04, 08 Lisson Gallery, London
1996 Galerie J. Moussion, Paris
1997 Gallery Bhak, Seoul
1997 Space Shimoda, Tokyo
1997 Galeire Nationale du Jeu de Paume, Paris
1998 Städtisches Museum im STÄDEL, Frankfurt
1998 Mitaka City Gallery of Art, Nigata City Art Museum, Japan
1998, 01 Sigong Gallery, Taegoo, Korea
1999 Liliane & Michel Durand-Dessert, Paris
2001 Kunstmuseum Bonn, Germany
2002 SCAI The Bathhouse, Tokyo
2003 Samsung Museum of Contemporary Art, Seoul
2004 Musée St.Louis Fernet Branca, Alsace
2005 Yokohama Museum of Art, Yokohama
2005 Musée d’Art Moderne, Saint-Etienne
2006 Galerie Micheline Szwajcer, Antwerp
2006 IBU Gallery, Paris
2007 Galerie Nächst St. Stephan, Wien
2007 52nd La Biennale di Venezia, palazzo Palumbo Fossati, Venice
2008 The Royal Museum of Fine Arts of Belgium, Brussels
2008 Dahlem Museum, Berlin
2008 Pace Wildenstein, New York
2009 Kukje Gallery, Seoul
2009 Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac, Paris

Selected Group Exhibitions
1968 Contemporary Art of Korea, The National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo
1969 5th International Young Artists Exhibition, Awarded Prize of Japan Cultural Forum,Tokyo
1969 9th Contemporary Art Exhibition of Japan, Tokyo Metropolitan Art Museum, Tokyo
1969, 73 São Paulo Biennale, São Paulo
1969 Trends in Contemporary Art, The National Museum of Modern Art, Kyoto
1970 Aspects of New Japanese Art, The National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo
1970, 72 7th, 8th International Prints Biennale in Tokyo, Tokyo
1971 7th Paris Biennale, Paris
1972 2nd Seoul Prints Biennale, Seoul
1972 Napoli International Exhibition, Napoli
1973 11th Contemporary Art Exhibition : "A Retrospective 20 Years of Contemporary Japanese Art", Tokyo and Kyoto
1974 Japan Traditional Gegenwart, Städtisches Kunsthalle, Düsseldorf
1974 Japanese Art in Louisiana, Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Denmark
1975 3rd Triennale India, National Academy of Art, New Delhi, India
1975 Contemporary Art of Japan, The Museum of Ietevorg, Stockholm
1975 Contemporary Art of Japan, Sonja Henle-Niels Onstad Museum, Oslo
1976 Cagnes-Sur-Mer, International Painting Fair, France
1976, 85 Ecole de Seoul, Seoul
1976 2nd Sydney Biennale, Australia
1977 13th Contemporary Art Exhibition of Japan, Awarded prize of The National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo
1977 Kassel Documenta 6, Germany
1977 Drawing 5Artists, Minami Gallery, Tokyo
1977 100 Prints Acquisitions 1973-1976, The Museum of Modern Art, New York
1978 Z. B. Sculpture, Städtisches Museum im STÄDEL, Frankfurt
1978 Focus 78, Centre Culturel du Marais, Paris
1979 11th International Prints Biennale in Tokyo, Awarded prize of National Museum of Modern Art, Kyoto
1979 1st Henry Moore Grand Prize Exhibition, Hakone Open-Air Museum, Awarded Superlative Prize, Kanagawa, Japan
1980 Skulptur im 20 Jahrhundert, Basel
1980 Contemporary Art in Japan, The Museum of Modern Art, Stockholm
1982 Meister der Zeichnung, Kunsthalle Nürnberg, Germany
1982 Material Gets Art, Berlin National Galerie, Berlin
1982 Japanese Contemporary Art Exhibition, Camden Arts Center, London
1983 ARS 83 Helsinki, Finland
1983 M. Kawabata, Lee Ufan and Y.Saito Exhibition, Juda Rowan Gallery, London
1984 Wiesbaderner Skulpturentage, Germany
1984 Trends of Contemporary Japanese Art, Tokyo Metropolitan Art Museum, Tokyo
1985 40 Years of Japanese Contemporary Art, Tokyo Metropolitan Art Museum, Tokyo
1986 Seoul-Paris, Centre National des Arts Plastiques, Paris
1986 Mono-ha, Kamakura Gallery, Tokyo
