Yeesookyung

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Education

 

MFA in Painting, Seoul National University, Seoul, 1989

BFA in Painting, Seoul National University, Seoul, 1987

 

 

Solo Exhibitions

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2023       

Translated Vase, MASSIMODECARLO – Pièce Unique, Paris, France

Yeesookyung: Temple portatif, Musée Cernuschi, Paris, France

In Dialogue With Uli Sigg, Yeesookyung Studio, Goyang-si, Korea

Yeesookyung: Une Rose, Gana Art Nineone, Seoul, Korea

 

2022       

Yeesookyung: Nine Dragons in Wonderland, The Page Gallery, Seoul, Korea

Intimate Sisters, Duson Gallery, Seoul, Korea

 

2021

Moonlight Crowns, Art Sonje Center, Seoul, Korea

Little ASJC: Yeesookyung: Moonlight Crown – Intimate Sisters, Kunsthal Aarhus, Aarhus, Denmark

Flame Seed, Gana Art Nineone, Seoul, Korea

The Story of a Girl Named Long Journey, Buk-Seoul Museum of Art, Seoul, Korea

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2020

I am not the only one but many, Massimo De Carlo, London, UK

Oh Rose!, Space Willing N Dealing, Seoul, Korea

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2019

Whisper Only to You, Museo e Real Bosco di Capodimonte, Naples, Italy

Whisper Only to You, MADRE · Museo d'arte Contemporanea Donnaregina, Naples, Italy

Fragments of Form-Carla Accardi, Yeesookyung, Massimo De Carlo, Hong Kong (two-person exhibition)

 

2017       

Yeesookyung: Translated Vase, Locks Gallery, Philadelphia, USA

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2015 

Yeesookyung: Contemporary Korean Sculpture, Asia Society Texas Center, Houston, USA

Saint Breeders, Atelier Hermès, Seoul, Korea

When I Become You, Daegu Art Museum, Daegu, Korea

When I Become You, Yeesookyung in Taipei, Museum of Contemporary Art Taipei, Taiwan

 

2014

The Meaning of Time, Locks Gallery, Philadelphia, USA

Take Me Home Country Roads, Space Willing N Dealing, Seoul, Korea

 

2013 

Flame, Ota Fine Arts, Singapore, Singapore

 

2012 

Yeesookyung, Sindoh Art Gallery, Seoul, Korea

 

2011 

Yeesookyung, Almine Rech Gallery, Brussels, Belgium

 

2010 

Jung Marie’s Jeongga, Yeesookyung’s Devotion, Arko Art Center, Seoul, Korea

Broken Whole, Michael Schultz Gallery, Seoul, Korea

 

2009

Yeesookyung, Thomas Cohn Gallery, Sao Paulo, Brazil

Yeesookyung, Ota Fine Arts, Tokyo, Japan

Yee Sookyung im Schloß Oranienbaum, Museum Schloß Oranienbaum, Dessau, Germany

 

2008 

Broken Whole, Michael Schultz Gallery, Berlin, Germany

Paradise Hormone, Mongin Art Center, Seoul, Korea

 

2007 

Earth Wind &Fire, Ilmin Museum of Art, Seoul, Korea

 

2006 

Flame, One and J. Gallery, Seoul, Korea

 

2005

Breeding Drawing, Gallery SSamzie, Seoul, Korea

 

2004 

Island Adventure, Alternative Space Pool, Seoul, Korea

 

2002 

Off-shoot Flower/ Painting/ Pottery, SSamzieSpace, Seoul, Korea

 

1997

Domestic Tailor Shop, Kumho Museum of Art, Seoul, Korea

 

1996 

Lee Sookyung, Artemesia Gallery, Chicago, Il, USA

 

1992

Getting Married to Myself, Indeco Gallery, Seoul/ K Gallery, Tokyo, Japan

 

 

Group Exhibitions

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2024

Common Ground: Indian Ceramics Triennale 2024, Arthshila Delhi, New Delhi, India

UNBOXING PROJECT 3: Maquette, New Spring Project, Seoul, Korea

The Spinning Earth, Namwon City's Kim Byungjong Art Museum, Namwon, Korea

SeMA Omnibus: At the End of the World Split Endlessly, Seoul Museum of Art, Seosomun Main Branch, Seoul, Korea

FangWu/方物－2024 Asian Contemporary Sculpture Exhibition, Juming Museum, New Taipei City, Taiwan

Gangwon International Triennale 2024: Ecological Art from Beneath, Pyeongchang, Korea 

