Selected Solo
Exhibitions
2026 Little things, Delightful greetings,
Hakgojae Gallery, Seoul, Korea
KANG Yo Bae: Embracing Time,
Gwangju Museum of Art, Gwangju, Korea
2024 Hoban Artist Awards Exhibition: Sound of
Wind, Sound of Water, Sejong Museum of Art, Seoul, Korea; Artspace Hohwa,
Seoul, Korea
2022 At First Sight, Hakgojae Gallery, Seoul,
Korea
2021 The Exhibition of KANG Yo Bae,
the Winner of the LEEINSUNG Art Prize, Carnation - When
Mind Becomes Body,
Daegu Art Museum, Daegu, Korea
2020 The Profundity of Landscape,
Hakgojae OROOM, Online
Geumgangsan and DMZ, International
Peace Center Jeju, Seogwipo, Korea
2018 Memento, Camellia, Hakgojae Gallery, Seoul, Korea
Just,
Image, Hakgojae Gallery, Seoul, Korea
2016 Window of
Time, Lee
Jung Seop Art Museum, Seogwipo, Korea
The Wind
Blowing through Time, Jeju Museum of Art, Jeju, Korea
2015 Lee Jung Seob
Award:
Sound, Chosun Ilbo Art
Museum, Seoul, Korea
2014 Boy Meets Girl,
Gerazine, Citizens for Picture Book Art Museum, Jeju, Korea
KANG Yo Bae
Drawings: 1985-2014, Hakgojae Gallery, Seoul, Korea
2013 KANG Yo Bae, Hakgojae
Gallery, Seoul, Korea
2011 Weathering, The
Obaek Jang - Goon Gallery, Jeju Stone Park, Jeju, Korea
2009 KANG Yo Bae’s
Days of Study, Jeju Education Museum, Jeju, Korea
2008 Brushing,
Hakgojae Gallery, Seoul, Korea
The
Camellia Has Fallen, Jeju 4∙3 Peace Memorial Hall, Jeju, Korea
2007 Island Color,
Jeju Culture and Art Center, Jeju, Korea
2006 Time
When It Soaks Into the Ground, Hakgojae
Gallery, Seoul, Korea
KANG Yo
Bae, Artspace·C, Jeju, Korea
2003 KANG Yo Bae, Hakgojae
Gallery, Seoul, Korea
1999 Geumgangsan, Art Space Seoul, Seoul,
Korea; Hakgojae Gallery, Seoul, Korea
1998 Commemoration
of the 50th Anniversary of Jeju 4∙3 Uprising: The Camellia Has
Fallen, Hakgojae Gallery, Seoul, Korea;
Sejong Gallery, Jeju, Korea; Songwon Gallery, Gwangju, Korea; Catholic Center
Exhibition Hall, Busan, Korea; Wolsung Culture Hall, Daegu, Korea
1995 Landscape of
the Island, Johyun Gallery, Busan, Korea
1994 Nature
of Jeju, Hakgojae Gallery, Seoul, Korea; Demi Gallery, Seoul, Korea; Sejong
Gallery, Jeju, Korea
1992 The
History of the Jeju
Uprising, Hakgojae
Gallery, Seoul, Korea; Sejong Gallery, Jeju, Korea; Dangong Gallery, Daegu,
Korea
1976 Angle, Daeho
Coffee Shop, Jeju, Korea
Awards
2024 Hoban Art Award,
Art Space Hohwa, Korea
2023 Special
Prize of the Jeju 4·3 Peace Award, Jeju 4·3 Peace Foundation, Korea
2020 Lee In-sung Art Prize, Daegu Art Museum,
Korea
2018 The
Okgwan Order of Cultural Merit, Korean
Federation of People's Arts Organizations, Korea
2015 Lee Jung Seob
Art Prize, Chosun Ilbo Art Museum, Korea
1998 Minjok Art Award, The Korean People Artist
Federation, Korea
Selected Collections
National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Korea,
Gwacheon, Korea
Seoul Museum of Art, Seoul, Korea
Jeju Museum of Art, Jeju, Korea
Jeonnam Museum of Art, Gwangyang, Korea
Gyeonggi Museum of Modern Art, Ansan,
Korea
Daegu Art
Museum, Daegu, Korea
Bukuk Cultural Foundation, Gwangju, Korea
Art Bank, Seoul, Korea
Government Art Bank, Seoul, Korea
Selected Group
Exhibitions
2026 Concrescence:
Stones and Beauty, Jeju Stone Park, Jeju, Korea; Seolmundae Halmang
Exhibition
Hall, Jeju, Korea
WHAT FLOWS, WHAT REMAINS, Gyeonggi
Museum of Modern Art, Ansan, Korea
2025 DIALOGUE OF WIND AND FOREST, Jeju Museum
of Art, Jeju, Korea
Cobalt, Eunam Museum of Art, Gwangju,
Korea
New Horizon of History Painting: To
Perceive the Time, Jeju Museum of Art, Jeju, Korea
A World of
Paintings on the Lee Kun-hee Collection, Buk-Seoul Museum of Art, Seoul, Korea
2024 Ecole
de Jeju, Jeju Museum of Art, Jeju, Korea
SENTIMENTS OF THE TIMES, Jeju Museum of
Art, Jeju, Korea
NEWS JEJU: Jeju Art Festival, Jeju Stone
Park, Jeju, Korea; Obaekjanggun Gallery, Jeju, Korea
Balhwa,
Position min Jeju, Jeju, Korea
The
Gift, Jeonbuk Museum of Art, Wanju, Korea
2023 Guardians
of Memory, Jeju Museum of Contemporary Art, Jeju, Korea
Wind, Once Again,
Sanjicheon Gallery, Jeju, Korea
Encounter,
Jeonnam Museum of Art, Gwangyang, Korea
Stirring the Blue, National Maritime
Museum of Korea, Busan, Korea
2022 Prayer for Life, National
Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Gwacheon, Korea
A Collector’s Invitation, National
Museum of Korea, Seoul, Korea
Earth and Body: Thinly Connected, Thickly Related, Jeonnam
Museum of Art, Gwangyang, Korea
2021 38˚C,
Hakgojae Gallery, Seoul, Korea
At the Same Time, Jeju Museum of Art, Jeju,
Korea
Before the Wind, Suwon Ipark Museum
of Art, Suwon, Korea
Reasons for the Weather, Gidang Art
Museum, Seogwipo, Korea
New Acquisitions 2017-2020: Connected Worlds, Gyeongnam
Art Museum, Changwon, Korea
2020 MMCA Collection Highlights 2020+, National
Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Seoul, Korea
Art and Words 2020, Hakgojae
Gallery, Seoul, Korea
Jeju Rhapsody: When and Where Does Your Jeju
Begin?, KIMTEKHWA MUSEUM, Jeju, Korea
Body,
Flesh, Heal, Gidang Art Museum, Seogwipo, Korea
2019 2010-2019 Decade: Until Now, and Pursuit,
Gidang Art Museum, Seogwipo, Korea
99+1, Jeju Museum of
Art, Jeju, Korea
The
Square: Art and Society in Korea 1990-2019, National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Gwacheon, Korea
Drawing
- Korean Modern and Contemporary Drawings, Seoul Olympic Museum of Art, Seoul,
Korea
One Shiny Day, Daegu
Art Museum, Daegu, Korea; National Gallery of Modern Art, New Delhi, India
Portrait,
Figure and People - Modern and Contemporary Figure Paintings of Korea, Gallery
Hyundai, Seoul, Korea
40th
Anniversary of Jeong Taechun ∙ Park Eunok: Cross Again, Sejong Center, Seoul, Korea
2018 Stories
& Dreams, Gyeonggi Museum of Modern Art, Ansan, Korea
Special Exhibition of the 70th Anniversary
of Jeju 4∙3 Massacre: Post Trauma, Jeju Museum of Art, Jeju, Korea
Exhibition on Peace and Human Rights in East Asia for 70th
Anniversary of 4·3 - From Silence to Shouting, Jeju 4·3 Peace Memorial Hall,
Jeju, Korea
2017 Korea
Tomorrow 2017: Narrative Landscape, Sungkok Art Museum, Seoul, Korea
The
Spirit of Jeju, Seogwipo Arts Center, Seogwipo, Korea
Jeju Biennale 2017: Tourism, Jeju Museum
of Art, Jeju, Korea
HawdangSsak,
Art Space Jeju Art Gallery, Jeju, Korea
4·3 Art Archive:
30 Years of Struggles for Recollection, Jeju Museum
of Art, Jeju, Korea
SAMRAMANSANG: From KIM Whanki to YANG