1986 Contemporary Japanese Calligraphy and painting, Galerie Nationale de Prague, Czechoslovakia
1986-87 Le Japon des Avant-Gardes, Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris
1987 Mono-ha and Postmono-ha, The Seibu Museum of Art, Tokyo
1987 Painting 1977-87, The National Museum of Art, Osaka
1988 Monoha, Museo Labatorio di Arte Contemporanea, Rome
1988 Symposium of Olympic Sculpture, Seoul
1989 Croisement des Signes, Institut du Monde Arabe, Paris
1989 Biennale Middelheim Japan, Middelheim Open-Air Museum, Antwerp
1989 Japan 1989, Museum van Hedendaagse Kunst, Gent
1989 Effets de Mirror, Bibliothèque Louis-Aragon, Choisy, France
1990 Blau, Heidelberger Kunstmuseum, Heidelberg
1990 Minimal Art, The National Museum of Art, Osaka
1991-92 Aspects of Contemporary Japanese Art, The Santa Monica Museum of Art, California, Portland Art Museum, Oregon Art Institute, Oregon, Museo Rufino Tamayo, Mexico, Contemporary Art Center, New Orleans
1992 Contemporary Art from Korea, Tate Gallery, Liverpool
1992 Seven artists of Japan, Nagoya City Art Museum, Nagoya, Japan
1992 Avandguardie Giapponesi Degli Anni 70, Galleria D’Arte Moderna Comune di Bologna, Bologna
1993 Spiritual in Art, Fukuyama Museum of Art, Fukuyama, Japan
1994 Scream against the sky, Guggenheims Soho Museum, New York
1994 Postwar Art in Japan, Yokohama Museum of Art, Yokohama
1995 ASIANA-monoha, Palazzo Vendramin, Venice
1995 Joongang Biennale, Hoam Art Gallery, Seoul
1995 70, Mono- ha, The Museum of Fine Art Gifu, Japan
1996 Japon 1970 Mono-ha, Musée d’art Moderne, Saint-Etienne, France
1996 Projet 8, Total Contemporary Art Museum, Seoul
1996 Small Truths, John Hansard Gallery, Southampton, England
1997 Made in France, Musée National d’Art Moderne, Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris
1998 SARAJEBO 2000, Museum Moderna Kunst Stiftung Ludwig, Wien
1998 Contemporary Art of Korea-Time, Hoam Art Gallery, Seoul
1998 Korean Monochromism, Busan Metropolitan Art Museum, Korea
1999 Kunstwelten im Dialog, Museum Ludwig, Köln
2000 Kwangjoo Biennale, Korea
2000 Shanghai Biennale, awarded prize UNESCO, China
2000 Bernard Frize, Katharina Grosse and Lee Ufan, Galerie Monika Reitz, Frankfurt
2001 Century City, Tate Modern, London
2001 Mono-ha – school of things, Museum of Kettle’s Yard, Cambridge, Newlyn Art Gallery, Newlyn, England
2001 Le Tribú dell Arte, Galleria Comunale d’Arte Moderna e contemporanea, Roma
2001 Ikiro-be alive, Kröller-Müller Museum, Otterlo
2002 The Pacific Triennale, Queensland Art Gallery Brisbane, Australia
2002 Les années 70 l’art en cause, CAPC Musée d’Art Contemporain, Bordeaux, France
2003 Happiness, Mori Art Museum, Tokyo
2004 Limpa – Ecole de Limpa, The National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo
2004 L’art au futur antérieur 1975-2004, Musée du Grenoble
2005 Reconsidering Mono-ha, The National Museum of Art, Osaka
2006 La force de l’art, Grand Palais, Paris
2006 Kwangjoo Biennale, Korea
2006 Shelter, National Galerie, Berlin
2007 Elastic Taboos, Kunsthalle, Wien
2007 Living in the Material World : 《Things》in Art of the 20th Century and Beyond, The National Art Center, Tokyo
2007 L’art de Monet et sa Postérité, The National Art Center, Tokyo
2007 Micro-Narrative, Beograd
2008 Sensitive Systems, Hakgojae Gallery, Seoul
2008 The Thin Shadow Line, Fondazione Mudima, Milano
2008 SOTTO VOCE, Yvon Lambert, New York
2008 1st Poznan Biennale, Poland
2009 Infinitum, Palazzo Fortuny, Venice
2009 Qui a peur des artistes ? François Pinault Collection, Palais des Arts, Dinard, France

Public Collections
Berlin National Galerie, Berlin, Germany
The Brooklyn Museum, New York, U.S.A.
