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Nam June Paik (Korean/American, 1932-2006)
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Nam June Paik
Fractal Flasher 1994
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Biography |
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1932 |
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Born: Seoul, South Korea |
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1932 |
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Born in Seoul, Korea |
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1950 |
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Moved with his family to Hong Kong, and later to Japan |
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1958 - 1953 |
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Worked in the Studio fur elektronische Musik at WDR, Cologne, Germany |
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1952 - 1956 |
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Studied at the University of Tokyo |
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1956 |
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Participated in the Fluxus-Movement with John Cage |
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1956 |
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Graduated from the University of Tokyo, Japan (History of Art and History of Music) |
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1956 - 1958 |
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Studied Music with Stockhausen, Darmstadt; art history; philosophy |
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1956 - 1958 |
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Studied the History of Music at Munich University, Germany
Studied Composition at Freiburg Conservatory, Freiburg, Germany |
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1962 |
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Participates in the Fluxus-Festival, Wiesbaden |
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1964 |
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Works with Charlotte Moormann in New York |
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1966 |
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TV Cross and Tanzendes Muster, multimonitor installations |
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1969 |
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Constructs Videosynthesizer, with the help of Shuya Abe |
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1971 |
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Worked at WNET's TV lab, New York, NY |
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1979 |
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Teaches at Kunstakademie Dusseldorf |
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1987 |
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Elected a member of the Akademie der Kunste, Berlin, Germany |
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1991 |
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Receives Skowhegan medal for Video |
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1991 |
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Received the Skowhegan Medal for Video |
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1991 - 1992 |
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Received the Goslar Kaiserringes Award and the UNESCO Picasso Medal |
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1993 |
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Receives Best Pavilion at the Venice Biennale |
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1998 |
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Receives the Kyoto Prize |
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1998 |
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Received the Kyoto Award |
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1999 |
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Receives International Distinguished Artist Award in Miami |
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2000 |
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Receives national Arts Club Artists Award |
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2000 |
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Received numerous grants and awards from, inter alia, the Guggenheim Museum, the Rockefeller Foundation, and the American Film Institute; Will Grohmann Award, Goslar Emperor's Ring, UNESCO's Picasso Medal, National Arts Club Award |
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2006 |
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Died in Miami, Florida |
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2006 |
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Died: Miami, FL |
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Exhibitions |
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2008 - 2009 |
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"Nam June Paik. Works from the ZKM Collection", Foyer of the EnBW, Karlsruhe, Germany (solo) |
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2007 |
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Nam June Paik , doART Beijing, China (solo) |
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2006 |
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“Bye Bye, Nam June Paik”, The Watari Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo, Japan (solo) |
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2004 |
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Deutsche Guggenheim, Berlin, Germany |
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2004 |
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Nam June Paik – Global Groove, Deutsche Guggenheim, Berlin |
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2004 |
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Nam June Paik, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney |
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2003 |
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"Nam June Paik: Drawings", Mano Gallery, Seoul, South Corea |
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2002 |
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Museum fur Moderne Kunst, Frankfurt |
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2002 |
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Wilhelm Lehmbruck Museum, Duisburg |
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2001 |
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The Worlds of Nam June Paik, Guggenheim Museum, New York |
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2001 |
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Centre d’Art Contemporain, Geneva |
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2001 |
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Guggenheim, Bilbao |
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2001 |
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Gallery Hyundai Seoul |
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2001 |
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"Over the Century", Galerie BHAK, Seoul, South Corea |
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2000 |
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Museum fur Moderne Kunst, Frankfurt |
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2000 |
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Museum fur Gegenwartskunst, Basel |
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2000 |
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Sprengel Museum, Hannover |
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2000 |
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Guggenheim Museum, New York |
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2000 |
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"The World of Nam June Paik", Guggenheim Museum, New York, NY; Hoam Museum, Seoul, South Corea |
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1999 |
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Nam June Paik: Fluxus/Video, Kunsthalle, Bremen |
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1999 |
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"Medium Is The Message", TV Gallery, Moscow, Russia (solo) |
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1998 |
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"The Concrete Signal", College of Pennsylvania Galleries,York, Pennsylvania |
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1997 |
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National Museum of American Art, Washington |
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1997 |
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Museum of Contemporary Art, Jacksonville |
