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LEE Ufan

A stone is presented in its natural state and brought infinitely close to the human. A steel plate is presented in its artificial state and brought infinitely close to nature. The work comes together from both sides, and becomes one as its moves toward a third position. At the same time, gaps in the overlapping parts allow the wind of the world to enter.


- Lee Ufan, The Conditions of Sculpture, 1976


Lee Ufan, known as a founder of mono-ha, is a painter, sculptor and philosopher. His art is rooted in an Eastern appreciation of the nature of materials and also in modern European phenomenology. Born in 1936 in Korea, he studied painting at the Seoul National University and moved to Japan, where he earned a degree in philosophy at the Nihon University in 1961. In 1973, he was appointed as a professor of Tama Art University in Tokyo and stayed there until 2007. He lives and works in Japan, Korea and Paris.
Lee Ufan came to prominence as one of the theoretical leaders of the Mono-ha group. The Mono-Ha school of thought rejected the notions of representation, choosing to focus on the relationships of materials and perceptions rather than on expression. Lee's sculptures, presenting dispersed arrangements of stones together with industrial materials like steel plates, rubber sheets, and glass panes, recast the discrete object as a network of relations based on parity between the viewer, materials, and site. Also, by dropping a stone on the glass pane and having cracks on the surface, he visualizes the encounter between human and object. In his painting, Lee creates poetic space by painting skilled brushstrokes in the empty canvas; the encounter between self and other. Corresponding relations between points or lines and the white space generate resonance and infinite depth. His art embraces the world at large and encourages the fluid coexistence of numerous beings, concepts, and experiences.
Lee Ufan participated in Documenta VI (1977) in Kassel, and in 1969 and 1973 he was chosen to represent Korea in the Bienal de Sao Paulo. Major exhibitions of Lee's artworks were held at the Yokohama Museum of Art and the Musée d'art Moderne Saint-Etienne in France in 2005. However, it was Lee’s "Resonance" exhibition at Palazzo Palumbo Fossati in the 2007 Venice Biennale that won critical acclaim and a wider audience. In 2011, Lee Ufan: Marking Infinity was exhibited at the Guggenheim Museum in New York as a second Korean artist after Nam June Paik.  In 2014, Lee was the fourth invited artist for the contemporary art program of the Palace of Versailles.
 
 
 

 

Biography

1936       Born in Haman, Korea

1956       Dropped out of Seoul National University, and moved to Yokohama, Japan

1961       Graduated from Nihon University, Department of Philosophy, Tokyo

1997       Appointed guest professor at the Ecolenationalesuperieure des beaux-arts, Paris

 

Currently professor of Tama Art University, Tokyo

Lives and works in Japan and Korea

 

 

Solo Exhibitions

 

2014        Lee Ufan, Kaikai Kiki Gallery, Tokyo

              Lee Ufan Versailles, Chateau de Versailles, Versailles, France

2013        Dissonance, Chapelle Saint-Laurent- Le Capitole, Arles, France

              GalerieKamelMennour, Paris

2012        Lee Ufan: The Art of Emptiness, Asia Society Texas Center, Houston, USA

              Lee Ufan: Marking Infinity, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York

              Paintings and Sculptures, GalerieThaddaeusRopac, Salzburg, Austria

              Gallery A-zone, Okayama, Japan

              SCAI the Bathhouse, Tokyo

              Dialogue: Lee Ufan, Gallery Hyundai, Seoul

2010        Lee Ufan: Resonancia, Galeria Elvira Gonzalez, Madrid

              Blum & Poe, Los Angeles, USA

2009        Lee Ufan: Peintures et Sculptures, Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac, Paris

              Kukje Gallery, Seoul

              Lee Ufan: Bewegte Stille, Kunstverein Lippstadt, Lippstadt, Germany

2008        Dialogue Sea and Island: Lithographs, Shirota Gallery, Tokyo

              Royal Museums of Fine Arts of Belgium, Brussels

              Lee Ufan: Ein Dialogue, Museen Dahlem, Berlin

              Pace Wildenstein, New York

              Lee Ufan: New Work, Lisson Gallery, London

              Lee Ufan: Dialogue: In Watercolors, Tokyo Gallery+BTAP, Tokyo

              Lee Ufan: Resonance, 52nd Venice Biennale, Palazzo Palumbo Fossati, Venice, Italy

