Yoo Youngkuk

• (1916 - 2002)
  
  Born in 1916, Uljin-gun, Korea

Education

• 1938     BFA in Oil Paintings Department at Bunka Gakuin University, Tokyo, Japan

Selected Solo Exhibitions

• 2018    
  Yoo Youngkuk: Colors from Nature, Kukje Gallery, Seoul, Korea
  
  2017    
  YOO YOUNGKUK, 100th Anniversary of Korean Modern Master, Busan Museum of Art, Busan, Korea
  
  2016     
  100th Anniversary of Korean Modern Master: YOO YOUNGKUK 1916-2002, National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Seoul, Korea
  
  2011      
  Yoo Youngkuk 10^th Anniversary: The Pioneer of Korean Abstract Art, Gallery Hyundai, Seoul, Korea
  
  2005    
  3rd Memorial Drawing Exhibition of Yoo Youngkuk, Gana Art Center, Seoul, Korea
  
  2003    
  YOO Youngkuk, Gallery Hyundai, Seoul, Korea
  
  2002    
  Gana Art Center, Seoul, Korea
  
  1998    
  Gallery Hyundai, Seoul, Korea
  
  1996    
  Ho-Am Art Gallery, Seoul, Korea
  
  1995    
  Gallery Hyundai, Seoul, Korea
  
  1983    
  Shinsegae Gallery, Seoul, Korea
  
  1982    
  Space Gallery, Seoul, Korea
  
  1980    
  Gallery Hyundai, Seoul, Korea
  
  1979    
  Invitational Exhibition of Yoo Youngkuk, National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Deoksugung, Seoul, Korea
  
  1977    
  Jean Gallery, Seoul, Korea
  
  1976    
  Shinsegae Gallery, Seoul, Korea
  
  1975    
  Gallery Hyundai, Seoul, Korea
  
  1970    
  Shinsegae Gallery, Seoul, Korea
  
  1968     
  Shinsegae Gallery, Seoul, Korea
  
  1966    
  Central Information Center, Seoul, Korea
  
  1964    
  1st Solo exhibition, Korea Press Center, Seoul, Korea

Selected Group Exhibitions

• 2021
  Encounters Between Korean Art and Literature in the Modern Age, National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Deoksugung, Seoul, Korea
  Jamunbak Museum Project: Part I, Gana Art Centre, Seoul, Korea
  DNA: Dynamic & Alive Korean Art, National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art (MMCA) Deoksugung, Seoul, Korea
  MMCA Lee Kun-hee Collection: Masterpieces of Korean Art, National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Seoul, Korea
  MMCA Collection Exhibition: Meaningful Moments in the History of Korean Art, Jeongeup Museum of Art, Jeongeup, Korea
  The Special Exhibition on Lee Kun-hee Collection-Welcome Home: A Feast of Art, Daegu Art Museum, Daegu, Korea
  Modern Life, Daegu Art Museum, Daegu, Korea
  
  2019    
  Drawing - Korean Modern and Contemporary Drawings, Seoul Olympic Museum of Art, Seoul, Korea
  The Dream of Modernity: Planting a Flowering Tree, Buk-Seoul Museum of Art, Seoul, Korea
  
  2018    
  1900~1960s Modern Art from MMCA Collection, National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Gwacheon, Korea  
  Digital Promenade, Seoul Museum of Art, Seoul, Korea
  Birth of The modern Art Museum Art and architecture of MMCA, National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Deoksugung, Seoul, Korea
  
  2017    
  Ode to Forgetting, SeMA Nam Seoul Museum of Art, Seoul, Korea
  Art is Form, Gyeonggi Museum of Modern Art, Ansan, Korea
  Korean Contemporary Art as Seen Through the National Exhibition of Korean Fine Art, Geumboseong Art Center, Seoul, Korea
  Modern Art Association: Blossoming Avant-Garde Art, Moonshin Museum, Changwon, Korea
  The Perspective of Abstract Painting, Busan Museum of Art, Busan, Korea
  
