~2007    Professor of Tama Art University, Tokyo
1936    Born in Gunbuk, Gyeongsangnam-do
1956    Interrupted studies at Seoul National University and came to Japan
1961    Graduated from Nihon University, Department of Philosophy
1997    Invited professor at Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-Arts, Paris

Solo Exhibitions
2010    Galeria Elvira Gonzalez, Madrid, Spain
2009    Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac, Paris, France
2008    The Royal Museum of Fine Arts of Belgium, Brussel, Belgium
Dahlem Museum, Berlin, Germany
Pace Wildenstein, New York, New York, USA
2007    52th Venezzia Biennale, Venice, Italy
2006    Galerie Micheline Szwajcer, Antwerp, Belgium
Galerie Nachst St. Stephan, Vienna, Austria
2005    Yokohama Museum of Art, Yokohama, Japan
Musee d’Art Moderne, Saint-Etienne, France
2004    Musee Fernet Branca St. Louis, Alsace, France
2003    Gallery HYUNDAI, Seoul, Korea
The Samsung Museum of Modern Art, Seoul, Korea
2002    SCAI The Bathhouse, Tokyo, Japan
2001    Kunstmuseum Bonn, Germany
Shgong Gallery, Taegoo, Korea
Konggan Gallery, Busan, Korea
2000    m Kunstvermitlung, Bochum, Germany
1999    Liliane & Michel Durand-Dessert, Paris, France
Kamakura Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
Shirota Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
Galerie m, Bochum, Germany
1998    Sigong Gallery, Taegoo, Korea
Staatisches Museum im ST€DEL, Frankfurt, Germany
Galerie J. Moussion, Paris, France
1997    Gallery HYUNDAI, Seoul, Korea
Gallery Bhak, Seoul, Korea
Galeire Nationale du Jeu de Paume, Paris, France
Lorenzelli Arte, Milano, Italy
1996    Lisson Gallery, London, UK
Tokyo Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
Konggan Gallery, Busan, Korea
1995    Staatisches Museum Leverkusen, Leverkusen, Germany
Galerie de Paris, Paris, France
Inkong Gallery, Seoul, Korea
Galerie m, Bochum, Germany
1994    The National Museum of Contemporary Art, Seoul
Gallery HYUNDAI, Seoul, Korea
Fondazione Mudima, Milano, Italy
1993    The Museum of Modern Art Kamakura, Kanagawa, Japan
Tokyo Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
Shirota Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
1992    Konggan Gallery, Busan, Korea
Galerie de Paris, Paris, France
1991    Inkong Gallery, Seoul, Korea
Hara Museum ARC, Gumma, Japan
Tokyo Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
Lorenzelli Arte, Milano, Italy
1990    Konggan Gallery, Busan, Korea
Inkong Gallery, Seoul, Korea
Gallery HYUNDAI, Seoul, Korea
Kamakura Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
1989    Galerie de Paris, Paris, France
Tokyo Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
Gallery Ueda, Tokyo, Japan
Shirota Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
Galerie m, Bochum, Germany
1988    The Museum of Fine Arts, Gifu, Japan
Padiglione D'Arte Contemporanea, Milano, Italy
Galerie Anselm Dreher, Berlin, Germany
1987    Gallery HYUNDAI, Seoul, Korea
1986    Tokyo Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
Galerie de Paris, Paris, France
Gallery Ueda, Tokyo, Japan
Shirota Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
1985    Kamakura Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
1984    Gallery HYUNDAI, Seoul, Korea
Gallery Su, Seoul, Korea
Galerie de Paris, Paris, France
Galerie Eric Fabre, Paris, France
Shirota Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
1983    Gallery Ueda, Tokyo, Japan
1982    Studio Marconi, Milano, Italy
1981    Shirota Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
1980    Tokyo Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
Marl Sculpture Museum, Marl, Germany
Galerie Eric Fabre, Paris, France
Gallery Ueda, Tokyo, Japan
1979    Gallery Takagi, Nagoya, Japan
Jin Galllery, Seoul, Korea
Gallery Muramatsu, Tokyo, Japan
1978    Gallery HYUNDAI, Seoul, Korea
Dusseldorf Kunsthalle, Dusseldorf, Germany
Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Humlebaek, Denmark
Galerie m, Bochum, Germany
The Antwerp Gallery, Antwerp, Belgium
Shirota Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
1977    Tokyo Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