              SCAI the Bathhouse, Shiraishi Contemporary Art Inc., Tokyo

              Galerie Nachst St. Stephan Rosemarie Schwarzwalder, Vienna

              Lee Ufan: New Prints, Sho Gallery, Tokyo

              Lee Ufan Collection Exhibition, Gallery Micha, Seoul

2006        Galerie Micheline Szwajcer, Antwerp, Belgium

              Lee Ufan: Terra Cotta and Watercolor on Paper, IBU Gallery, Paris

              Lee Ufan: Silence, Galerie m Bochum, Bochum, Germany

              Silently: Lithographs, Shirota Gallery, Tokyo

              Gallery Muramatsu, Tokyo

              Lee Ufan: Works from the Dieter & Si Rosenkranz Collection, Museen Dahlem, Berlin

              Kongkan Gallery, Busan, Korea

2005        Queensland Art Gallery, Brisbane, Australia

              Lee Ufan: The Art of Margins, Yokohama Museum of Art, Yokohama, Japan

              Exposition Lee Ufan, Musee d’art Moderne et Contemporain de Saint-Etienne Metropole,

              Saint-Etienne, France

2004        Lee Ufan: Peinture Sculpture, Musee d’Art Contemporain Fernet Branca, Alsace, France

              Lee Ufan: The Art of Encounter, Lisson Gallery, London

2003        Gallery Hyundai, Seoul

              Lee Ufan: The Search for Encounter, Rodin Gallery, Seoul: Ho-Am Art Museum, Yongin,

              Korea

2002        SCAI the Bathhouse, Tokyo

2001        Lee Ufan: Paintings 1973-2001, Kunstmuseum Bonn, Bonn, Germany

              Sigong Gallery, Daegu, Korea

              Shirota Gallery, Tokyo

2000        Lee Ufan: Interconnection, Galerie m Bochum, Bochum, Germany

1999        Kamakura Gallery, Tokyo

              Lee Ufan: Peintures 1974-1999, Sculptures 1999, Liliane&Michel Durand-Dessert, Paris

              Tokyo Gallery+BTAP, Tokyo

1998        Sigong Gallery, Daegu,Korea

              Collection II: Lee Ufan, Soh Gallery, Tokyo

              Eastern Gate: Aquatint, Correspondence ’98: Lithographs, Shirota Gallery, Tokyo

              Lee Ufan: Painting and Sculpture, Stadtisches Museum im Stadel, Frankfurt, Germany

              Lee Ufan Print Works 1970-1998, Mitaka City Gallery of Art, Mitaka, Japan; Sapporo Art

              Park, Sapporo, Japan; Itami City Museum of Art, Hyogo, Japan; Ashikaga Museum of Art,

              Tochigi, Japan; Nigata City Art Museum, Nigata, Japan

              Gallery Rho, Seoul

              Shirota Gallery, Tokyo

1997        Gallery Hyundai, Seoul

              Space Shimoda, Tokyo

              Gallery Bhak, Seoul

              Galerie Nationale du Jeu de Paume, Paris

              Lee Ufan: Anche Il Vuoto Lavora, Lorenzelli Arte, Milan, Italy

1996        Lisson Gallery, London

              Galerie Rabouan Moussion, Paris

              Tokyo Gallery+BTAP, Tokyo

              Kongkan Gallery, Busan, Korea

1995        Stadtisches Museum Leverkusen, Leverkusen, Germany

              Galerie de Paris, Paris

              Ingong Gallery, Seoul

              Tokyo Gallery+BTAP, Tokyo

              Lee Ufan: Correspondences-Subsidence 1994/1995, Galerie m Bochum, Bochum, Germany

