Kimsooja (Korean, born )

Timeline

1957
Born in Taegu, Korea
1980
BA at Painting Dept., Hong-IK University, Seoul
1984
MFA at Graduate School, Hong-IK University, Seoul
1984–1985
Lithography studio at Ecole Nationale Superieure des Beaux-Arts, Paris, France (French Government Scholarship)
1992
The 11th Suk-Nam Fine Art Award, Seoul
1992–1993
Artists in Residence, P.S.1 Museum, New York
1996
The Korean Culture & Arts Foundation Award, Seoul
1998
Residency Award, World Views - at World Trade Center, New York awarded by the Lower Manhattan Cultural Council, New York
1998
Grant Recipient, The Korean Culture & Art Foundation, Seoul
1998–1999
World Views - Artists in Residence at the World Trade Center, New York
2000
Paradise Culture Foundation Award, Seoul
2001
Korea Culture & Arts Foundation Award, Seoul, Award for the 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
2002
Artist of the American Art Award, Whitney Museum of America, Sponsored by Cartier Co., New York
2005
Korea Culture & Arts Foundation Grant, Seoul for Always a Little Further, The 51st Venice Biennale, Arsenale, Venice
2007
Visual Art Award, Foundation for Contemporary, New York
2008
Grant Recipient, New York State Council on the Arts, New York
2009
Mumbai: A Laundry Field, Continua Gallery, Le Moulin (solo)
2009
An Album: Hudson Guild", More Art, New York (solo)
2009
A Needle Woman, Nuit Blanche, Hôtel de Ville, Paris (solo)
2010
Mumbai: A Laundry Field, Feldkirch Church, organized by Kunstmuseum Lichtenstein, Lichtenstein (solo)
2010
Gallery Tschudi, Zuoz (solo)
2010
Being in the world / Être au Monde", Musée d’art de Joliette, Joliette (Québec), Canada (solo)
2010
Du Poil à la Plume...Dessins", Fondation pour l’Art Contemporain, Toulouse
2010
Brave New World. From the Perspective of MUDAM collection, Episode: Of our artificiality, Fondation Musée d'Art Moderne Grand-Duc Jean, Luxembourg
2010
Isole Mai Trovate, Palazzo Ducale, Venice traveling to Thessaloniki, The State Museum of Contemporary Art, The Museum of Modern Art, Saint Etienne, France
2010
Thrice Upon a Time, Magasin 3 Stockholm Konsthall, Stockholm
2010
The Cassini Cruise 2, Ardi Poels Projects, Rijckholt
2010
Special Screening ‘A Needle Woman’ 2005, on the occasion of the ChaoticHarmony, Santa Barbara Museum of Art, Santa Barbara CA
2011
Daegu Art Museum, Daegu, South Korea (solo)
2011
University Museum of Contemporary Art, Massachusetts, USA (solo)
2011
An Album: Hudson Guild’Screening, single channel video projection, SVA Theatre, New York
2011
TRA. Edge of Becoming, Palazzo Fortuny, Venice (solo)
2011
Bottari Truck: Migrateurs, building facade, Seoul (solo)
2011
Video Installations, University Museum of Contemporary Art, Fine Arts Center University of Massachusetts Amherst, Amherst (solo)
2011
Mumbai: A Laundry Field", Sullivan North Gallery, School of the Art Institute of Chicago (solo)
2011
Lucidity. Inward Views. Kimsooja. A Needle Woman, le Mois de la Photo a Montreal, Montreal (solo)
2011
NPPAP – Yong Gwang Nuclear Power Plant Art Project, comissioned by The National Museum of Contemporary Art ,South Korea (solo)
2011
Earth-Water-Fire-Air, Atelier Hermès, Seoul (solo)
2011
Iles jamais trouvées / Islands Never Found", Musée d’Art Moderne de Saint-Étienne, Saint-Étienne, France
2011
Investigations of a Dog, Magasin 3 Stockholm Konsthall, Stockholm
2011
The Missing Peace: Artists consider the Dalai Lama, San Antonio Museum of Art, San Antonio, Texas
2011
Korean Rhapsody – Montage of History and Memory, Leeum Samsung Museum Seoul, Korea
