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Byron Kim
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American
, born 1961)
Byron Kim
Rockets,
2000
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1983
B.A., Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut, USA
1986
Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, New York, USA
1990
Artist-in-Residence Grant, New York State Council on the Arts
1991
Diverse Forms Artists' Projects Grant funded by the National Endowment for the Arts, The Rockefeller Foundation and the Jerome Foundation
1993
The Louise Nevelson Award in Art, American Academy of Arts and Letters, New York, USA
1994
New York Foundation for the Arts Grant
Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation Award
The Korea Arts Foundation of America, Award for the Visual Arts
1995
National Endowment for the Arts Award
1997
Joan Mitchell Foundation Grant
1998
Sirius Arts Centre, Residency Programme, County Cork, Ireland
2002
UCROSS, Cal Arts Alpert Residency, Wyoming, USA
2008
Alpert Award in the Arts
Lives and works in New York, USA
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Exhibitions
2011
Byron Kim, James Cohan Gallery, New York, USA (solo)
Byron Kim, PKM Trinity Gallery, Seoul, Korea (solo)
2010
Hard Targets, Wexner Center for the Arts, Columbus, Ohio, US (group)
Centennial Celebration of Yi Sang’s Birth, ARCO Art Center, Seoul, Korea
2009
Faces & Facts: Korean Contemporary Art in New York, Queens Museum of Art, New York, US (group)
The Endless Renaissance, Bass Museum of Art, Miami, US (group)
Colour Chart: Reinventing Colour, 1950 to Today, Tate Liverpool, Liverpool, UK (group)
2008
7th Gwangju Biennale, Gwangju, Korea (group)
Abstract Imagination, PKM Trinity Gallery, Seoul, Korea (group)
Irwin’s Disc, The U.N. Building, and Other Paintings, Max Protetch Gallery, New York, US (solo)
Color Chart: Reinventing Color, 1950 to Today – MoMA, Museum of Modern Art, New York (group)
Patterns for Living, Queens, New York (group)
Unfathom, Max Protetch Gallery, New York, NY
Outside the Box, Hosfelt Gallery, San Francisco (group)
Not for Sale, P.S. 1 Contemporary Art Center, Long Island, New York (group)
Like Color in Pictures, Aspen Art Museum, Aspen, Colorado (group)
2007
Void in Korean Art, Leeum – Samsung Museum of Art, Seoul (group)
2006
Threshold – Byron Kim 1990-2004, Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art – SMoCA, Phoenix, Arizona, US (solo)
Threshold – Byron Kim 1990-2004, Henry Art Gallery, Seattle, US (solo)
Byron Kim, PKM Gallery, Seoul, Korea (solo)
Gifts Go in One Direction, Apexart, New York (group)
New Now Next, The Contemporary Blanton, Blanton Museum of Art, Austin, Texas (group)
Work in Progress, DUMBO Arts Centre, Brooklyn, New York (group)
Frontiers – Collecting the Art of Our Time, Worcester Art Museum, Worcester, Massachusetts (group)
The Bong Show or This Is Not A Pipe, Leslie Artworks + Projects, New York
2005
Oddly Flowing, Max Protetch Gallery, New York
Collection Remixed, Bronx Museum of the Arts, New York
2004 - 2006
Threshold, Berkeley Art Museum, Berkeley, CA (travels to Samsung Museum of Modern Art, Rodin Gallery, Seoul, Korea; Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego; Weatherspoon Art Museum, University of North Carolina, Greensboro; Henry Art Gallery, University of Washington, Seattle; Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art)
Permanent, Hosfelt Gallery, San Francisco, CA, USA (solo)
2004
Specific Objects – The Minimalist Influence, Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego, La Jolla, California
2003
(group)where Better than This Place: Alternative Social Experience in the Spaces of Contemporary
Visualizing Identity, Blanton Museum of Art, Austin, Texas
Approaching Objects, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York
Whiteness, A Wayward Construction, Laguna Art Museum, Laguna Beach, California
2002
Family Ties, Peabody Essex Museum, Salem, Massachusetts
Mask or Mirror? A Play of Portraits, Worcester Art Museum, Worcester, Massachusetts
Group Exhibition, Nicole Klagsburn Gallery, New York
Skin, Museé de la Civilisation, Quebec, Canada
American Tableaux, Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, Minnesota
Here and Now, National Gallery, Warsaw, Poland (group)
Here and Now, Zacheta National Gallery, Warsaw, Poland and Arsenal Gallery, Bialystok, Poland (group)
It’s Not What You See: Perverting Minimalism, Reina Sofia, Spain (group)
Claude Monet and the Modern Age, Kunsthalle der Hypo-Kulturstiftung, München, Germany (group)
Max Protetch Gallery, New York
2001
American Tableaux, Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN.
And Fondation Beyeler, Riehen, Switzerland (group)
2000
KOREAMERICAKOREA, Artsonje Center, Seoul, Korea and Artsonje Museum, Kyongju, Korea (group)
Kwangju Biennale, Kwangju, Korea
1999
Drawing for the Present Tense, Parsons School of Design, New York
Museum of American Art at Phillip Morris, New York
Roche's Point Studies, Max Protetch Gallery, New York, US (solo)
Negotiating Small Truths, Blanton Museum, University of Texas at Austin, Texas (group)
Between the Unknown Straits - art Now in Japan and Korea, Meguro Museum of Art, Tokyo; travelled to The National Museum of Art, Osaka, and the Korean Culture and Art Foundation, Seoul (group)
Waxing Poetic: Encaustic Art in America, Montclair Art Museum, NJ and Knoxville Museum of Art, Tennessee (group)
Contemporary Collectors XIV, Museum of Contemporary art San Diego, La Jolla, California (group)
Kiki Smith, Byron Kim, Anne Chu, A/C Project Room, New York
Space/Sight/Self, David and Alfred Smart Museum of Art, University of Chicago, IL
Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, IL
Byron Kim: Process, Hatton Gallery, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO
From Here to Eternity: Painting in 1998, Max Protetch Gallery, New York (group)
1998
Formal Innovations: Reworking Minimalism in the 1990s, University of Michigan Museum of Art, Ann Arbor, Michigan (group)
100 Years of Sculpture: From the Pedestal to the Pixel, Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, Minnesota (group)
1997
After the Fall: Aspects of Abstract Painting Since 1970, Snug Harbor Cultural
I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud, Max Protetch Gallery, New York
T-Race, Randolph Street Gallery, Chicago, Illinois (group)
Face Value, Wexner Center, Columbus, OH
Works on Paper, Max Protetch Gallery, New York
Baumgartner Galleries, Washington, D.C.