Fudong, National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Seoul, Korea
2016 Arirang
Rhapsody, Jeju Museum of Contemporary Art, Jeju, Korea
Jeju · Rabnitz
Contemporary Art Exhibition, Jeju Museum of Contemporary Art, Jeju, Korea
Story
Blossoms in Art, Gyeonggi Museum of Modern Art, Ansan, Korea
GanaArt
Collection Anthology, Seoul Museum of Art, Seoul, Korea
2015 Social
Realism in Asia Chapter 1: Isles of Sincerity, Hakgojae Shanghai, Shanghai,
China
4·3 Art Festival: Transparent Tears of Ice, Jeju Museum of Art,
Jeju, Korea
70th
Anniversary of Liberation - Special Exhibition of Korea Modern and Contemporary
Art, Daejeon Museum of Arts, Daejeon, Korea
PyeongChang
Biennale: Élan Vital, Alpensia,
Pyeongchang, Korea
Now, Here, Pohang
Museum of Steel Art, Pohang, Korea
Jeju ∙ Japan Joint
Exhibition: Sharing Memories of the Myth, Jeju Culture and Art Center, Jeju,
Korea
2014 The Special Project for the 20th Anniversary of
the Gwangju Biennale: Sweet Dew - Since 1980, Gwangju Museum of Art, Gwangju, Korea
4·3 Art Festival: Between Okinawa, Taiwan, and Jeju - The Sea of
Jeju Is in Gabonyeon, Jeju Museum of Art, Jeju, Korea
What Makes the Wind Sway...: for personal or
socio-historic paintings, Busan Museum of Art, Busan, Korea
The Stream of Korean Contemporary Art VII - Realism, Yunseul Art Gallery Gimhae Arts
and Sports Center, Gimhae, Korea
Gongjae Yun Du-seo - Encounter with a Great Master, Gwangju National
Museum, Gwangju, Korea
The Breath
of Life, The Room of Myth, Jeju World Natural Heritage Center, Jeju, Korea
Camellia Has Fallen: Contemporary Korean Artists Reflect on
the Jeju Uprising, Sonoma County Museum, Santa Rosa, US
Sailing of
New Spring, KBS Jeju Broadcasting Station, Jeju, Korea
Indonesia - Korea Contemporary Art Exhibition: Low Stream,
Jeju Museum of Contemporary Art, Jeju, Korea
2013 Island, Jeju
Museum of Contemporary Art, Jeju, Korea
Determination of Two Islands, National Gallery of Indonesia,
Jakarta, Indonesia; Tonyraka Art Gallery, Bali, Indonesia
4·3 Art Festival: Roar - Multiple Perspectives, Jeju 4·3 Peace Memorial Hall, Jeju, Korea
The Korean People’s Artist Association of Chungbuk Art Festival,
Wumin Art Center, Cheongju, Korea
Landscape -
The Reason of Painting, Shinsegae Gallery Centum City, Busan, Korea
2012 Jeju
∙ Japan Joint Exhibition, Sharing Memories of the Myth, Jeju Museum of
Contemporary Art, Jeju, Korea
4·3 Art Festival: Family, Jeju 4·3 Peace Memorial Hall, Jeju, Korea
DMZ Peace Picture Book Project: Winter Winter
Winter, Spring, Gyeonggi Museum of Modern Art, Ansan, Korea
Motherhood - Mother Images in Korean Art,
Ehwa Womans University Museum, Seoul, Korea
2011 Korean
Rhapsody: A Montage of History and Memory, Leeum Museum of Art, Seoul, Korea
The Dream
of Land, Insa Art Center, Seoul, Korea
Deep, deep
sight, Jeju Munhwa Forum, Jeju, Korea
Jeju ∙ Japan Joint Exhibition: Sharing Memories of the Myth, Osaka
Prefectural Sayamaike Museum, Osaka, Japan
Tamra
Artists Association Project: Gureombi Is Crying, Artspace C, Jeju, Korea
Co-Existence
& Co-Prosperity, Jeju Museum of Art, Jeju, Korea
Nature,
Life Human, Daegu Art Museum, Daegu, Korea