1994        National Museum of Contemporary Art, Seoul

              Gallery Hyundai, Seoul

              Fondazione Mudima, Milan, Italy

1993        Kamakura Gallery, Kamakura, Japan

              Lee Ufan: Works from ‘70s&’80s, Tokyo Gallery+BTAP, Tokyo

              Watercolors, Shirota Gallery, Tokyo

              Museum of Modern Art, Kamakura, Japan

1992        Kongkan Gallery, Busan, Korea

              Galerie de Paris, Paris

              SAGA, Grand Palais, Paris

              Lee Ufan: In Milano: Prints, Gallery Ueda, Tokyo

1991        Ingong Gallery, Seoul

              Hara Museum ARC, Gunma, Japan

              Lee Ufan: With Winds ’91 at Milano, Lorenzelli Arte, Milan, Italy

              With Winds 1991, Tokyo Gallery+BTAP, Tokyo: Gallery Ueda, Tokyo

1990        Ingong Gallery, Seoul

              Gallery Hyundai, Seoul

              Lee Ufan: Sculpture Works, Kamakura Gallery, Tokyo

              Gallery Ueda, Tokyo

1989        Galerie de Paris, Paris

              Lee Ufan: With Winds, Tokyo Gallery+BTAP, Tokyo: Gallery Ueda, Tokyo

              From Island: Carborundums, From Port: Drypoints, Shirota Gallery, Tokyo

              Lee Ufan: With Winds, Paintings 1986/88, Galerie m Bochum, Bochum, Germany

              DallaMemoria di unaCitta: Lithographs, Shirota Gallery, Tokyo

1988        Lee Ufan: Traces of Sensibility and Logic, Museum of Fine Arts, Gifu, Japan

              Lee Ufan: Ex Oriente, Padiglione d’Arte Contemporanea, Milan, Italy

              Galerie Anselm Dreher, Berlin

1987        Gallery Hyundai, Seoul

              Lee Ufan: Working With Clay, Gallery Ueda, Tokyo

1986        Lee Ufan: From Winds, Tokyo Gallery+BTAP, Tokyo

              Galerie de Paris, Paris

              Lee Ufan: Folding Screens, Gallery Ueda, Tokyo

              The Printworks of Lee Ufan: 1970-1986, Shirota Gallery, Tokyo

1985        Lee Ufan Sculpture Exhibition, Kamakura Gallery, Tokyo

              Studio d’Ars, Milan, Italy

1984        Gallery Hyundai, Seoul: Korea Art Gallery, Seoul

              Gallery Su, Seoul

              Galerie de Paris, Paris

              In the Ruins: Lithographs, Shirota Gallery, Tokyo

              Working With Paper, Galerie Tokyo Humanite, Nagoya, Japan

1983        Lee Ufan: Paper Works,Gallery Ueda, Tokyo

              Tokyo Gallery+BTAP, Tokyo

1982        Studio Marconi, Milan, Italy

              Kaneko Art Tokyo, Tokyo

1981        Lee Ufan: Watercolors, Shirota Gallery, Tokyo

              Lee Ufan: Watercolors, Soker-Kaseman Gallery, San Francisco, USA

1980        Tokyo Gallery+BTAP, Tokyo: Ueda Gallery, Tokyo

              Galerie Eric Fabre, Paris

              Gallery Ueda, Tokyo

1979        Gallery Takagi, Nagoya, Japan

              Marl Sculpture Museum, Marl, Germany

              Lee Ufan: Watercolors and Drawings, Jean Art Galllery, Seoul

              Gallery Muramatsu, Tokyo

              Lee Ufan: Drawing Exhibition, Kaneko Art Tokyo, Tokyo

              Lee Gallery, Daegu, Korea

1978        Gallery Hyundai, Seoul

              Lee Ufan: From Point-From Line, Dusseldorf Kunsthalle, Dusseldorf, Germany

              Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Humlebaek, Denmark

              Skulpturen, Galerie m Bochum, Bochum, Germany

              Antwerp Gallery, Antwerp, Belgium

              From Piont, From Line: Lithographs and Watercolors, Shirota Gallery, Tokyo

              Sculptures, Tamura Gallery, Tokyo

1977        Tokyo Gallery+BTAP, Tokyo

              Galerie Eric Fabre, Paris

1976        Paintings and Drawings, Galerie m Bochum, Bochum, Germany

              Gallery Spectrum, Antwerp, Belgium

              Drawings, Myongdong Gallery, Seoul

              Kaneko Art Tokyo, Tokyo

1975        Galerie Eric Fabre, Paris

              Decorative Paintings, Galerie m Bochum, Bochum, Germany

              Gallery Hyundai, Seoul

              Kaneko Art Tokyo, Tokyo

1974        Tamura Gallery, Tokyo

              Galerie Eric Fabre, Paris

1973        Tokyo Gallery+BTAP, Tokyo

1972        Myongdong Gallery, Seoul

1971        Pinar Gallery, Tokyo

              Prints, Shirota Gallery, Tokyo

1970        Tamura Gallery, Tokyo

1967        Sato Gallery, Tokyo

 

 

Group Exhibitions

 

2014       Formes simples, Centre Pompidou-Metz, Metz, France

             Spirit of Place, Palazzo Franchetti, Venice, Italy

             Korean Beauty: Two Kinds of Nature, National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art,

   Seoul

             Other Primary Structures: Others 2, Jewish Museum, New York

2013       Mingei: Art You Here?,The Pace Gallery, London

             Parallel Views: Italian and Japanese Art from the 1950s, 60s, and 70s, The Warehouse,

