KIMSOOJA

Born 1957, Daegu, Korea
Lives and works in New York and Seoul

Education and Residencies

2021 Artist in residence at Humboldt Museum, Berlin, Germany
2018 - 2019 Artist in residence at the Cité de la Céramique, Manufacture Nationale de Sèvres, Sèvres, France
2014 Artist in residence at Cornell University, Ithaca, New York, USA
2007 - 2008 Artist in residence at the Musée d'art contemporain du Val-de-Marne(MAC/VAL), Vitry-sur-Seine, France
1999 Artist in residence at Center for Contemporary Art, Kitakyushu(CCA Kitakyushu), Kitakyushu, Japan
1998 - 1999 Artist in residence for the World Views Program at the World Trade Center, New York, USA
1992 - 1993 Artist in Residence at MoMA P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center, New York, USA
1984 Lithography studio at Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-Arts, Paris, France (French Government Scholarship)
1984 MFA, Painting Dept., Hong-Ik University, Seoul, Korea
1980 BFA, Painting Dept., Hong-Ik University, Seoul, Korea

Solo Exhibitions & Site Specific Projects

2024
  • Le monde comme il va, Bourse de Commerce - Pinault Collection, Paris, France (Upcoming) More Information
  • To Breathe - Archive of Prototype , Axel Vervoordt Gallery, Antwerp, Belgium (Upcoming)
  • Thread Roots, Museum De Lakenhal, Leiden, The Netherlands
  • Desert X AlUla, Alula, Saudi Arabia (Site-specific Installation)
2023
  • Kimsooja - (Un)folding Bottari, The Museum für Asiatische Kunst and The Ethnologisches Museum, Humboldt Forum, Berlin, Germany
  • Wrapping the Void, Sèvres National Manufactory and Museum, Sèvres, France
  • Kimsooja, Meta-Painting, Kewenig Galerie, Berlin
  • To Breathe - RATP, Régie Autonome des Transports Parisiens(RATP); Mairie de Saint-Ouen metro station, Paris, France (Public Art Commission)
  • To Breathe, Galeries Lafayette Paris Haussmann, Paris, France
  • Weaving the Light, Cisternerne, Frederiksberg Museum, Copenhagen, Denmark
  • Kimsooja, Topography of Body, Axel Vervoordt Gallery, Hong Kong
  • Deductive Object: (un)fold, Paper Tube Studio, Centre Pompidou- Metz, France
  • Kimsooja, Jaoseon, Meridiano, Puerto Escondido, Mexico
  • To Breathe – Zurich, Galerie Tschudi, Zurich, Switzerland
2022
  • Making Worlds, Art Gallery of New South Wales(AGNSW), Sydney, Australia
  • To Breathe - Leiden, Oude Vest, Leiden, The Netherlands
  • Spirit of Gift, A Place of Sharing, Hancock Shaker Village, Massachusetts, USA (Site-specific Installation)
  • To Breathe - Metz Cathedral, Metz Cathedral, France (Public Art Commission for permanent stained glass works)
  • Kimsooja, Contemporary Art Center Antonio Pérez Foundation, Cuenca, Spain
  • Meta-Painting, Kewenig Galerie, Palma, Mallorca, Spain
2021
  • To Breathe, Leeum Museum of Art, Seoul, Korea (Site-specific Installation at Atrium)
  • Exposición, PHE Gallery, Madrid, Spain
  • BIENALSUR 2021 Kimsooja: Chapter 1 - Kimsooja: The Encounter with the Other, MUNTREF Museo de la inmigración - Sede Hotel de Inmigrantes; Chapter 2 - Nomad, Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes(MNBA); Chapter 3 - An Inner Experience, Centro Cultural Coreano en Argentina, Buenos Aires, Argentina
  • Oku-Noto Triennale To Breathe - Suzu, Wanzaki Coast, Suzu, Japan (Site-specific Project)
2020
  • Asia Society Triennial: We Do Not Dream Alone - Art and creativity under lockdown, Asia Society Museum, New York, USA (Site-specific Installation)
  • Kimsooja, Planted Names, Axel Vervoordt Gallery, Antwerp, Belgium
  • Sowing into Painting, The Wanås Art Foundation, Wanås, Sweden
2019
  • Traversées / Kimsooja, Inaugural biennale featuring 13 Site-specific Installations around the City of Poitiers(Palais des Ducs d’Aquitaine; Théâtre Auditorium; Maison de l'Architecture; Place du Maréchal Leclerc; Chapelle Saint-Louis; Place du Maréchal Leclerc; Atelier Canopé-Chapelle des Augustins; Église Notre Dame-La Grande; Rue de la Cathédrale; Musée Sainte-Croix; Église Sainte-Radegonde; Le Confort Moderne), Poitiers, France
  • Kimsooja: Archive of Mind, Peabody Essex Museum(PEM), Salem, USA
  • Kimsooja: To Breathe, Yorkshire Sculpture Park, Wakefield, UK
2018
  • Frieze Sculpture 2018: A Needle Woman: Galaxy was a Memory, Earth is a Souvenir, The Regent's Park, London, UK
  • To Breathe - The Flags, Galleria Raffaella Cortese, Milan, Italy
  • To Breathe / Respirare, Basilica di Sant'Eustorgio, Milan, Italy
  • Sewing into walking, The Art Gallery of Western Australia(AGWA), Perth, Australia
  • Perth International Arts Festival: Zone of Nowhere, Perth Institute of Contemporary Arts(PICA), Perth, Australia
  • Perth International Arts Festival: To Breathe - The Flags, Northbridge, Perth, Australia
  • Gazing Into Sphere, Axel Vervoordt Gallery, Antwerp, Belgium
2017
  • Kimsooja, Galerie Tschudi, Zuoz, Switzerland
  • Kimsooja, Trish Clark Gallery, Auckland, New Zealand
  • Weaving the World, Kunstmuseum Liechtenstein, Vaduz, Liechtenstein
  • Culture City of East Asia 2017 Kyoto: Encounter - A Mirror Woman, Nijo Castle, Kyoto, Japan (Site-specific Installation)
  • Kimsooja - Geometry of Breath, Kewenig Galerie, Berlin, Germany
  • Deductive Object, Kukje Gallery at Art Basel Hong Kong, Hong Kong
2016
  • Kimsooja, Weaving the World, CC Strombeek, Belgium
  • Kimsooja, To Breathe - Zone of Zero, Centro de Arte Contemporaneo(CAC), Malaga, Spain
  • Culture City of East Asia 2016 Kyoto: Kimsooja, Gangoji Temple, Nara, Japan (Site-specific Installation)
  • MMCA Hyundai Motors Series 2016: Kimsooja - Archive of Mind, National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Korea(MMCA), Seoul, Korea
2015
  • Kimsooja - To Breathe, Centre Pompidou Metz, Metz, France
  • Kimsooja, A Beggar Woman - Cairo, Smith College Museum of Art, Massachusetts, USA
  • Kimsooja: Thread Routes, Chapter III, Axel Vervoordt Gallery, Antwerp, Belgium
  • The XIV Cordoba Photography Biennale: Earth - Water - Fire - Air, Sala Olive, Cordoba, Spain (Special Solo Exhibition)
  • Kimsooja: Thread Routes, Guggenheim Bilbao, Bilbao, Spain
2014
  • Kimsooja, To Breathe: Obengsaek, Gallery Tschudi, Zuoz, Switzerland
  • Kimsooja, To Breathe, Galleria Raffaella Cortese, Milan, Italy
  • 1st Cornell Council for the Arts(CCA) Biennale: Kimsooja, A Needle Woman: Galaxy was a Memory, Earth is a Souvenir, Ithaca, Cornell University Arts Quad, New York, USA (Site-specific Installation)
  • Kimsooja, To Breathe: Mandala, Kewenig Galerie, Palma, Majorca, Spain
  • Kimsooja, Bottaris, La Fabrica, Madrid, Spain
2013
  • Kimsooja / Unfolding, Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver, Canada
  • 55th Biennale di Venezia, The Korean Pavilion: Kimsooja, To Breathe - Bottari, Venice, Italy
  • Kimsooja, An Album: Sewing into Borderlines, Mariposa Land Port of Entry, Arizona, USA (Commissioned by GSA Art in Architecture Program)
  • Marseille-Provence European Capital of Culture 2013, Kimsooja, To Breathe - The Flags, Contemporary Art Trail, Aix-en-Provence, France
2012
  • Kimsooja, To Breathe, Kukje Gallery, Seoul, Korea
  • Kimsooja: A Needle Woman, Miami Art Museum, Miami, USA
  • Kimsooja, Kunsthal 44Møen, Askeby, Denmark
  • Calm Chaos: Kimsooja's Earth - Water - Fire - Air, Perm Museum of Contemporary Art(PERMM), Perm, Russia
  • Kimsooja, Musée d’art moderne et contemporain de Saint-Étienne Métropole(MAMC+), St. Etienne, France
2011
  • Kimsooja, Daegu Art Museum, Daegu, Korea
  • 12th presentation of Le Mois de la Photo a Montreal: Kimsooja, A Needle Woman, Maison de la Culture Frontenac, Montreal, Canada
  • Kimsooja, University Museum of Contemporary Art(UMCA), Massachusetts, USA
  • Kimsooja, Mumbai - A Laundry Field, Sullivan Gallery, School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, USA
  • Kimsooja, An Album: Hudson Guild, SVA Theater, Barney Auditorium, NYU, New York, USA (Site-specific Screening, Commissioned by More Art)
2010
  • Kimsooja, Gallery Tschudi, Zuoz, Switzerland
  • Kimsooja, Earth - Water - Fire – Air, Atelier Hermes, Seoul, Korea
  • Kimsooja, Being in the World / Être au Monde, Musée d'art de Joliette, Joliette, Québec, Canada
  • Kimsooja, Earth - Water - Fire - Air, The National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Korea, Yeong Gwang, Korea (Site-specific Installation, Yeong Gwang Nuclear Power Plant Art Project)
  • Kimsooja, Mumbai: A Laundry Field, Feldkirch Church, Kunstmuseum Liechtenstein, Liechtenstein
2009
  • Nuit Blanche 2009: A Needle Woman - Paris, Ville de Paris, Paris, France (Site-specific Screening, Commissioned by Nuit Blanche 2009)
  • Kimsooja: A Needle Woman 1999-2001, A Laundry Women-Yamuna River, India, Baltic Center for Contemporary Art(BALTIC), Gateshead, UK
  • 5th Bienal de Arte de Lanzarote: Kimsooja, Museo Internacional de Arte Contemporáneo de Lanzarote(MIAC), Canary Islands, Spain
  • Kimsooja, Mumbai: A Laundry Field, Continua Gallery, Le Moulin, France
2008
  • To Breathe: Invisible Mirror / Invisible Needle, San Francisco Art Institute, San Francisco, USA (Site-specific Screening)
  • Kimsooja, Lotus: Zone of Zero, Rotonde at Galerie Ravenstein, Brussels, Belgium (Occasion of the Korean Art Festival, BOZAR)
  • Kimsooja, Mumbai: A Laundry Field, Continua Gallery, Beijing, China
  • Kimsooja, A Mirror Woman: The Sun & The Moon, Shiseido Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
  • Black Box: Kimsooja, Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington D.C., USA
  • Kimsooja, Video Album, Galleria Raffaella Cortese, Milan, Italy
2007
  • Kimsooja, Mumbai: A Laundry Field, Kewenig Gallery, Cologne, Germany
  • A Wind Woman, La Fábrica, Madrid, Spain
2006
  • Kimsooja, A Wind Woman, Peter Blum Gallery, Chelsea, New York, USA
  • Kimsooja, A Wind Woman, The Project, New York, USA
  • Nuit Blanche 2006: Kimsooja, To Breathe - Invisible Mirror / Invisible Needle, Teatre Chatelet, Paris, France (Commissioned by Nuit Blanche 2006)
  • Kimsooja, Magasin III - Museum for contemporary Art, Stockholm, Sweden
  • Kimsooja, To Breathe - A Mirror Woman, Crystal Palace, Madrid, Spain (Site-specific Installation, Commissioned by Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía)
  • Kimsooja, To Breathe / Respirare, La Fenice Theater, Venice, Italy (Site-specific Installation, In conjunction with a joint Solo Exhibition at Fondazione Bevilacqua la Masa)
2005
  • The 59th Minute: Kimsooja, Conditions of Anonymity, Times Square, Creative Time, New York, USA
  • Kimsooja, Journey into the World, National Museum of Contemporary Art, Athens(EMST), Athens, Greece
  • Kimsooja, Seven Wishes and Secrets, MIT List Visual Arts Center Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA
  • Kimsooja, Bottari Cologne, Kewenig Gallery, Cologne, Germany
2004
  • Kimsooja, A Needle Woman, Yekaterinburg, Russia (7 Outdoor Video Screen Projection)
  • Videos in Progress, RISD Museum, Rhode Island, USA
  • Kimsooja, Galleria Raffaella Cortese, Milan, Italy
2003-2004
  • Kimsooja, Conditions of Humanity, traveling solo show, The Musée d'Art Contemporain, Lyon, France; Museum Kunst Palast, Düsseldorf, Germany; Padiglione d'Arte Contemporanea(PAC), Milan, Italy
2003
  • Mandala: Zone of Zero, The Project, New York, USA
  • Crossings 2003: Hawaii/Korea, A Mirror Woman - The Ground of Nowhere, Honolulu City Hall, Hawaii, USA
  • Kim Sooja, Zacheta National Gallery of Contemporary Art, Warsaw, Poland
2002
  • Kimsooja, A Laundry Woman, Kunsthalle, Wien, Vienna, Austria
  • Kimsooja, A Laundry Woman, Images Passages, Annecy, France
  • Kimsooja, A Mirror Woman, Peter Blum Gallery, New York, USA
2001
  • Kimsooja, A Needle Woman, Kunsthalle Bern, Bern, Switzerland
  • Kimsooja, A Needle Woman, MOMA P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center, New York, USA
  • Kimsooja, Bottari 2001, Sprengel Museum, Hanover, Germany
  • KimSooJa, INOVA Gallery, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, USA
  • Kimsooja, A Laundry Woman, Palazzo Delle Poste, Trieste, Italy
2000
  • Kimsooja, A Needle Woman, NTT InterCommunication Center(ICC), Tokyo, Japan
  • Kimsooja, A Needle Woman - A Woman Who Weaves the World, Rodin Gallery(Plateau Samsung Museum of Art), Seoul, Korea
1999
  • Kimsooja, A Needle Woman, Center for Contemporary Art, Kitakyushu(CCA), Kitakyushu, Japan
1997
  • Kimsooja, Sewing into Walking, Le Magasin – Centre National d'Art Contemporain, Grenoble, France
  • Kimsooja, Deductive Object, Akira Ikeda Gallery, Nagoya, Japan
  • Kimsooja, A Laundry Field — Sewing into Walking. Looking into Sewing, Oakville Galleries, Ontario, Canada
1994
  • Kimsooja, Sewing into Walking, Gallery Seomi, Seoul, Korea
1992
  • Kim Soo-Ja, Hankook Gallery, Seoul, Korea
1991
  • Kim Soo-Ja, Gallery Hyundai, Seoul, Korea
1989
  • Kim Soo-Ja, On Gallery, Osaka, Japan
1988
  • Kim Soo-Ja, Gallery Hyundai, Seoul, Korea