Centre Georges Pompidou, Musée National d’Art Moderne, Paris, France
The Museum of Fine Arts, Gifu, Japan
Leeum Samsung Museum of Art, Seoul, Korea
Kröller-Müller Rijksmuseum, Otterloo, Holland
Le Musée de Sculpture en Plein Air, Paris, France
The Museum of Modern Art, New York, U.S.A.
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, England
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

Books
The Search for Encounter, Tabata Shoten, Tokyo, 1971
( New edition : Bijutsu Shuppansha, Tokyo, 2000)
The Printworks of Lee Ufan 1970-1986, Shirota Gallry, Tokyo, 1986
The Works of "Lee Ufan", Bijutsu Shuppansha, Tokyo, 1986
Time Flicker, Ozawa Shoten, Tokyo, 1988
The Work of "Lee ufan", Toshi Shuppan, Tokyo, 1993
The Works "Lee Ufan", Fondazione Mudima, Milano, 1994
Selected Writings by Lee Ufan, Lisson Gallery, London, 1996
The Art of YOHAKU, Misuzu Shobo, Tokyo, 2000
Stopped on the way, Syoshi Yamada, Tokyo, 2001
Un art de la rencontre, Actes Sud, Arles, France, 2002
The Art of Encounter, Lisson Gallery, London, 2004
The Works of "LEE UFAN" Fondazione Mudima, Milano, 2007
The Art of Encounter, revised version, Lisson Gallery, London, 2008

Selected Bibliography
• "Giappone", D’Ars, Italy, No.55, 1970, p.65.
• Love, Joseph, " Exhibition in Tokyo – Lee Ufan", Art International, Switzerland, Vol.
XIV, June 1970, pp.108-109.
• Love, Joseph, "Tokyo Letter", Art International. Switzerland, Vol. XV, May 1971,
pp.79-82.
• "Lee Ufan ", Revue De La Pensée D’aujourd’hui, France, June 1974, pp.54-59.
• "Lee Ufan", Revy, Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Denmark,1974.
• Love, Joseph, "Exhibition in Tokyo", Art Spectrum, Switzerland, Jan.1975, p.45.
• "Kunstbrief aus Tokyo", Das Kunstwerk, Germany, Aug.1977, p.44.
• Friedrich, Yvone, "Lee Ufan", Das Kunstwerk, Germany, Aug.1977, p.81.
• Friedrich, Yvone , "Lee Ufan", Das Kunstwerk. Germany, Oct.1978, pp.77-81.
• "Lee Ufan", Canal, France, No.2, 1978.
• Harris, T.J.G., "Lee Ufan", Art International, Switzerland, Vol. XXII, May 1978,
pp.16-37.
• Michà, René, "Lettre de Paris", Art International, Switzerland, Vol. XXIII, Summer
1979, p.52.
• Minemura Toshiaki, "Mono-ha", Domus, Italy, No.596, 1979, p.45.
• Bouissiet, Maïten, "Lee Ufan", Opus, France, No.78, 1980, pp.45-46.
• Dupuis, Sylvie, "Lee Ufan", Art Press, France, May 1980, p.36.
• Schaarschmidt-Richter, Irmtraud, "Kunstbrief aus Tokyo", Das Kunstwerk, Germany,
Jan.1981, p.55.
• Parmigiana, Loredana, "Lee Ufan", Flash Art, Italy, Summer 1982.
• Okabe, Aomi and Chiba, Shigeo, "Dossier Mono-Ha", Artistes, France, No. 16, 1983, pp.6-17.
• Nurdsany, Michel, "Lee Ufan", Art Press, France, May 1984, p.62.
• Chiba, Shigeo, "Modern Art from a Japanese Viewpoint", Artforum, U.S.A., Oct.1984,
pp.55-61.