             Dallas,   USA

             Takahashi Collection: Mindfulness!,Kirishima Open-Air Museum, Kagoshima, Japan

             Prima Materia, Punta Della Dogana, Venice, Italy

             Paradise, The Pace Gallery, New York

2012       Requiem for the Sun: The Art of Mono-Ha, Gladstone Gallery, New York:Blum & Poe,

             Los Angeles, USA

             John Latham/Lee Ufan, Lisson Gallery, Milan, Italy

             Tokyo 1955-1970: A New Avant-Garde, Museum of Modern Art, New York

             Summer Group Show 2012,The Pace Gallery, New York

             Art as Magic: Visionary Artists and Their Inner Supernatural World, Aichi Prefectural Museum

   of Art, Nagoya, Japan

             Beijing Voice: Leaving Realism Behind, The Pace Gallery, Beijing

             Tricks&Humor, Yokosuka Museum of Art, Yokosuka, Japan

             Pure Clay: Young Sook Park and Lee Ufan, RH Gallery, New York

             Burning, Bright: A Short History of the Light Bulb, The Pace Gallery, New York

             54th Venice Biennale:The World Belongs to You, Palazzo Grassi, Venice, Italy

             Silence and Time, Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas, USA

             In Praise of Doubt, Punta della Dogna, Francois Pinault Foundation, Venice, Italy

             The Color of Nature, Monochrome Art in Korea: Collections from the Busan Museum of Art,

             Taipei Fine Arts Museum, Taipei, Taiwan

             Personal Structures: Time-Space-Existence, Kunstlerhaus Palais Thurn & Taxis, Bergenz,

   Austria

             50 Years at Pace, The Pace Gallery, New York

             Painting: Process and Expansion: From the 1950s to the Present Day, Museum Moderner

   Kunst Stiftung Ludwig Wien, Vienna

             TaubaAuerbach, Matthew Day Jackson, R.H. Quaytman, etc.…, Galerie Emmanuel Perrotin,

             Paris

             The Vision of Contemporary Art, Artsonje Museum, Gyeongju, Korea

2009       Painting and Its Surroundings, Galerie Nachst St. Stephan, Vienna; Palacio de los Condes

   de Sástago, Zaragoza, Spain

             Who is Afraid of Artists? A Selection of Works from the François Pinault Foundation, Palais

   des Arts et du Festival, Marie de Dinard, Dinard, France

             In-finitum, Palazzo Fortuny, Venice, Italy

             A Walk in the Park: Outdoor Sculpture at Pace Wildenstein, Pace Wildenstein, New York

             Boule to Braid: Curated by Richard Wentworth, Lisson Gallery, London

             Four Stories: Paths to Japanese Modern Art, Kawamura Memorial Museum of Art, Chiba,

             Japan

             Lisson Presents 5, Lisson Gallery, London

             15th Anniversary Inaugural Exhibition, Blum & Poe, Los Angeles, USA

             Essential Experiences, RISO Museo d’Arte Contemporanea della Sicilia, Palermo, Italy

2008       Sensitive Sytems- Lee Ufan, Roman Opalka, Giuseppe Penone, Gunther Uecker, Hakgojae

             Gallery, Seoul

             The Thin Line of Shadow: Lee Ufan, Gunther Uecker, Roman Opalka, Fondazione Mudima,

             Milan, Italy

             Scotto Voce, Yvon Lambert, New York

             Chung Sang Hwa, Lee Ufan, Moon Seung Keun, Gallery Hyndai, Seoul

             Mediations Biennale, National Museum in Poznan, Poznan, Poland

             Transcendence: Modernity and Beyond in Korean Art, Singapore Art Museum, Singapore

2007       Living in the Material World: “Things” in Art of the 20th Century and Beyond, National

             Art Center, Tokyo

             Elastic Taboos: Within the Korean World of Contemporary Art, Kunsthalle Wien, Vienna

             The Art of Monet and His Posterity, National Art Center, Tokyo

             48 October Salon: Micro-Narratives, Legacy House, Belgrade

             What is Mono-Ha?,Tokyo Gallery+BTAP, Tokyo

             On Kawara, Lee Ufan, Hitoshi Nomura: Time Recorded, Fergus McCaffre, New York

             Coleccion de la Fundacion Shelter, Galeria Guillermo de Osma, Madrid

             Poetrey in Motion, Foundation Beyeler, Basel, Switzerland

             Time is Always Now!,Galerie m Bochum, Bochum, Germany

             Void in Korean Art, Leeum: Samsung Museum of Art, Seoul

2006       La force de l’art, Grand Palais, Paris

             Gwangju Biennale 2006:Fever Variations, Gwangju Biennale Hall, Gwangju, Korea

             Shelter: Art for Women in Forced Prostitution, Neue National galerie, Berlin

             Motion on Paper, Ben Brown Fine Arts, London

             Summertime: Reflection-Self Reflection, Galerie m Bochum, Bochum, Germany

             Kim Whanki, Kim Tschangyeul, Lee Ufan, 1970-80: Where, in What Form, Shall We Meet Again,

             Gallery Hyundai, Seoul

             And Yet It Moves: Von Alexander Calder and Jean Tinguely to Contemporary "Mobile Art",