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2023       

K=XY: Transcending Time and Space, KF XR Gallery, Seoul, Korea

Natura, Seoul Auction, Seoul, Korea

TRADE&TRANSFORMATION, Philbrook Museum of Art, Tulsa, OK, USA

The Shape of Time: Korean Art After 1989, Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, PA, USA

Time States: Contradiction and Accordance, Seoul National University Museum of Art, Seoul, Korea

Hysteria: Contemporary Realism Painting, Ilmin Museum of Art, Seoul, Korea

penetrate, CL Art, Seoul, Korea 

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2022       

Paik Nam June Effect, National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Gwacheon, Korea

Contourless, artnow VIP Lounge, West Bund Art & Design, West Bund Art Center, Shanghai, China

Fantastical Worlds, The David Roche Foundation House Museum, North Adelaide, Australia

Setouchi Triennale 2022, Seto Inland Sea, Japan

Conversing in Clay: Ceramics from the LACMA Collection, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, LA, USA

The Usefulness of the Useless, Osan Museum of Art, Osan, Korea

Porcelain: Material and Storytelling, Smart Museum of Art, Chicago, USA

Four Poems: Korean Abstraction, Helen J Gallery, LA, USA

Wabi Sabi, Sun Valley Museum of Art, Ketchum, USA

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2021

The Art of Communicating, from Goryeo to the Present, Horim Museum Sinsa, Seoul, Korea

BVLGARI Colors, Hangaram Design Museum, Seoul, Korea

Art Macao: Macao International Art Biennale 2021, Macau, China

Dynamic & Alive Korean Art, National Museum of Contemporary Art at Deoksugung Palace, Seoul, Korea

The Real DMZ Project, NIROX Sculpture Park, Krugersdorp, South Africa

In Bloom, HITE Collection, Seoul, Korea

L'Invitation au voyage, Esther Schipper, Berlin, Germany

Border Crossings: North and South Korean Art from the Sigg Collection, Kunstmuseum Bern, Bern, Switzerland

Encounters Between Korean Art and Literature in the Modern Age, National Museum of Contemporary Art at Deoksugung Palace, Seoul, Korea

Jamunbak Museum Project Part 2, Gana Art Center, Seoul, Korea

2021 Jeonnam International SUMUK Biennale ‘Spendor of Monochrome’, Mokpo Culture Art Center, Mokpo, Seoul, Korea

When the light comes out of the sun, Jeonnam Museum of Art, Gwangyang, Korea

Valentino Re-Signify Part II, Power Station of Art, Shanghai, China

KOREA. Gateway to a Rich Past, The Princessehof National Museum of Ceramics, Leeuwarden, Netherlands

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2020

The Moment of Gieok (Korean Alphabet ㄱ), Seoul Calligraphy Art Museum, Seoul, Korea

2020 Changwon Sculpture Biennale: Non-Sculpture - Light or flexible, Changwon, Korea

Artists Respond, Spencer Museum of Art, The University of Kansas, Lawrence, KS, USA

To the Moon with Snoopy, Wooyang Museum of Contemporary Art, Gyeongju, Korea

Wandering in Art, Jeju Museum of Contemporary Art, Jeju, Korea

Collecting for All, Seoul Museum of Art, Seoul, Korea

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2019
Aspect of Korean Modern Sculpture, Seosomun Shrine History Museum, Seoul, Korea
To the Moon with Snoopy, Lotte Museum of Art, Seoul. Korea

Sunblink, Locks Gallery, Philadelphia, USA
50/50, Alternative Space Loop, Multiplex Art Salon, Seoul, Korea

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2018
The Book of Disquiet, Gyeongnam Art Museum, Changwon, Korea
Exhibition Paradoxa. Art from Middle Korea, Udine, Casa Cavazzini, Italy
Far East Film Festival of Udine, Udine, Casa Cavazzini, Italy
Highlight K-Art, Culture-ICT Pavilion, PyeongChang Olympic Plaza, Korea

Total Support for TOTAL MUSEUM, Total Museum of Contemporary Art, Seoul, Korea

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2017

2017 Real DMZ, DMZ Peace and Culture Square, Cheorwon-gun, Korea

Ghost, Daegu Art Museum, Daegu, Korea

The 57th International Art Exhibition,  La Biennale di Venezia, Viva Arte Viva, Venice, Italy

 

2016

Pungryunamdo Art Project, Haengcheon Museum, Haenam, Korea

MMCA Gwacheon, 30 Years 1986-2016: As the Moon Waxes and Wanes, National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Korea, Gwacheon, Korea

Born in Flames : Korean Ceramics from the National Museum of Korea, The State Hermitage Museum, St. Petersburg, Russia