• Park Seobo, "Meeting Lee U-Fan", The Gallery, Seoul, Korea : Gallery Hyundai,
No.45, 1984, pp.32-40.
• Chiba, Shigeo, "Japanishe Kunst heute", Noema, Germany, No.5, 1986, pp.8-11.
• Silva, Arturo, "MONOHA", Artforum, U.S.A., Jan. 1987, pp.129-130.
• Schaarschmidt-Richter, Irmtraud,"Austellungs-Rückshau", Das Kunstwerk,
Germany, Jan.1987, pp.56-60.
• Silva, Arturo, "Tokyo, Lee Ufan", Artforum, U.S.A., Feb. 1987, p.132.
• Roberts, James, "Tokyo Report", Art Scribe, May 1987, pp.7-10.
• Gorgnati, Martina, "Lee Ufan", Flash Art, Italy, Dec. 1988, pp.101.
• Dalesio, Gabriella, "MONOHA-", NIKE, Germany, Sept. 1988, pp.37-38.
• "Lee Ufan", Hara Museum Review, N°7, Summer, Japan, 1988
• Siegmann, Markus, "Lee Ufan", Das Kunstwerk, Germany, Sep. 1989, pp.90-91.
• Schneider, Katharina, "Biennale in Middelheim", Das Kunstwerk, Germany, Dec. 1989,
pp.66-67.
• Francblin, Catherina, "Lee Ufan", Art Press, France, Jan. 1990, pp.97.
• Kim Yongik and Moon Bum, "Dialogue with Lee Ufan", Space, Korea, Sep.1990,
pp.60-97.
• Tsuyuhiko Hinatsu, "Fighting Sprit", Asahi Daily News, Japan, June, 1991.
• "Lee Ufan", Hara Museum Review, N°16, May, Japan, 1991.
• Julia Cassim : "Encountering Passive Abstraction", The Japan Times, Japan, June,
1991.
• Koplos, Janet, "Contemporary Art in Japan", Art in America, U.S.A., Apr. 1990,
pp.201-210.
• Koplos, Janet, "Contemporary Japanese Sculpture", Abbeville Press. U.S.A., 1991.
• Lee Kun Yong , "Lee Ufan", ART NOW, Korea, Spring 1992, pp.9-15.
• Arturo Silva, "Lee Ufan in confrontation with himself, The Japan Times, Tokyo,
November, Japan, 1995.
• Michel Nurisdany, "Lee Ufan", Le Figaro, 19 Septembre, Paris, 1995
• Henri-François Debailleux, " Entretien avec Lee Ufan", Liberation, 29 Août, Paris, 1995
• Barbrara Catoir, " Die Wucht de Leere", Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, April 12,
Germany, 1995.
• Joel Perron, "Mono-ha takes matter into account", The Daily Yomiuri, November,
Tokyo, Japan, 1995
• Werner Sstretelz, "Spannung in der Stille", Waz, N°222 September, Germany, 1995
• Lee Ufan, Inkong Gallery, Korea, Text by You Young-Me, 1995
• Dok Ja, "Positionß of Lee Ufan", Cine World, Seoul, Korea, 1994
• Lee Ufan, "Les aquarelles de Cézanne", Libération, N°4469, 30 Septembre, Paris, 1995
• Pierre Restany, "Lee Ufan and the Mono-ha revolution", Domus, N° 779, February,
Italy, 1996
• Lee Ufan, "On Infinity", Domus, N°779, February, Italy, 1996
• Lee Ufan, Lisson Gallery, London, Text by Jean Fisher, 1996
• Richard Cork, "Lee Ufan", Time, 5 November, London, 1996
• Lan Hant "Lee Ufan-Lisson Gallery", Art Monthly, March, London, 1997
• Michel Nuridsany, "Le vide et le plein", Le Figaro, 25 novembre, Paris, 1997
• Philippe Dagen,"Concentrés de monde", Le Monde, 5 Décembre, Paris, 1997
• Henri G., "La toile, nœud culturel", Libération, 7 Décembre, Paris, 1997
• Stéphanie Dulout, "Entretien avec Maître LEE", CRÉATIONS, Décembre, Paris, 1997