2011
Where Do We Migrate To?", The Center for Art, Design and Visual Culture, University of Maryland, Baltimore County, Baltimore
2011
Spirituality of Place, Gutstein Gallery, Savannah College of Art and Design, Savannah
2011
Terre Vulnerabili 2 – A Growing Exhibition, Hangar Bicocca, Milan
2011
living – Ideologies. Frontiers of Architecture III+IV, Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Louisiana
2011
International Association of Art Critics (AICA) – United States section, awards ceremony screening, video performance during the ceremony, The Rose Theatre, New York
2011
TRA – Edge of Becoming, Palazzo Fortuny Campo San Beneto, Venice
2011
Buddhas Spur. Zeitgenössische Kunst aus Asien, Kunstmuseum Bochum
2011
West End?, MOTS – Museum of the Seam, Jerusalem
2011
Kunst-Stoff. Textilien in der Kunst seit 1960, Städtische Galerie Karlsruhe
2011
Windflower. Perceptions of Nature, Kröller-Müller Museum, Otterlo
2011
J’ai deux amours, Palais de la Porte, Paris
2011
Count Down. Culture Station Seoul 284, Seoul Square Media Canvas, Seoul
2011
Barely There, Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit, Detroit
2011
Edge of Elsewhere, Campbelltown Arts Centre, Gallery 4A & Sydney Festival, Sydney
2011
Culture Shock, Queen Elizabeth Theater, Vancouver
2011
Beyond Mediations, Biennale Poznan 2010, Zamek Art Center, Poznan, Poland
2011
Socle du Monde. Biennale between Cultures, Herning Museum of Contemporary Art, Herning, Denmark
2011
Das im Entschwinden Erfasste – Videokunst im Museum Folkwang, Museum Folkwang, Essen, Germany
2011
Che cosa sono le nuvole? / What are clouds?, Werke aus der Sammlung Enea Righi, MUSEION - Museum für moderne und zeitgenössische Kunst, Bolzano, Italy
2011
Fast Forward 2. The Power of Motion, Media Art Sammlung Goetz, ZKM Zentrum für Kunst und Medientechnologie Karlsruhe, Karlsruhe, Germany
2012
Lives and works in New York, Paris and Seoul
2012
Calm Chaos: Kimsooja’s Earth-Water-Fire-Air, Perm Museum ofContemporary Art, Perm (solo)
2012
A Needle Woman, Miami Art Museum (solo)
2012
Musee d’Art Moderne Saint-Etienne Metropole, Saint-Etienne (solo)
2012
Kunsthalle Moen 44, Askeby, Denmark (solo)
2012
Hudson Guild", National Museum of American Indians, New York (solo)
2012
To Breathe, Kukje Gallery, Seoul, Korea (solo)
2012
Gwangju Biennale, the 9th Gwangju Biennale - Roundtable - Seoul, Korea (solo)
2012
GL Strand, Copenhagen Art Festival, Denmark (solo)
2012
Earth-Water-Fire-Air, International Museum of Contemporary Art (MIAC), La Bienal de Lanzarote, Canarian Islands (solo)
2012
Voyage Sentimental, Bourse du travail - Musée de Valence hors-les-murs, Valence
2012
The 9th Gwangju Biennale – ‚Rountable’, Seaol, Korea
2012
Unfinished journey,Kimsooja – GL Strand, Copenhagen Art Festival, Denmark
2012
Walking in the city, Screening at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
2012
Where do we migrate to? Traveling exhibition: The Center for Art, Design and Viszal Culture, The University of Maryland, Baltimore County (UMBC); Sheila C. Johnson Design Center at Parsons, The New School for Design, New York; Contemporary Art Center, New Orleans
2013
Unfolding Vancouver Artgallery, Vancouver, Canada (solo)
2013
To Breathe: Bottari, Korean Pavillion, 55th Biennale di Venezia, Venice, Italy (solo)
2013
An Album: Borderlines", Mariposa Land Port of Entry, Nogales, USA (solo)
2013
The Unanswered Question. Iskele2, TANAS, Berlin, 07.09. – 03.11.2013
2013