When Words Fail, HITE Collection, Seoul, Korea

Rivers-The Way of Living in Transition / Asia Contemporary Art Links, Gallery 1 at Gwangju Biennale Hall, Gwangju, Korea

Earth, Fire, Soul -Masterpieces of Korean Ceramics, Salon d'Honneur at the Grand Palais, Paris, France

Art from Elsewhere, Bristol Museum & Art Gallery and Arnolfini, Bristol, U.K. (Travelling Exhibition)

Motions, Ota Fine Arts, Singapore

CERAMIX: Art and Ceramics from Rodin to Schütte, Sèvres – Cité de la Céramique, La maison rouge Paris, France

Art from Elsewhere, Towner Art Gallery, Eastbourne, U.K. (Travelling Exhibition)

 

2015

Reshaping Tradition: Contemporary Ceramics from East Asia, USC Pacific Asian Museum, Pasadena, USA

CERAMIX: Art and Ceramics from Rodin to Schütte, Bonnefantenmuseum, Maastricht, Netherlands

Paradox of Place: Contemporary Korean Art, Seattle Asian Art Museum, Seattle, USA

[ana] please keep your eyes closed for a moment, Maraya Art Center, Sharjah, United Arab Emirates

Art and the Measure of Liberty, Permanent Mission of the Republic of Korea to the United Nations, NY, USA

Contemporary Art, Infiltrated into a Museum, Gyeonggi Provincial Museum, Youngin-si, Korea

Accidental Encounter, Buk Seoul Museum of Art, Seoul, Korea

Rivers-The Way of Living in Transition, PIER-2 Art Center, Kaosiung, Taiwan

HaengChon Art Project, Daeheung Buddist Museum, Baekryunsa, Gangjin, Korea

Blessed Land, Yang Pyeong Art Center, Yang Pyeong, Korea

Memories of artistic soul, Cheonan Arts Center Museum, Cheonan, Korea

My Blue China, Fondation d'entreprise Bernardaud Limoges, France

Water and Land - Niigata Art Festival, Closed school in Niigata, Niigata, Japan

Art from Elsewhere, Harris Museum & Art Gallery, Preston, U.K. (Travelling Exhibition)

Art from Elsewhere, Middlesbrough Institute of Modern Art, Middlesbrough, U.K. (Travelling Exhibition)

Art from Elsewhere, Birmingham Museum & Art Gallery, Birmingham, U.K. (Travelling Exhibition)

 

2014 

Beyond and Between, Leeum, Samsung Museum of Art, Seoul, Korea

Art from Elsewhere, Gallery of Modern Art, Glasgow, U.K. (Travelling Exhibition)

2014 Busan Biennale: Inhabiting the World, Busan Museum of Art, Busan, Korea

Jakarta Contemporary Ceramics Biennale, National Gallery of Indonesia, Jakarta, Indonesia

Time of Resonance, Jeju Museum of Art, Jejudo, Korea

From Corea to Korea, Fine Art Gallery Art Link, Seoul, Korea

Encounters 2014, Art Basel Hong Kong, Hong Kong

Dual Natures in Ceramics, SFO Museum, San Francisco, USA

K-P.O.P.─Korean Contemporary Art, Museum of Contemporary Art, Taipei, Taiwan

Warmth, Culture Station 284, Seoul, Korea

Objectified: Sculpture Today, Saatchi Gallery, London, UK

 

2013

Apakabar Indonesia, Lotte Shopping Avenue Gallery, Jakarta, Indonesia

Women Healing the World, Osan Museum of Art, Osan, Korea

Korea-NRW, Osthaus Museum Hagen, Hagen, Germany

La Route Bleue, Fondation Boghossian, Bruxelles, Belgium

THE MOON JAR and Contemporary British Ceramics, Korean Cultural Centre, London

Biennaleonline 2013, www.biennaleonline.org

The Collectors Show: Weight of History, Singapore Art Museum, Singapore

 

2012 

Deoksugung Project, National Museum of Contemporary Art at Deoksugung Palace, Seoul, Korea

Constellation Gemini, Korea Artist Prize, National Museum of Contemporary Art, Gwacheon, Korea

Berliner Festspiele, Seitenbuhne Berlin, Berlin, Germany

The Diverse Spectrum: 600Years of Korean Ceramics, Museum of Art, Sao Paulo, Brazil

Korean Eye, Saatchi Gallery, London, UK

All Our Relations: The 18th Biennale of Sydney, Museum of Contemporary Art Australia, Sydney, Australia

