1960 Born in Korea
1984 Hong Ik University (BFA)
1987 Pratt Art Institute (MFA) Selected Main Exhibitions
2004 Buddha with Lucky Objects
2004 Speed Museum, Louisville, KY
2003 Amazed World and Other Works Goethe Institute, Berlin, Germany
2002 Bridges‐Interspace‐Sky Collaboration with Zeiger and Schell Architecture firm Pruess and Ochs Gallery, Berlin, Germany
2001 Amazed World (34,000 children’s drawings from 135 countries) United Nations, New York, NY
2000 Enter the Heaven Asian Fine Arts Berlin, Berlin, Germany
1999 100,000 Dream (50,000 children’s drawings from South Korea) Paju Unification Park, Korea
1998 Nam June Paik∙Ik‐Joong Kang Asian Fine Arts Factory, Berlin, Germany
1997 Throw Everything Together and Add Venice Biennale, Korean Pavilion, Venice, Italy
1996 8,490 Days of Memory Whitney Museum of American Art at Philip Morris, New York, NY
1996 Throw Everything Together and Add (50,000 works) Art Space Seoul∙Cho Sun Il Bo Museum∙Hakgojae Gallery, Seoul, Korea
1994 Multiple Dialogue collaboration with Nam June Paik, Whitney Museum of American Art at Champion, Stanford, CT 1992 Ik‐Joong Kang 3×3, Queens Museum of Art, Queens, NY
1992 Buddha Learning English Asian American Art Center, New York, NY Awards
1997 Special Merit Award, 47th Venice Biennale, Venice, Italy 1997 Today’s Young Artist Award (Department of Cultural Affair, Korea)
1996 The Joan Mitchell Foundation Fellowship
1994 New York Foundation of Art Fellowship in Painting
1990 New York Foundation of Art Fellowship in Painting Artist Books
1996 Starving Artists’Restaurant Guide
1991 Throw Everything Together and Add