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Michael Joo    (Korean/American, 1966)

 Michael Joo - Improved Rack #66 (Sculptures) h: 281 x w: 135 cm / h: 110.6 x w: 53.1 in
Michael Joo
Improved Rack #66 2002
 
 Michael Joo - Untitled (Sculptures) h: 30.5 x w: 29 x d: 14 cm / h: 12 x w: 11.4 x d: 5.5 in
Michael Joo
Untitled 2005
 
 

Biography
1966 Born, Ithaca, N.Y.
1989 Wesleyan University, Middletown, Conn.
1989 BFA, Washington University, St. Louis, Mo.
1991 MFA, Yale School of Art, Yale University, New Haven, Conn.
Lives and works in New York, N.Y.
Awards
2006 United States Artists Fellowship
2006 Grand Prize, 6th Gwangju Biennale 2006 (with co-recipient Song Dong)
2003 American Center Foundation Grant
2002 LEF Foundation
2001 Warhol Foundation Grant
2000 Joan Mitchell Foundation Painters’ and Sculptors’ Grant
1998 John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowship
Residencies
2007 Anchorage Museum at Rasmuson Center Artist in Residence (multi-year)
2006 Acadia Summer Arts Program, Mt. Desert, Maine
1998 International Artists Studio Program in Sweden (IASPIS), Stockholm, Sweden
1996-97 Delfina Studio Trust, London, United Kingdom
1995 Royal Academy of Art, Stockholm, Sweden
1994 Royal Academy of Art, Copenhagen, Denmark
1990 Cite International Des Arts, Paris, France

Exhibitions
2007 usAsia, Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin, Germany
2007 Timer 01/Intimita/Intimacy, Triennale Bovisa, Milano
2007 Post Object, Doris McCarthy Gallery, University of Toronto, Scarborough, Ontario, Canada
2006 In The Darkest Hour There Will Be Light, Serpentine Gallery, London, United Kingdom
2006 The Bong Show, Leslie Tonkonow Artworks + Projects, New York, N.Y.
2006 Postcards From The Edge, Sikkema Jenkins & Co., New York, N.Y.
2006 6th Gwangju Biennale2006, Gwangju, Korea
2006 Eretica, Palazzo Sant’ Anna, Palermo, Italy
2006 Flux Factory, Lennon Weinberg Gallery, New York, N.Y.
2006 Group Show, Curti/Gambuzzi & Co., Milan, Italy
2006 Michael Joo, Rodin Gallery (Leeum, Samsung Museum of Art), Seoul, South Korea (solo)
2006 Implosion!, Anton Kern Gallery, New York, N.Y.
2006 RADAR: Selections From The Collection of Vicki and Kent Logan, Denver Art Museum, Denver, Co.
2006 Wallin vs Joo, Galleri Ping-Pong, Malmö, Sweden
2005 Anton Kern Gallery, New York, N.Y. (solo)
2005 Bodhi Obfuscatus (Space-Baby), Asia Society, New York, N.Y. (solo)
2005 Still Lives, The Bohen Foundation, New York, N.Y. (solo)
2005 Artwalk NY, Sotheby’s, New York, N.Y.
2005 e-Flux Video Rental, The Moore Space, Miami, Fla.
2005 Incognito, Santa Monica Museum of Art, Santa Monica, Cal.
2005 Monuments For The USA, CCA Wattis Institute For Contemporary Arts, San Francisco, CA; White Columns, New York, N.Y.
2005 Postcards From The Edge, Robert Miller Gallery, New York, N.Y.
2005 This Must Be The Place, Center For Curatorial Studies, Bard College, Annandale-On-Hudson, N.Y.
2004 Michael Joo, Palm Beach Institute for Contemporary Art, Lake Worth, Fla. (solo)
2004 D.u.m.b.o. Short Film and Video Festival, Brooklyn, N.Y.
2004 Art Basel 04 (film/video), Basel, Switzerland
2004 Black Belt, Santa Monica Museum of Art, Santa Monica, Cal.
2004 f#@k perfection, Vertex List, Brooklyn, N.Y.
2004 Field, Socrates Sculpture Park, curated by Alyson Baker, Long Island City, N.Y.
2004 Incognito, Santa Monica Museum of Art, Santa Monica, Cal.
2004 Needful Things: Recent Multiples, Cleveland Museum, Cleveland, Oh.
2004 Postcards From the Edge, Brent Sikkema Gallery, New York, N.Y.
2004 Standing on a Bridge, Arario Gallery, Seoul, South Korea
2004 Video Program, Shore Institute of Contemporary Art, Long Beach, N.J.
2003 Michael Joo, MIT List Visual Art Center, Cambridge, Mass. (solo)
2003 Alumni Show, Center for the Arts, Wesleyan University, Middletown, Conn.
2003 Black Belt, The Studio Museum in Harlem, New York, N.Y.
2003 Commodification of Buddhism, The Bronx Museum of the Arts, Bronx, N.Y.
2003 Fresh Talk Revisited, A/P/A Studies Gallery, New York University, New York, N.Y.
2003 Full Frontal, Contemporary Asian Artists from the Logan Collection, Denver Art Museum, Denver, Colo.
2003 Paradise/Paradox, Castle Gallery, The College of New Rochelle, New Rochelle, N.Y.
2003 Short Cuts: Video Art and Photography, The Israel Museum, Jerusalem, Israel
2002 Anton Kern Gallery, New York, N.Y. (solo)
2002 Curti/Gambuzzi & Co., Milan, Italy (solo)
2002 PKM Gallery, Seoul, South Korea (solo)
2002 Black Mariah Film Festival, Jersey City, N.J.
2002 It's Unfair!, Museum de Paviljoens, Almere, The Netherlands
2002 Manifeste, oder: Ergriffenheit–was ist das?, Galerie Daniel Blau, Munich, Germany
2002 The Mind is a Horse, Bloomberg Space, London, United Kingdom
2001 49th Venice Biennale, South Korean Pavilion, Venice, Italy (with Do-Ho Suh) (solo)
2001 A Contemporary Cabinet of Curiosities, Selections from the Vicki and Kent Logan Collection, California College of Arts and Crafts, Oakland, Calif.
2001 I Love N.Y., (benefit exhibition), Anton Kern Gallery, New York, N.Y.
2001 Translated Acts, Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin, Germany; Queens Museum of Art, Queens, N.Y.
2000 Drawings 2000, Barbara Gladstone Gallery, New York, N.Y.
2000 Korean Embassy, New York, N.Y.
2000 Juvenilia, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco, Calif.
2000 Koreamericakorea, Artsonje Center, Seoul, South Korea; Sonje Museum, Kyungju, South Korea
2000 The Korean War and American Art: Fifty Years Later, Guild Hall Museum, East Hampton, N.Y.
2000 Media_City Seoul 2000, National Historical Museum, Seoul, South Korea
2000 Psycho, Art and Anatomy, Anne Faggianto Fine Art, London, United Kingdom
2000 Whitney Biennial 2000, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, N.Y.
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