• Sandra Kwock-silve,"Minimal art to the max", The Paris Free Voice, Décembre, Paris,
1997
• "Entre le lisse et le rugueur", L’ŒIL, Décembre, Paris, 1997
• Irmtraud Schaarschmidt-Richter, "Lee Ufan", Weltkunst, Jun, Frankfurt, 1998
• Christian Huther, "Lee Ufan", KunstForum, 14 Oct-Dez, Frankfurt, 1998
• Christian Huther, "Dialog von Stein und Eisen", Moin Echo, 13 Jun, Frankfurt, 1998
• Christian Huther, " Rost im Resen", Allgemeine Zeitung Mainz, 11 Jun, Frankfurt, 1998
• Von Benjamin Gries, " Natur Stein und Eisenplatte im Dialog", Rhein Zeitung, 9 Jun, Frankfurt, 1998
• Von Thomas Wolff, "Aus dem Nichts heraus", Frankfurter Rundschau 10 oug, Frankfurt, 1998
• Konstanze Crüwell, "Passage zum Unendlichen", Frankfurter Allemeine Zeitung, 20 Jul. Frankfurt, 1998
• Roselyne Marsaud Perrodin, "Lee Ufan, l’affirmation d’un faire poétique",PRATIQUES, Réflexions sur l’art, Presses Universitaires de Rennes, France, Automne, 1999, pp. 24-38
• Monty Dipietro, "Lee Ufan : New paintings", Asahi evening News, 18 feb. 1999, Tokyo
• Michel Nuridsany, "Lee Ufan résonances", Le Figaro, 23 Nov. 1999, Paris
• H.F. Debailleux, " Trois faces de Lee Ufan", Libération, 9 Nov. 1999, Paris
• Olivier Cena, "Les radoteurs", Télérama, N°2600-10 Nov. 1999, Paris
• Claudia Posca, "Lee Ufan : Interconnection", KunstFORM, 153, Januar-März, 2000, Frankfurt
• Von Sophia Willems, "Lee Ufan", West Deutsche Zeitung, 18 Nov. 2001
• Barbara Catoir, "Es atmet die Spur der Frabe", Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, 16 Aug, 2001
• Von Thomas Kliemann, "Wie ein Gong-schlag in der Leere des Raumes", General- Anzeiger, 16/17, Jun. 2001, Bonn, Germany
• Kai Weller, "Unverde Ckt Entborgen", SCHNÜSS, Aug, 2001
• Christiane Fricke, "Linien fallen und Steigen", Handelsblatt, 17/18 Aug, 2001
• Von Heidrum Wirth, "Wie ein tiefer Gong-klang", Bonner Rundschau, 10 Aug, 2001
• Michel Nuridsany, "Prix Praemium Imperiale Lee Ufan, Le Figaro, 5 Oct. 2001, Paris
• Philippe Dagen, "Lee Ufan, la peinture en mouvement", Le Monde, 25 février, 2003, Paris
• Christian Klemm, "Lee Ufan, With winds", Kunsthaus Zürich, Jahresbericht, 2004, Zurich, Switzerland
• Okyang Chae-Duporge, "L’espace non-agi en dialogue avec l’extérieur", PRATIQUES
Réflexions sur l’art, n°16, Presses Universitaires de Rennes, France, Printemps 2005,pp. 82-109.
• Henri-François Debailleux, "Lee Ufan entrepeinture et sculpture", Libération, 10, février, 2006, Paris
•Ronny v. Wangenheim, "Die Stille des Lee Ufan", Galerie m, Ruhr-Nachrichten, 31, marz, 2006, Germany
• Janet Koplos, "Clamor and Quiet", Art in America, U.S.A., March, 2006
• Von Werner Streletz, "Zwischen Steinen Herrscht Stille", Galerie m, Westallemeine zeitung, 7 april, 2006, Germany
• R.C., "Kosmische Stille, Lee Ufans Verschmelzung westlicher und asiatischer Spiritualwelten", Kunst 21, May, 2006, p.36-39.
