Kim Yong-Ik

• Born in 1947, Seoul, Korea
  Lives and works in Yangpyeong, Korea

Education

• 1980     MFA in Painting, Hongik University, Seoul, Korea
  1975     BFA in Painting, Hongik University, Seoul, Korea

Selected Solo Exhibitions

• 2019    
  Speaking of Latter Genesis, Tina Kim Gallery, New York, US
  This is not the answer, Barbara Wien Galerie, Berlin, Germany
  
  2018
  untitled utopias, Cahiers d’Art, Paris, France
  Endless Drawing, Kukje Gallery, Seoul, Korea
  
  2017    
  I believe my works are still valid, Spike Island, Bristol & Korean Cultural Centre, London, UK
  Tina Kim Gallery, New York, US
  
  2016
  Kukje Gallery, Seoul, Korea
  Closer…Come Closer…, Ilmin Museum of Art, Seoul, Korea
  
  2011
  Timidly Resisting the No-Pain-Civilization, Art Space Pool, Seoul, Korea
  
  2006    
  Gallery 175, Seoul, Korea
  
  2003    
  Pyo Gallery, Seoul, Korea
  
  2002    
  Gallery Sagan, Seoul, Korea
  
  2001    
  Closer…Come Closer…, Gallery Woong, Seoul, Korea
  2000    
  Yangpyeong Project/Project, National Folk Museum of Korea, Seoul, Korea
  
  1997    
  Kumho Museum of Art, Seoul, Korea
  
  1996    
  Gallery Woong, Seoul, Korea
  
  1995    
  Gallery Hakcheon, Cheongju, Korea
  
  1994    
  Inkong Gallery, Seoul, Korea
  
  1993    
  Inkong Gallery, Seoul, Korea
  
  1992    
  Da-in Gallery, Seoul, Korea
  
  1989    
  Inkong Gallery, Seoul, Korea
  
  1986    
  Inkong Gallery, Daegu, Korea
  
  1983    
  Culture Center, Daejon, Korea
  
  1982    
  Kwanhoon Museum, Seoul, Korea
  
  1978    
  Gallery Te, Tokyo, Japan
  
  1977    
  Seoul Gallery, Seoul, Korea

Selected Group Exhibitions

• 2019    
  KLAPPE ZU, AFFE TOT: WERKE AUS DER SAMMLUNG BERGMEIER, KUNSTSAELE, Berlin, Germany
  Drawing-Korean Modern and Contemporary Drawings, Seoul Olympic Museum of Art, Seoul, Korea
  2019 Pool Rising, Art Space Pool, Seoul, Korea
  WONDERLAND MUSEUM: HOW WE GOT TO NOW, Daejeon Museum of Art, Daejeon, Korea
  Individuals, Networks, Expressions, M+, Hong Kong
  
  2018    
  Flatland, Kumho Museum of Art, Seoul, Korea
  
  2016    
  As the Moon Waxes and Wanes, National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Gwacheon, Korea
  Suzhou Documents: Histories of a Global Hub, Suzhou Art Museum, Suzhou, China
  Public to Private: Photography in Korean Art since 1989, National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Seoul, Korea
  
  2014    
  ART Fahrenheit 451: Sailing into the Sea of Oblivion, Yokohama Triennale, Yokohama, Japan
  
  2013    
  Sphere_Body_Landscape: Healing Ground, Seoul Olympic Museum of Art, Seoul, Korea
  Knowledge is Power: Post-Propaganda, Wumin Art Center, Cheongju, Korea
  Learning Machine, Nam June Paik Art Center, Yongin, Korea
  
  2012    
  Garden of Learning, 2012 Busan Biennale, Busan Museum of Art, Busan, Korea
  SeMA Gold 2012: Hidden Track, Seoul Museum of Art, Seoul, Korea
  
  2010    
  Korean Historical Conceptual Art 1970-80s, Gyeonggi-do Museum of Art, Ansan, Korea
  Nature and Peace, Geumgang Nature Art Biennale 2010, Gongju Yeonmisan Nature Art Park, Gongju, Korea
  Day of Confidence, Art Space Pool, Seoul, Korea
  Land Art Mongolia 360°, 1st Land Art Mongolia Biennale, Baga Gazriin Chuluu-Dunggobi, Mongolian National Modern Art Gallery, Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia
  Him of Gyeonggi-do, Gyeonggi Museum of Modern Art, Ansan, Korea
  Young Seek 1981-2010, National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Gwacheon, Korea
  