Zizhiqu – Autonomous Zone, Guangdong Times Museum, Guangzhou, China
2013
2013 California Pacific Triennal, Orange County Museum of Art, Orange County, USA
2013
Contemporary Art Trail, Aix-en-Provence, France
2013
Host & Guest, Tel Aviv Museum of Art, Tel Aviv, Israel
2013
Matrix – Textiles in Art an the Applied Arts from Gustav Klimt to Chiharu Shiota, Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg, Germany
2013
Art an Truth: Gandhi and Images of Nonviolence
2014
An Album: Borderlines, Site Specific Installation at Mexico/US Border (Mariposa Land Port of Entry) (solo)
2014
Intimate Cosmologies: The Aesthetics of Scale in an Age of Nanotechnology, A site-specific architectural project ’A Needle Woman – Galaxy was a Memory, Earth is a Souvenir’ in collbaoration with nanoscientists for Cornell University Biennale, New York, USA
2014
Bottaris, La Fabrica, Madrid, Spain (solo)
2014
To Breathe: Bottari, Raffaella Cortese Gallery, Milan, Italy (solo)
2014
Gallery Tschudi, Zuoz, Switzerland (solo)
2014
To Breathe: Mandala, Kewenig Galerie, Palma de Mallorca, Spain (solo)
2014
The Disappearance of the fireflies (Collection Yvon Lambert), Prison Sainte Anne, Avignon
2014
True Colors, Yebisu International Festival for Art and Alternative Visions 2014, Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography, Tokyo, Japan
2014
The International Biennal of Contemporary Art of Cartagena de Indias, Colombia
2014
Shades of Time: An Exhibition from the Archive of Korean-American Artists, Part 2, 1990-2001, AHL Foundation, New York, USA
2014
Land-Sea-Sky – revisiting spatiality in video, Artsonje Center, Seoul, Korea
2014
Art and Truth: Ghandi and Images of Nonviolence, The Menil Collection, Houston, USA
2014
Group exhibition at the Drawing Center", New York City, USA
2014
Total Art: Contemporary Video, National Museum of Women in the Arts, Washington D.C., USA
2014
Threads, Museum voor Moderne Kunst, The Netherlands
2014
Spirituality in Contemporary Art, The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, USA
2014
Thread Lines, The Drawing Center, New York City, USA
2014
Le Mouvement – Performing in the City, CentrePasquArt, Biel, Switzerland
2014
Correspondence, LEEUM, Samsung Museum of Modern Art, Seoul, South Korea
2014
Taking Time, The Cube, Lincoln Rail Yard, Lincoln, Nebraska
2014
KP.O.P. – Process, Otherness, Play Museum of Contemporary Art, Taipei, Taiwan
2014
Busan Biennale 2014, Busan, Korea
2014
Paris Intérieur – Extérieur, le Paris des Photographes 1984 - 2014, Galerie des Bibliothèques de Paris, Paris, France
2014
RE:VISION, Trish Clark Gallery, Auckland, New Zealand
2014
La Disparition des Lucioles, Prison Sainte-Anne, Avignon, France
2014
The Korean Buddhist Banner, Cullinan Hall at the Mies van der Rohe Building, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, USA
Ars Itineris. El viaje en el arte contemporáneo, Museu de l'Art, la Pell de Vic traveling to Museo do Mar de Virgo, Spain

Exhibitions

2014
Kimsooja, To Breathe: Mandala, Kewenig Galerie, Palma, Majorca (solo)
2014
Kimsooja, Gallery Tschudi, Zuoz, Switzerland (solo)
2014
Kimsooja, To Breathe: Bottari, Raffaella Cortese Gallery, Milan, Italy (solo)
2014
Kimsooja, Bottaris, La Fabrica, Madrid, Spain (solo)
2014
Intimate Cosmologies: The Aesthetics of Scale in an Age of Nanotechnology, A site-specific architectural project ‘A Needle Woman- Galaxy was a Memory, Earth is a Souvenir’ in collaboration with nanoscientists for Cornell University Biennale, New York, USA (solo)