Selected Two Person Shows

2004
  • The 18th Rencontre Paralleles - Video and Visual Art Festival: Alighiero Boetti + Kimsooja, Centre d'Art Contemporain de Bass-Normandie, Bass-Normandie, France
2000
  • Selfscape, Kim Sooja + Yang Pei Ming, Brandts Klædefabrik, Odense, Denmark
1999
  • Kim Sooja + Jeannette Christensen, Kunsthalle Feldbach, Feldbach, Austria
1996
  • Roles of the Couple, Soo Ja Kim + Toshihiro Kuno, Akira Ikeda Gallery, Taura, Japan
1988
  • Invitational Exhibition for 2 Artists, Gallery Soo, Seoul, Korea
1979
  • Breath, Kim Soo-ja + Lee Yun-Dong, Growrich Gallery, Seoul, Korea
  • Daegu Contemporary Art Festival: An Event by Two People, Kim Yong Min + Kim Sooja, Youngnam Daily News Gallery, Daegu, Korea (A Record of Journey From Seoul Station to Gangjung)

Selected Group Exhibitions

2024
  • Jef Verheyen. Window on infinity, Royal Museum of Fine Arts Antwerp(KMSKA), Antwerp, Belgium (Upcoming)
  • Ambienti 1956-2010, National Museum of XXI Century Arts(MAXXI), Rome, Italy (Upcoming)
  • Every Island is a Mountain, Sovrano Millitare Ordine de Malta, Venice, Italy (Upcoming)
  • The Power and Politics of Textiles in Art, Barbican Art Gallery, London, UK
  • Breaking the Monument, Casal Solleric, Mallorca, Palma
2023
  • Emotion, Chiostro del Bramante, Rome, Italy
  • Y/OUR Nature, Hoam Museum of Art, Yongin, Korea
  • BienalSUR, Strangers in the Palace. Chapter 1, MNAD - Museo Nacional de Arte Decorativo, Buenos Aires, Argentina
  • St. Moritz Art Film Festival(SMAFF), St.Moritz and the Swiss Engadin Valley, St. Moritz, Switzerland
  • Thread Routes, Massimo de Carlo, Hong Kong
  • Fabric, Peter Blum Gallery, New York, NY, USA
  • Icônes, Punta della Dogana, Venice, Italy
  • Time States - Contradiction and Accordance, Seoul National University Museum of Art, Seoul, Korea
  • The Standard Bearer, Bonnefantenmuseum, Maastricht, Netherlands (On Tour)
  • Don't Take Fake, MOT, Kyiv, Ukraine; traveled to Dnipro, Ukraine; Lutsk, Ukraine; and Lviv, Ukraine
  • Mystery 177 Visions from the Underworld, X-Bowing Art Center, Elefsina, Greece
2022
  • Constellations: Global Reflections, Kura Kura Bali, Indonesia (Site-Specific Project, Commissioned Artworks for G20 Collateral Exhibition)
  • The 3rd Jeju Biennale: Flowing Moon, Embracing Land, Jeju Museum of Art, Jeju island, Korea
  • Paik Nam June Effect, National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Korea(MMCA), Gwacheon, Korea
  • Bangkok Art Biennale 2022, Bangkok, Bangkok Art and Culture Centre(BACC), Bangkok, Thailand
  • Horizons, Museum of East Asian Arts, Köln, Germany
  • The Timeless Imagination of Yves Klein: Uncertainty and the Immateriality, 21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art, Kanazawa, Janpan
  • Flags, Boghossian Foundation, Brussels, Belgium
  • Paracusia: of Sounds & Visions, Kewenig, Berlin, Germany
  • Horizon and Limit, La Caixa Foundation, Valencia, Spain
  • Mourning: In the Wake of Loss, Jeonnam Museum of Art, Gwangyang, Korea
  • Faut-il voyager pour être heureux?, Espace Fondation EDF, Paris, France
  • Féminin Plurielles, Musée Ceres Franco, Montolieu, France
  • Kids Take Over, Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver, Canada
  • Résister, encore, Musée cantonal des Beaux-Arts Lausanne(MCBA), Lausanne, Switzerland
  • WALK!, Schirn Museum, Frankfurt, Germany
  • Moving Stories, Museum Het Valkhof, Nijmegen, Netherlands
2021
  • Chaos & Order, Kanaal’s Henro and Ma-Ka spaces, Wijnegem, Belgium
  • Affinités Insolites, The Pushkin State Museum of Fine Arts, Moscow, Russia
  • Breaking the Monument. Images of Resistance, Centro Galego de Arte Contemporánea (CGAC), Santiago de Compostelle, Spain
  • The Middle Land: When Time Unfolds into Land, ARKO Art Center, Arts Council Korea, Seoul, Korea
  • Still Alive - Works from the Hoffmann Collection, Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden (SKD), Dresden, Germany
  • Socle du Monde Biennale, Stage 2 - The Past Extended, Herning Museum of Contemporary Art(HEART), Herning, Denmark
  • Museum Folkwang, Essen, Germany
2020
  • Not by the Dress Alone, Museum on the Seam, Jerusalem, Israel
  • The Light House, Boghossian Foundation, Brussels, Belgium
  • Basel Art Days, Münsterplatz, Basel, Switzerland
  • DE-celerate, Te Tuhi, Aotearoa, New Zealand
  • Body of Water, Magasin III Jaffa, Tel Aviv, Israel
  • Getting Across, The Nicosia Municipal Arts Centre, Associated with the Pierides Foundation(NiMAC) Nicosia, Cyprus (Touring exhibition)
  • EMST Open. EMST as a storyline, National Museum of Contemporary Art(EMST), Athens, Greece
  • Bodyscapes, The Israel Museum, Israel, Jerusalem
  • BE/LONGING: Contemporary Asian Art, Seattle Asian Art Museum(SAAM), Volunteer Park, Seattle, USA
2019
  • PhotoEspaña 2019: Nuestros imprescindibles, PHotoESPAÑA, Madrid, Spain
  • Della materia spirituale dell'arte, Museo nazionale delle arti del XXI secolo(MAXXI), Rome, Italy
  • Crystals in Art: Ancient to Today, Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, Bentonville, Arkansas, USA
  • Clapping with Stones: Art and Acts of Resistance, Rubin Museum of Art, New York, USA
  • The Street. Where The World Is Made, MO.CO., Montpellier, France
  • 58th Venice Biennale - Salon Suisse 2019: S L O W, Palazzo Trevisan degli Ulivi, Venice, Italy
  • Inifinitive Mutability, Axel Vervoordt Gallery, Hong Kong
  • Persona grata, itinérances - l’art contemporain interroge l’hospitalité, Maison de la Culture Amiens, Amiens, France
2018
  • The Street. Where The World Is Made, Museo nazionale delle arti del XXI secolo(MAXXI), Rome, Italy
  • Other Walks, Other Lines, San Jose Museum of Art, San Jose, USA
  • Soft Power, Transpalette Centre d'Art Contemporain, Bourges, France
  • Persona grata, Musée d'art contemporain du Val-de-Marne(MAC/VAL), Vitry-sur-Seine, France
  • The Fláneur - From Impressionism to the Present, Kunstmuseum Bonn, Bonn, Germany
  • 8th Biennale Internationale d'art Contemporain de Melle: Le grand monnayage, Saint-Pierre-Église, Melle, France
  • The Second Yinchuan Biennale: Starting from the Desert. Ecologies on the Edge, Museum of Contemporary Art Yinchuan(MOCA), Yinchuan, China
  • Worlds Otherwise Hidden, Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art, Kansas City, USA
  • POLYPHON. Artistic Positions in the Viehof Collection, Langen Foundation, Neuss, Germany
  • Blooming at the Junction, Korean Cultural Center Hong Kong, Hong Kong
2017
  • Pafos 2017 - Weaving Europe: The World as Meditation, The World as Meditation, Pafos European Capital of Culture, Pafos, Cyprus
  • 1000 Patronen, Texture Museum, Kortrijk, Belgium
  • The Show Must Go On - From the Museum’s Collection of Contemporary Art, Kunstmuseum Bern, Switzerland
  • Documenta 14: ANTIDORON - The EMST Collection, Fridericianum, Kassel, Germany
  • The Urge to Create Vision 1929-2017, Centrum Rzezby Polskiej, Oronsko, Poland
  • Intuition, Palazzo Fortuny, Venice, Italy
  • Thread Lines, The Kentucky Museum of Art and Craft, Kentucky, Louisville, USA
  • Urgent Converstations: Antwerp-Athens, National Museum of Contemporary Art(EMST), Athens, Greece
  • The 2nd Changjiang International Photography and Video Biennale, Changjiang Museum of Contemporary Art, Chongqing, China
  • Tous, des sang-mêlés, Musée d'art contemporain du Val-de-Marne(MAC/VAL), Paris, France
  • Socle du Monde Biennale 2017: to challenge the Earth, the Moon, the Sun & the Stars, HEART Herning Museum of Contemporary Art, Herning, Denmark
  • Idioma, Museion, Bolzano, Italy
  • Person of the Crowd, Barnes Foundation, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
2016
  • Urgent Converstations, National Museum of Contemporary Art(EMST), Athens, Greece
  • Lo Specchio Concavo, Base Arte Contemporanea Odierna(BACO), Bergamo, Italy
  • Uncertain States: Artistic Strategies in States of Emergency, Akademie Der Künste, Berlin, Germany
  • Dancing with Myself, Museum Folkwang, Essen, Germany
  • Minus Ego, Goethe Institut, Barcelona, Spain
  • Enacting Stillness, The 8th Floor, New York, USA
  • 2016 Hangzhou Triennial of Fiber Art: Weaving & We, Zheijiang Art Museum, Hangzhou, China
  • 20 Bienal De Arte Paiz: Ordinary / Extraordinary: The Democratization of Art or the Will To Change Things, Fundación Paiz, Guatemala City, Guatemala