             Kunstmuseum Bochum, Bochum, Germany

2005       Encounters with Modernism: Highlights from the Stedelijk Museum and the National Museum

   of Contemporary Art, National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Seoul

             Reconsidering Mono-Ha, National Museum of Art, Osaka, Japan

             Moderato Cantabile, Lee Ufan, Simon Callery, Nishikawa, Galerie Philippe Casini, Paris

             (In)visible (In)corporeo, Museo d’Arte della Provincia di Nuoro, Nuoro, Italy

2004       Traces: Body and Idea in Contemporary Art, National Museum of Modern Art, Kyoto, Japan

             L’art au future anterieur : Liliane et Michel Durand-Dessert,l’Engagement d’une Galerie

             1975-      2004, Musee de Gernoble, Grenoble, France

             Rimpa, National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo

2003       Transition: Genpei Akasegawa, On Kawara, Lee Ufan, Yayoi Kusama, Atsuko Tanaka, SCAI

   the Bathhouse, Tokyo

             Happiness: A Survival Guide for Art and Life, Mori Art Museum, Tokyo

             Anni ’70, 80, 90, Lorenzelli Arte, Milan, Italy

             Les annees 70 l’Art en Cause, CAPC Musee d’Art Contemporain de Bordeaux, Bordeaux,

             France

             APT 2002: Asia-Pacific Triennale of Contemporary Art, Queensland Art Gallery, Brisbane, 

   Australia

2001       Mono-Ha:School of Things, Kettle’s Yard, Cambridge, UK

             Century City: Art and Culture in the Modern Metropolis, Tate Modern, London

             Le Tribu dell’Arte, Galleria Comunale d’Arte Moderna e Contemporanea, Rome

             Ikiro/Be Alive: Contemporary Art from Japan, Kroller-Muller Museum, Otterlo, Netherlands

             Silence/Violence, SCAI the Bathhouse, Tokyo

             Vision: Selected Works from the Collection of Toyota Municipal Museum of Art, Toyota

   Municipal Museum of Art, Toyota City, Japan

2000       Gwangju Biennale 2000: Man+Space, Gwangju Biennale Hall, Gwangju, Korea

             3rd Shanghai Biennale 2000:Haishang-Shanghai, Shanghai Art Museum, Shanghai

             Mr. Paint: Bernard Frize, Katharina Grosse and Lee Ufan, Galerie Monika Reitz, Frankfurt,

             Germany

1999       Art-Worlds in Dialogue: From Gauguin to Global Presence, Museum Ludwig, Cologne,

             Germany

1998       Sarajevo 2000, Museum Moderner Kunst Stiftung Ludwig, Vienna

             Korean Monochromism: Methods, Ideas and Spirits, Busan Metropolitan Art Museum, Busan,

             Korea

             Contemporary Art of Korea– Time, Hoam Art Gallery, Seoul

             Korean Positions of Contemporary, Galerie Dorothea van der Koelen, Mainz, Germany

             Poetics of Time: ’98 Korean Contemporary Art, Samsung Museum of Modern Art, Seoul

1997       Made in France 1947-1997: 50 Years of Creation in France, Centre Georges Pompidou,

             Musee   Nationale d’Art Moderne, Paris

             Two Approaches: Ogawa Machiko and Lee Ufan, Kamakura Gallery, Tokyo

             Collection of the Centre George Pompidou: Masterpieces of the National Museum of Modern

             Art, Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo

             Gravity: Axis of Contemporary Art, National Museum of Art, Osaka, Japan

1996       Japan 1970: Matter and Perception, Mono-Ha and Search Fundamentals of Art, Musee d’art

             Moderne et Contemporain de Saint-Etienne Metropole, Saint-Etienne, France

             Small Truths: Repetition and the Obsessional in Contemporary Art, John Hansard Gallery,

             Southampton, UK: Northern Gallery for Contemporary Art, Sunderland, UK

             Project 8: Prehistoric Stone and Media Show, Total Museum of Contemporary Art, Seoul

             Works on paper by America, European and Japanese Artists, Galerie m Bochum, Bochum,

             Germany

1995       Asiana: Contemporary Art from the Far East, Palazzo VendraminCalergi, Venice, Italy

             Korean Art 1995: Quality, Quantity, Sensation, National Museum of Contemporary Art,

             Gwacheon, Korea

             Matter and Perception 1970: Mono-Ha and the Search for Fundamentals, Museum of Fine

   Arts, Gifu, Japan; Hiroshima City Museum of Contemporary Art, Hiroshima, Japan;

             Kitakyushu Municipal Museum of Art, Kitakyushu, Japan; Museum of Modern Art, Saitama,

             Japan

             Movement of a Line-II: Line in Transformation and Dissection of Symbol, Base Gallery, Tokyo