2013
Kimsooja, An Album: Borderlines, Mariposa Land Port of Entry, Nogales, USA, Project commissioned by GSA (solo)
2013
Kimsooja, To Breathe: Bottari, The Korean Pavilion, 55th Biennale di Venezia, Venice, Italy (solo)
2013
Kimsooja Unfolded, Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver, Canada (solo)
2012
ROUNDTABLE, The 9th Gwangju Biennale, Korea
2012
Woman In-Between: Asian Women Artists 1984 -2012, traveling show from Fukuoka Asia Art Museum, Japan, Okinawa Prefecture Art Museum, Japan, Tochigi Prefecture Art Museum of Fine Arts, Japan, and Mie Prefectural Art Museum, Japan
2012
Unfinished Journey, Copenhagen Art Festival 2012, Kunstforeningen GL STRAND, Copenhagen, Denmark
2012
Walking in the City, Screening at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
2012
Where Do We Migrate To? Traveling exhibition: The Center for Art, Design, and Visual Culture, The University of Maryland, Baltimore County (UMBC); Sheila C. Johnson Design Center at Parsons, The New School for Design, New York; Contemporary Art Center, New Orleans, Henry Art Gallery, Seattle
2012
Shortening Distances, Asian Panorama of the MUSAC, Spain
2012
Kimsooja: A Needle Woman, Miami Art Museum (solo)
2012
Kimsooja, Kunsthal 44 Møen, Germany (solo)
2012
Kimsooja, D’Art Moderne de Saint Etienne, St. Etienne, France (solo)
2012
Calm Chaos: Kimsooja’s Earth - Water - Fire - Air, Perm Museum of Contemporary Art, Russia (solo)
2012
Kimsooja, To Breathe, Kukje Gallery, Seoul (solo)
2011
Spirituality of Place, Gutstein Gallery, Savannah College of Art and Design, Savannah
2011
Terre Vulnerabili 2 – A Growing Exhibition, Hangar Bicocca, Milan
2011
International Association of Art Critics (AICA) – United States section, awards ceremony screening, video performance during the ceremony, The Rose Theatre, New York
2011
Iles jamais trouvées / Islands Never Found, Musée d’Art Moderne de Saint-Étienne, Saint-Étienne, France Étienne, Saint-Étienne, France
2011
Big Picture – (locations/projections), Kunstsammlung NRW K21, Düsseldorf
2011
Investigations of a Dog, Magasin 3 Stockholm Konsthall, Stockholm
2011
The Missing Peace: Artists consider the Dalai Lama, San Antonio Museum of Art, San Antonio, Texas
2011
Korean Rhapsody – Montage of History and Memory, Leeum Samsung Museum Seoul, Korea
2011
Where Do We Migrate To?, The Center for Art, Design and Visual Culture, University of Maryland, Baltimore County, Baltimore
2011
An Album: Hudson Guild’Screening, single channel video projection, SVA Theatre, New York (solo)
2010
NPPAP – Yong Gwang Nuclear Power Plant Art Project, comissioned by The National Museum of Contemporary Art ,South Korea (solo)
2010
Mumbai: A Laundry Field, Feldkirch Church, organized by Kunstmuseum Lichtenstein, Lichtenstein (solo)
2010
Gallery Tschudi, Zuoz, Switzerland (solo)
2010
Being in the world / Être au Monde, Musée d’art de Joliette, Joliette (Québec), Canada (solo)
2010
Rainbow Asia, Seoul Arts Center, South Korea
2010
GSK Contemporary – Aware: Art Fashion Identity, Royal Academy of Arts, London
2010
Annunciation, Casa Masaccio, San Giovanni Valdarno, Tuscany, Italy
2010
Brave New World. From the Perspective of MUDAM collection, Episode: Of our artificiality, Fondation Musée d'Art Moderne Grand-Duc Jean, Luxembourg
2010
Isole Mai Trovate, Palazzo Ducale, Venice traveling to Thessaloniki, The State Museum of Contemporary Art, The Museum of Modern Art, Saint Etienne, France
2010
Edge of Elsewhere, Campbelltown Arts Centre, Gallery 4A & Sydney Festival, Sydney