  2015     
  Re appreciated: Korean and Japanese Modern Artists in the Korean Peninsula 1890s to 1960s, The Museum of Modern Art, Kanazawa, Japan
  Commemorative Exhibition of the 70^th Anniversary of the Liberation, National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Seoul, Korea
  70^th Anniversary of Liberation Special Exhibition of Korean Modern and Contemporary Art, Daejeon Museum of Art, Daejeon, Korea
  
  2014    
  Masters of Korean Art, Seoul Museum, Seoul, Korea
  Korean Modern and Contemporary Abstract Art – Silent Resonance, Wooyang Museum of Contemporary Art, Gyeongju, Korea
  Yesterday and Today, National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Deoksugung, Seoul, Korea
  
  2013     
  Masterpieces of Modern Korean Painting, National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Deoksugung, Seoul, Korea       
  Deep & Wide, Seoul Museum, Seoul, Korea
  Long Distance by Slow but Persistent Steps (牛步千里), Seoul Museum, Seoul, Korea
  Kind Contemporary Art II: Abstract Art Is Alive, Gyeonggi Museum of Modern Art, Ansan, Korea
  A Moment of Truth, Museum San, Wonju, Korea
  Spring Wave, AK Gallery, Suwon, Korea
  Contemporary Art in the Textbooks, Goyang Aram Nuri Arts Center, Goyang, Korea
  60-70’s Korean Contemporary Painting, Gallery Hyundai, Seoul, Korea
  
  2012    
  Natural scenes of Korea, Busan Museum of Art, Busan, Korea
  Abstract painting in yeongnam area, Pohang Museum of Steel Art, Pohang, Korea
  Two Modernisms, Gwangju Museum of Art, Gwangju, Korea
  The Opening Exhibition of Seoul Museum, Seoul Museum, Seoul, Korea
  Korean Art Masterpieces Seen Through Prints, AK Gallery, Suwon, Korea
  33^rd Exhibition of the National Academy of Arts, Museum of the National Academy of Arts Gallery, Seoul, Korea    
  Korean Art in Textbooks, Museum of Art, Seoul National University (MoA), Seoul, Korea
  
  2011      
  100 Years of Korean Art, AKL Gallery, Amway Korea, Korea
  Horizon of Contemporary Art, Seoul Museum of Art, Seoul, Korea
  Korean Rhapsody – A Montage of History and Memory, Leeum Samsung Museum of Art, Seoul, Korea
  
  2010    
  Yoo Youngkuk in the 1950s and First-Generation Modernists, Gana Art, Seoul, Korea
  2010 in the Midst of the Korean Contemporary Art, Gallery Hyundai, Seoul, Korea
  Yi Sang’s Emergence, Arko Art Center, Seoul, Korea
  
  2009     
  Modern Boy and Modern Girl: Early Modernism and Modernity of Korean Art, KIAF 2009 Art Seoul, Seoul, Korea
  
  2008    
  Masterpieces of Korean Modern Art: On Modernity, National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Deoksugung, Seoul, Korea
  100 Years of Korean Drawings, SOMA Museum of Art, Seoul, Korea
  
  2007    
  Constellations of Reality, Whanki Museum, Seoul, Korea
  Masterpieces of Korean Modern and Contemporary Art, Gana Art, Busan, Korea
  The Art Blue Picks 120 Modern and Contemporary Korean Artists, Insa Art Center, Seoul, Korea
  
  2006    
  Art at University, Museum of Art, Seoul National University (MoA), Seoul, Korea
  Invitation to Contemporary Art, Museum of Art, Seoul National University (MoA), Seoul, Korea
  The great Artist of modern art – Into the Aura, Gallery YEH, Seoul, Korea
             