             JoongAng Biennial: Contemplation, Ho-Am Art Museum, Yongin, Korea

             Drawings From the Gallery, Galerie m Bochum, Bochum, Germany

1994       Mono-Ha, Part II, Kamakura Gallery, Tokyo

             Japanese Art After 1945: Scream Against the Sky, Yokohama Museum of Art, Japan;

             Guggenheim MuseumSoHo, New York; San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San

   Francisco,USA

             Malerei, Galerie m Bochum, Bochum, Germany

1993       Spiritual in Art, Fukuyama Museum of Art, Hiroshima, Japan

1992       Working With Nature: Traditional Thought in Contemporary Art from Korea, Tate Liverpool,

             Liverpool, UK

             Avanguardie Giapponesi Degli Anni 70, Galleria d’Arte Moderna di Bologna, Bologna, Italy

1991       Seven Artists: Aspects of Contemporary Japanese Art, Santa Monica Museum of Art,

   California, USA; Portland Art Museum, Oregon Art Institute, Oregon, USA; Museo Rufino

   Tamayo, Mexico   City, Mexico; Contemporary Arts Center, New Orleans, USA; Nagoya City

   Art Museum, Nagoya, Japan

1990       Blau: Farbe der Ferne,Heidelberger Kunstverin, Heidelberg, Germany

             Minimal Art, National Museum of Art, Osaka, Japan

             Inventory VII, Galerie m Bochum, Bochum, Germany

             Movement of a Line, Base Gallery, Tokyo

1989       20th Biennale Middelheim-Japan, Middleheim Museum, Antwerp, Belgium

             Effets de Miroirs, Bibliotheque LouisAragon, Choisy, France

             Croisement de Signes: Ben Bella, Degottex, Gysin, Lee Ufan, Shakir Hassan, Musee de

   l’Institut du Monde Arabe, Paris

             Europalia Japan Festival: New Tools, New Images: Kunst en Technologie in Japan, Museum

   van Hedendaages Kunst, Ghent, Belgium

1988       Olympiad of Art: the 2nd International Open-Air Sculpture Symposium, Olympic Sculpture Park,

             Seoul

             Mono-Ha: La Scuola della Cose, Museo Laboratorio di Arte Contemporanea, Rome

1987       Art in Japan Since 1969: Mono-Ha and Post-Mono-Ha, Seibu Museum of Art, Tokyo

             10th Anniversary Exhibition: Painting 1977-87, National Museum of Art, Osaka, Japan

             18th Contemporary Art Exhibition of Japan: A Panorama of Contemporary Paintings, Tokyo      

   Metropolitan Art Museum, Tokyo; Kyoto Municipal Museum of Art, Kyoto, Japan;

             Kitakyushu Municipal Museum of Art, Kitakyushu, Japan; Modern Art Museum,

             Miyagi, Japan

1986       ’86 Seoul Contemporary Asian Art Show: Commemorative Exhibition of the 10th Asian

             Games, National Museum of Contemporary Art, Gwacheon, Korea

             Mono-Ha, Part 1: Lee Ufan, Nobuo Sekine, Katsuro Yoshida, Kamakura Gallery, Tokyo

             Seoul-Paris, Centre National des Arts Plastiques, Paris: Seoul Press Center Gallery, Seoul

             Japon des Avant-Gardes 1910-1970, Centre Georges Pompidou,Musee Nationale d ‘Art

             Moderne, Paris

             Method in 1970s : Lee Uan, Nobuo Sekine, KishioSuga, Soh Gallery, Tokyo

             Contemporary Arts Exhibition, Tokyo Metropolitan Art Museum, Tokyo

             Contemporary Japanese Calligraphy and Painting, GalerieNationale de Prague, Prague

1985       40 Years of Japanese Contemporary Art, Tokyo Metropolitan Art Museum, Tokyo

             Ecole de Seoul, Kwanhoon Gallery, Seoul: National Museum of Modern and Contemporary

   Art, Seoul

             Inventory III, Galerie m Bochum, Bochum, Germany

             Contemporary Art Exhibition: Takamatsu Jiro, AkasegawaGenpei, Nakanishi Natsuyuki,

             Lee Ufan, Sekine Nobuo, SugaKishio, Murakami Tomoharu, Wakabayashi Isamu,

             Suzuki Akio, Soh Gallery,    Tokyo

             Artists’ Books: Japan, Franklin Furnace, New York: Fuji Television Gallery, Tokyo