• Okyang Chae-Duporge, "L’espace non-agi dans l’œuvre de Lee Ufan", Thèse du doctorat, sous la direction de Serge Lemoine, Université Paris IV-Sorbonne, June, 2006, Paris
• Silke von Berswordt-Wallrabe aus Essen, "Erfahrung von Konfrontation und Koexistenz im werk von Lee Ufan", Erlangung der Doktorwürde der philosophischen Fakultär der Albert-Ludwigs-universität Freiburg i.Dr, 2006, Germany
• Carol Vogel, "Art in the Present Tense: Politics, Loss and Beauty", The New York Times, 11 June, 2007, New York
• Philippe Dagan, "Lee Ufan, in ascete de l’extreme", Le Monde, 14 June, 2007, Paris
• Silke von Berswordt-Wallrabe, "Lee Ufan, Begegnung mit dem Anderen", Steidl, 2007, Germany
• Silke von Berswordt-Wallrabe, "Lee Ufan, Encounters with the Other", Steidl, 2007, Germany
• Stephen Westfall, Opposites and Essences; Lee Ufan, Art of America, U.S.A., Dec. 2008, pp.114-119
• Renaud Siegmann, Visite d’Atelier Lee Ufan, la Gazette de l’Hotel Drouot, France, Dec. 2008, pp.362-363

Catalogues of Exhibitions
• São Paulo Biennale, Brazil,1969, 1973.
• Paris Biennale, France, 1971.
• Solo Exhibition, Tokyo Gallery, Text by Nakahara Yusuke, Tokyo, 1973
• Solo Exhibition, Galerie Spectrum, Antwerp, Belgium, 1976. Joseph Love.
• Documenta 6. Kassel, Germany, 1977.
• Z. B. Sculpture, Städtisches Museum Frankfurt des Städel, Germany, 1978.
• Solo Exhibition, Düsseldorf Kunsthalle, Germany,1978. "The World of Lee Ufan",Joseph Love and Lee Ufan.
• 6th Brussels International Art Fair, Brussels, Belgium, 1978.
• Solo Exhibition, Gallery Hyundai, Seoul, Korea, 1978. "Lee Ufan", Text by Lee Ufan.
• Focus 78, Centre Culturel du Marais, Paris, France, 1978.
• Skulptur im 20 Jahrhundert, Basel, Switzerland, 1980.
• Japanskt Kalojdoskop, Sweden, 1980. "Lee Ufan", Joseph Love.
• Meister der Zeichnung, Kunsthalle Nürnberg, Germany, 1982. "Lee Ufan", Toshiaki Minemura.
• Japanese Contemporary Art Exhibition, Camden Art Center, London, England, 1982.
• Material Gets Art. Berlin National Galerie, Germany, 1982.
• Three-men Exhibition, Juda Rowan Gallery, London, England, 1983.
• Wiesbadener Skulpturentage, Germany, 1984.
• Solo Exhibition, Gallery hyundai, Seoul, Korea, 1984, Text by Lee Ufan (Lee III).
• Artist’s Books : Japan. Franklin Furnace Gallery, New York. U.S.A.and Fuji Television Gallery, Tokyo, Japan, 1985, Yoshiaki Tõno.
• Seoul-Paris, Centre National des Arts Plastiques, Paris, France,1986.
• Contemporary Japanese Calligraphy and painting, Galerie Nationale de Prague, Czechoslovakia, 1986.
• Japon des Avant-Gardes 1910-1970, Musée National d’Art Moderne, Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, France, 1986.
• Solo Exhibition, Hyondae Gallery, Seoul, Korea, 1987, 1990.
• LEE UFAN : ex oriente, Ex Solo Exhibition, Padiglione d’Arte Contemporanea, Milano,
1987, Pierre Restany," La Scuola delle Cose (l’École Des Choses)" : Pontiggia Elena,
"Le Parole delle Cose" in Exhibition Catalogue, Monoha, Padiglione d’Art Contemporanea, Milano, Italy, 1988.
• Symposium of Olympic Sculpture, Seoul, Korea, 1988.
• Lee Ufan, Traces of Sensibility and Logic, The Museum of Fine Arts, Gifu, Japan, 1988.
Text by Toshiaki Minemura, Masahiro Aoki, Kiyoshi Okada.
• Pierre Restany, "Peindre sur l’aile du vent", Croisement des Signes, Institut du Monde Arabe, Paris, 1989, p.60.
• Toshiaki Minemura, "Evasion of the object / Ont snappen uither object" in Exhibition Catalogue, 20th Biennale Middelheim-Japan, Openluchtmu seum voor Beeldhouwkunst Middelheim, Antwerp, Belgium, 1989.
