Kim Hong Joo

• Born in 1945, Chung-buk, Korea

Education

• 1981      MFA in Painting, Hongik University, Seoul
  1969      BFA in Painting, Hongik University, Seoul

Selected Solo Exhibitions

• 2020
  Forms That Cannot Be Forms, The Great Collection, Seoul, Korea
  
  2015    
  Kukje Gallery, Seoul, Korea
  
  2010    
  Kukje Gallery, Seoul, Korea
  
  2009    
  Arko Museum of Art, Seoul, Korea
  
  2006    
  Daegu Culture & Art Center, Daegu, Korea
  
  2005    
  Inside and Outside if Image, Rodin Gallery, Samsung Museum of Art, Seoul, Korea
  
  2002    
  Kukje Gallery, Seoul, Korea
  
  2001    
  Hyundai Art Center, Ulsan, Korea
  Godo Gallery, Seoul, Korea
  
  1999    
  Kukje Gallery, Seoul, Korea
  
  1997    
  Kumho Museum of Art, Seoul, Korea
  
  1996    
  Soo Gallery, Seoul, Korea
  
  1993    
  Soo Gallery, Seoul, Korea
  
  1991    
  Soo Gallery, Seoul, Korea
  
  1989    
  Soo Gallery, Seoul, Korea
  
  1987    
  Yoon Gallery, Seoul, Korea
  
  1983    
  Growrich Gallery, Seoul, Korea
  
  1978    
  Seoul Gallery, Seoul, Korea

Selected Group Exhibitions

• 2020
  4 ID, Gallery Naeil, Seoul, Korea
  Art Plant Asia 2020: Hare Way Object, Deoksugung Palace, Seoul, Korea
  The Great Epics, Daegue Art Museum, Daegue, Korea
  Progressive Ambition: Rewriting History of Daejeon Art 70s -80s, Daejeon, Korea
  
  2018
  Thirty Years of Lee Jung-seob Prize, Gallery Chosun, Seoul
  100 years of Daejeon Art : The Beginning of the Future, Daejeon Museum of Art, Daejeon, Korea
  
  2015
  Korea Tomorrow 2015, Sungkok Art Museum, Seoul, Korea
  
  2014         
  Zeitgeist Korea, National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Seoul, Korea
  
  2012    
  (Im)Possible Landscape, Plateau, Seoul, Korea
  The Centenary Celebration of Lee In Sung’s Birth, Daegu Art Museum,Daegu, Korea
  Flower in the Moment, OCI Museum of ART, Seoul, Korea
  Beyond the Boundaries of Physical Properties, Interalia, Seoul, Korea
  On every border flower blooms, Daejeon Museum of Art, Daejeon, Korea
  
  2009    
  On every border flower blooms, Daejeon Museum of Art, Daejeon, Korea
  From Yeonhui dong, Yeonhui dong Project Opening Exhibition
  
  2008    
  Transcendence : Modernity and beyond in Korean Art, Singapore Art Museum, Singapore
  Nutra, Gana Art Gallery, Seoul, Korea
  Negative Images, Gyeonggi Museum of Modern Art, Gyeonggi-do, Korea
  Mirror Image: About a Self Portrait, Seoul Museum of Art, Seoul, Korea
  Symphony of Nature and Mystique - Harmony,  Shin Museum of Art, Cheongju, Korea
  
  2007    
  Void in Korean Art, Leeum Samsung Museum of Art, Seoul, Korea
  Korean Paintings From the 1970’, Seoul Art Center Hangaram Art Museum, Seoul, Korea
  Writing Paintings, Painting Words, Seoul Museum of Art, Seoul, Korea
  
  2006    
  Illusion / Disillusion, Seoul Museum of Art, Seoul, Korea
  100 years of Korean Art, The national Museum of Contemporary Art, Gwacheon, Korea
  
  2004   
  Officina Asia, Galleria d’arte Moderna, Bologna, Galleria Comunale d’Arte, Cesena, Pallazzo dell’Arengo, Rimini, Italy
  Alchemy of Daily Life, National Museum of Contemporary Art, Gwacheon, Korea
  Korea Plastic, Art Park, Seoul, Korea
  
  2003    
  Leaning Forward, Looking Back: Eight Contemporary Korean Artists, Asian Art Museum, San Francisco, US
  Flower Power, Lille contemporary Art Museum, Lille, France
  