2010
Culture Shock, Queen Elizabeth Theater, Vancouver
2010
Beyond Mediations, Biennale Poznan 2010, Zamek Art Center, Poznan, Poland
2010
Socle du Monde. Biennale between Cultures, Herning Museum of Contemporary Art, Herning, Denmark
2010
Das im Entschwinden Erfasste – Videokunst im Museum Folkwang, Museum Folkwang, Essen, Germany
2010
Che cosa sono le nuvole? / What are clouds?, Werke aus der Sammlung Enea Righi, MUSEION - Museum für moderne und zeitgenössische Kunst, Bolzano, Italy
2010
Fast Forward 2. The Power of Motion, Media Art Sammlung Goetz, ZKM, Zentrum für Kunst und Medientechnologie Karlsruhe, Karlsruhe, Germany
2010
Ars Itineris. El viaje en el arte contemporáneo, Museu de l'Art, la Pell de Vic traveling to Museo do Mar de Virgo, Spain
2010
Thrice Upon a Time, Magasin 3 Stockholm Konsthall, Stockholm
2010
The Cassini Cruise 2, Ardi Poels Projects, Rijckholt
2010
Special Screening ‘A Needle Woman’ 2005, on the occasion of the Chaotic Harmony, Santa Barbara Museum of Art, Santa Barbara CA
2010
Du Poil à la Plume...Dessins, Fondation pour l’Art Contemporain, Toulouse
2010
Earth-Water-Fire-Air, Atelier Hermès, Seoul (solo)
2009–2010
Baltic Center for Contemporary Art, Gateshead (solo)
2009–2010
Dress Codes, The International Center for Photography, Triennial, New York
2009–2010
Your Bright Future, Museum of Fine Arts Houston, Texas
2009–2010
Faces and Facts: Korean Contemporary Art in New York, Queens Museum of Art, New York
2009–2010
Fragile Fields of Empathy, Daejon Museum of Art, Korea
2009–2010
Edge of Elsewhere, Sydney Festival 2010, Sydney, Australia
2009–2010
Cue, Vancouver Art Gallery and Queen Elizabeth Theatre, Vancouver
2009–2010
Investigations of a Dog, Works from the FACE (Foundation of Arts for a Contemporary Europe) Collections, Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo, Turin
2009–2010
The Missing Peace: Artists Consider the Dalai Lama, Frost Museum of Art, Florida
2009–2010
Le Meilleur des Mondes, Musée d'Art Moderne Grand-Duc Jean (MUDAM), Luxembourg
2010–2009
Earth-Water-Fire-Air, International Museum of Contemporary Art (MIAC), La Bienal de Lanzarote, Canarian Islands (solo)
2009
Un certain état du monde: Sélection de la collection de la Fondation François Pinault, The Garage, Moscow
2009
Passaggi in Sicilia. La collezione di Riso e oltre, Palazzo Riso, Museo d’arte contemporanea della Sicilia, Palermo
2009
Against Exclusion, The 3rd Moscow Biennale, The Garage, Moskau
2009
LIVE and LET LIVE, The 4th Fukuoka Asian Art Triennale, Fukuoka
2009
Art Tells the Times. Works by Women Artists, Shiseido Gallery, Tokyo
2009
Mumbai: A Laundry Field, Continua Gallery, Le Moulin (solo)
2009
An Album: Hudson Guild, More Art, New York (solo)
2009
A Needle Woman, Nuit Blanche, Hôtel de Ville, Paris (solo)
2009
En découdre, Fondation pour l'art contemporain, Toulouse
2009
Mi Vida. From Heaven to Hell, Mucsarnok, Budapest
2009
Labyrinth - Freedom, Franzensfeste, Fortezza Alto Adige, Bolzano, Trentino, Bozen
2009
FRAGILE - Fields of empathy, Modern Art Museum of St.Etienne, St. Etienne; Palazzo dei Falconieri, Rome; Daejon Museum of Art, Korea
2009
The View from Elsewhere / Small Acts, Queensland Art Gallery, Gallery of Modern Art Sherman Contemporary Art Foundation, Sydney; Gallery of Modern Art Australian Cinematheque, Brisbane
2009
Re-Imagining Asia, New Art Gallery, Walsall, England
2009
It's Your Bright Future: 12 Korean Artists, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles traveling to Museum of Fine Arts, Houston
