Timeline

1957

Born in Taegu, Korea

1980

BA at Painting Dept., Hong-IK University, Seoul

1984 - 1985

Lithography studio at Ecole Nationale Superieure des Beaux-Arts, Paris, France (French Government Scholarship)

1984

MFA at Graduate School, Hong-IK University, Seoul

1992 - 1993

Artists in Residence, P.S.1 Museum, New York

1992

The 11th Suk-Nam Fine Art Award, Seoul

1996

The Korean Culture & Arts Foundation Award, Seoul

1998 - 1999

World Views - Artists in Residence at the World Trade Center, New York

1998

Residency Award, World Views - at World Trade Center, New York awarded by the Lower Manhattan Cultural Council, New York

Grant Recipient, The Korean Culture & Art Foundation, Seoul

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)

An Album: Hudson Guild", More Art, New York (solo)

A Needle Woman, Nuit Blanche, Hôtel de Ville, Paris (solo)

Special Screening ‘A Needle Woman’ 2005, on the occasion of the ChaoticHarmony, Santa Barbara Museum of Art, Santa Barbara CA

The Cassini Cruise 2, Ardi Poels Projects, Rijckholt

Thrice Upon a Time, Magasin 3 Stockholm Konsthall, Stockholm

Isole Mai Trovate, Palazzo Ducale, Venice traveling to Thessaloniki, The State Museum of Contemporary Art, The Museum of Modern Art, Saint Etienne, France

Being in the world / Être au Monde", Musée d’art de Joliette, Joliette (Québec), Canada (solo)

Du Poil à la Plume...Dessins", Fondation pour l’Art Contemporain, Toulouse

Gallery Tschudi, Zuoz (solo)

2010

Mumbai: A Laundry Field, Feldkirch Church, organized by Kunstmuseum Lichtenstein, Lichtenstein (solo)

Brave New World. From the Perspective of MUDAM collection, Episode: Of our artificiality, Fondation Musée d'Art Moderne Grand-Duc Jean, Luxembourg

TRA – Edge of Becoming, Palazzo Fortuny Campo San Beneto, Venice

Buddhas Spur. Zeitgenössische Kunst aus Asien, Kunstmuseum Bochum

West End?, MOTS – Museum of the Seam, Jerusalem

Kunst-Stoff. Textilien in der Kunst seit 1960, Städtische Galerie Karlsruhe

Windflower. Perceptions of Nature, Kröller-Müller Museum, Otterlo

J’ai deux amours, Palais de la Porte, Paris

Count Down. Culture Station Seoul 284, Seoul Square Media Canvas, Seoul

Edge of Elsewhere, Campbelltown Arts Centre, Gallery 4A & Sydney Festival, Sydney

Beyond Mediations, Biennale Poznan 2010, Zamek Art Center, Poznan, Poland

Socle du Monde. Biennale between Cultures, Herning Museum of Contemporary Art, Herning, Denmark

Das im Entschwinden Erfasste – Videokunst im Museum Folkwang, Museum Folkwang, Essen, Germany

Che cosa sono le nuvole? / What are clouds?, Werke aus der Sammlung Enea Righi, MUSEION - Museum für moderne und zeitgenössische Kunst, Bolzano, Italy

Fast Forward 2. The Power of Motion, Media Art Sammlung Goetz, ZKM Zentrum für Kunst und Medientechnologie Karlsruhe, Karlsruhe, Germany

International Association of Art Critics (AICA) – United States section, awards ceremony screening, video performance during the ceremony, The Rose Theatre, New York

Barely There, Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit, Detroit

living – Ideologies. Frontiers of Architecture III+IV, Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Louisiana

Culture Shock, Queen Elizabeth Theater, Vancouver

Spirituality of Place, Gutstein Gallery, Savannah College of Art and Design, Savannah

2011

Daegu Art Museum, Daegu, South Korea (solo)

University Museum of Contemporary Art, Massachusetts, USA (solo)

An Album: Hudson Guild’Screening, single channel video projection, SVA Theatre, New York

TRA. Edge of Becoming, Palazzo Fortuny, Venice (solo)

Bottari Truck: Migrateurs, building facade, Seoul (solo)

Video Installations, University Museum of Contemporary Art, Fine Arts Center University of Massachusetts Amherst, Amherst (solo)

Mumbai: A Laundry Field", Sullivan North Gallery, School of the Art Institute of Chicago (solo)

Terre Vulnerabili 2 – A Growing Exhibition, Hangar Bicocca, Milan

NPPAP – Yong Gwang Nuclear Power Plant Art Project, comissioned by The National Museum of Contemporary Art ,South Korea (solo)

Earth-Water-Fire-Air, Atelier Hermès, Seoul (solo)

Iles jamais trouvées / Islands Never Found", Musée d’Art Moderne de Saint-Étienne, Saint-Étienne, France