Arsenale: First International Biennale of Contemporary Art in Ukraine 2012, Mystetskyi Arsenal, Kyiv, Ukraine

Walk in Asia, Ota Fine Arts, Tokyo, Japan

Women In-Between: Asian Women Artists 1984-2012, Fukuoka Asian Art Museum, Fukuoka, Japan

Buam Project, Whanki Museum, Seoul, Korea

Art project 2012: communion, Nuclear Summit Seoul, 2012 Media Center, Seoul, Korea

Ceramics Commune, Artsonje Center, Seoul, Korea

 

2011

Poetry in Clay: Korean Buncheong Ceramics from Leeum, Samsung Museum of Art, Seoul, Korea. Travelled to: Asian Art Museum, San Francisco, USA

Elephant Parade, Singapore 2011, Singapore

Epic of Units, Gallery Hyundai, Seoul, Korea

Countdown, Culture Station Seoul 284, Seoul, Korea

Tell Me Tell Me: Australian and Korean contemporary art 1976-2011, National Art School Gallery, Sydney, Australia. Travelled to: National Museum of Contemporary Art, Gwacheon, Korea

Chopping Play-Korean Contemporary Art Now, Ion Art Gallery, Singapore

New address, New works, Ota Fine Arts, Tokyo, Japan

 

2010

Design Made 2010: My Dear Object, KCDF Gallery, COEX Public Design EXPO, Lotte Department Store’s Avenuel Gallery, Seoul, Korea

Korean Gene, Korea Craft & Design Foundation Gallery, Seoul, Korea

oblique strategies, Kukje Gallery, Seoul, Korea      

Busan Biennale, Now Asian Artist, Busan Cultural Center, Korea

Sculptures, Ota Fine Arts, Tokyo, Japan

Close encounter, Jeju Museum of Art, Jejudo, Korea

Triennale of KOGEI in Kanazawa, Culture Hall, Kanazawa City, Japan

The touch of history, Künstlerhaus Bethanien, Germany

The 30th Anniversary of the Young Korean Artists, National Museum of Contemporary Art, Korea, Gwacheon, Korea

 

2009

Vancouver Sculpture Biennale, Cardero Park, Vancouver, Canada

Platform Seoul 2009: Platform in Kimusa, Art Sonje Center, old Defense Security Command site, Seoul, Korea

Cheongju International Craft Biennale, The Old Cheongju Tabacco Processing Plant, Cheongju, Korea

Temptation Body, Galleria Alessandro Bagnai, Firenze, Italy

Double Fantasy, Marugame Genichiro Inokuma Museum of Contemporary Art, Marugame city, Japan

Logic of Sensibility, Interalia, Seoul, Korea

Ceramics-Climax, Gyeonggi Museum of Modern Art, Ansan, Korea

Contemplation of Tradition under the Context of Contemporary Art, Gallery Grimson, Seoul, Korea

Translated Koryo Celadon, Haegang Ceramics Museum, Ichon, Korea

Fragile-Fields of Empathy, Museum of Modern Art of Saint Etienne, Saint Etienne, France

Lost and Found, Rokeby Gallery, London, UK

Encounter: Dublin, Lisbon, Hong Kong and Seoul, Korea Foundation Cultural Center, Seoul, Korea

Meditation Biennale Poznan 2008, Poznan, Poland

 

2008

Hirschwegeinundzwanzig, Kunstverin Coburg e. v., Coburg, Germany

Metamorphoses: Korean Trajectories, Espace Louis Vuitton, Paris, France

Micro-narratives, Saint-Etienne Museum, France

Fantasy studio-A foundation, Liverpool biennale, Liverpool, UK

B side, Do Art Seoul, Seoul, Korea

To have or to be, Farmleigh Gallery, Dublin, Ireland / Palacio Galveias, Lisboa, Portugal

GMA New Acquisitions: Collection Reconstructed, Gyeonggi Museum of Modern Art, Ansan, Korea

 

2007

Possible Impossible, Art Park Gallery, Seoul, Korea

Anyang Public Art Project, Hakun Park, Anyang, Korea

Shanghai E-arts Festival,: Doll House, Shanghai, China

The 48th October Salon: Micro Narratives, Belgrade, Serbia

Icheon Ceramic Biennale, Icheon, Korea

Unfolding Korean Stories, Alcala 31, Madrid, Spain

 

2006 

Echigo-Tsumari Art Triennial, Abandoned house, Echigo-Tsumari, Japan

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

Art in Life: Public Furniture, Busan Biennale 2006, Haeundae Beach, Busan, Korea

 

