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Nam June Paik
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American/Korean
, 1932–2006)
Nam June Paik
Game Byter,
1994
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1932
Born in Seoul, South Korea
1956 - 1958
Studied History of Music at Munich University, Germany
Studied Composition at Freiburg Conservatory, Freiburg, Germany
1956
Graduated from the University of Tokyo, Japan
1962
Participated in the Fluxus-Festival, Wiesbaden
1971
Worked at WNET's TV lab in New York, NY
1979
Taught at Kunstakademie Dusseldorf, Germany
1987
Elected a member of the Akademie der Kunste, Berlin, Germany
1991 - 1992
Received the Goslar Kaiserringes Award
Received the UNESCO Picasso Medal
1991
Received the Skowhegan Medal for Video, ME
1993
Received Best Pavilion at the Venice Biennale, Italy
1998
Received the Kyoto Award
1999
Received the International Distinguished Artist Award, Miami, FL
2000
Received National Arts Club Artists Award, New York, NY
2006
Died in Miami, FL
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Exhibitions
2013
This is Not a Love Song - La Virreina - Centre de la Imatge, Barcelona
Die Bildhauer. Kunstakademie Düsseldorf, 1945 bis heute - K20 Grabbeplatz, Dusseldorf
Video Vintage 1963-1983 - Beirut Art Center, Beirut
Storage Telling I - Extra-ordinary - Bonnefantenmuseum, Maastricht
sous influences - arts plastiques et psychotropes - La Maison Rouge, Paris
2012
Nam June Paik: Global Visionary - Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington, DC
2011
Nam June Paik - LEE galerie BERLIN, Berlin
VIDEO SCREENING 2 2011 - Center for Contemporary Art, CCA Kitakyushu, Kitakyushu
In the Tower: Nam June Paik - The National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC
Nam June Paik - Auditorium Parco della Musica, Rome
2010
Nam June Paik - FACT (Foundation for Art and Creative Technology), Liverpool (England)
Nam June Paik - Tate Liverpool, Liverpool (England)
Nam June Paik - Museum Kunstpalast, Dusseldorf
Nam June Paik - Galleria Six, Milan
2009
Media Alchemy - Beall Center for Art + Technology, Irvine, CA
Nam June Paik - Johyun Gallery - Busan, Busan
Nam June Paik Live Feed: 1972 -1994 - James Cohan Gallery - New York, New York City, NY
Nam June Paik - CAFA Art Museum - China Central Academy of Fine Arts, Beijing
Nam June Paik - Music for all Senses - Museum Moderner Kunst Stiftung Ludwig - MUMOK , Vienna
2008
Nam June Paik. Works from the ZKM Collection, Foyer of the EnBW, Karlsruhe, Germany (solo)
2007
Nam June Paik , doART Beijing, China (solo)
2006
Bye Bye, Nam June Paik, The Watari Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo, Japan (solo)
2004
Nam June Paik: Global Groove, Deutsche Guggenheim, Berlin, Germany
2003
Nam June Paik: Drawings, Mano Gallery, Seoul, South Korea
2002
Museum fur Moderne Kunst, Frankfurt
Wilhelm Lehmbruck Museum, Duisburg
2001
The Worlds of Nam June Paik, Guggenheim Museum, New York, NY
Centre d’Art Contemporain, Geneva, Switzerland
Guggenheim Bilbao, Spain
Gallery Hyundai, Seoul, South Korea
Over the Century, Galerie BHAK, Seoul, South Korea
2000
Museum fur Moderne Kunst, Frankfurt
Museum fur Gegenwartskunst, Basel, Switzerland
Sprengel Museum, Hannover, Germany
Guggenheim Museum, New York
The World of Nam June Paik, Guggenheim Museum, New York, NY; Hoam Museum, Seoul, South Korea
1999
Medium Is The Message, TV Gallery, Moscow, Russia (solo)
Nam June Paik: Fluxus/Video, Kunsthalle, Bremen, Germany
1998
The Concrete Signal, College of Pennsylvania Galleries,York, PA
1997
Galerie Bhak, Seoul, South Korea (solo)
Kim Foster Gallery, New York, NY (solo)
Holly Solomon Gallery, New York, NY (solo)