  • No Longer Empty, Jameco Exchange, Queens, New York, USA
  • Public to Private: Photography in Korean Art since 1989, National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art(MMCA), Seoul, Korea
  • Earth, Fire, Soul - Masterpiece of Korean Ceramics, Grand Palais, Paris, France; The State Hermitage Museum, Saint Petersburg, Russia
  • Yoko Ono: Lumière de L’aube, Musée d'art contemporain, Lyon, Lyon, France
  • Remember Lidice, Städtische Galerie Nordhorn, Nordhorn, Germany
  • Rever D'Un Autre Monde, Centre D'histoire de la Résistance et la Déportation, Lyon, France
  • Architecture of Life, Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive (BAM/PFA), Berkeley, California, USA
2015
  • Experiments with Truth: Gandhi and Images of Nonviolence, The International Red Cross and Red Crescent Museum, Geneva, Switzerland (Traveling Show)
  • 30 Years - Artists of the Gallery, Galerie Tschudi, Zuoz, Switzerland
  • Fear Nothing, She Says, National Museum of Sculpture, Valladolid, Spain
  • Le Monde Selon..., Franche-Comté Cité des arts(FRAC), Besançon, France
  • Vanita/Vanitas, Museo Ettore Fico, Torino, Italy
  • L'Effet Vertigo, Musée d'art Contemporain du Val-de-Marne(MAC/VAL), Vitry-sur-Seine, France
  • Art_Textiles, The Whitworth(The University of Manchester), Manchester, UK
  • Chambres d'enfants, Musée du Papier Peint, Mézières, Switzerland
  • Where Do We Migrate to?, Värmlands Museum, Karlstad, Sweden
  • Remember Lidice, Edition Block, Berlin, Germany
  • Ornament, Reduction, Continuum, Kunstmuseum Liechtenstein, Vaduz, Liechtenstein
  • Fashion as Social Energy, Palazzo Morando | Costume Moda Immagine, Milan, Italy
  • Proportio, Palazzo Fortuny, Venice, Italy
  • The Soul Selects her own Society: Women Artists of the Miller Meigs Collections, Janet Wallace Fine Arts Center, Macalester College, Saint Paul, Minnesota, USA
2014
  • The Cube, Lincoln Rail yard, Lincoln, Nebraska, USA
  • 2014 Daegu Contemporary Art Festival in Gangjeong, Communication Space THE ARC, Daegu, Korea
  • La Disparition Des Lucioles(The Disappearance of Fireflies), Prison Sainte-Anne, Avignon, France
  • Paris Champ et Hors Champ, photographies et videos contemporaines, Galerie des Bibliothèques de la Ville de Paris, Paris, France
  • K-P.O.P. - Process, Otherness, Play, Museum of Contemporary Art Taipei(Taipei MOCA), Taipei, Taiwan
  • The Future is Now!, National Museum of XXI Century Arts(MAXXI), Rome, Italy
  • The Needle's Eye: Contemporary Embroidery Kode 1, Art Museums of Bergen, Bergen, Norway, traveled to The National Museum of Art Architecture and Design, Oslo, Norway
  • Experiments with Truth: Gandhi and Images of Nonviolence, The Menil Collection, Houston, Texas, USA, traveled to The International Red Cross and Red Crescent Museum, Geneva, Switzerland
  • Busan Biennale 2014: Inhabiting the Word, Busan, Korea
  • Busan Biennale 2014: Voyage to Biennale - 50 years of Contemporary Korean Art in Overseas Biennales, Cultural Center Grand Medium Gallery, Busan, Korea
  • Thread Lines, The Drawing Center, New York, New York, USA
  • Le Mouvement - Performing the City, Kunsthaus CentrePasquArt, Biel, Switzerland
  • Beyond and Between, Leeum Museum of Art, Seoul, Korea
  • Total Art: Contemporary Video, National Museum of Women in the Arts, Washington D.C, USA
  • Il Tempo delle Donne: il taccuino delle competenze di genere, Piccolo Teatro Grassi, Milan, Italy
  • Shades of Time: An Exhibition from the Archive of Korean-American Artists, Part 1 & 2, 1989-2001, Korean Cultureal Center, New York, USA; Queens Museum of Art, New York, USA; AHL Foundation, New York, USA
  • RE:VISION, Trish Clark Gallery, Oakland, New Zealand
  • Threads, Museum Arnhem, Arnhem, The Netherlands
  • Land-Sea-Sky: revisiting spatiality in video, Artsonje Center, Seoul, Korea, traveled to OCT Contemporary Art Terminal(OCAT), Shanghai, China; National Art School Gallery, Darlinghurst, Australia; Griffith University Art Gallery, Brisbane, Australia; Guangdong Museum of Art, Guangdong, China
  • Yebisu International Festival for Art and Alternative Visions 2014: True Colors, Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography, Tokyo, Japan
  • The 1st International Biennial of Contemporary Art of Cartagena de Indias, Colombia
2013
  • Elle est Retrouvée..., Musée Courbet, Ornans, France
  • Making Space. 40 Years of Video art, Musée Cantonal des Beaux-Arts de Lausanne(MCBA), Lausanne, Switzerland
  • Art & Textiles. Fabric as Material and Concept in Modern Art from Klimt to the Present, Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg, Germany
  • Women Healing the World, Culture Factory, Osan, Korea
  • The Future is Now!, National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Korea(MMCA), Gwacheon, Korea
  • Les Apparitions, Le Bel Ordinaire, d’histoire à Pau et aux Haras de Gelos, Pau, France
  • The Unanswered Question. ISKELE2, Neuer Berliner Kunstverein(n.b.k.) and TANAS, Berlin, Germany
  • In God We Trust, Zachęta – National Gallery of Art, Warsaw, Poland
  • The Lift, Bloomberg Building Project, New York, USA
  • 2013 California-Pacific Triennial, Orange County Museum of Art(OCMA), California, USA
  • Le Pont, Museum of Contemporary Art(MAC), Marseilles, France
  • Host & Guest, Tel Aviv Museum of Art, Tel Aviv, Israel
  • Zizhiqu - Autonomous Zone, Guangdong Times Museum, China
2012
  • Now Here is also Nowhere: Part 1, Henry Art Gallery, University of Washington, USA
  • The 9th Gwangju Biennale: ROUNDTABLE, Gwangju Biennale Hall and Select Locations in Gwangju, Gwangju, Korea
  • Women In-Between: Asian Women Artists 1984-2012, Fukuoka Asian Art Museum, Fukuoka, Japan, Traveled to Okinawa Prefecture Art Museum, Naha-Shi, Okinawa; Tochigi Prefecture Art Museum of Fine Arts, Tochigi, Japan; Mie Prefecture Art Museum, Tsu-shi, Japan
  • Blue Crystal Ball, Spencer House, London, United Kingdom (IOC media art commission for London Olympics 2012)
  • Copenhagen Art Festival 2012: Unfinished Journey, Kunstforeningen GL STRAND, Copenhagen, Denmark
  • Walking in the City, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Massachusetts, USA (Screening)
  • Shortening Distances: Asian Panorama in the MUSAC Collection, Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Castilla y León(MUSAC), León, Spain
2011
  • J'ai Deux Amours, Musée de l'histoire de l'immigration, Paris, France
  • Kunst-Stoff: Textilien in der Kunst seit 1960, Städtische Galerie Karlsruhe, Karlsruhe, Germany
  • The Sixth Sense Massage, Art Center Nabi, Seoul, Korea
  • Barely There, Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit(MOCAD), Detroit, USA
  • Dream White Night, The Square of Daegu City Hall, Daegu Korea
  • Buddha's Trace – Contemporary Art From Asia, Kunstmuseum Bochum, Bochum, Germany
  • Count Down, Culture Station Seoul 284, Seoul Square Media Center, Seoul, Korea
  • Summer Show, Misa Shin Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
  • WEXTEND, The Museum on the Seam, Jerusalem, Israel
  • TRA, Edge of Becoming, Palazzo Fortuny, Venice, Italy
  • Space Study, Plateau - Samsung Museum of Art, Seoul, Korea
  • New Acquisitions 2010, National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art(MMCA), Gwacheon, Korea
  • Big Picture, Kunstsammlung NRW, Dusseldorf, Germany
  • Korean Rhapsody, Leeum Museum of Art, Seoul, Korea
  • Where Do We Migrate To?, Traveling exhibition: The Center for Art, Design, and Visual Culture(CADVC), The University of Maryland, Baltimore County(UMBC), Baltimore, USA; Sheila C. Johnson Design Center at Parsons; The New School for Design, New York, USA; Contemporary Art Center, New Orleans, USA
  • Spirituality of Place, Gustein Gallery, Savannah College of Art and Design, Savannah, Georgia, USA
  • Terre Vulnerabill: Part 2 - Question that which has forever ceased to amaze us; Part 3 - Some people walk in the rain others simply get wet; Part 4 - The chain's weakest link is also the strongest because it can break the chain, Pirelli HangarBicocca, Milan, Italy
  • Windflower Perceptions of Nature, Kröller-Müller Museum, Otterlo, The Netherlands
  • Living. Frontiers of Architechture III-IV, Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Louisiana, Denmark
2010
  • A Needle Woman - Paris, Courmayer - Valle D'Aosta, D'Aosta, Italy (Screening)