2009
Universal Code, The Power Plant, Toronto
2009
In-finitum, Palazzo Fortuni, Venice
2008–2009
Lotus: Zone of Zero, Rotunda at Galerie Ravenstein, Brussels (solo)
2008
Re-Imagining Asia, Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin (solo)
2008
Subtile Textile, Galerie des Galeries Lafayettes, Paris (solo)
2008
Video Album, Galleria Raffaella Cortese (solo)
2008
Mumbai: A Laundry Field, Galleria Continua, Beijing (solo)
2008
A Mirror Woman: The Sun & The Moon, Shiseido Gallery, Tokyo (solo)
2008
To Breathe/Respirare: Invisible Mirror/Invisible Needle, The San Francisco Art Institute, San Francisco (solo)
2008
Keynote address: A Needle Woman: Dimension of a needle, TSA 11th Biennial Symposium, Honolulu/Hawaii (solo)
2008
Black Box: Kimsooja, Hirschhorn Museum und Sculpture Garden, Washington (solo)
2008
Ethos, Lofoten International Art Festival Svolvaer, Norway
2008
Je reviendrai, Musée d’Art Contemporain du Val-de-Marne, Vitry-sur-Seine
2008
Knock Knock Knockin' on Heaven's Door, Kunstmuseum Liechtenstein, Vaduz
2008
Self / Other, The National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo
2008
Academia: Qui es-tu?, La Chapelle de l'Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-Arts, Paris
2008
After Five Years, A Space of Time, La Fábrica Galería, Madrid
2008
The Missing Peace: Artists Consider the Dalai Lama, Hillside Terrace, Japan
2008
Re-Imagining Asia, Haus der Kulturen, Walsall, England
2008
Street Art, Street Life, the bronx Museum of the Arts, New York
2008
Pacific Perspectives Screenings: Fall 2008 Visiting Artists and Scholars Lecture Series, San Francisco Art Institute, San Francisco
2008
Asian Dub Photography, Cassa di Risparmio di Modena, Foro Boario, Modena
2008
Global Eur Asia Special Exhibition, Art Cologne, Cologne
2008
Knock Knock Knockin' on Heaven's Door, Kunstmuseum Liechtenstein, Liechtenstein
2008
Time is of the Essence: Contemporary Landscape Art, Asheville Art Museum, Asheville
2008
A Space In Time, La Fabrica Gallery, Madrid
2008
Aspiration, Light & Sie Gallery, Dallas
2007
Artist in Residence, MACVAL Musée, Vitry (solo)
2007
Speed 3: Contrarreloj (Against the clock), IVAM Institute Valencià d'Art Modern, Valencia, Spain
2007
Equatorial Rhythms, The Stenersen Museum , Oslo
2007
Timeout! Art and Sustainability, The Kunstmuseum Liechtenstein
2007
Post Object, Doris McCarthy Gallery, University of Toronto, Scarborough, Toronto, Ontario
2007
The Missing Peace, School of Visual Arts partner to the Rubin Museum of Art, New York
2007
Listening Awry, McMaster Museum of Art, Hamilton, Ontario
2007
Mumbai: A Laundry Field, Kewenig Gallery, Cologne (solo)
2007
A Wind Woman, La Fabrica, Madrid (solo)
2007
The 59th Minute Retrospective: Selections from 7 Years of Video Art, Creative Time, Times Square, New York City
2007
Peter Blum Editions, Kunsthaus Aarau, Aarau, Switzerland
2007
From the Earth to the Moon: Metaphors for Travel (Part I), Castello di Rivoli, Italy
2007
China International Gallery Exposition, Memories on E-motion
2007
Cosmologies, James Cohan Gallery, New York
2007
Dolls, Galleria Raffaela Cortese, Milano, Italy
2007
ArTempo- where time becomes art, Palazzo Fortuny, The 51st Venice Biennale, Venice
2007
Critical Mass, Kunsthalle Bern, Bern
2006
New Mystics, Instituto Cabrera Pinto, La Laguna, Tenerife, Canary Islands, Spain
2006
The Missing Peace, UCLA Fowler Museum, Los Angeles
2006