Anthology Film Archives, New York, NY (solo)
National Museum of American Art, Washington
Museum of Contemporary Art, Jacksonville, FL
Skulpture Projects in Munster, Westfalisches Landesmuseum, Munster, Germany
1996
Museum of Art, San Jose
Culturgest, The Electronic Super Highway: Nam June Paik in the Nineties, Lisbon
1995
Gallery Hyundai, Seoul
1994
The Howard Wise Gallery: TV as a Creative Medium, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY
1993
Feedback and Feedforth, The Watari Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo, Japan
Holly Solomon Gallery, New York, NY (solo)
Artist as Nomad, German Pavilion, Venice Biennale 1993, Venice, Italy (solo)
1992
Pour la Suite du Monde, Musée D'art Contemporain de Montreal, Montreal, Canada
New Video Sculptures, Galerie Hans Mayer, Dusseldorf, Germany (solo)
Eco-lumbus and Rocketship to Virtual Venus, Korean Pavilion, World Expo, Seville, Spain (solo)
Nam June Paik: Retrospective, Museum des 20. Jahrhunderts, Vienna, Austria (solo)
Nam June Paik: Retrospective, Museum of Modern Art, Seoul, South Korea (solo)
Nam June Paik: Arti Elettroniche, Cinema e Media Verso il XXI Secolo, Palazzo delle Esposizioni, Rome, Italy (solo)
Nam June Paik: Retrospective, Museum of Modern Art, Seoul, South Korea
1991
Nam June Paik: Retrospective, Kunsthaus, Zurich; Kunsthalle, Basel, Switzerland (solo)
Kunsthalle, Dusseldorf, Germany (solo)
Recent Video Sculptures, Carl Solway Gallery, Cincinnati, OH (solo)
1990
Hans Mayer, Dusseldorf, Germany(solo)
Pre-Bell Man, Public Sculpture, Deutsches Post Museum, Frankfurt (solo)
Video Arbor (Public Sculpture), Forest City Residential Development, Philadelphia, PA (solo)
Galerie Maurice Keitelman, Brussels, Belgium (solo)
Holly Solomon Gallery, New York, NY (solo)
1989
La Fée Electronique Musée d'Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, France (solo)
Galerie du Génie, Paris, France (solo)
Galerie de Paris, Paris, France (solo)
Mayor Rowan Gallery, London, England (solo)
Galerie Juana Mordo, Madrid, Spain(solo)
Weisses Haus, Hamburg, Germany (solo)
Image World: Art and Media Culture, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY
1988
Nam June Paik: Beuys and Bogie, Dorothy Goldeen Gallery, Los Angeles, CA (solo)
Nam June Paik: Color Bar Paintings, Holly Solomon Gallery, New York, NY solo)
Nam June Paik: Family of Robot, Hayward Gallery, South Bank Centre, London, England (solo)
1986
Nam June Paik: Sculpture, Painting and Laser Photography, Holly Solomon Gallery, New York, NY (solo)
1985
Nam June Paik: Family of Robot, Carl Solway Gallery, Cincinnati, OH; International Art Exposition, Chicago, IL (solo)
1984
Mostly Video, Tokyo Metropolitan Art Museum, Tokyo, Japan (solo)
Tribute to Marshall McLuhan, Galerie Esperanza, Montreal, Canada (solo)
1982
60'80 attitudes/concepts/images, Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Nam June Paik, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY; Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, IL (solo)
Tri-Colour Video, Centre Georges Pompidou, Musée National d'Art Moderne, Paris, France (solo)
Retrospective, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, IL
1981
Program of videotapes, Sony Hall, Tokyo, Japan (solo)
Random Access/Paper TV, Gallery Watari, Tokyo, Japan (solo)
Laser Video (with Horst Baumann), Die Nutzlichen Kunste, West Berlin, Germany (solo)
1980
Nam June Paik (retrospective of videotapes)The New American Filmmakers Series, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY (solo)
Videa, Gallery Watari, Tokyo, Japan (solo)
Laser Video (with Horst Baumann, assisted by Peter Kolb), Stadtische Kunst-halle, Dusseldorf, Germany
1978