  2005
  Korean Contemporary Art, Busan Museum of Art, Busan, Korea
  Yoo Youngkuk and Oh Jiho, Shinsegae Gallery, Gwangju, Korea
  100 Years of Korean Art, National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Deoksugung, Seoul, Korea
  Exhibition to Commemorate the Relocation and Reopening of Gallery Mee, Gallery Mee, Seoul, Korea
  
  2004   
  50th Anniversary Exhibition of the National Academy of Arts, Korea, National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Deoksugung, Seoul, Korea
  Forever Red, Gana Art, Seoul, Korea
  
  2003   
  Exploration of Light and Color, Hangaram Museum of Seoul Arts Center, Seoul, Korea
  
  2002    
  Inaugural Exhibition of Seoul Museum of Art, Seoul Museum of Art, Seoul, Korea
  Elegance and Wit: The Making of Modern Korean Painting, Ho-Am Art Gallery, Seoul, Korea
  100 Modern Korean Paintings, National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Deoksugung, Seoul, Korea
  
  2001    
  Development of Korean Contemporary Art, Gallery Hyundai, Seoul, Korea
             
  2000    
  30th anniversary Exhibition of Gallery Hyundai, Gallery Hyundai, Seoul, Korea
  
  1999    
  21st Fine Art Members Exhibition of the National Academy of Arts, Korea, Museum of the National Academy of Arts Gallery, Seoul, Korea
  East Asian Painting: Birth and Development of Oil Painting, traveling exhibition in Japan
  
  1996    
  27th Art Basel, Art Basel, Basel, Switzerland
  
  1994    
  Seoul International Contemporary Art Festival, National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Gwacheon, Korea
  
  1993    
  Signs and Forms of Contemporary Art, Gallery Hyundai, Seoul, Korea
  
  1992      
  14th Fine Art Members Exhibition of the National Academy of Arts, Korea, Museum of the National Academy of Arts Gallery, Seoul, Korea
  Special Exhibition of the MMCA Collection, Daegu Arts Center/Gangneung Arts Center, Daegu/Gangneung, Korea
  
  1991
  Kyungbock High School Alumni Exhibition, Gana Art, Seoul, Korea
  Seven Korean Modern Artists, Gallery Hyundai, Seoul, Korea
  25 Contemporary Artists, Gallery Hyundai, Seoul, Korea
  
  1990    
  Contemporary Art ’90, National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Gwacheon, Korea
  
  1989    
  5th Seoul Museum of Art Exhibition, Seoul Museum of Art, Seoul, Korea
  
  1988    
  World Contemporary Art, National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Gwacheon, Korea
  
  1987      
  9th Fine Art Members Exhibition of the National Academy of Arts, Museum of the National Academy of Arts Gallery, Seoul, Korea
  Seoul Museum of Art Exhibition, National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Gwacheon, Korea
  Contemporary Art ’87, National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Gwacheon, Korea
  4th Anniversary Exhibition of Gana Art, Gana Art, Seoul, Korea
  
  1986    
  Yesterday and Today of Korean Contemporary Art, National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Gwacheon, Korea
  
  1985    
  40 Years of Contemporary Art, National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Seoul, Korea
  Contemporary Art ’85, National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Seoul, Korea
  Today’s Oil Paintings, Gallery Yeh, Seoul, Korea
  Korean Young and Old Artists of Oil Painting, Gana Art, Seoul, Korea
  Seven Artists of Oil Paintings, Gallery Hyundai, Seoul, Korea
  
  
  1984    
  Eight Artists of Oil Painting, Kukje Gallery, Seoul, Korea
  Fine Art Members Exhibition of the National Academy of Arts, Korea, Baegak Museum, Seoul, Korea
  Exhibition to Commemorate the Relocation and Reopening of Gana Art, Gana Art, Seoul, Korea
  Jinu Group (辰友會) Exhibition, Sun Gallery, Seoul, Korea
  Four Artists of Oil Painting, Kukje Gallery, Seoul, Korea
  Contemporary Art ‘84, National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Seoul, Korea
  Ten Artists of Oil Painting, Gallery Hyundai, Seoul, Korea
  