NowHere Europe - Trans:it. Moving Culture Through Europe, National Museum of Contemporary Art (MNAC), Bucharest, Romania
2006
Cut and Paste - New Identities, New Territories, Makor Steinhardt Center, New York
2006
Allegories of Displacement, Westport Art Center, Westport, Connecticut Casper David Friedrich Die Erfindung Der Romatik, Falkwang Museum, Essen, Germany
2006
Art, Life & Confusion, October Art Salon, Belgrade, Republic of Serbia
2006
The 2nd Architectural Biennial Beijing, The Great Hall of The National Museum of China, Beijing China
2006
Five Days Until the End of Art, Kunsthalle Fridericianum, Kassel
2006
To Breathe – A mirror woman (Respirar - Una mujer espejo), a site-specific installation at the Crystal Palace, Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, Madrid (solo)
2006
To Breathe / Respirare, a site-specific installation at La Fenice Theater, in conjunction with a joint solo exhibition at Fondazione Bevilacqua la Masa, Venice (solo)
2006
To Breathe: Invisible Mirror/Invisible Needle, Theatre du Chatelet, Nuit Blanche, Paris (solo)
2006
Kimsooja, Magasin 3, Stockholm (solo)
2006
A Wind Woman, Peter Blum Gallery, Chelsea, New York (solo)
2006
A Wind Woman, The Project, New York (solo)
2005
Kimsooja: Journey into the World, The National Museum of Contemporary Art, Athens (solo)
2005
Kimsooja: Seven Wishes and Secrets, MIT List Gallery, Cambridge (solo)
2005
Kimsooja: Conditions of Anonymity, The 59th Minute & performance at Time Square, Creative Time, New York (solo)
2005
Always a Little Further, The 51st Venice Biennale, Arsenale, Venice
2005
Art Circus-Jumping from the Ordinary, Yokohama Triennial 2005, Yokohama
2005
Marking Time, Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions, The Getty Center, Los Angeles
2005
Introspections, The National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo
2005
Domicile - Private/Public, Musee D'Art Moderne, Saint-Etienne
2005
The Giving Person, Palazzo della Arti, Napoli
2005
Art_Robe: Women Artists at the Nexus of Art and Fashion, UNESCO, Paris
2005
Femme, Palazzo Strozzi, Florence
2005
Cool & Warm, Sung-Kok Museum of Art, Seoul
2005
The Fifth Gospel, Gallery of Contemporary Art Celje, Slovenia
2005
The Missing Peace, Cantor Arts Center, Stanford University, Stanford
2005
Perception of the Horizontal, MUSEION, Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Bolzano
2005
WATER, AIR, EARTH, FIRE - At the Origins of Life between Art and Science, Villa Croce, Geneva
2005
Kewenig Galerie, Cologne (solo)
2005
Always a little further, 51. International Art Exhibition, Biennale di Venezia, Arsenale (group)
2004
Galleria Raffaela Cortese (solo)
2004
Premaculture, Secondary School, Hydra (solo)
2004
Conditions d'Humanité, museum kunst palast, Düsseldorf, then PAC – Padiglione d'Arte Contemporanea, Milano (solo)
2004
PREMAculTURE, Secondary School, Hydra (Greece)
2004
Utopias en Movimiento. Video en la Coleccion de Helga de Alvear, CAAM - Centro Atlantico de Arte Moderna, Gran Canaria (group)
2004
Art Unlimited, Kunstmesse Art 35 Basel
2004
Files, Leon
2004
Kunst Stoff, Galerie nächst St. Stephan, Vienna (group)
2004
Flower Power, Musée des Beaux-Arts, Lille (group)
2004
Seeking the Light, Ackland Museum, North Carolina (group)
2003
Deductive Object, The Project, New York (solo)
2003
Mandala, Galerie Art & Public, Geneve (solo)
2003
Crossings 2003 Korea / Hawaii, Honolulu Hale, Honolulu (solo)
2003
Galerie zeitgenössicher Kunst Zacheta, Warschau (solo)
2003
Conditions d'Humanité, Musée d'art contemporain de Lyon (solo)