• Effets de Mirror, Arts plastiques Ile-de-France, 1989, Michel Nuridsany.
• Solo Exhibition, Galerie m Bochum, Germany, 1989. Text by Lee Ufan
• With winds, Gallery Ueda, Tokyo Gallery, 1989, Arturo Silva.
• Blau, Heidelberger Kunstverein, Germany, 1990.
• Erlauterungen zur Modernen kunst, Kunstsammlungen der Ruhr Universität Bochum, Germany, 1990.
• Lee Ufan, Kamakura Gallery, Tokyo, 1990. Text by Akira Tatehata
• Solo Exhibition, Lorenzelli Arte, Milano, Italy, 1991, Flaminio Gualdoni.
• Seven Artistes, Aspects of Contemporary Japanese Art, Santa Monica Museum of Art, U.S.A. 1991, Kazuo Yamawaki.
• Solo Exhibition, Hara Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo, Japan, 1991. Text by Arata Tani
• Solo Exhibition, Space Gallery Pusan, Korea, 1992.
• Working with Nature, Tate Gallery, Liverpool, England, 1992, Lewis Biggs.
• Ansichtssachen, Galerie m. Bochum, Germany, 1992.
• Avandguardie Giapponesi Degli Anni 70, Galleria D’Arte Moderna Comune di Bologna, 1992, Barbara Bertozzi.
• Solo Exhibition, The Museum of Modern Art, Kamakura, Japan, 1993. Text by Tadayasu Sakai and Tsutomu Mizusawa.
• Lee Ufan, Toshi Shuppan, Tokyo, Japan, 1993. Text by Michel Nuridsany and Arata Tani.
• Solo Exhibition, The Museum of Contemporary Art, Seoul, Korea, 1994. Text by Lim Young Bang and Uryung Lee.
• Lee Ufan, Fondazione Mudima, Milano, 1994. Text by Gino di Maggio and Achille Bonito Oliva.
• Lee Ufan, Gallery Hyundai, Seoul, Korea, 1994. Text by Toshiaki Minemura.
• Lee Ufan, Städtisches Museum, Leverkusen, Germany, 1995. " Lee Ufan-Ein Künstler des anderen", by Irmtraud Schaarschmidt-Richter, " Der Stein und Die Leere" by Rolf Wedewer.
• Japon 1970 Le Mono-Ha, Musée d’Art Moderne, Saint-Etienne, France. Text by Okada Kyoshi, 1996
• Lee Ufan, Konggan Gallery, Pusan, Korea, Text by J-C. Poitevin, 1996
• Solo Exhibition, Galerie Nationale du Jeu de Paume, Paris, 1997. "Pour Lee Ufan" by Michel Deguy, "Le territoire de l’œuvre" by Roland Rocht, "A l’intérieur du silence" by Daniel Abadie, "Relations" by Michel Nuridsany, Chronologie by Véronique Béranger, "Entretien avec Lee Ufan" by Henri-François Debailleux.
• Lee Ufan, La Collection, Musée National D’Art Moderne, Centre Georges Pompidou, 1997, Paris. Text by Nathalie Filser.
• Tommaso Trini, "Anche il vuoto lavora", Lorenzelli Arte, Milano, 1997
• Solo Exhibition, Städtische Galerie STÄDEL, Frankfurt am main, 1998. Text "Die Beziehung Zwischen Eben und Volumen", by Ursula Grzechca-Mohr, "Konkrete Ereignisse im Unbegrenzten" by Irmtraud Schaarschmidt-Richter.
• Solo Exhibition, Lee Ufan printworks 1970-1998, Mitaka City Gallery of Art, Tokyo, 1998. Text "Working and thinking of Lee Ufan" by Yusuke Nakahara, Yuichiro Asakura, Masakai Ono, Kikuo Okouchi, Kiyoshi Ejiri, Tetsuo Tani, Documentation by Toru Matsubara.
• Korean Monochromism, Busan Metropolitan Art Museum, Korea, 1998. " Lee Ufan" by Lee Dong-suk.
• Kunstwelten im Dialog, Museum Ludwig, Köln. 1999
• SARAJEVO 2000, Museum Moderner Kunst Stiftung Ludwig Wien, 2000. "Lee Ufan" by Sung-dug Kim.