  • Chaotic Harmony, Santa Barbara Museum of Art, Santa Barbara, California, USA (Screening)
  • The Cassini Cruise II, The Ridder - Maastricht, The Netherlands
  • I Believe in Miracles - 10 years at the Collection Lambert, Lambert Foundation, Avignon, France
  • Aware: Art Fashion Identity, Royal Academy of Arts - GSK Contemporary, London, UK
  • The 5th Socle du Monde Beinnale: Between Cultures, Herning Museum of Contemporary Art, Herning, Denmark
  • Rainbow Asia: Pearl of the World, East Asia Art Exhibition, Seoul Arts Center, Seoul, Korea
  • Investigations of a Dog - Works From the Face Collection, Traveling Show: Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo, Turin, Italy; Ellipse Foundation, Cascais, Portugal; La Maison Rouge - Fondation Antoine de Galbert, Paris, France; Magasin 3, Stokholm, Sweden; DESTE Foundation, Athens, Greece
  • L’evento immobile, Annunciazioni, Casa Masaccio, San Giovanni Valdarno, Italy
  • 2010 Mediations Biennale: Beyond Mediations, Zamek Culture Center, Poznan, Poland
  • Thrice Upon a Time, Magasin III, Stockholm, Sweden
  • Ars Itineris. El viaje en el arte contemporáneo, Traveling show: Museu de l'Art, la Pell de Vic; Museo del Mar de Vigo, Spain
  • Brave New World, Mudam Luxembourg – Musée d'Art Moderne Grand-Duc Jean, Luxembourg City, Luxembourg
  • Isole Mai Trovate(Islands never found), Traveling show: Palazzo Ducale, Venice, Italy; The State Museum of Contemporary Art, Thessaloniki, Greece; The Museum of Modern Art, Saint Etienne, France
  • Fast Forward 2. The Power of Motion - Media Art of the Sammlung Goetz Collection, Zentrum für Kunst und Medientechnologie Karlsruhe(ZKM), Karlsruhe, Germany
  • Che cosa sono le nuvole? Werke aus der Sammlung Enea Righi, MUSEION, Bolzano, Italy
  • Contemplating the Void: Interventions in the Guggenheim Museum, Guggenheim Museum, New York, USA
  • Cue: Artists' Videos, Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver, Canada
  • Vancouver 2010 Cultural Olympiad: Culture Shock - Video Interventions, Queen Elizabeth Theater, Vancouver, Canada
  • Sydney Festival: Edge of Elsewhere, Campbelltown Arts Centre, Sydney, Australia
  • Das im Entschwinden Erfasste Videokunst im Museum Folkwan, Essen, Germany
2009
  • Art Asia Miami - International Asian Contemporary Art: Truly Truthfully, Soho Studios Miami, Florida, USA
  • Faces & Facts: Contemporary Korean art in New York, Queens Museum, New York, USA
  • Essential Experiences, Museo d'arte contemporanea della Sicilia, Palermo, Italy
  • Franzensfeste fortress: Labyrinth - Freedom, Traveling show: Franzensfeste; Fortezza Alto Adige; Bolzano; Trentino; Bozen, Italy
  • The 3rd Moscow Biennale of Contemporary: Art Against Exclusion, Garage Center for Comtemporary Art, Moscow, Russia
  • The Third ICP Triennial of Photography and Video: Dress Codes, International Center for Photography(ICP), New York, USA
  • The 4th Fukuoka Asian Art Triennale 2009: LIVE and LET LIVE - Creators of Tomorrow, Fukuoka Asian Art Museum, Fukuoka, Japan
  • Art Tells the Times ~ Works by Women Artists, Shiseido Gallery 90th Anniversary Exhibition, Shiseido Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
  • Your Bright Future -12 Contemporary Korean Artists from Korea, Traveling show: Los Angeles County Museum of Art(LACMA), Los Angeles, USA; Museum of Fine Arts, Houston(MFAH), Houston, USA
  • A House is not a Home, La Calmeleterie, Nazelles Negron, France
  • Heart in Heart, National Museum of Contemporary Art(EMST) Athens, Greece
  • Universal Code, The Power Plant, Toronto, Canada
  • In-finitum, Palazzo Fortuny, Venice, Italy
  • The 2nd Thessaloniki Biennale of Contemporary Art: Praxis - Art in Times of Uncertainty, State Museum of Contemporary Art in Thessaloniki, Thessaloniki, Greece
  • Living With..., Galleria Raffaella Cortses, Milan, Italy
  • The 5th International Textile Art Biennial, Palais de Glace, Buenos Aires, Argentina
  • Mi Vida(From Heaven to Hell), Mücsarnok Kunsthalle, Budapest, Hungary
  • A Certain State of the World? - Highlights from the François Pinault Foundation’s Collection, Garage Center for Contemporary Culture(GCCC), Moscow, Russia
  • The View from Elsewhere, Traveling show: Sherman Contemporary Art Foundation(SCAF), Sydeny, Australia; Queensland Art Gallery & Gallery of Modern Art(QAGOMA), Brisbane, Australia; Australian Cinematheque, Brisbane, Australia
  • FRAGILE - Fields of Empathy, Traveling show: Musée d’art moderne et contemporain de Saint-Étienne(MAMC+), St. Etienne, France; Palazzo dei Falconieri, Rome, Italy; Daejeon Museum of Art, Daejeon, Korea
  • En Découdre, Fondation Espace Écureuil pour l'Art Contemporain, Toulouse, France
2008
  • The Missing Peace: Artists Consider the Dalai Lama
  • The 11th International Cairo Biennale: The Other, Palace of Arts Opera House Grounds, El-Gezira Arts Center, Horizon One Gallery, Cairo, Egypt
  • Asian Dub Photography, Fondazione Cassa di Risparmio di Modena, Foro Boario, Modena, Italy
  • Photographic Works: To Benefit the Foundation for Contemporary Arts, Foundation for Contemporary Arts(FCA), New York, USA
  • Je reviendrai, Musée d'art contemporain du Val-de-Marne(MAC/VAL), Paris, France
  • Knockin' on Heaven's Door, Kunstmuseum Liechtenstein, Vaduz, Liechtenstein
  • Academia : Qui es-tu?, Chapelle de l'École Nationale Supérieur des Beaux-Arts, Paris, France
  • Street Art, Street Life: From 1950s to Now, Bronx Museum of Art, New York, USA
  • A Space In Time, La Fábrica, Madrid, Spain
  • Sehnsucht(Aspiration), Light & Sie Gallery, Dallas, Texas, USA
  • Lofoten International Art Festival 2008: Towards a Future Present, Kjølelageret venue, Svolvær Harbour, Svolvaer, Norway
  • Micro-Narratives, Musée d'Art Moderne de Saint-Etienne métropole, Saint-Etienne, France
  • Art Cologne 2008, modern and contemporary Art Fair: Global EurAsia Special Exhibition, Art Cologne, Cologne, Germany
  • Re-Imagining Asia, Haus der Kulturen der Welt(HKW), Berlin, Germany, traveling to New Art Gallery, Walsall, England, UK
  • Time is of the Essence: Contemporary Landscape Art, Asheville Art Museum, Asheville, North Carolina, USA
  • Subtil textile, Galerie des Galeries, Paris, France
  • Wandering in Contemporary Video Art, Magazzini del Sale, Venice, Italy
  • Transmediale 08: Conspire, Haus der Kulturen der Welt(HKW), Berlin, Germany
  • Person of the Crowd - The Contemporary Art of Flânerie, The Neuberger Museum of Art, Purchase, New York, USA
  • Self / Other, The National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
2007
  • Gestures of Infinity, KULTUM Graz, Graz, Austria
  • Video Atlas Americas, Automatica - Produtora de Arte Contemporânea, Rio de Janerio, Brazil
  • Going Staying. Movement, Body, Place in Contemporary Art, Kunstmuseum Bonn, Bonn, Germany
  • Void in Korean Art, Leeum Museum of Art, Seoul, Korea
  • Passage du Temps, A selection of works from the François Pinault Foundation, Tri Postal, Lille, France
  • Pawnshop, Ludlow Street, e-flux, New York, USA
  • The 48th October Salon: Micro Narratives, Museums, Galleries and Alternative Venues in the City, Belgrade, Serbia
  • Momentos Estelares - Photography in the 20th Century, The Circulo de Bellas Artes de Madrid, Madrid, Spain
  • Existencias, Museo de Arte Contemporaneo de Castilla y León(MUSAC), León, Spain
  • Equatorial Rhythms, The Stenersen Museum Ultima, Oslo, Norway
  • The Prague Contemporary Art Festival 2007, The Vinohrady Theater, Prague, Czech Republic
  • Manifesting Emptiness, Betty Rymer Gallery, Chicago, USA
  • An Interpersonal Journey, New Museum of Contemporary Art, Istanbul, Turkey
  • Shangri-La On The Horizon, FRAC Lorraine, Lorraine, France
  • Artempo: Where Time Becomes Art, Palazzo Fortuny, Venice, Italy
  • Listening Awry, McMaster Museum of Art, Hamilton, Canada
  • Time out! Art and Sustainability, Kunstmuseum Liechtenstein, Liechtenstein
  • From the Earth to the Moon: Metaphors for Travel (Part II), Castello di Rivoli, Torino, Italy
  • Scenes and Sequences - Peter Blum Editions, New York, Aarau Kunsthaus, Aarau, Switzerland
  • Critical Mass, Kunsthalle Bern, Bern, Switzerland
  • Speed 3: Contrarreloj / Against the clock, Institute Valenciá d'Art Modern(IVAM), Valenciá, Spain
  • Post Object, Doris McCarthy Gallery, University of Toronto Scarborough, Toronto, Canada