  2008    
  Nature, Environment and Man through Art-Nature Peace, Geumgang Nature Art Biennale 2008, Gongju, Korea
  Yeonmisan Nature Art Park, Gongju, Korea
  The 40th Anniversary of Soo-Young Kim’s Death-Tribute Exhibition: An Account of Converting, Art Space Pool, Seoul, Korea
  Neighborhood Facilities, Art Space Pool, Seoul, Korea
  
  2007    
  Multi-functional Administrative City Public Art Project: Embracing Jongchon, Jongchonli, Yeongigun, Sejong, Korea
  
  2005    
  Tripping the Balance, Anyang Public Art Project, Anyang, Korea
  
  2004    
  You are my Sun, Total Museum of Contemporary Art, Seoul, Korea
  Virtual Daughter, Seoul Women’s Plaza, Seoul, Korea
  
  2002    
  After the Grid, Busan Museum of Art, Busan, Korea
  Pause, Gwangju Biennale 2002, Project 4, Gwangju, Korea
  
  2000    
  Public Art, Yangpyeong project, National Folk Museum, Seoul, Korea
  Famous Artists’ Printing Works Exhibition for the Medicine Aid on Kids of North Korea, Dongsanbang Gallery, Seoul, Korea
  The Citizens Assembly Fundraising Exhibition, Café Zalkove, Seoul, Korea
  
  1999    
  North-East Asia and the 3rd World Art, Seoul Museum of Art, Seoul, Korea
  Korean Pop, Sung-kok Art Museum, Seoul, Korea
  
  1998    
  Inaugural Exhibition: Fond of the Frame, More than the Painting, Kumho Museum of Art, Seoul, Korea
  Seoul in Media - Food, Clothing, Shelter, Seoul Museum of Art, Seoul, Korea
  Inaugural Exhibition: 2000 Time Spirit, Daejeon Municipal Museum of Art, Daejeon, Korea
  
  1997    
  Painting and Writing, Hanlim Museum, Daejeon, Korea
  Kim Yong-Ik, Moon Beom, Hong Myung-Seop, Gallery Euro, Seoul, Korea
  Korean Art '97- Humanism, Animalism, Mechanism, National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Gwacheon, Korea
  DOT, Kumho Museum of Art, Seoul, Korea
  
  1996    
  Development of Korean Modernism-Conquest of Modern 1970-90, Kumho Museum of Art, Seoul, Korea
  Hong Myung-Seop, Kim Yong-Ik, Two-One Man show, Choi Gallery, Seoul, Korea & Ars Polona Gallery, Warsaw, Poland
  
  1995    
  Kim Yong-Ik, Moon Beom, Hong Myung-Seop, Gallery Jo, Seoul, Korea
  
  1994    
  Kim Yong-Ik, Moon Beom, Hong Myung-Seop, Inkong Gallery, Daegu, Korea
  Opening the 21st Century, Gallery 21st Century, Seoul, Korea
  
  1993    
  Kim Yong-Ik, Moon Beom, Hong Myung-Seop, Gaain Gallery, Seoul, Korea
  
  1992    
  Kim Yong-Ik, Moon Beom, Hong Myung-Seop, The 3rd Gallery, Seoul, Korea
  
  1991    
  Inaugural Exhibition, Sonje Museum of Contemporary Art, Gyeongju, Korea
  Kim Yong-Ik, Moon Beom, Hong Myung-Seop, Space Museum, Seoul, Korea
  
  1990    
  Contemporary Art Festival 90's, National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Gwacheon, Korea
  
  1989    
  Seoul, March of 1989, 10 Artists, Korea Culture and Arts Foundation Art Center, Seoul, Korea
  
  1988    
  Korean Modern Painting in the 70's, Walker Hill Art Center, Seoul, Korea
  Late Modernism Show Part-Ⅱ, Hyundai Department Store Gallery, Seoul, Korea
  Modernism in Korean Contemporary Art Scene: 1970-1979, Gallery Hyundai, Seoul, Korea
  Seoul, March of 1988, Korea Culture and Arts Foundation Art Center, Seoul, Korea
  
  1987    
  30/40 Abstract with Geometry, Korea Culture and Arts Foundation Art Center, Seoul, Korea
  Seoul, March of 1987, Korea Culture and Arts Foundation Art Center, Seoul, Korea
  