1984       Trends of Contemporary Japanese Art 1970-1984: Universality/Individuality, Tokyo

             Metropolitan Art Museum, Tokyo

             WiesbadenerSkulpturentage,Museum Wiesbaden, Wiesbaden, Germany

             Artists To-day ’84, Yokohama Civic Art Gallery, Yokohama, Japan

             Exhibition 1970s: Lee Ufan, Noriyuki Haraguchi, KishioSuga, NaoyoshiHikosaka,

             Masaaki Yamada,

             Kamakura Gallery, Tokyo

             Human Documents ‘84/’85: Lee Ufan, MokumaKikuhata, Ushio Shinohara, Jiro Takamatsu,

             Hidetoshi Nagasawa, Tokyo Gallery+BTAP, Tokyo

             Contemporary Korean Art Exhibition, Taipei Fine Arts Museum, Taipei, Taiwan

             Art in Japan Today II: 1970-1983, Japan Foundation, Tokyo

1983       Tokyo Gallery in London: Juda Rowan Gallery’s Selection from Tokyo Gallery;

   Minoru Kawabata, Lee Ufan, YoshishigeSaito, Juda RowanGallery, London

             ARS 83 Helsinki, Art Museum of the Ateneum, Helsinki

             Could be Sculpture: Tatsuo Kawaguchi, Nobuo Sekine, Noboru Takayama, Saburo Muraoka,

             Lee Ufan, Kamakura Gallery, Tokyo

             Contemporary Paper Works: Japan and Korea, National Museum of Modern and

             Contemporary Art, Seoul: Kyoto Municipal Museum of Art, Kyoto, Japan: Museum of Modern

   Art Saitama, Saitama, Japan: Kumamoto Prefectural Gallery, Kumamoto, Japan

1982       Material Gets Art, Neue Nationalgalerie, Berlin

             Drawing Today; Masters of Drawing: Denes, Gafgen, Tubke, Ufan, Kunsthalle Nurnberg,        

   Nurnberg, Germany: Musee Cantonal des Beaux-Arts de Lausanne, Lausanne, Switzerland

             Japanese Contemporary Art Exhibition, Camden Arts Center, London

             Aspects of Contemporary Korean Art, Kyoto Municiapl Museum of Art, Kyoto, Japan

1981       Inventory I, Galerie m Bochum, Bochum, Germany

1980       Contemporary Art in Japan, ModernaMuseet, Stockholm

             Skulpturim 20 Jahrhundert, WenkenparkRiehen, Basel, Switzerland

             Asian Artists Exhibition, Fukuoka Art Museum, Fukuoka, Japan

1979       1st Henry Moore Grand Prize Exhibition, Hakone Open-Air Museum,Kanagawa, Japan

             11th International Prints Biennale in Tokyo, National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo: National

             Museum of Art, Osaka, Japan: Museum of Modern Art, Hokkaido, Japan

             Tetsuya Noda, Lee Ufan: Prints Exhibition, Shirota Gallery, Tokyo

             Korean Contemporary Arts: Unique Methods of Exhibit by Four Artists, Gallery Hyundai, Seoul

             Secondes Rencontres Internationales d’Art Contemporain, GrandPalais, Paris

1978       Z. B. Sculpture, Statisches Museum im Stadel, Frankfurt, Germany

             Focus 78: Foire-Exposition d’Art Actuel, Centre Culturel du Marais, Paris

1977       Five Contemporary Artists: Lee Ufan, Yasukazu Tabuchi, Jiro Takamatsu, Nobuo Sekine,

             Kishio    Suga, Kaneko Art Tokyo, Tokyo

             13th Contemporary Art Exhibition of Japan, Tokyo Metropolitan Art Museum, Tokyo: Kyoto

             Municipal Museum of Art, Kyoto, Japan

             Ecole de Seoul, National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Seoul

             Prints Acquisitions 1973-1976, The Museum of Modern Art, New York

1976       Japanese Graphic, Galleria Civicad’ArteModerna, Ferrara, Italy

             The 2nd Biennale of Sydney 1996: Recent International Forms in Art, Art Gallery of New South

             Wales, Sydney

             Prints: Acquisitions, Museum of Modern Art, New York

1975       3rd Triennale India, National Academy of Art, New Delhi, India

             Lee Ufan, Kanji Wakae, Galerie m Bochum, Bochum, Germany

1974       Japanese Art in Louisiana, Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Humlebaek,Denmark

             Japan Traditional Gegenwart, Statisches Kunsthalle, Dusseldorf, Germany

             9th International Biennale Exhibition of Prints in Tokyo, National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo

1972       The First Napoli International Exhibition, Naples, Italy

             2nd International Biennale of Prints in Seoul, National Museum of Modern Art, Seoul

             8th International Biennale Exhibition of Prints in Tokyo, National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo

             Projects of the First Naples International Art Exhibition, Minami Gallery, Tokyo

1971       Words and Image: Lee Ufan, Noriyuki Haraguchi, Susumu Koshimizu, Pinar Gallery, Tokyo

             The Exhibition of Tokyo Gallery 1971: Lee Ufan, Susumu Koshimizu, Katsuhiko Narita,