  • Cosmologies, James Cohan Gallery, New York, USA
2006
  • With Body and Soul, Kunstmuseum Liechtenstein, Liechtenstein
  • Group Show, Beursschouwburg, Brussels, Belgium
  • Allegories of Displacement, Museum of Contemporary Art, Westport(MoCA), Connecticut, Westport, USA
  • Cut and Paste - New Identities, New Territories, Makor/Steinhardt Center, New York, USA
  • The Missing Peace: Artists Consider the Dalai Lama, Traveling Show: UCLA Fowler Museum of Cultural History, Los Angeles, USA, 2006; Loyola University Museum of Art, Chicago, USA, 2006; Rubin Museum of Art, New York, USA, 2007; Emory University Visual Arts Gallery, Atlanta, USA, 2007; Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco, USA, 2007; Tomorrowland, Tokyo, Japan, 2008; Fundacion Canal, Madrid, Spain, 2009; The Frost Museum - Florida International University, Florida, USA, 2009-2010; Brukenthal National Museum, Sibiu, Romania, 2010; Nobel Museum, Stockholm, Sweden, 2010-2011; San Antonio Museum of Art, Texas, USA, 2011
  • Six Feet Under - Autopsy of Our Relation to the Dead, Kunstmuseum Bern, Bern, Switzerland; traveled to Deutsches Hygiene Museum, Dresden, Germany
  • 47th October Art Salon: Art, Life & Confusion, Cultural Centre of Belgrade, Belgrade, Serbia
  • The 2nd Architectural Biennial Beijing, The National Museum of China, Beijing, China
  • Canary Islands show: New Mystics, Instituto Cabrera Pinto, La Laguna, Tenerife, Canary Islands, Spain
  • 5 Days Until the End of Art, Kunsthalle Fridericianum, Kassel, Germany
  • Casper David Friedrich - Die Erfindung Der Romantik, Museum Folkwang, Essen, Germany; traveled to Hamburger Kunstahalle, Hamburg, Germany
  • Trans:it - NowHere Europe, National Museum of Contemporary Art (MNAC), Bucharest, Romania
2005
  • Video Spirit: Mysteries, Myths, Meditation and the Moving Image, Cheekwood Museum of Art, Nashville, Tennessee, USA
  • INGENIO 400, La Fábrica, Madrid, Spain (commissioned web video project)
  • WATER, AIR, EARTH, FIRE - At the Origins of Life between Art and Science, Villa Croce Museum of Contemporary Art, Genoa, Italy
  • Introspections, The National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo(MOMAT), Tokyo, Japan
  • International Yokohama Triennale of Contemporary Art 2005: Art Circus - Jumping from the Ordinary, Yamashita Pier and etc. Yokohama, Japan
  • The Perception of the Horizontal, Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art(MUSEION), Bolzano, Italy
  • The 51st Venice Biennale: Always a Little Further, Arsenale, Venice, Italy
  • Domicile, Musée d’art moderne et contemporain de Saint-Étienne(MAMC+), Saint-Etienne, France
  • Art-Robe: Women Artists at the Nexus of Art and Fashion, UNESCO Headquarters, Paris, France
  • Cool & Warm, Sung-Kok Museum of Art, Seoul, Korea
  • The Giving Person, Palazzo della Arti Napoli, Napoli, Italy
  • Femme(s), Musée de Carouge, Geneva, Switzerland; Traveled to Palazzo Strozzi, Firenze, Italy(2005-2006); SESC Avenida Paulista, Sao Paulo, Brazil(2007)
  • The Fifth Gospel, Gallery of Contemporary Art Celje, Celje, Slovenia
  • Marking Time, Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions, Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions(LACE), The Getty Center, Los Angeles, California, USA
  • Irreducible: Contemporary Short Form Video, Traveling Show: CCA Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts Logan Galleries, San Francisco, USA; Miami Art Central(MAC), Miami, USA; Bronx Museum of Art, New York, USA
2004
  • Out Video Festival, NCCA Yekaterinburg, Moscow, Russia
  • In Movement: UNESCO Salutes Women Video Artists of the World, UNESCO, Paris, France (Video Project)
  • PREMAculTURE, Hydra School Projects, Hydra Island, Greece
  • Five Artists, Five Faiths: Spirituality and Contemporary Art, Ackland Art Museum, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, USA
  • La Caja Negra - Utopias en Movimiento, Centro Atlantico de Arte Moderno(CAAM), Canary Islands, Spain
  • The 18th Rencontre Paralleles, Centre d'Art Contemporain de Basse Normandie, Hérouville-Saint-Clair, France
  • WOW / The Work of the Work, Henry Art Gallery, Seattle, USA
  • The 1st Lodz Biennale, UNIONTEX Buildings, Lodz, Poland
  • Contemporary Visions, Photographs and videos from the collection of Helga De Alvear, Waino Aaltonen Museum of Art(WRM), Turku, Finland; Oulu Museum of Art, Oulu, Finland; Museo Extremeño e Iberoamericano de Arte Contemporáneo(MEIAC), Badajoz, Spain
  • Artists on Journey, Seoul National University Museum of Art, Seoul, Korea
  • Still Mapping the Moon - Perspective of Contemporary Art, Kunstmuseum Bonn, Bonn, Germany
  • Transcultures, The National Museum of Contemporary Art, Athens (EMST), Athens, Greece
  • The Ten Commandments, Deutsches Hygiene Museum, Dresden, Germany
  • Sense & Sensibility, CRAC Alsace, Altkirch, France
  • Settlements, Musée d’art moderne et contemporain de Saint-Étienne(MAMC+), Saint-Etienne, France
  • Kunst Stoff, Galerie Nächst St. Stephan, Wien, Austria
  • Playgrounds & Toys, La Manufacture des Oeillets, Ivry-sur-Seine, France
  • Éblouissement, Jeu de Paume, Paris, France (Video Program)
  • HOMExtension, University Art Museum, Albany, USA
2003
  • Motion Studies, Lower Manhattan Cultural Council(LMCC), New York, USA
  • Serene Beauty, Jamaica Center for Arts & Learning(JCAL) New York, USA
  • Lisboa Photo: Archives and Simulation, Centro Cultural de Belem(CCB), Lisbon, Portugal
  • Lille 2004: Flower Power, Palais des Beaux-Arts de Lille, Palais Rameau, Lille, France
  • International Festival of Video Art, The State Hermitage Museum, The State Russian Museum, St. Petersburg, Russia
  • The 10th Biennial of Moving Images, Centre d’art contemporain Genève, Geneva, Switzerland
  • Don't call it performance, Traveling show: Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia, Madrid, Spain; The Centro Andaluz de Arte Contemporáneo, Sevilla, Spain; Museo del Barrio, New York, USA
  • Traces of Friday - Art, Tourism, Displacement, Institute of Contemporary Art, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
  • Migration, Kunstmuseum Liechtenstein, Liechtenstein
  • Social Strategies, Traveling show: University of California Art Museum, Santa Barbara, USA; Austin Museum of Art, Austin, Texas, USA
  • Multitudes - Solitudes, Ar/ge Kunst, Bolzano, Italy
  • The 2nd Valencia Biennale: The Ideal City, Valencia, City Centre, Valencia, Spain
  • Himmelschwer, Traveling show: Landesmuseum Joanneum, Graz, Austria; Kunsthallen Brandts, Odense, Denmark
  • Spotlight Readings, The Kitchen, New York, USA
  • Mind Space, Hoam Museum of Art, Yongin, Korea
  • The 6th International Photography Fesival Photoespaña: Identity and Otherness, Circulo de Bella Artes, Madrid, Spain
  • Walking in the City: Spatial Practices in Art, from the Mid-1960s to the Present, Apex Art, New York, USA, traveled to Kunsthalle Fridericianum, Kassel, Germany
2002
  • Global Priority, Jamaica Center for Arts and Learning(JCAL), New York, USA
  • Crossing Cultures, Kunsthaus Muerzzuschlag, Mürzzuschlag, Austria
  • Aubes, Maison de Victor Hugo, Paris, France
  • The 3rd Busan Biennale: Culture Meets Culture, Busan Museum of Art, Busan, Korea
  • Liverpool Biennial: Watching Ocean and Sky Together, Forth Wall, Liverpool, UK
  • Ex-Expo 2002: Money and Value, Swiss National Bank(SNB), Bern, Switzerland
  • Tokachi International Contemporary Art Exhibition: Demeter, Obihiro Racetrack and Obihiro City, Obihiro, Japan
  • The 2nd Photo Festival: Now, What is Photo, Ganna Art, Total Museum, Seoul, Korea
  • Tempo, MOMA QNS, Queens, New York, USA
  • Refugee, Henie Onstad Kunstsenter, Oslo, Norway
  • The 26th Spoleto Festival USA: The Memory of Water, Charleston City, North Carolina, USA
  • 71st Whitney Biennial, Whitney Museum of American Art, Central Park, New York, USA
  • Instruction for Actions, Kunsthalle Wien, Wien, Austria
2001
  • Girls in the Image, Art Gallery of Western Australia(AGWA), Perth, Australia
  • Going Places, Smart Project Space, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
  • Antro-a-Polosias, Luis Adelantado, Valencia, Spain
  • On the way to the Screen, Central House of Artist(CHA), Moscow, Russia
  • Asian Contemporary Art, Nasher Museum of Art at Duke University, North Carolina, USA