Grey-Green, Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, D.C.
Dieu Donne Papermill, New York
Contemporaneous, Newlyn Art Gallery, Newlyn, Penzance, UK (group)
Screen, Friedrich Petzel Gallery, New York (group)
1996
Face to Face: Recent Abstract Painting, List Visual Arts Center, MIT, Cambridge, Massachusetts (group)
A Glimpse of the Norton Collection As Revealed by Kim Dingle, Site Santa Fe, Santa Fe, New Mexico (group)
Works on Paper, Todd Gallery, London (group)
1995
Korea Arts Foundation of America, Los Angeles, US (solo)
Kiang Gallery, Atlanta, US (solo)
The Figure/ The Body, American Art: 1945-1995, Museum of American Art, Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Art, Philadelphia (group)
Art at the Edge: Tampering: Artists & Abstraction Today, High Museum, Atlanta, Georgia (group)
Sites of Being, Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston, Massachusetts (group)
25 Americans: Painting in the 90s, Milwaukee Art Museum, Milwaukee, Wisconsin (group)
Face Value: American Portraits, Parrish Art Museum, NY and Southampton, England (group)
Modesty, A Policy: Junge Malerie aus New York, Galerie Sfeir-Semler, Kiel, Germany (group)
Critical Distance: Between Art and Architecture, Neuberger Museum of Art, Purchase College, SUNY, Purchase, New York (group)
Galerie Francesca Pia, Berne, Switzerland (solo)
Drama, Max Protetch Gallery, New York (group)
Matrix 125, Wadsworth Athenaeum Museum of Art, Hartford, Connecticut, US (solo)
Stories, Max Protetch Gallery, New York (group)
1994
Pleasant Pebble, The Work Space at Dolgenos, Newman and Cronin, New York (group)
Practice Ground, Ottawa Art Gallery, Ottawa, Canada (group)
1993 Physical Evidence, Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, NY and Lehman College Art Gallery, Bronx, New York (group)
Skin Deep, New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York (group)
Biennial, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York (group)
Prospect 1993, Frankfurter Kustverein, Frankfurt, Germany (group)
American Academy Invitational, American Academy of Arts and Letters, New York (group)
Markets of Resistance, White Columns, New York (group)
New Sculpture: Soft Surfaces, Transamerica Pyramid Lobby Gallery, San Francisco (group)
Byron Kim and Glenn Ligon, AC Project Room, New York, US (solo)
Baumgartner Gallery, Washington, D.C. , US (solo)
1993
Max Protetch Gallery, New York, US (solo)
Spheres of Influence: Artists and their Students in the Permanent Collection of the Whitney Museum of American Art, Whitney Museum of American Art at Champion, Stamford, Connecticut (group)
Slow Art, P.S. 1 Museum, Institute of Contemporary Art, Queens, New York (group)
Seventeen, 500 Greenwich, New York (group)
Cultural Abstraction, John Good Gallery, New York (group)
Byron Kim and Kiki Smith, A/C Project Room, New York, US (solo)
Sleeping with The Enemy: A Theory on the Persistence of Dialects, Four Walls, Brooklyn, New York (group)
1992
Max Protetch Gallery, New York, US (solo)
Contemporary Surfaces, Pamela Auchincloss Gallery, New York (group)
1991
Color Theory, SUNY Old Westbury, Long Island, New York (group)
Salvage Utopia, AC Project Room, New York (group)
The Naked and The Raw, P.S. 122, New York (group)
Race and Culture, 494 Gallery and C.C.N.Y. Gallery, New York (group)
1990
Micro-Colonization, AC Project Room, New York (group)
A Question of Paint, Hallwalls, Buffalo, New York
Artists in the Marketplace, The Bronx Museum, Bronx, New York
China: June 4, 1989, P.S. 1, Institute of Contemporary Arts, Queens, New York (organized by Asian American Arts Centre)
1989
China: June 4, 1989, Blum Helman Warehouse, New York (organized by Asian American Arts Centre)
Skowhegan Faculty and Staff Exhibition, Portland Museum of Art, Portland, ME and Colby College Museum of Art, Waterville, Maine
1988
34th Annual Juried Exhibition, Art Institute at the San Diego Museum of Art, San Diego, California
Yesterday: Reflections on Childhood, Asian American Arts Centre, New York
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Public Collections
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, USA
Worcester Art Museum, Worcester, Massachusetts, USA
Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, New York, USA
Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, USA
Berkeley Art Museum, Berkeley, California, USA
Blanton Museum of Art, Austin, Texas, USA
Hirshhorn Museum, Washington D.C., USA
Museum of Contemporary Art, La Jolla, California, USA
National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C., USA
Norton Family Collection, Santa Monica, California, USA
Wadsworth Athenaeum, Hartford, Connecticut, USA
Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, USA
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