2005 

V4 Video, Vostell Gallery, Berlin, Germany

The Exhibition on the Tales of 15 Villages, Gwangju, Korea

Against Translation, Total Museum of Contemporary Art, Seoul, Korea

Seoul Until Now, Charlottenborg Exhibition Hall, Copenhagen, Denmark

 

2004

Episode, Chungju City Art Center, Chungju, Korea

A Praise for Still Life, Ilmin Museum of Art, Seoul, Korea

MixMax, Artsonje Center, Seoul, Korea

 

2003 

Attese-Ceramics in Contemporary Art 2003, Albisola Museum of Ceramics, Albisola, Italy

D.I.Y. Beyond Instruction, Total Museum of Contemporary Art, Seoul, Korea

 

2002

Real–Interface, Space Ima, Seoul, Korea

 

2001 

Attese-Ceramics in Contemporary Art 2001, Albisola Museum of Ceramics, Albisola, Italy

Art Museum in Image, Gwangju Art Center, Gwangju/ Busan Art Center, Busan, Korea

 

2000 

Das Lied von der Erde-Song of the Land, Museum Fridericianum Kassel, Kassel, Germany

Exit: International Film & Video Festival, Chisenhale Gallery, London, England

Con-Temporary-Super Expo 2000, Tokyo Big Sight, Tokyo, Japan

Media City Seoul 2000, Subway Gallery, Seoul, Korea

art@design.org, Seoul Arts Center Hangaram Design Museum, Seoul, Korea

Leaving the Island: Busan International Art Festival, Busan City Museum of Art Busan, Korea

Another Space, Insa Art Space, Seoul, Korea

Art Museum in Image, Korea Center of Art and Culture, Seoul, Korea

 

 

Artist Residencies

 

Grass Mountain Art Residency, Taipei, Taiwan, 2015

Transfer Korea-NRW, Germany, 2012

Gyeonggi Creation Center Pilot Program, 2009

SSamzie Studio Program, Seoul, Korea, 2007

Villa Arson Residency Program, Nice, France, 2003

International Studio Program, Apex Art CP., New York, 1998

Artist in Market Place, Bronx Museum, New York, 1995

 

 

Public Collections

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Acrovista, Seoul, Korea

The Ambassador Seoul, Korea

Amorepacific Museum of Art, Seoul, Korea

ARCO Collection, IFEMA, Madrid, Spain

Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL, USA

Art Space Hohwa, Seoul, Korea 

Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, USA

Bristol Museum, Bristol, UK

The British Museum, London, UK

Byucksan Corporation, Seoul, Korea

Museo e Real Bosco di Capodimonte, Naples, Italy

Cha Bio Complex, Seongnam, Korea

City of Echigo-Tsumari, Japan

Daegu Museum of Art Collection, Daegu, Korea

DMZ Peace & Culture Square, Pyeongchang, Korea

Fukuoka Asian Art Museum, Fukuoka, Japan

Gana Foundation for Art and Culture, Seoul, Korea

Gyeonggi Museum of Modern Art, Ansan, Korea

Hite Collection, Seoul, Korea

Jesse & Julie Rasch Foundation, Toronto, Canada

Jeju Museum of Contemporary Art, Jeju, Korea

Jeonnam Museum of Art, Gwangyang-si, Korea

Kumho Museum of Art, Seoul, Korea

Leeum, Samsung Museum of Art, Seoul, Korea

Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA), Los Angeles, CA, USA

LOTTE Foundation for Arts, Seoul, Korea

Memorial Art Gallery of the University of Rochester, Rochester, NY, USA

Mongin Art Center, Seoul, Korea

Mystetskyi Arsenal, Kyiv, Ukraine

M+ Museum, Hong Kong

National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Gwacheon, Korea

NIROX Sculpture Park, Krugersdorp, South Africa

Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, USA

POSCO Museum, Pohang, Korea

Powerhouse Museum, Sydney, Australia

Princeton University, New Jersey, USA

The Princessehof National Museum of Ceramics, Leeuwarden, Netherlands

Saatchi Gallery Collection, London, UK

Salama Bint Hamdan Al Nahyan Foundation, Abu Dhabi, UAE

Setouchi Triennale Executive Committee, Seto Inland Sea, Japan

Seoul Museum of Art, Seoul, Korea

Smart Museum of Art, The University of Chicago, Chicago, IL, USA

Spencer Museum of Art, The University of Kansas, Lawrence, KS, USA

Suwon Museum of Art, Suwon, Korea

The Tia Collection, Santa Fe, USA

Times Square, Seoul, Korea

Uli Sigg Collection, Switzerland

YU-UN Obayashi Collection, Tokyo, Japan

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