2010 30 Years of Reality
and Utterance: Reality for the Society and Art, Insa Art Center, Seoul, Korea
Jeju ∙ Japan Joint Exhibition, Sharing Memories of the Myth, Jeju
Culture and Art Center, Jeju, Korea
Lives and Landscapes in Volcanic Island
Jeju, Jeju Culture and Art Center, Jeju, Korea; The Ueno Royal Museum, Tokyo,
Japan
Cross Over
the Yellow Line, Kyunghyang Gallery, Seoul, Korea
The Masters of Korean Modern and Contemporary Art, 63 SKY ART
GALLERY, Seoul, Korea
Korean
Avant - Garde Drawing 1970-2000, Seoul Olympic Museum of Art, Seoul, Korea
2009 The Deification
of Nature, Jeju, Jeju Museum of Contemporary Art, Jeju, Korea
Peace Arts
Festival 2009, Jeju Museum of Contemporary Art, Jeju, Korea
Jeju
Art: Yesterday and Today, Jeju Museum of
Art, Jeju, Korea
Asia and Rice,
Sori Art Center of Jeollabuk-do, Jeonju, Korea
2008 Korean
Art Today - The World of Expression, Hangaram Art Museum, Seoul Arts Center, Seoul,
Korea
Celebrating Exhibition of RAMSAR Conference 2008, Gyeongnam
Art Museum, Changwon, Korea
The
Pulsation of People: Realism in Korean Art 1945-2005, The Niigata Bandaijima
Art Museum, Niigata, Japan; Fukuoka
Asian Art Museum, Fukuoka, Japan; Miyakonojo City Museum of Art, Miyazaki, Japan; Otani Memorial Art Museum,
Nishinomiya, Japan; Fuchu Art Museum,
Fuchu, Japan
2007 Korea
Unification Art Exhibition, Busan Democracy Park, Busan, Korea
The Best
100 Wonderful Places of the Southern Coast of Korea, Gyeongnam Art Museum, Changwon, Korea; Geoje Arts Center,
Geoje, Korea
4·3 Art Festival: Standing There, Again, Jeju Culture and Art
Center, Jeju, Korea
Jeju Island, Jeju Museum of Contemporary Art, Jeju, Korea
2005 Jeju - Bali,
Tony Raka Art Gallery, Bali, Indonesia
Bali - Jeju,
Jeju Culture and Art Center, Jeju, Korea
Meeting Again on the Road, Busan Democracy Park, Busan, Korea;
5∙18 Memorial Culture Center, Gwangju, Korea; Taebaek Cultural Center, Taebaek, Korea; Gongpyeong
Gallery, Seoul, Korea
4·3 Art Festival: Together, Jeju Culture and Art Center, Jeju,
Korea
2004 Jeju
Art Festival: Forms of Jeju and Colors of Tamra toward the Open Time and
Space,
International Convention Center, Jeju, Korea; Gidang Art Museum, Seogwipo, Korea
Myths of Wind 2004, Jeju Culture and Art Center, Jeju, Korea
A Praise
for Still Life, Ilmin Museum of Art, Seoul, Korea
Declaration for Peace: 100 Artists from Korea and Overseas,
National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Gwacheon, Korea
Meditation
about Road, Jeju Culture and Art Center, Jeju, Korea
Jeju ·
Chungbuk Cultural
Exchange, Life, Peace, Gidang Art Museum, Seogwipo, Korea
4·3 Art Festival: Meet another Road at the End of the Road, Jeju Culture and
Art Center, Jeju, Korea
2003 4·3 Art Festival: Lighting the Torch of Truth
Toward the Sea of Peace, Jeju Culture and Art Center, Jeju, Korea
REAL - SCAPE Revisited, National Museum of Modern and
Contemporary Art, Gwacheon, Korea
Deep - ‘Painting’,
Art Space Pool, Seoul, Korea
Commemorative
Exhibition for the 10th Anniversary of Tamra Artists Association, Sinsan Gallery, Jeju, Korea
History
Paintings: The Exhibition Commemorating 1901 Jeju Resistance, Jeju National Museum, Jeju, Korea