  1983    
  Korean Contemporary Art, Visconti Hall, Milan, Italy
  The second anniversary exhibition of Seoul Museum, Seoul Museum, Seoul, Korea
  Invitational Duet Exhibition of YooYoungkuk& Olivier Debré, French Cultural Center, Seoul, Korea
  Nine Artists of Oil Painting, Sun Gallery, Seoul, Korea
  23 Korean Artists, Gallery Mee, Seoul, Korea
  Contemporary Art ’83, National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Seoul, Korea
  
  1982     
  The Fundraising Exhibition for the Construction of the Independence Hall of Korea, organized by the Korean Fine Arts Association and Arts Council Korea. Arko Art Center, Seoul, Korea
  4^th Fine Art Members Exhibition of the National Academy of Arts, Korea, Gallery Hyundai, Seoul, Korea
  Painting of Today, Jean Gallery, Seoul, Korea
  Salon d‘Automne exhibition in France, Château de Lunéville, Lunéville, France
  Ten Korean Artists, Kukje Gallery, Seoul, Korea
  Contemporary Oil Painting, Gallery Yeh, Seoul, Korea
  Seoul Newspaper ’82, Lotte Gallery, Seoul, Korea
  The Eleventh Anniversary Exhibition of Gallery Hyundai, Gallery Hyundai, Seoul, Korea
  Prints by Eleven Korean Artists, Sun Gallery, Seoul, Korea
  
  1981  
  3rd Fine Art Members Exhibition of the National Academy of Arts, Korea, Gallery Hyundai, Seoul, Korea
  Seoul Newspaper ‘81, Lotte Gallery, Seoul, Korea
  Korean Art ‘81, National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Seoul, Korea
  
  1980  
  Senior Artists of Korean Oil Painting, Lotte Gallery, Seoul, Korea
  2nd Art Exhibition of the Gallery Association, Gallery Hyundai and Hui Gallery, Seoul, Korea
  1st Korean Contemporary Art exhibition, Myeongseong Country Club House, Yongin, Korea
  2nd Fine Art Members Exhibition of the National Academy of Arts, National Academy of Arts Gallery, Seoul, Korea
  The 10th Anniversary Exhibition of Gallery Hyundai, Gallery Hyundai, Seoul, Korea
  Contemporary Oil Paintings, Gallery Yeh, Seoul, Korea
  
  1979    
  1st Grand Art Exhibition, organized by the Gallery Association, Munhwa Gallery and Sun Gallery, Seoul, Korea
  Five Artists of Oil Painting, Gallery Yeh, Seoul, Korea
  1^st Fine Art Members Exhibition of the National Academy of Arts, National Academy of Arts Gallery, Seoul, Korea
  28^th National Art Exhibition of Korea, Seoul, Korea
  Korean Contemporary Art in the 1950s, National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Seoul, Korea
  2^nd JoongAng Art Exhibition, National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Seoul, Korea
  The First Anniversary Exhibition of Gallery Yeh, Gallery Yeh, Seoul, Korea
  
  1978    
  Invitational Exhibition of Salon de Mai, Muséed'Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, Paris, France
  The retrospective exhibition of the New Realism Group, Gallery Won, Seoul, Korea
  20 Years of Korean Contemporary Art, National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Seoul, Korea
  27^th National Art Exhibition of Korea, Gyeongbokgung Museum of Art, Seoul, Korea
  The Opening Exhibition of Seoul Gallery, Seoul Gallery, Seoul, Korea
  
  1977   
  Ten Contemporary Korean Painters, Gallery of the Korean National Commission for UNESCO, Seoul, Korea
  26^th National Art Exhibition of Korea, Seoul, Korea
  Month of June Exhibition, Hui Gallery, Seoul, Korea
  Korean Contemporary Oil Painting Masterpieces, Deoksugung Palace, National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Seoul, Korea
  Exhibition to celebrate the relocation of Shinsegae Museum, Shinsegae Museum, Seoul, Korea
  