A Tribute to John Cage, Gallery Watari, Tokyo, japan (solo)
Fluxus Traffic, Rene Block Gallery, Berlin, Germany
TV Garden, Musée d'Art Moderne, Centre National d'Art et de Culture Georges Pompidou, Paris, France (solo)
Nam June Paik, Musée d'Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, France (solo)
1977
Projects: Nam June Paik, Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY (solo)
Fluxus Traffic, Galerie Rene Block, West Berlin, Germany (solo)
Nam June Paik, Galerie Marika Malacorda, Geneva, Switzerland (solo)
1976
Moon is the Oldest TV-set, Rene Block Gallery, New York, NY (solo)
Nam June Paik: Werke 1946-1976: Musik-Fluxus-Video, Kolnischer Kunstverein, Cologne, Germany;Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, The Netherlands (solo)
Fish Flies on Sky, Galeria Bonino, New York, NY (solo)
Video Film Concert (films in collaboration with Jud Yalkut), The Kitchen, New York, NY (solo)
1975
Nam June Paik, Rene Block Gallery, New York, NY (solo)
Fish on the Sky-Fish hardly flies anymore on the Sky-let Fishes fly again, Martha Jackson Gallery, New York, NY (solo)
1974
Nam June Paik: TV Sea: Electronic Art IV, Galeria Bonino, New York, NY (solo)
Nam June Paik: Video'n'Videology 1959-1973, Everson Museum of Art, Syracuse, NY
Electronic Art IV, Galeria Bonino, New York, NY (solo)
1972
Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY
1971
Cineprobe, Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY
Videoshow, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY
Elctronic Art III: Paik-Abe Video Synthesizer with Charlotte Moorman, Galeria Bonino in collaboration with Intermedia Institute, New York, NY
Hit and Run Screening of Video Films (films in collaboration with Jud Yalkut), Rizzoli Screening Room, New York, NY (solo)
Video Film Concert (films in collaboration with Jud Yalkut), Millennium Film Workshop, New York, NY (solo)
1968
Cybernetic Serendipity: The Computer and the Arts, Institute of Contemporary Art, London, England
Nam June Paik, State University of New York, Stony Brook, NY (solo)
1967
Expanding Perceptions in the Arts, Art Center of the Paul Klapper Library, Queens College, City University of New York, NY (solo)
1965
NJ Paik: Electronic TV, Color TV Experiments, 3 Robots, 2 Zen Boxes & 1 Zen Can, New School for Social Research New York, NY (solo)
Galleria Bonino, New York, NY
1963
Exposition of Music-Electronic Television, Galerie Parnass, Wuppertal, Germany (solo)
1959
Galerie 22, Dusseldorf, Germany
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Public Collections
Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL
Reina Sofía National Museum, Madrid, Spain
DaimlerChrysler Collection, Berlin, Germany
Musée d'Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, France
Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, New York
Art Museum of the Americas, Washington, DC
National Gallery of Australia, Canberra, Australia
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA
Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY
Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, DC
Guggenheim Museum, New York, NY
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Literature
2009
Nam June Paik: Exposition of Music, Electronic Television, Revisited. Köln, Germany: Walther König, 2009 (catalogue)
2004
Hanhardt, John G, Jones, Caitlin and Anja Osswald. Nam June Paik: Global Groove. New York: Guggenheim Museum, 2004
2003
Hanhardt, John G, editor. The Worlds Of Nam June Paik. New York: Guggenheim Museum, 2003 (catalogue)
1996
Nam June Paik: Baroque Laser.Ostfildern, Germany: Cantz, 1996
1982
Hanhardt, John G, editor. Nam June Paik. New York: Norton, 1982
