YOOK, Keun-Byung
Biography
1957: Born in Jeonju (Jun Ju), South Korea.
Studied fine arts at Kyung Hee University and its graduate school.
In the late 1980s, he began in earnest to create video-based installations, gaining international attention at exhibitions such as the 1989 São Paulo Biennial. In 1992, he participated in the contemporary art exhibition Documenta 9 (Kassel, Germany). He continues to live and work in South Korea.
Selected Solo Exhibitions
1991: Kumho Museum of Art, Seoul
1993: Galerie Villalupi, Hamburg
Gallery Q & +1 (JAPAN PROJECTS=P-1), Tokyo
1994: Kirin Plaza Osaka (Projects = OSAKA/JAPAN “Recurrent World from Asia”), Osaka
1996: Art Front Gallery / Hillside Terrace, Tokyo
1998: Kukje Gallery, Seoul
2000: Cotthem Gallery, Knokke, Belgium
2003: Gallery Q, Tokyo
Print House OM (Print Exhibition), Yokohama
2005: Kenji Taki Gallery, Tokyo
Selected Group Exhibitions
1989: 20th São Paulo Biennial, Ibirapuera, São Paulo, Brazil
1992: Documenta 9, Friedrichsplatz, Kassel, Germany
1994: Cosmovision (Yook Keun-Byung & Tatsuo Miyajima), Kukje Gallery, Seoul
1995: Circulation: Contemporary Art from Japan and Korea, Aichi Prefectural Museum of Art / Nagoya City Art Museum
Territory of Mind, Art Tower Mito
Biennale de Lyon, Halle Tony Garnier, Lyon, France
1996: By Night, Fondation Cartier pour l’art contemporain, Paris
Origin of Fire and Myth: New Art from Japan, China and Korea, The Museum of Modern Art, Saitama
1998: Beyond the New Millennium Smile, Kyongju World Culture Expo, Gyeongju
In the Year of the Tiger: Contemporary Art from Korea, Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin
Alienation and Assimilation, Museum of Contemporary Photography, Chicago
1998–1999: Speed, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne / Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney
2000: Slowness of Speed, Art Sonje Center, Seoul
Echigo-Tsumari Art Triennale 2000
Alienation and Assimilation, Asian Art Museum, San Francisco
2002: Attitude 2002, Contemporary Art Museum Kumamoto
The Color of Korea, Aichi Prefectural Museum of Art
Aomori Contemporary Art Centre (ACAC)
2003: WINSTIL / Cotthem Gallery, Barcelona, Spain
2004: Gwangju Biennale, Gwangju
2008: Busan Biennale 2008, Busan
2010: Media City Seoul 2010, Seoul Museum of Art, Seoul
2012: Korean Eye 2012, Saatchi Gallery, London
2016: As the Moon Waxes and Wanes, National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art (MMCA), Gwacheon
Public Collections
National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art (MMCA), Korea
Seoul Museum of Art, Korea
The Museum of Modern Art, Saitama, Japan
Aichi Prefectural Museum of Art, Japan
Contemporary Art Museum Kumamoto, Japan (among others)