2002 4·3 Art Festival: Terror, Jeju Culture and Art Center, Jeju, Korea
Wind and
Earth, Cloud and Mountain, Chungbuk Arts and Culture Center, Cheongju, Korea
People Art
for 20 Years, Cheongju Arts Center, Cheongju, Korea
The Person
at Present, Sejong Gallery, Jeju, Korea
Inaugural
Exhibition of JeBiWool Museum, JeBiWool Museum, Gwacheon, Korea
2001 4·3 Art Festival: Halla and Mudeung - the Legacy of History, Jeju Culture and
Art
Center, Jeju, Korea
Long Necked
Tree Frog, Sejong Gallery, Jeju, Korea; Gallery Jeju Art, Jeju, Korea
Invitation
to Life, Hakgojae Gallery, Seoul, Korea
4·3 and Nogeun-ri, Cheongju Culture Institute, Cheongju, Korea
Foundation /
Prospect, Seoul Art Gallery, Seoul, Korea
Mountains and
Streams of Our Homeland, Wind Wind Wind, Gwanghwamun Gallery, Seoul, Korea
Beautiful
Lives, Madang Sol, Daegu, Korea
2000 Gwangju
Biennale: MAN+SPACE, Gwangju Biennale Exhibition Hall, Gwangju, Korea Art for Ocean Art Festival 2000: Touch the Ocean, Sejong Center
for the Performing Arts, Seoul, Korea
4·3 Art Festival: Land Steeped in History, Jeju Culture and Art Center, Jeju,
Korea
Water Path, Uphill Path, Foot Path, Jeju Culture and Art
Center, Jeju, Korea
Genre Paintings of Jeju, Sejong Gallery, Jeju, Korea
1999 4·3 Art Festival: Invisible Hands, Seeing Eyes – Jeju 4·3 and the United States, Jeju Culture and Art Center, Jeju, Korea
Arts of
Jeju - Fair Winds, Sejong Gallery, Jeju, Korea
1998 Wild Flowers,
Savina Gallery, Seoul, Korea
4·3 Art Festival: From Conflict to Coexistence, Jeju Culture and Art Center, Jeju,
Korea
A Wrong
Encounter, Savina Gallery, Seoul, Korea
1997 4·3 Art Festival: Nature · People · History, Jeju Culture and Art Center, Jeju, Korea
Searching
for Korean Beauty, Savina Gallery, Seoul, Korea
10th
Anniversary Exhibition of Gidang Art Museum, Gidang Art Museum, Seogwipo, Korea
1996 17 Artists of
Tradition and Reality, Hakgojae Gallery, Seoul, Korea
4·3 Art Festival: The Beauty of Revival and Awakening, Sejong Gallery, Jeju,
Korea
Artistic Journeys on the Silk Road: Searching for the Breath
of Missing Empire, Donga Gallery, Seoul, Korea
Contemporary
Artists, Arario Gallery, Cheonan, Korea
Mountains and Streams
of Our Homeland: River - Like Life Flowing Toward Tomorrow, Seoul Museum of
Art, Seoul, Korea
1995 Gwangju Biennale: The Spirit of Gwangju
Resistance in May, Gwangju Museum of Art, Gwangju, Korea
Gwangju
Unification Art Exhibition, Mangwol-dong Cemetery, Gwangju, Korea
50th Anniversary
of the Liberation of Korea, Historical Paintings Exhibition: Where Are We, Hangaram
Art Museum, Seoul Arts Center, Seoul, Korea
4·3 Art Festival: Spirits, Come, Sejong Gallery, Jeju, Korea
9 Artists,
Jeju Art Gallery, Jeju, Korea
1945-1995
50 Years After Liberation, Strata of History, Sejong Gallery, Jeju, Korea; Jeju Art Gallery, Jeju, Korea
1994 The
15 years of Korean Minjung Arts: 1980-1994, National Museum of Modern and
Contemporary Art, Gwacheon, Korea
100th Donghak Commemoration: Bird,
Bird, Blue Bird, Hangaram Art Museum,
Seoul Arts Center, Seoul, Korea
Jeju Arts -
Fair Winds, Sejong Gallery, Jeju, Korea
4·3 Art Festival: Opening the Closed Heart, Jeju Culture and Art Center, Jeju, Korea;