  1976    
  25^th National Art Exhibition of Korea, Seoul, Korea
  Korean Contemporary Artists, Imok Gallery, Seoul, Korea
  1^st Jinu Group (辰友會) Exhibition, Myeongdong Gallery, Seoul, Korea
  Invitational Exhibition of Paintings, Sun Gallery, Seoul, Korea
  Space Art Grand Prize Exhibition, Hui Gallery, Seoul, Korea
  
  1974    
  Korean Contemporary Artists, Kyung Hee University Museum, Seoul, Korea
  1st Anniversary Exhibition of Sangang Gallery, Sangang Gallery, Daejeon, Korea
  
  1973    
  22^nd National Art Exhibition of Korea, Seoul, Korea
  100 Contemporary Artists, Deoksugung Palace, National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Seoul, Korea
  
  1972  
  21^st National Art Exhibition of Korea, Seoul, Korea
  60 Years of Korean Modern Art, Gyeongbokgung Palace, National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Seoul, Korea
  
  1971  
  20^th National Art Exhibition of Korea, Seoul, Korea
  The exhibition of Kyungbock High School Alumni, Seoul, Korea
  
  1970    
  Korean Contemporary Oil Paintings, Shinsegae Gallery, Seoul, Korea
  1^st Korean Fine Art Grand Prize exhibition, Gyeongbokgung Palace, National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Seoul, Korea
  Invitational Exhibition of Shinsegae Artists Series, Shinsegae Gallery, Seoul, Korea
  
  1969    
  18^th National Art Exhibition of Korea, Seoul, Korea
  1^st Biennale d’arte di Pistoia, Pistoia, Italy
  
  1968    
  17^th National Art Exhibition of Korea, Seoul, Korea
  3^rd Ten Korean Contemporary Artists exhibition, Shinsegae Gallery, Seoul, Korea
  Modern Korean Painting Exhibition, National Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo, Japan
  
  1967    
  9^th International Art of Japan exhibition in Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
  16^th National Art Exhibition of Korea, Gyeongbokgung Museum of Art, Seoul, Korea
  2nd 10 Contemporary Korean Painters, Shinsegae Gallery, Seoul, Korea
  3^rd Exhibition of the International Society of Plastic and Audio-Visual Art (ISPAA), Seoul, Korea; Osaka, Japan; Taipei, Taiwan; Hong Kong; Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, traveling exhibition
  
  1966    
  10^th Invitational Exhibition of Contemporary Artists, Gyeongbokgung Museum of Art, Seoul, Korea
  Korean Contemporary Art, Shinsegae Gallery, Seoul, Korea
  Congress for Cultural Freedom, Arts Council Korea Gallery, Seoul, Korea
  9^th Invitational Exhibition of Contemporary Artists, Gyeongbokgung Museum of Art, Seoul, Korea
  Seven Korean Contemporary Artists, Press Center, Seoul, Korea
  
  1964    
  4^th 2·9 Exhibition, Central Public Relations, Seoul, Korea
  3^rd Exhibition of SinSang-Hoe, Gyeongbokgung Museum of Art, Seoul, Korea
  
  1963    
  2^nd Invitational Exhibition of World Congress of Cultural Freedom, Central Public Relations, Seoul, Korea
  3^rd 2·9 Exhibition, Seoul National Library Gallery, Seoul, Korea
  2^nd Exhibition of Sin Sang-Hoe, Gyeongbokgung Museum of Art, Seoul, Korea
  7th São Paulo Biennial, São Paulo, Brazil
  
  1962    
  2^nd 2·9 Exhibition, Seoul National Library Gallery, Seoul, Korea
  1st Exhibition of Sin Sang-Hoe (New Form Group), Gyeongbokgung Museum of Art, Seoul, Korea
  1st Invitational Exhibition of World Congress of Cultural Freedom, Central Public Relations, Seoul, Korea
  