• Solo Exhibition, Kunstmuseum Bonn, Bonn, 2001. "Lee Ufan vorwort" by Dieter Ronte.
"Spur in der Unendlichkeit-Zu Lee Ufans Künstlerischem Konzept" by Christoph Schreier, " Das Verhältinis von U und MU Die Bildwelt von Lee Ufan" by Tsutomu Mizusawa, "Auf dem Weg zu einer unsichtbaren Welt – Die zweidimensionale Welt des Lee Ufan by Yusuke Nakahara, " Lee Ufan- Einige Überlegungen zu seinen Bildern" by Irmtraud Schaarschmidt-Richter.
• Hedendaagse kunst uit Japan Kröller-Müller Museum Otterlo, 2001. "Lee Ufan", by Jaap Bremer.
• Le Tribú dell’Arte, Galleria Comunale d’art Moderne, Roma, 2001. "Mono-ha" by Yasuyuki Nakai.
• Century City, Tate Modern London, 2001. "Tokyo 1967-1973" by Reiko Tomii.
• Mono-ha – school of things, Museum of Kettle’s Yard, Cambridge, 2001.
"Encountering Mono-ha" by Simon Groom, " Foreshadowings and Premonitions : Mono-ha" by Lee Ufan, " Mono-ha and Japan’s Crisis of the Modern" by Tatehata Akira.
• Les Années 70 : l’art en cause, CAPA Musée d’art Contemporain de Bordeaux, 2002."Mono-ha" by Maurice Fréchuret.
• The Pacific Triennale Queensland Art Gallery, Brisbane, Australia, 2002. "Lee Ufan"
• Samsung Museum of Contemporary Art, Seoul, Korea 2003
• Happiness, Mori Art Museum, Tokyo, 2003.
• Musée St.Louis Fernet Branca, Alsace, 2004
• Limpa – Ecole de Limpa, The National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo, 2004.
• L’art au futur antérieur 1975-2004, Musée du Grenoble, 2004.
• Solo Exhibition, Lee Ufan, The Art of Margins, Yokohama Museum of Art, 2005, "Interconnection", "Yohaku-The Art of Margins" by Lee Ufan, "Painting Beginnings:
The paintings of Lee Ufan" by Kasiwagi Tomoh, "The Expansion of Things : The Sculpture of Lee Ufan" by Kuraishi Shino, "Chronology" by Okyang Chae-Duporge.
• Reconsidering Mono-ha, The National Museum of Art Osaka, 2005, "Reconsidering Mono-ha" by Nakai Yasuyuki, "The Lineage of Art That Questions Being" by Minemura Toshiaki.
• Lee Ufan, Musée d’Art Moderne, Saint-Etienne, 2005, "Si près, si loin : la peinture/méditation de Lee Ufan" by Lorand Hegyi, "L’espace non-agi dans l’œuvre de Lee Ufan" by Okyang Chae-Duporge.
• Kwangjoo Biennale, 2006, Korea
• Elastic Taboos, Kunsthalle, 2007, Wien
• Living in the Material World : 《Things》in Art of the 20th Century and Beyond, 2007, The National Art Center, Tokyo
• L’art de Monet et sa Postérité, 2007, The National Art Center, Tokyo
• 52nd La Biennale di Venezia, 2007, Venice
• Lee Ufan Resonance, 52nd La Biennale di Venezia, 2007, "One Hand Clapping" by Achille Bonito Oliva, "Comments on contextualization in the paintings of Lee Ufan" by Lorand Hegyi, "All in one point" by Gino de Maggio, publication of Fondazione Mudima,
• Sensitive Systems – Lee Ufan, Roman Opalka, Giuseppe Penone, Gunther Uecker, Hakgojae Gallery, Seoul, 2008, “A Strong Sense of Life” by Lorand Hegyi
• 1st Poznan Biennale, text by Lorand Hegyi, Poland, 2008
• Solo Exhibition, Lee Ufan, Royal Museum of Fine Arts of Belgium, Brussels, 2008, Introduction by Michel Draguet, essay by Philippe Dagan, Pierre- Yves Desaive
• Lee Ufan, Roman Opalka, Gunther Uecker, Fondazione Mudima, Milano, 2008, text by Lorand Hegyi