Investigations of a Dog, Magasin 3 Stockholm Konsthall, Stockholm

The Missing Peace: Artists consider the Dalai Lama, San Antonio Museum of Art, San Antonio, Texas

Korean Rhapsody – Montage of History and Memory, Leeum Samsung Museum Seoul, Korea

Where Do We Migrate To?", The Center for Art, Design and Visual Culture, University of Maryland, Baltimore County, Baltimore

Lucidity. Inward Views. Kimsooja. A Needle Woman, le Mois de la Photo a Montreal, Montreal (solo)

Earth-Water-Fire-Air, International Museum of Contemporary Art (MIAC), La Bienal de Lanzarote, Canarian Islands (solo)

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

Walking in the city, Screening at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston

Unfinished journey,Kimsooja – GL Strand, Copenhagen Art Festival, Denmark

The 9th Gwangju Biennale – ‚Rountable’, Seaol, Korea

Voyage Sentimental, Bourse du travail - Musée de Valence hors-les-murs, Valence

GL Strand, Copenhagen Art Festival, Denmark (solo)

Calm Chaos: Kimsooja’s Earth-Water-Fire-Air, Perm Museum ofContemporary Art, Perm (solo)

To Breathe, Kukje Gallery, Seoul, Korea (solo)

Hudson Guild", National Museum of American Indians, New York (solo)

Kunsthalle Moen 44, Askeby, Denmark (solo)

Musee d’Art Moderne Saint-Etienne Metropole, Saint-Etienne (solo)

A Needle Woman, Miami Art Museum (solo)

2012

Lives and works in New York, Paris and Seoul

Gwangju Biennale, the 9th Gwangju Biennale - Roundtable - Seoul, Korea (solo)

Contemporary Art Trail, Aix-en-Provence, France

Matrix – Textiles in Art an the Applied Arts from Gustav Klimt to Chiharu Shiota, Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg, Germany

Host & Guest, Tel Aviv Museum of Art, Tel Aviv, Israel

Art an Truth: Gandhi and Images of Nonviolence

2013 California Pacific Triennal, Orange County Museum of Art, Orange County, USA

An Album: Borderlines", Mariposa Land Port of Entry, Nogales, USA (solo)

The Unanswered Question. Iskele2, TANAS, Berlin, 07.09. – 03.11.2013

To Breathe: Bottari, Korean Pavillion, 55th Biennale di Venezia, Venice, Italy (solo)

2013

Unfolding Vancouver Artgallery, Vancouver, Canada (solo)

Zizhiqu – Autonomous Zone, Guangdong Times Museum, Guangzhou, China

La Disparition des Lucioles, Prison Sainte-Anne, Avignon, France

RE:VISION, Trish Clark Gallery, Auckland, New Zealand

Paris Intérieur – Extérieur, le Paris des Photographes 1984 - 2014, Galerie des Bibliothèques de Paris, Paris, France

Busan Biennale 2014, Busan, Korea

KP.O.P. – Process, Otherness, Play Museum of Contemporary Art, Taipei, Taiwan

Taking Time, The Cube, Lincoln Rail Yard, Lincoln, Nebraska

Correspondence, LEEUM, Samsung Museum of Modern Art, Seoul, South Korea

Le Mouvement – Performing in the City, CentrePasquArt, Biel, Switzerland

Thread Lines, The Drawing Center, New York City, USA

Spirituality in Contemporary Art, The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, USA

Threads, Museum voor Moderne Kunst, The Netherlands

Total Art: Contemporary Video, National Museum of Women in the Arts, Washington D.C., USA

Art and Truth: Ghandi and Images of Nonviolence, The Menil Collection, Houston, USA

Land-Sea-Sky – revisiting spatiality in video, Artsonje Center, Seoul, Korea

Shades of Time: An Exhibition from the Archive of Korean-American Artists, Part 2, 1990-2001, AHL Foundation, New York, USA

The International Biennal of Contemporary Art of Cartagena de Indias, Colombia

True Colors, Yebisu International Festival for Art and Alternative Visions 2014, Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography, Tokyo, Japan

The Disappearance of the fireflies (Collection Yvon Lambert), Prison Sainte Anne, Avignon

To Breathe: Mandala, Kewenig Galerie, Palma de Mallorca, Spain (solo)

Gallery Tschudi, Zuoz, Switzerland (solo)

To Breathe: Bottari, Raffaella Cortese Gallery, Milan, Italy (solo)

Bottaris, La Fabrica, Madrid, Spain (solo)

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

An Album: Borderlines, Site Specific Installation at Mexico/US Border (Mariposa Land Port of Entry) (solo)

The Korean Buddhist Banner, Cullinan Hall at the Mies van der Rohe Building, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, USA

Group exhibition at the Drawing Center", New York City, 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