  • Art through the Eye of Needle, Henie Onstad Kunstsenter, Hovikedden, Norway
  • Unreal Time Video, Arts Council Korea, Seoul, Korea
  • ARS 01: UNFOLDING PERSPECTIVES, Museum of Contemporary Art Kiasma(KIASMA), Helsinki, Finland
  • The 49th Venice Biennale: Markers - Art and Poetry in Venice, Venice, Italy
  • Imago Mundi, CAPC Musée d'art contemporain de Bordeaux, Bordeaux, France
  • Lost And Found, apexart, New York, USA
  • Subject Plural: Crowds in Contemporary Art, Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston, Texas, USA
2000
  • Drive, Govette-Brewster Art Gallery, New Plymouth, New Zealand
  • Playground & Toys for Refugee Children, International Red Cross and Red Crescent Museum, Geneva, Switzerland; New York, USA
  • Art & Social Realities, UNHCR, Geneva, Switzerland
  • Mutations, Arc en Rêve centre d'Architecture, Bordeaux, France
  • Hypermental - Rampant Reality 1950-2000 From Salvador Dali to Jeff Koons, Kunsthaus Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland; Hamburger Kunsthalle, Hamburger, Germany
  • The 2nd Taipei Biennial: The Sky is the Limit, Taipei Fine Arts Museum, Taipei, Taiwan
  • 1st Echigo - Tsumari, Tsumari Art Triennale 2000, Echigo - Tsumari, Tsumari, Japan
  • The 5th Biennale d'Art Contemporain de Lyon: Partage d'Exotismes, Tony Garnier Hall, Lyon, France
  • From Here to There, Academie Scholoss Solitude, Stuttgart, Germany
  • Today's Korea Contemporary Sculpture, Moran Museum of Art, Namyangju, Korea
  • The 3rd Kwangju Biennale: Man and Space, Jungoe Park, Kwangju, Korea
  • The Likeness of Being, DC Moore Gallery, New York, USA
1997 - 2000
  • Cities on the Move, Traveling show: Secession, Vienna, Austria; Louisiana Museum of Art, Copenhagen, Denmark; Hayward Gallery, London, UK; CAPC Bordeaux, France; KIASMA, Helsinki, Finland; P.S.1, New York, USA
1999
  • *ArtWorlds in Dialogue - from Gauguin to Global Contemporary Art, Global Art Rhineland 2000, Museum Ludwig, Cologne, Germany
  • The 3rd Asia Pacific Triennial of Contemporary Art: Beyond the Future*, Queensland Art Gallery, Brisbane, Australia
  • The 48th Venice Biennale: dAPERTutto, Aperto, Venice, Italy
1998
  • Warming, The Project, New York, USA
  • Medialization, Traveling Show: Edsvik Art Center, Stockholm, Sweeden; Eesti Kunst Museum, Tallinn, Estonia
  • Slowness of Speed, Traveling Show: National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, Australia; Taipei Fine Arts Museum, Taipei, Taiwan
  • Loose Threads, Serpentine Gallery, London, England, UK
  • Frame, Kumho Art Museum, Seoul, Korea
  • The 24th Sao Paulo Biennale: Cultural Anthropophagy, Parque Ibirapuera & Ciccillo Matarazzo Pavilion, São Paulo, Brazil
  • The 11th Biennale of Sydney: Everyday, Museum of Contemporary Art Australia (MCA), Sydney, Australia
  • Echolot, Museum Fridericianum, Kassel, Germany
1996 - 1998
  • Traditions / Tensions, Traveling show: Asia Society, New York, USA; Gray Art Gallery, New York; Queens Museum of Art, New York, USA; Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver, Canada; Art Gallery of Western Australia, Perth, Australia
1997
  • The 5th International Istanbul Biennale: On life, beauty, translations and other difficulties, Istanbul, Turkey
  • De-Genderism, Setagaya Art Museum, Tokyo, Japan
  • Des Histoire En Formes, Le Magasin - Centre National D'Art Contemporain(CNAC), Grenoble, France
1996
  • Home / Salon, The Clock Tower Gallery, New York, USA
  • An Aspect of Korea Contemporary Art in the 90's, Traveling show: The National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo, Japan; International Museum of Osaka, Japan
  • Ceremonial, apexart, New York, USA
  • The Scream - Borealis 8, Arken Museum of Modern Art, Copenhagen, Denmark
  • Inclusion / Exclusion, Im Reininghaus und Künstlerhaus, Graz, Austria
  • Manifesta 1, Museum Boymans Van-Beuningen, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
1995-1996
  • Do It / TV Version, Museum in Progress, Vienna, Austria
  • Division of Labor - Women's Work in Contemporary Art, Traveling show: The Bronx Museum of Art, New York, USA; Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, USA
1995
  • Museum City Project, Fukuoka, Japan
  • Stage work for Drawing the Sound, Whanki Museum, Seoul, Korea
  • 16th International Bronze & Small Sculpture Biennale, Palazzo della Ragione, Padova, Italy
  • The 6th Triennale der Kleinplastik 1995, SüdwestLB, Stuttgart, Germany
  • Information and Reality, Fruitmarket Gallery, Edinburgh, Scotland
  • The 1st KwangJu Biennale special exhibition: Korea contemporary art, Gwangju Biennale Exhibition hall, GwangJu, Korea
  • Portrait, Arts Council Korea, Seoul, Korea
  • Tiger's Tail - 15 Korean Contemporary Artists for Venice, Traveling show: Palazzo Vendramin, Venice, Italy; National Museum of Contemporary Art, Gwacheon, Korea
  • Circulating Currents: Japanese and Korean Contemporary Art, Aichi Prefectural Museum of Art, Nagoya City Art Museum, Nagoya, Japan
1994
  • Women - The Difference and the Power, Hankook Gallery, Seoul, Korea
1993
  • Trade Routes, The New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York, USA
  • In Their Own Images: The 1992-1993 Studio Artists Exhibition, MoMA P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center, New York, USA
  • Semblances, Ise Art Foundation, New York, USA
1992
  • Wind, Cloth, Grass, Pine Plains, New York, USA (Triangle Workshop)
1991
  • Ten Korean Women Artists, Traveling show: The National Museum Women in the Arts, Washington D.C., USA; Seoul Arts Center, Seoul, Korea
  • Inaugural Exhibition of Korean Contemporary Art, SonJae Museum, Kyungju, Korea
  • Hong-Ik Exhibition, Seoul Arts Center, Seoul, Korea
1990
  • Impact 3 90, Gallery Humanite, Tokyo, Japan
  • Exhibition Unexpacted, Total Gallery, Seoul, Korea
  • Seoul, ChungNam Gaellry, Seoul, Korea
  • Inuaugural Exhibition, Sonamoo Gallery, Seoul, Korea
1989
  • Berlin International Contemporary Art Festival, Municipal Museum, Berlin, Germany
  • Young Artist Festival, Trade Center Hyundai Gallery, Seoul, Korea
  • Women Artists in '80s, Keumho Gallery, Seoul, Korea
  • Korea 16 Contemporary Women Artists, Korean Cultural Center, Paris, France; Roho Gallery, Berlin, Germany
  • 13 Artists Exhibition, Baek Song Gallery, Seoul, Korea
1988
  • 88 Korea Contemporary Art Festival, National Museum of Modern Arts, Gwacheon, Korea
  • 60 Contemporary Artists, Hanaro Gallery, Seoul, Korea
1987
  • The 8th International Impact Art Festival, Municipal Museum, Kyoto, Japan
  • The Spearhead in our Generation, KwanHun Gallery, Seoul, Korea
  • INFORMAL, Soo Gallery, Seoul, Korea
  • Art on T-Shirt, Hilton Hotel Gallery, Seoul, Korea
  • UP DOWN, KwanHun Gallery, Seoul, Korea
  • NEO NOW, Baeksong Gallery, Seoul, Korea
  • The 13th Seoul Contemporary Art Festival, Fine Arts Center, Seoul, Korea
  • The 13th Independents, National Museum of Modern Arts, Gwacheon, Korea
1986
  • Hong-Ik M.F.A. Exhibition, Dong Bang Plaza Gallery, Seoul, Korea
  • The 12th Seroul Contemporary Art Festival, Fine Arts Center, Seoul, Korea
1985
  • 1984-85 French Government Scholars Exhibition, Galerie Bernanos, Paris, France
  • Korea 31 Contemporary Women Artists' Exhibition, KwanHun Gallery, Seoul, Korea
1984
  • Korean Contemporary Art Festival, Municipal Museum, Taipei, Taiwan
  • Korea 15 Contemporary Women Artists' Exhibition, KwanHun Gallery, Seoul, Korea
1983
  • The 10th Independents, National Museum of Modern Arts, Deoksukung Place, Seoul, Korea
  • 83 Seoul International Drawing Exhibition, Fine Arts Center, Seoul, Korea
  • From '83-10 Artists' Exhibition, Artists Gallery, Seoul, Korea
  • Materiality, the New way of Existence, Artists Gallery, Seoul, Korea
  • The 1st Grandprize Exhibition of Young Artists, Young Artists Gallery, Seoul, Korea
  • The 9th Seoul Contemporary Art Festival, Fine Arts Center, Seoul, Korea
1982
  • The 9th Hong-Ik print Group Exhibition, Fine Arts Center, Seoul, Korea
1981
  • The 8th Hong-Ik print Group Exhibition, Fine Arts Center, Seoul, Korea
1980
  • The 7th Hong-Ik print Group Exhibition, Fine Arts Center, Seoul, Korea
1979
  • The 6th Hong-Ik print Group Exhibition, Fine Arts Center, Seoul, Korea
1978
  • The 6th Independents, National Museum of Modern Arts, Deoksukung Place, Seoul, Korea