  2002    
  Babel 2002, National Museum of Contemporary Art, Gwacheon, Korea
  
  2001    
  Illusion and Reality: Hyper realism Painting in Korea and America, Ho-Am Art Gallery, Seoul, Korea
  A Decade of Transition and Dynamics, National Museum of Contemporary Art, Gwacheon , Korea
  Another Phase, Hanwon Museum, Seoul, Korea
  
  2000    
  Design or Art, Seoul Arts Center, Seoul, Korea
  Kang kyung Art, History, Images, Hanlim Museum, Daejeon, Korea
  
  1999    
  Contemporary Art from Korea, Unesco Palace, Lebanon
  Beyond Landscape, Art sonje Center, Seoul / Sonje Museum of Art, Gyeonhju, Korea
  
  1998    
  Spiritual scapes, Generous Miracles Gallery, New York, US
  The body in paintings, Hanlim Museum, Daejeon, Korea
  
  1997     
  Gwangju Biennale Special Exhibition - Nomadic Passages, Gwangju City Museum, Gwangju, Korea
  Flowing Humor In The Museum, Sungkok Art Museum, Seoul, Korea
  Contemporary Art from Korea – from Ancient Traditions to New Forms, Joseloff Gallery, Hartford, US
  MANIF Seoul international Art Fair, Seoul Arts Center, Seoul, Korea
  
  1996    
  Aspect of Korean Art in the 1990's, National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo, Japan  / The National Museum of Art, Taipei, Taiwan
  Asia-Pacific Triennale, Queensland Art Gallery, Queensland, Australia
  Development of Korean Modernism, Kumho Museum of Art, Seoul, Korea
  
  1995    
  Korean Art 95’ Quality, Quantity, Sensation, National Museum of Contemporary Art, Gwacheon, Korea
  Korean Contemporary Art, China Art Museum, Beijing, China
  
  1994    
  Youn Hyung-Jae & Kim Hong-Joo, Gallery Bamberger, Mannheim, Germany
  Bird! Bird! Blue Bird!, Seoul Art Center, Seoul, Korea
  
  1993    
  Across the Pacific-Contemporary Korean and Korean American Art, Queens Museum, New York / Kumho Museum of Art, Seoul
  
  1992    
  Art and Photography, Seoul Arts Center, Seoul, Korea
  
  1991    
  Contemporary Korean Painting, Muzesko Galerijski Center, Zagreb, Croatia
  
  1987    
  10 Artists of the Year 1986, Galerie de Seoul, Seoul, Korea
  
  1985    
  Asia Art, Fukuoka Art Museum, Fukuoka, Japan
  
  1984    
  Korean Contemporary Fine Art Exhibition – The Stream of 70’s, Taipei Fine Art Museum, Taipei, Taiwan
  
  1983    
  Korean Contemporary Artist’s Exhibition-The Letter Half of the 70’th: An Aspect, Japan Tour, Tokyo, Osaka, Utsunomiya, Sapporo, Fukuoka, Japan
  
  1982-85 
  Asian Art, Fukuoka Municipal Art Museum, Fukuoka, Japan
  
  1980    
  Cagne International Painting Festival, Cagne-sur Mer, France
  
  1978   
  Tendencies of Korean Contemporary Art for 20 years, National Museum of contemporary Art, Gwacheon, Korea
  Grand Prix Exhibition of Korean Art, sponsored by HanKuk Ilbo, Seoul, Korea
  
  1975-81 
  Seoul contemporary Art Festival, National Museum of Modern Art, Seoul, Korea
  
  1974-77 
  Independents Exhibition, National Museum of Modern Art, Seoul, Korea
  
  1973-77 
  S.T. Group Show, Myoung Dong Gallery, etc, Seoul, Korea

Selected Awards

• 2006    
  Paradise Award, Art in Culture
  
  2005    
  The 6th Lee in-sung Art Award
  
  1980    
  Cagne International Painting Festival, Special Award , Cagne-sur Mer, France
  
  1978    
  Grand Prix Exhibition of Korean Art, The Grand Prize Award, sponsored by HanKuk Ilbo, Seoul, Korea

Selected Public and Private Collections

• Fukuoka City Museum, Fukuoka, Japan
  National Museum of Contemporary Art, Seoul, Korea
  Daejeon Museum of Art, Daejeon, Korea
  Leeum, Samsung Museum of Art, Seoul, Korea
  Seoul Museum of Art, Seoul, Korea
  Art Sonje Center, Seoul, Korea
  Seong Gang Foundation
  Total Museum, Seoul, Korea