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1997 |
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"Skulpture Projects in Munster", Westfalisches Landesmuseum, Munster, Germany |
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1996 - 1997 |
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Galerie Bhak, Seoul, South Corea (solo)
Kim Foster Gallery, New York, NY (solo)
Holly Solomon Gallery, New York, NY (solo)
Anthology Film Archives, New York, NY (solo) |
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1996 |
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Museum of Art, San Jose |
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1996 |
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Culturgest, The Electronic Super Highway: Nam June Paik in the Nineties, Lisbon |
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1995 |
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Gallery Hyundai, Seoul |
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1994 |
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"The Howard Wise Gallery: TV as a Creative Medium", Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY |
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1993 |
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"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) |
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1992 |
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"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 Corea (solo)
"Nam June Paik: Arti Elettroniche, Cinema e Media Verso il XXI Secolo", Palazzo delle Esposizioni, Rome, Italy (solo) |
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1992 |
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Nam June Paik: Retrospective, Museum of Modern Art, Seoul |
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1991 |
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"Nam June Paik: Retrospective", Kunsthaus, Zurich; Kunsthalle, Basel, Switzerland (solo)
Kunsthalle, Dusseldorf, Germany (solo)
"Recent Video Sculptures", Carl Solway Gallery, Cincinnati, OH (solo) |
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1990 |
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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) |
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1989 |
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"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, UK (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 |
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1989 |
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Whitney Museum of American Art, New York |
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1988 |
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"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", The Hayward Gallery, South Bank Centre, London, UK (solo) |
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1986 |
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"Nam June Paik: Sculpture, Painting and Laser Photography", Holly Solomon Gallery, New York, NY (solo) |
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1985 |
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"Nam June Paik: Family of Robot", Carl Solway Gallery, Cincinnati, OH; International Art Exposition, Chicago, IL (solo) |
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1984 |
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"Mostly Video", Tokyo Metropolitan Art Museum, Tokyo, Japan (solo)
"Tribute to Marshall McLuhan", Galerie Esperanza, Montreal, Canada (solo) |
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1982 |
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"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) |
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1982 |
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Retrospective, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago |
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1981 |
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"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) |
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1980 |
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"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 |
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1978 |
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"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) |
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1977 |
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"Projects: Nam June Paik", The 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) |
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1976 |
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"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) |
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1975 |
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"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) |
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1974 |
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"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, New York
Electronic Art IV, Galeria Bonino, New York, NY (solo) |
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1972 |
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Museum of Modern Art, New York |
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1971 |
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"Cineprobe", The 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, NewYork, 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) |
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1968 |
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"Cybernetic Serendipity: The Computer and the Arts, Institute of Contemporary Art", London, UK
"Nam June Paik", SUNY Stony Brook, Art Gallery, NY (solo) |
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1967 |
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"Expanding Perceptions in the Arts", Art Center of the Paul Klapper Library, Queens College of The City University of NewYork, NY (solo) |
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1965 |
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"NJ Paik: Electronic TV, Color TV Experiments, 3 Robots, 2 Zen Boxes & 1 Zen Can", New School for Social Research New York, NY (solo) |
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1965 |
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Galleria Bonino, New York |
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1963 |
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Galerie Parnass, Wuppertal |
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1963 |
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"Exposition of Music-Electronic Television, Galerie Parnass, Wuppertal, Germany (solo) |
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1959 |
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Galerie 22, Dusseldorf |
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Selected Public Collections: |
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Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL
Guggenheim Museum, New York, NY
Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, DC
Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY
National Gallery of Australia, Canberra, Australia
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA
Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, New York
Art Museum of the Americas, Washington, DC
DaimlerChrysler Collection, Berlin, Germany
Musée d'Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, France
Reina Sofía National Museum, Madrid, Spain
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Literature |
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2009 |
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Nam June Paik: Exposition of Music, Electronic Television, Revisited. Köln, Germany: Walther König, 2009 (catalogue) |
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2004 |
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Hanhardt, John G, Jones, Caitlin and Anja Osswald. Nam June Paik: Global Groove. New York: Guggenheim Museum, 2004 |
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2003 |
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Hanhardt, John G, editor. The Worlds Of Nam June Paik. New York: Guggenheim Museum, 2003 (catalogue) |
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1996 |
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Nam June Paik: Baroque Laser.Ostfildern, Germany: Cantz, 1996 |
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1982 |
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Hanhardt, John G, editor. Nam June Paik. New York: Norton, 1982 |
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