
Kim, Yong-Ik (b. 1947)
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
2019 This is not the answer, Barbara Wien Galerie, Berlin, Germany
2018 untitled utopias, Cahiers d’Art, Paris, France
2018 Endless Drawing, Kukje Gallery, Seoul, Korea
2017 I believe my works are still valid, Spike Island, Bristol & Korean Cultural Centre, London, UK
2017 Tina Kim Gallery, New York, US
2016 Kukje Gallery, Seoul, Korea
2016 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, Daejeon, Korea
1982 Kwanhoon Museum, Seoul, Korea
1978 Gallery Te, Tokyo, Japan
1977 Seoul Gallery, Seoul, Korea
Group shows
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
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 2nd Sino-Korean Modern Painting Exchange Exhibition, Taipei, Taiwan
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
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 1st 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 Independents, 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 Independents, 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