  1986    
  Yokohama-Seoul Contemporary Art Show '86, City Museum of Yokohama, Japan
  meta-FORM. meta-MIND, Culture Center, Daejeon, Korea
  11th Ecole de Seoul, Kwanhoon Museum, Seoul, Korea
  The 2^nd Sino-Korean Modern Painting Exchange Exhibition, Taipei, Taiwan
  
  1985
  1985, The 3rd Gallery, Seoul, Korea
  10th Ecole de Seoul, Kwanhoon Museum, Seoul, Korea
  
  1984    
  Contemporary Korean Art Exhibition, Taipei Fine Arts Museum, Taipei, Taiwan
  1984, The 3rd Gallery, Seoul, Korea
  9th Ecole de Seoul, Kwanhoon Museum, Seoul, Korea
  
  1983    
  Korean Contemporary Art Exhibition: A Trend of the Late 70's, Travelling exhibition held in Tokyo/Osaka/Utsunomiya/Sapporo/Fukuoka, Japan
  Works by Controversial Artists in 1982, Seoul Museum of Art, Seoul, Korea
  8th Ecole de Seoul, Kwanhoon Museum, Seoul, Korea
  
  1982    
  Korean-Japanese Paper Works, National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Gwacheon, Korea
  & the City Museum of Art, Kyoto, Japan
  After (The) Logicalness, Su Gallery, Daegu, Korea
  7th Ecole de Seoul, Kwanhoon Museum, Seoul, Korea
  
  1981    
  The Winter of Sinchon, Sung-Gu Lee’s Studio, Seoul, Korea
  6th Ecole de Seoul, Kwanhoon Museum, Gallery Goryeo, Myeongdong Gallery, Seoul, Korea
  Exhibition of the Origin Fine Arts Association, Korea Culture and Arts Foundation Art Center, Seoul, Korea
  Korea/Japan Contemporary Painting Exhibition 1981, Korea Culture and Arts Foundation Art Center, Seoul, Korea
  Today’s Circumstance, Kwanhoon Museum, Seoul, Korea
  The 1^st Korean Young Artists Biennale, National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Seoul, Korea
  
  1980    
  Geumgang Contemporary Art Festival, Geumgang Beach, Gongju, Korea
  Festival – Contemporary Asian Art Show, Fukuoka Art Museum, Fukuoka, Japan
  
  1979    
  7th Independents, National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Seoul, Korea
  5th Ecole de Seoul, National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Seoul, Korea
  Korean Art – The Methods of Today, Korea Culture and Arts Foundation, Seoul, Korea
  
  1978    
  6th Independants, National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Seoul, Korea
  4th Ecole de Seoul, National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Seoul, Korea
  
  1977    
  Korea: Facet of Contemporary Art, Tokyo Central Museum of Art, Tokyo, Japan 
  6th ST, Kyeon-Ji Gallery, Seoul, Korea
  4 Artists’ Exhibition in July, Seoul Gallery, Seoul, Korea
  5th Independants, National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Seoul, Korea
  3rd Ecole de Seoul, National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Seoul, Korea
  
  1976    
  2nd Ecole de Seoul, National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Seoul, Korea
  
  1975    
  13th São Paulo Art Biennial, São Paulo, Brazil
  1st Ecole de Seoul, National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Seoul, Korea
  1st Seoul Contemporary Art Festival, National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Seoul, Korea
  1974
  2nd Independents, National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Seoul, Korea
  4th Esprit, Myeongdong Gallery, Seoul, Korea
  1st Daegu Contemporary Art Festival, Keimyung University, Daegu, Korea

Selected Public and Private Collections

• Busan Metropolitan Art Museum, Busan, Korea
  Daejeon Museum of Art, Daejeon, Korea
  Gyeonggi Museum of Modern Art, Ansan, Korea
  Ho-Am Art Museum, Seoul, Korea
  Kumho Museum of Art, Seoul, Korea
  Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, US
  Leeum Samsung Museum of Art, Seoul, Korea
  M+, Museum for Visual Culture, Hong Kong
  The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, US
  National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Gwacheon, Korea
  Seoul Museum of Art, Seoul, Korea
  POSCO Art Museum, Seoul, Korea
  Tokyo Metropolitan Art Museum, Tokyo, Japan