Born in 1953, Seoul, Korea
Lives in Tokyo, Japan and Berlin, Germany
Education
1984-87 Assistant to Hiroshi Teshigahara
1980 Sogetsu School, Tokyo, Japan
Selected Solo Exhibitions
2019 The Nature Rules: Dreaming of Earth Project, Hara Museum, Tokyo, Japan
2016
Misa Shin Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
2014 The house that continuously circulates, National Gallery Prague, Prague, Czech Republic
2012 -verse, Kukje Gallery, Seoul, Korea
2010
Hara Museum, Tokyo, Japan
2007 Lucy and Her Time, Rodin Gallery, Seoul, Korea
1993
Kukje Gallery, Seoul, Korea
1991
Galeria Milano, Milano, Italy
Gallery Ueda SC, Tokyo, Japan
Gallery Koyanagi, Tokyo, Japan
1990
Kyong-Dong Presbyterian Church, Seoul, Korea
Duson Gallery, Seoul, Korea
1989
Gallery Koyanagi, Tokyo, Japan
1988
Gallery Ueda, Tokyo, Japan
1987
Gallery Ueda, Tokyo, Japan
1985
The Sogetsu Plaza, Tokyo, Japan
1984
The Sogetsu Art Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
Selected Group Exhibitions
2021 DMZ Art & Peace Platform, UniMARU, Jejin Station, Paju, Goseong-gun, South Korea
2019 DMZ, Culture Station Seoul 284, Seoul, Korea
2018 Jae-eun CHOI, Shingo FRANCIS, IBA Yasuko, IKEZOE Akira, MAEDA Saki, Misa Shin Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
2016 Public to Private: Photography in Korean Art since 1989, National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Seoul, Korea
The 15th Venice Architecture Biennale, Venice, Italy
2014 Real DMZ project 2014, The border area near the DMZ, Gangwon-do, Korea
2013 The Unanswered question. Iskele2, Tanas and n.b.k, Berlin, Germany
2012
The 7th Seoul International Media Art Biennale, Media City Seoul 2012, Seoul, Korea
2008 Platform Seoul 2008, Seoul Station Old Bldg., Seoul, Korea
Prague Triennial, ITCA 2008, National Gallery Prague, Prague, Czech Republic
2002
The New Way of Tea, Japan Society, New York, US
1999
The New Wind of Asia, The Sogetsu Art Museum, Tokyo, Japan
The 3rd Asia Pacific Triennial, Brisbane, Australia
1995
The 46th Venice Biennale ’95, Japan Pavilion, Venice, Italy
The 6th Europa Ostasein Triennial, Stuttgart, Germany
1993
Grand Tea Ceremony in Paris, UNESCO, Paris, France
1992
Arte Sella, Borgo Valsugana, Italy
1991
Opening exhibition, Security Pacific Gallery, Seattle, US
The 21st São Paulo Biennale, São Paulo, Brazil
The 2nd Setoda Biennale, Setoda, Japan
1988 East Meets West-Los Angeles Art Fair ’88, Los Angeles, US
1987 To the Depth, Spiral Garden, Tokyo, Japan
Selected Projects
2015 - present
Korean Peninsula DMZ ‘Dreaming of Earth’ Project
1996-8 Song Chol priest's tomb project, Heinsa, Hapcheon, Korea
1992-3 The Daejon International Expo ‘Recycle Art Pavilion’, Daejon, Korea
1997
Saitama Shintoshin, Saitama, Japan
1996
Seaside Momochi Center Stage Aero Gallery, Fukuoka, Japan
1994
Samsung Medical Center, Seoul, Korea
1991
Nagoya castle Ruins, Saga, Japan
1988 Past-Future, The National Museum of Contemporary Art, Gwacheon, Korea
1986 - present World Underground Project (Korea, Japan, US, France, Italy, Germany, Kenya)
Filmography
2000 On the way, docudrama, 70min
Selected Public and Private Collections
Art Sonje Museum, Seoul, Korea
Hara Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo, Japan
Leeum, Samsung Museum of Art, Seoul, Korea
Museum SAN, Wonju, Korea
National Gallery Prague, Prague, Czech Republic
National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Seoul, Korea
Nina Ricci Foundation, Paris, France
Rahmi M. Koc Museum, Istanbul, Turkey
Sogetsu Museum, Tokyo, Japan