  1961    
  The International Free Art Exhibition in Tokyo, Museum of Tokyo National Stadium, Tokyo, Japan
  5^th Invitational Exhibition of Contemporary Artists, Gyeongbokgung Museum of Art, Seoul, Korea
  Inaugural 2·9 Exhibition, Seoul National Library Gallery, Seoul, Korea
  
  1960    
  4^th Invitational Exhibition of Contemporary Artists, Gyeongbokgung Museum of Art, Seoul, Korea
  1^st Exhibition of the Etude of Contemporary Art Institute, Contemporary Art Institute in Methodist Hall, Seoul, Korea
  
  1959    
  3^rd Invitational Exhibition of Contemporary Artists, Gyeongbokgung Museum of Art, Seoul, Korea
  
  1958    
  4^th Exhibition of the Modern Art Association, Donghwa Gallery, Seoul, Korea
  3^rd Exhibition of the Modern Art Association, Hwashin Gallery, Seoul, Korea
  Anti-Communist Art Exhibition, Anti-Communist Hall, Seoul, Korea
  2^nd Invitational Exhibition of Contemporary Artists, National Museum of Contemporary Art, Seoul, Korea
  
  1957    
  2^nd Exhibition of the Modern Art Association, Hwashin Gallery, Seoul, Korea
  1^st Exhibition of the Modern Art Association, Donghwa Gallery, Seoul, Korea
  
  
  1955
  4^th National Art Exhibition of Korea, Gyeongbokgung Museum of Art, Seoul, Korea
  
  1954    
  The special exhibition of Korean Contemporary Art, National Museum of Korea, Seoul, Korea
  
  1953    
  3^rd Sinsasilpa Group Exhibition in Busan, National Museum of Korea, Busan, Korea
  The Contemporary Artists exhibition, National Museum of Korea, Busan, Korea
  
  1950    
  The Contemporary Art exhibition, Daewon Gallery, Seoul, Korea
  
  1949    
  2^nd Sinsasilpa Group Exhibition, Donghwa Gallery, Seoul, Korea
  
  1942    
  6^th Exhibition of the Association of Art Creators, the Art Association of Japan, Ueno, Tokyo, Japan
  
  1941    
  5^th Exhibition of the Association of Art Creators, the Art Association of Japan, Ueno, Tokyo, Japan
  
  1940    
  Exhibition of the Association of Art Creators in Seoul, Seoul Public Hall, Seoul, Korea
  4^th Jiyu Bijutsuka Group of Japan Exhibiton in Okasa, Osaka City Museum of Fine Arts, Osaka, Japan
  4^th Jiyu Bijutsuka Group of Japan Exhibiton, Association of Free Artists, Ueno, Tokyo, Japan
  
  1939    
  3^rd Jiyu Bijutsuka Group of Japan Exhibition in Osaka, Osaka City Museum of Fine Arts, Osaka, Japan
  6^th-7^th N.B.G. Exhibition, Kinokuniya Gallery, Ginza, Tokyo, Japan
  
  1938    
  2nd Jiyu Bijutsuka Group of Japan Exhibition, Association of Free Artists, Ueno, Tokyo, Japan
  2^nd-5^th N.B.G(Neo Beaux-arts Group) Exhibition, Kinokuniya Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
  
  1937
  7th Dokuritsu-ten Exhibition, Tokyo Metropolitan Art Museum, Tokyo, Japan

Selected Awards

• 1984    
  Received the Bo-Gwan Order of Culture Merit, Korea
  
  1976    
  Won the prize from the National Academy of Arts, Korea
  
  1938    
  Received the best awards of 2nd JiyuBijutsuka Group of Japan Exhibition for Work R3

Selected Public and Private Collections

• National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Korea
  Leeum, Samsung Museum of Art, Seoul, Korea
  Seoul Museum of Art, Seoul, Korea
  Gyeonggi Museum of Modern Art, Ansan, Korea
  Museum SAN, Wonju, Korea
  HITE Collection, Seoul, Korea