             Katsuro Yoshida, Nobuo Sekine, Tokyo Gallery+BTAP, Tokyo: Pinar Gallery, Tokyo:

             Saikodo Gallery, Tokyo

             10th Contemporary Art Exhibition of Japan: Man and Nature, Tokyo Metropolitan Art Museum,

             Tokyo

             7th Youth Paris Biennale, Parc Floral de Paris, Paris

1970       7th International Biennale Exhibition of Prints in Tokyo, National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo

             Aspects of New Japanese Art, National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo

1969       X Bienal de São Paulo, Pavilhão Ciccillo Matarazzo, São Paulo, Brazil

             Trends in Contemporary Art, National Museum of Modern Art, Kyoto, Japan

             9th Contemporary Art Exhibition of Japan, Tokyo Metropolitan Art Museum, Tokyo

             5th International Youth Artist Exhibition, Seibu Department Store,Tokyo

1968       Contemporary Korean Painting, National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo

             Contemporary Artists: Invitational Exhibition, ChosunIlbo, Seoul

 

 

Collections

 

Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney

Asia Society Texas Center, Houston, USA

Busan Museum of Art,Busan, Korea

Brooklyn Museum, New York

Centre Georges Pompidou, Musée National d’ArtModerne, Paris

Chiba City Museum of Art, Chiba, Japan

Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas, USA

FNAC, Paris

FondazioneMudima, Milan, Italy

Fukuoka Museum of Art, Fukuoka, Japan

GalerieNationale de Prague, Prague

Hokkaido Museum of Modern Art, Sapporo, Japan

Ho-Am Art Museum, Yongin, Korea

Hakone Open-Air Museum, Kanagawa, Japan

Hara Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo

Hiroshima City Museum of Contemporary Art, Hiroshima, Japan

Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York

Iwaki City Art Museum, Iwaki, Japan

Kröller-Müller Rijksmuseum, Otterlo, Netherlands

Kunsthalle Nurnberg, Nurnberg, Germany

Kunsthaus Zurich, Zurich

Kunstmuseum Bonn, Bonn, Germany

Kunstsammlungen der Ruhr-Universität Bochum, Bochum, Germany

Leeum: Samsung Museum of Art, Seoul

Lee Ufan Museum, Naoshima, Japan

Le Musée de Sculpture en Plein Air, Paris

Miyagi Museum of Art, Sendai, Japan

Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo, Japan

Museum of Fine Arts, Gifu, Japan

Museum of Modern Art, Kamakura &Hayama,Hayama, Japan

Museum of Modern Art, Kamakura &Hayama, Kamakura, Japan

The Museum of Modern Art, New York

Museum of Modern Art, Shiga, Japan

Museum of Modern Art, Toyama, Japan

Museum of Modern Art, Wakayama, Japan

The National Museum of Art, Osaka, Japan

National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Seoul

National Museum of Modern Art, Kyoto, Japan

National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo

Neue Nationalgalerie, Berlin

Niigata Prefectural Museum of Art, Niigata, Japan

Ohara Museum of Art, Okayama, Japan

Queensland Art Gallery, Brisbane, Australia

Seoul Museum of Art, Seoul

Setagaya Art Museum, Tokyo

Sezon Museum of Modern Art, Nagano, Japan

São Paulo Art Library, São Paulo, Brazil

Situation Kunst, Bochum, Germany

Sonja Henle-NielsOnstad Museum, Oslo

Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden, Dresden, Germany

Städtisches Museum Leverkusen, Leverkusen, Germany

Städtisches Museum imStädel, Frankfurt, Germany

Stuttgart Staatsgalerie, Stuttgart, Germany

Takamatsu City Museum of Art, Kagawa, Japan

Tate Modern, London

Tochigi Prefectural Museum of Fine Arts, Utsunomiya, Japan

Tokyo Metropolitan Art Museum, Tokyo

Total Museum of Contemporary Art, Seoul

Toyota Municipal Museum of Art, Aichi, Japan

Utsunomiya City Museum of Art, Tochigi, Japan

Wooyang Art Museum, Gyeongju, Korea

 

 

 

 

Artworks
Dialogue(Diptych)

2006

Oil and Stone pigment on Canvas

227 x 182 cm

Correspondance

1979

Watercolor on Paper

65 x 54 cm

Relatum

2008

2 iron plates, 2 stones

Steel 200x40cm , Stone 220x50cm

Correspondance

2006

Watercolor on paper

62x90_2006

Relatum-Silence in Seoul

2008

Steel plate and stone, 1 steel plate

230x300cm; 1 stone 70x70x60cm

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