Galerie Eric Fabre, Paris, France
1976    Myung-Dong gallery, Seoul, Korea
Galerie m, Bochum, Germany
Gallery Spectrum, Antwerp, Belgium
1975    Galerie Eric Fabre, Paris, France
Myung-Dong gallery, Seoul, Korea
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
Group Exhibitions
2009    Infinitum, Palazzo Fortuny, Venice, Italy
2008    Sensitive Sytems, Hakgojae Gallery, Seoul, Korea
1st Poznan Biennale, Poznan, Poland
2007    Taboos, Kunsthalle Wiene, Vienna, Austria
L’Art de Monet et Sa Posterite, The National Art Center, Tokyo, Japan
2006    La force de l’art, Grand Palais, Paris, France
Gwangjoo Biennale, Gwangjoo, Korea
2005    Reconsidering Mono-ha, The National Museum of Art, Osaka, Japan
2004    L’art au future anterieur, Musee de Gernoble, Grenoble, France
2003    Happiness, Mori Art Museum, Tokyo, Japan
2002    Les annees 70 1'art en cause, CAPC Musee d'Art Contemporain, Bordeaux, France
2001    Mono-ha - school of things, Museum of Kettle's Yard, Cambridge, UK
Century City, Tate Modern, London, UK
2000    Gwangjoo Biennale, Gwangjoo, Korea
Shanghai Biennale, Shanghai, China
1999    Kunstwelten im Dialog, Museum Ludwig, Koln, Germany
1998    SARAJEBO 2000, Museum Moderna Kunst Stiftung Ludwig, Wien, Austria
Korean Monochromism, Busan Metropolitan Art Museum, Busan, Korea
1997    Made in France, Musee National d'art Moderne, Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, France
1996    Japan 1970 Mono-ha, Musee d'art Moderne, Saint-Etienne, France
ASIANA-monoha, Palazzo Vendramin, Venice, Italy
1995    Korean Art 95, The National Museum of Contemporary Art, Seoul, Korea
1994    Postwar Art in Japan, Yokohama City Museum of Art, Yokohama, Japan
Scream against the sky, Guggenheims Soho Museum, New York, New York, USA
1993    Spiritual in Art, Fukuyama Museum of Art, Fukuyama, Japan
1992    Contemporary Art from Korea, Tate Gallery, Liverpool, UK
1990    Blau, Heidelberger Kunstmuseum, Heidelberg, Germany
Minimal Art, The National Museum of Art, Osaka, Japan
1989    Japan 1989, Museum van Hedendaagse Kunst, Gent, Belgium
Biennale Middelheim Japan, Middelheim Open-Air Museum, Antwerp, Belgium
1988    Symposium of Olympic Sculpture, Seoul Olympic Sculpture Park, Seoul, Korea
Monoha, Museo Labatorio di Arte Contemporanea, Rome, Italy
1987    Mono-ha and Postmono-ha, The Seibu Museum of Art, Tokyo, Japan
Painting 1977-87, The National Museum of Art, Osaka, Japan
1986    Mono-ha, Kamakura Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
Contemporary Japanese Calligraphy and painting, Galerie Nationale de Prague, Prague, Czechoslovakia
Seoul-Paris, Centre National des Arts Plastiques, Paris, France
Le Japon des Avant-Gardes, Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, France
1985    40 Years of Japanese Contemporary Art, Tokyo Metropolitan Art Museum, Tokyo, Japan
1984    Trends of Contemporary Japanese Art, Tokyo Metropolitan Art Museum, Tokyo, Japan
1982    Material Gets Art, Berlin National Galerie, Berlin, Germany
Meister der Zeichnung, Kunsthalle Nuremnberg, Nuremberg, Germany
1980    Contemporary Art in Japan, The Museum of Modern Art, Stockholm, Sweden
1978    Z. B. Sculpture, Staatisches Museum im ST€DEL, Frankfurt, Germany
1977    Kassel Documenta 6, Kaseel, Germany
1976    Ecole de Seoul, Seoul, Korea
2nd Sydney Biennale, Sydney, Australia
1975    3rd Triennale India, National Academy of Art, New Delhi, India
Contemporary Art of Japan, The Museum of Ietevorg, Stockholm, Sweden
1974    Japan Traditional Gegenwart, Staatisches Kunsthalle, Dusseldorf, Germany
Japanese Art in Louisiana, Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Humleback, Denmark
1972    Napoli International Exhibition, Napoli, Italy
2th Seoul Prints Biennale, Seoul, Korea
1971    7th Paris Biennale, Paris, France
1970    7th International Prints Biennale in Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
Aspects of New Japanese Art, The National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo, Japan
1969    Sao Paulo Biennale, Sao Paulo, Brazil
1968    Contemporary Art of Korea, The National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo, Japan