Grants, Awards and Commissioned Work

2021

Okgwan, The Order of Cultural Merit, Seoul, Korea

2020

To Breathe, Public Art Commission for Permanent Stained Glass works in Saint-Etienne Cathedral, Metz, France
To Breathe, Public Art Commission from the RATP (Régie Autonome des Transports Parisiens) for the Mairie de Saint-Ouen Metro Station, Paris, France

2019

Thread Routes - Chapter VI, Commission by the City of Poitiers for TraverséesKimsooja, 2019, Poitiers, France
Medal of the City of Poitiers awarded by the mayor of Poitiers for remarkable achievement for the city, Poitiers, France

2017

Asia Society Arts Award, Hong Kong
Kim Se-Choong Sculpture Award, Seoul, Korea
Chevalier l'Ordre des Arts et des Lettres awarded by the French Ministry of Culture to recognize eminent artists and writers, as well as people who have contributed significantly to furthering the arts in France and throughout the world, France

2015

HO-AM Prize 2015, Lifetime Achievement in the Arts, HO-AM Foundation, Seoul, Korea
Ha Chong Hyun Art Award, Korea

2014

Kimsooja, A Needle Woman: Galaxy was a Memory, Earth is a Souvenir, A Site-Specific Instillation for Intimate Cosmologies: The Aesthetics of Scale in an Age of Nanotechnology, 1st Cornell University Biennale Ithaca, New York, USA

2013 - 2014

John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowship Award, USA

2013 - 2012

GSA Commission Work for a Site- Specific Video Projection on the border at Mariposa Main Entrance Port, Arizona, USA

2012

'To Breathe-Olympics', a commission work for the IOC Olympics Museum in Lausane, supported by Samsung Electronics Co., Lausane, Switzerland
CEC ArtsLink, New York for the Solo Exhibition at Perm Contemporary Art Museum, Perm, Russia

2011

A Site-Specific Video projection commissioned by 'The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation', Seattle, Washington, USA

2010

Cities on the Move, print edition Commissioned on the occasion of International Women's Day by Musée d'art contemporain du Val-de-Marne, France
'Earth-Water-Fire-Air', Co-commissioned multi channel video project by Hermes Foundation, Paris, France for a solo exhibition at Atelier Hermes, Seoul, Korea

2009

Commissioned work 'A Needle Woman' - Paris for the Nuit Blanche 2009, by the Hotel de Ville in Paris and Musée d'art contemporain du Val-de-Marne, France
Earth-Water-Fire-Air, Co-commissioned multi channel video project by MIAC, and Lanzaote Biennale, Ministry of Culture & Tourism, Lanzarote, Canary Islands, Spain
Commissioned Work 'An Album: Hudson Guild', More Art, New York, New York USA

2008

Grant Recipient, New York State Council on the Arts, New York, USA

2007

Visual Art Award, Foundation for Contemporary Art, New York, USA
'Bottari Truck: Migrateurs', a performance video piece commissioned by Musée d'art conptemporain du Val-de-Marne, France

2006

'To Breathe: A Mirror Woman', a site-specific installation commissioned by Museo de National Reina Sofía, Madrid for the solo exhibition, To Breathe - A Mirror Woman (Respirar - Una mujer espejo), at the Crystal Palace, Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, Madrid, Spain