2003
Trades of Friday: art, tourism, dispacement, ICA, Philadelphia (group)
2003
The 1st Inernational Photo Biennale, ICP, New York (group)
2003
Video Art in Traditional Museum, Hermitage Museum, Sankt Petersburg (group)
2003
Serene Beauty, Jamaican Art Center, New York (group)
2003
Tender Touch, Palazzo Roccella, Neapel (group)
2003
Walking in the street, Apex Art, New York (group)
2003
Identity and otherness, Photo Espana, Circulo de Bella Artes, Madrid (group)
2003
LisboaPhoto, Centre Culturel de Belem, Lisabon (group)
2003
Social Reality, Museum of Art, Santa Barbara (group)
2003
Spotlight Readings, The Kitchen, New York (group)
2003
Mind Space, Galerie Hoam, Seoul (group)
2003
As heavy as the heavens, Museum Joanneum, Graz (group)
2003
2. Biennale of Valencia, Valencia (group)
2002
Peter Blum, New York (solo)
2002
A Laundry Woman, Kunsthalle Wien, Vienna, then Imagespassages, Musée-Chateau, Annecy (solo)
2001
Kimsooja, INOVA, Milwaukee (solo)
2001
Bottari 2001, Sprengel Museum, Hannover (solo)
2001
then P.S.1 / MOMA, New York, then Kunsthalle, Bern (solo)
2000
then Galerie Rodin, Seoul, then ICC, Tokio (solo)
1999
A Needle Woman, CCA Kitakyushu (solo)

Public Collections

Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, Seattle, USA
Microsoft Co., Seattle, USA
University of Seattle, Seattle, USA
Western Bridge, Seattle, USA
TKF Foundation, Washington D.C
MUSAC - Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Castilla y Léon, Spain
Centro de Artes Visuales Helga de Alvear, Cáceres, Spain
Kunstmuseum Bern, Switzerland
Pierre Huber Foundation, Geneva, Switzerland
Magasin 3, Stockholm Konsthall, Stockholm, Sweden
Art Gallery of Western Australia Perth, Australia
Monsoon Collection, London, UK
MIT List Visual Arts Center, Cambridge, USA
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, USA
National Museum of Women in the Arts, Washington, DC., USA
National Museum of Contemporary Art - EMST, Athens, Greece
Museo d’Art Contemporanea Castello di Rivoli, Turin, Italy
The National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo, Japan
Fukuoka Art Museum, Japan
Leeum - Samsung Museum of Art, Seoul, Korea
The National Museum of Contemporary Art, Gwacheon, Korea
Mail Dairy Co. Collection, Seoul, Korea
Hana Bank Collection, Seoul, Korea
Kunstmuseum Lichtenstein, Vaduz, Lichtenstein
MUDAM, Musée d’Art Modern Grand-Duc Jean, Luxembourg
Musée d’Art Contemporain, Lyon (FNAC), France
Musée MAC/VAL, Val de Marne, France
Hôtel de Ville, Paris, France
Museum of Modern Art, St. Etienne, France
Cité Nationale de l’Histoire de l’Immigration, Paris, France
Sammlung Hoffmann, Berlin, Germany
K21 Kunsthsammlung, Dusseldorf, Germany
Sammlung Goetz, Munich, Germany
Folkwang Museum, Essen, Germany
Degussa Co., Dusseldorf, Germany

Literature

2006
"Kimsooja. To Breathe/ Respirare", Fondazione Bevilacqua La Masa, Edizione Charta , Milan
2006
"Kimsooja. Respirar – Una mujer espejo/ To breathe – A mirror woman", Palacio de Cristal, Madrid
2006
"Kimsooja", Magasin 3 Stockholm Konsthall, Stockholm
2005
"Kimsooja. Journey into The World", National museum of Contemporary Art (EMST); Hellenic Ministry of Culture, Athens
2004
"Premaculture", Secondary School, Hydra, Greece
2003
"Kimsooja - Conditions of Humanity", Musée d'Art Contemporain de Lyon, Museum Kunst Palast, Düsseldorf, PAC, Milan
2003
"Kimsooja", Zacheta Galerie Warschau, Warsaw
2001
"Kimsooja – A Needle Woman", Kunsthalle Bern, Bern
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