Sejong Gallery, Jeju, Korea
1993 DMZ Peace
Project, Tokyo Central Art Museum, Tokyo, Japan
Jeju Art
Festival, Jeju Culture and Art Center, Jeju, Korea
After 10 Years, Dukwon Gallery, Seoul, Korea
1992 Jeju Art Festival,
Jeju Culture and Art Center, Jeju, Korea
Today’s Life, Today’s Art, Kumho Gallery, Seoul, Korea
An Aspect of Korea Art from
the ‘90s, Garam
Gallery, Seoul, Korea; Gallery Sang Moon Dang, Seoul, Korea; Hakgojae Gallery,
Seoul, Korea; Hyun Gallery, Seoul, Korea
1991 Face of Our Time - ’91 Human and Nature, Grimmadang
Min, Seoul, Korea
18 Artists, Seoul Art Museum, Seoul, Korea
1990 Young Vision - Proposal for Tomorrow, Hangaram
Art Museum, Seoul Arts Center, Seoul, Korea
Education Field, Grimmadang Min, Seoul, Korea
10 Years of Reality and Utterance, Kwanhoon Gallery, Seoul,
Korea; Grimmadang Min, Seoul, Korea
Face of Our Time - Human and Nature, Grimmadang Min, Seoul,
Korea
Breath of
Dawn - Trends and Prospects, Seoul Art Museum, Seoul, Korea
1989 People Art
Positioning, Grimmadang Min, Seoul, Korea
Mountains
and Streams of Our Homeland, Grimmadang Min, Seoul, Korea
The Life Living Together, Art Madang Geumgang, Seoul, Korea
Paintings
and Potteries Revive Living Foundation, Grimmadang Min, Seoul, Korea
Contemporary
Art - New Visions, Sejong Gallery, Jeju, Korea
1988 Reality
and Utterance: The Korean Peninsula Is Watching
America, Grimmadang Min, Seoul, Korea
1987 Anti - Torture,
Grimmadang Min, Seoul, Korea; Gwangju Catholic Museum, Gwangju, Korea
1986 JAALA, Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
A Flagman of 30th Generation,
Grimmadang Min, Seoul, Korea
Reality and Utterance, Grimmadang Min, Seoul,
Korea
1985 Korean
Art '85, Arab Cultural Center, Seoul, Korea
Representative
Works of Korean Art in the 1980s, Insa-dong Gallery, Seoul, Korea; Ewha
Gallery, Seoul, Korea
1984 Art
of Life, Arab Cultural Center,
Seoul, Korea;
Kwanhoon Gallery, Seoul, Korea; The 3 Art Museum, Seoul, Korea
Reality and
Utterance: 6∙25, Arab Cultural Center, Seoul, Korea
History of 40 Years after the Liberation, Gwangju Academy
Museum, Gwangju, Korea; Cheonnam National University, Gwangju, Korea; Catholic
Center Exhibition Hall, Busan, Korea; Masan Jin Gallery, Masan, Korea; Yonsei
University, Seoul, Korea; Korea University, Seoul, Korea
1983 The Spirit of
the Times, The 3 Art Museum, Seoul, Korea
Reality
and Utterance: Prints, Hanmadang Gallery, Seoul, Korea
Reality
and Utterance, Kwanhoon Gallery, Seoul, Korea
1982 The Power of
Consciousness, Deoksu Museum, Seoul, Korea
Reality
and Utterance: Images of Happiness, Deoksu Museum,
Seoul, Korea
December,
Jungkyung High School, Seoul, Korea; Osan High School, Seoul, Korea; Changmun
Girls’ High School, Seoul, Korea
1981 Reality and
Utterance: City and Sight, Lotte Gallery, Seoul, Korea
Contemporary
Art Workshop Special Exhibition, Dongduk Art Gallery, Seoul, Korea
December,
Korean Culture and Arts Foundation, Seoul, Korea
1980 December, Namdo Arts Center, Seoul,
Korea
The
Viewpoint Art Members Exhibition, Young Artists Art Center, Seoul, Korea
1977-80 1st - 9th The Viewpoint, Daeho
Gallery, Jeju, Korea