2005

Korea Culture & Arts Foundation Grant, Seoul for Always a Little Further, The 51st Venice Biennale, Arsenale, Venice, Italy
Commissioned web video project by La Fabrica, Madrid for the exhibition INGENIO 400, Madrid, Spain

2003 - 2004

CEC Arts Link Grant, New York, New York, For the Lecture Series in Russia in conjunction with the Pro Arte Video Festival Hermitage Museum & Russian Museum, St. Petersburg, CCA, Moscow Lecture Program, and A Needle Woman, 7 Outdoor Video Projection, Yekaterinburg, Russia

2003

Commissioned site specific installation by Consortium, Dijion, Sponsored by Fondation de France, Paris, and Olivietti Foundation, Rome for Nouveaux Commanditaires - Landscape Lighting Project & St. Bernard, Hospice Permanent Lighting Installation, St. Bernard, France
Commanditaires, Landscape Lighting Project, & St. Bernard Hospice Permanent Lighting Installation, St. Bernard, France, Commissioned by Consortium, Dijion, Sponsored by Fondation de France, Paris, and Olivietti Foundation, Rome, Italy

2002

Anonymous Was A Woman Foundation Award, New York, USA
Artist of the American Art Award, Whitney Museum of America, Sponsored by Cartier Co., New York, USA

2001

Korea Culture & Arts Foundation Award, Best Show of the Year 2000, for the solo exhibition, A Needle Woman - A Woman Who Weaves the World at Rodin Gallery, Samsung Art Museum, Seoul, Korea

2000

Paradise Culture Foundation Award, Seoul, Korea
Commissioned work by ICC, Tokyo in conjunction with the solo exhibition A Needle Woman, At ICC, Tokyo, Japan

1999

Work commissioned by CCA Kitakyushu in conjunction with the solo exhibition, A Needle Woman, at CCA Kitakyushu, Japan

1998

Residency Award, World Views - at World Trade Center, New York, awarded by the Lower Manhattan Cultural Council, New York, USA
Grant Recipient, The Korean Culture & Art Foundation, Seoul, Korea

1997

'Cities on the Move - 2727 km Bottari Truck', a performance video piece commissioned by Experimental Art Grant, The Korean Culture & Arts Foundation Paradise Culture Foundation, Seoul, Korea

1996

The Korean Culture & Arts Foundation, Seoul, Korea

1992 - 1993

Artist in Residence, P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center, New York, USA, supported by The Korean Culture & Arts Foundation, Seoul, Korea

1992

The 11th Suk-Nam Fine Art Award, Seoul, Korea

1991

Song-Eun Culture Fondation Award, Seoul, Korea

1984

Lithography studio Scholarship, Ecole National des Beaux-Art, Paris, awarded by the French Government, France

Artist Talks and Teaching

2020

Artist Talk at TraverséesKimsooja, in dialogue with Emmanuelle de Montgazon, Curator, Musée Sainte-Croix, Poitiers, France

2019

Artist Talk at YSP Chapel, Yorkshire Sculpture Park, West Bretton, UK

2018

Artist Talk as part of INSIDE/OUT lecture series, Leeds Beckett University, Leeds, UK

2017

Artist Talk on the occassion of Asia Society Arts Award, Art Central, Hong Kong
Artist Talk on the occassion of Asia Corridor, East Asia Culture City 2017, Kyoto Art Center, Kyoto, Japan

2016

Galaxy was a Memory, Earth is a Souvenir: A Screening and Conversation with Kimsooja, The Cooper Union, New York, New York, USA
The Critical Dialogue Series, talk at the Tyler School of Art of Temple University, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
Teaching MA Program, School of Visual Arts, New York, USA

2015

Kimsooja - Dimensions of a Needle, talk at Leeum Auditorium, Samsung Museum of Art, Seoul, Korea
Artist talk at School of Visual Arts MFA Fine Arts, New York, New York, USA

2014

The Dimensions of a Needle, talk at Cornell University, Ithaca, New York, USA

2013

Artist Talk at The Graduate Center, CUNY, New York, USA
ArtTable artnet Artist Breakfasts, New York, USA
Artist Talk at Simon Fraser University, Vancouver, Canada
Artist Talk at University of Arizona School of Art, Tucson, Arizona, USA

2012

Artist Talk with Rene Morales at Miami Art Museum on the occasion of Solo Exhibition at MAM, Miami, Florida, USA
Artist Talk at Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA

2011

Artist talk at School of The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, USA
Parsons Visiting Artists Lecture Series, Parsons the New School for Design, New York, New York, USA
Site Specific Screening of 'An Album: Hudson Guild' & Artist Talk with Eleanor Heartney & Jane Farver, SVA Theater, New York, New York USA
Screening of 'An Album: Hudson Guild' & Artist Talk with Mary Jane Jacob at Barney Auditorium NYU, New York, New York, USA
Artist talk with Robert Morgan on the occasion of solo exhibition at the University Museum of Contemporary Art, Amherst, Massachusetts, USA

2010

Artist talk at Musée d'art de Joliette, Joliette, Canada
Artist talk at Concordia University, Montréal, Canada
'Art Talk' at Tate Modern with Maxa Zoller, London, England, UK
Visiting Artist, Royal Academy of Arts, Oslo, Norway
Visiting Artist, Yale University Painting Department, New Haven, Connecticut, USA
Screening and Artist Talk on the occasion of Platform, Art Sunje, Seoul, Korea
Artist talk at Heinsa Temple, Hapcheon, Korea

2009

Artists Panel Participant, Robert Ho Family Foundation's 'The Many Faces of Buddhism' Forum, Victoria & Albert Museum, London, England, UK

2008

Visiting Artist, Ecole Nationale Superieure des Beaux-Arts, Paris, France
Visiting Artist, San Francisco Art Institute, San Francisco, California, USA
Key Note Speaker, The International Symposium of The Fabric Society of America, Honolulu, Hawaii, USA
Artist talk at Shiseido Art Gallery, Tokyo in conjunction with 'A Mirror Woman: The Sun & The Moon' solo exhibition, Japan

2006

Visiting Artist, School of The Art Institute of Chicago, USA

2005

Artist talk at MIT University in conjunction with the solo exhibition 'Seven Wishes and Secrets', MIT List Gallery, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA

2004

Artist talk at Rhode Island School of Design in conjunction with the Videos on Progress at the Rhode Island School of Design Museum, Providence, Rhode Island, USA
Artist talk at St. Petersburg as part of the Pro Arte Video Festival, Hermitage Museum & Russian Museum, CCA, Mosco Lecture Program, Moscow, and at NCCA, in conjunction with A Needle Woman 7 Outdoor Video Projection, Yekaterinburg, Russia
Artist talk at Asian Art Museum, Seattle, Washington, USA

2003

Artist talk at University of Hawaii, in conjunction with the installation 'A Mirror Woman: The Ground of Nowhere', Honolulu City Hall for the Crossings: 2003 Korea/Hawaii Exhibition, Hawaii, USA
Artist talk and Panel Discussion in conjunction with the solo exhibition Kim Sooja at Zacheta National Gallery of Contemporary Art, Warsaw, Poland

2000

Artist talk in conjunction with the solo exhibition A Needle Woman, at ICC, Tokyo, Japan

1996

Lecture at Hong-Ik University Art Dept., Seoul, Korea
Lecturer at Seoul Institute of Art, Seoul, Korea

1993

Artist talk at School of Visual Art, New York, New York, USA

1992

Artist talk at Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, New York, USA

Public Collections

Novobanco Photography Collection, Portugal
Museum Het Valkhof, Nijmegen, Netherlands
M+, Hongkong
Seoul Museum of Art(SeMA), Seoul, Korea
Musée d'Art Contemporain de Lyon(FNAC), Lyon, France
Musée d'Art Contemporain du Val-de-Marne(MAC/VAL), Vitry-sur-Seine, France
Hôtel de Ville, Paris, France
Musée d'art moderne et contemporain, Saint-Étienne, France
Musée national de l'histoire de l'immigration, Paris, France
Sammlung Hoffmann, Berlin, Germany
K21 Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen, Dusseldorf, Germany
Sammlung Goetz, Munich, Germany
Museum Folkwang, Essen, Germany
Degussa SKW Co., Dusseldorf, Germany
National Museum of Contemporary Art(EMST), Athens, Greece
Castello di Rivoli Museo d'Arte Contemporanea, Turin, Italy
National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo, Japan
Fukuoka Asian Art Museum(FAAM), Fukuoka, Japan
Leeum Museum of Art, Seoul, Korea
National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art(MMCA), Gwacheon, Korea
Maeil Dairies Co. Ltd, Seoul, Korea
Hana Bank, Seoul, Korea
Kunstmuseum Lichtenstein, Vaduz, Lichtenstein
Contemporary Art Museum of Luxembourg(MUDAM), Luxembourg
Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Castilla y Léon(MUSAC), Léon, Spain
Museo de Arte Contemporáneo Helga de Alvear, Cáceres, Spain
Kunstmuseum Bern, Bern, Switzerland
Pierre Huber Foundation, Geneva, Switzerland
Magasin III - Museum for contemporary Art, Stockholm, Sweden
Art Gallery of Western Australia, Perth, Australia
Monsoon Art Collection, London, UK
Los Angeles County Museum of Art(LACMA), California, USA
MIT List Visual Arts Center, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA
Smith College Museum of Art, Northampton, Massachusetts, USA
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, USA
Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, Seattle, Washington USA
Microsoft Co., Seattle, Washington, USA
Seattle University, Seattle, Washington, USA
Western Bridge, Seattle, Washington, USA
National Museum of Women in the Arts, Washington, USA
TKF Foundation, Washington, USA

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