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Michael Joo (American/Korean, born 1966)

Timeline

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

2010: Galerie Marabini, Bologna, Italy (solo)
2010: The Infinite Starburst of Your Cold Dark Eyes, PKM Gallery, Seoul, KR
2010: Have You Ever Really Looked at the Sun?, Haunch of Venison Berlin, Berlin, Germany (group with Damien Hirst)
2009: Anton Kern Gallery, New York, US (solo)
2009: Bodhi Obfuscatus (Allegiance), Chelsea Art Museum, New York, US (solo)
2009: NeoHooDoo: Art of a Forgotten Faith, Miami Art Museum, Miami; and P.S.1 MoMA, New York, US (group)
2009: Incarnational Aesthetics, New York Center for Art & Media Studies (NYCAMS), New York, US
2009: Faces & Facts: Korean Contemporary Art in New York, Queens Museum of Art, New York, US
2008: P.S.1 MoMA, New York, US
2008: Friends and Family, Anton Kern Gallery, New York, US (group)
2008: NeoHooDoo: Art of a Forgotten Faith, The Menil Collection, Houston, Texas, US (group)
2008: ReAsia, Haus der Kulturen, Berlin, Germany (group)
2008: PKM Gallery, Seoul, Korea (solo)
2008: Circannual Rhythm: Video Installation by Michael Joo, Anchorage Museum, Anchorage, Alaska, US (solo)
2007: New York States of Mind, Queens Museum of Art, New York, US (group)
2007: Shangri-la, Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin, Germany (group)
2007: Post Object, Doris McCarthy Gallery, University of Toronto, Scarborough, Ontario, Canada (group)
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.
1999: Anton Kern Gallery, New York, US (solo)
1998: White Cube, London, UK (solo)
1998: Matthew McCaslin, Susan Etkin, Michael Joo, PS.1 Contemporary Art Center, Long Island City, New York, US (group)
1998: Nine International Artists at Wanås, Wanås Foundation, Knislinge, Sweden (group)
1998: Selections from the Permanent Collection, Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, Minnesota, US (group)
1997: 2nd Johannesburg Biennial 1997, Museum of Africa, Johannesburg, South Africa (group)
1997: Art Club Berlin, Berlin, Germany (group)
1997: Art in the Anchorage, Creative Time, Brooklyn Bridge Anchorage, Brooklyn, New York, US (group)
1997: Group Show: Painting, Photography, Drawing, Anton Kern Gallery, New York, US (group)
1997: Techno-Seduction, Cooper Union School of Art, New York, US (group)
1997: Transmission, L´Ecole des Beaux Arts Galerie, Paris, France (group)
1997: Anton Kern Gallery, New York, US (solo)
1996: Thomas Nordanstad Gallery, New York, US (solo)
1996: Against, Anthony D'Offay Gallery, London, UK (group)
1996: The Damien Hirst Collection, Quo Vadis, London, UK (group)
1996: Joo, Sheward & White, Wigram, The Post Office, London, UK (group)
1996: Patrick Painter Editions, Bloom Gallery, Amsterdam, the Netherlands (group)
1996: Urban Structures, Kunsthalle, Munich, Germany (group)
1995: La Belle et la Bête, (Beauty and the Beast), Musée d'Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, France (ARC), Paris, France (group)
1995: Better Living Through Chemistry, Randolph Street Gallery, Chicago, US (group)
1995: Configura 2: Dialog der Kulturen, Erfurt, Germany (group)
1995: Institute of Cultural Anxiety, Institute of Contemporary Art, London, UK (group)
1995: Beyond The Borders, 1st Gwangju Biennale, Kwangju Contemporary Museum, Gwangju, Korea (group)
1995: Some Went Mad, Some Ran Away, Serpentine Gallery, London; travelled to Nordic Arts Centre, Helsinki, Finland; and Kunstverein, Hannover, Germany (group)
1995: Thomas Nordanstad Gallery, New York, US (group)
1995: Crash, Anthony D'Offay Gallery, London, UK (solo)
1995: Galerie Anne de Villepoix, Paris, France (solo)
1995: Nature vs. Nature at the Glass Ceiling, Stedelijk Museum Bureau Amsterdam, The Netherlands (group with Christiaan Bastiaans)
1995: Thomas Nordanstad Gallery, New York, US (solo)
1994: Salt Transfer Cycle, Thomas Nordanstad Gallery, New York, US (solo)
1994: Across the Pacific, Kumho Museum, Seoul, Korea (group)
1994: Crash, Thread Waxing Space, New York, US (group)
1994: Drawing on Sculpture, Cohen Gallery, New York, US (group)
1994: I, Myself and Me, The Interart Center, New York, US (group)
1994: Sandra Gering Gallery, New York, US (group)
1994: What Is in Your Mind?, Tekniska Museet, Stockholm, Sweden (group)
1993: Across the Pacific, Queens Museum of Art, Queens, New York, US (group)
1993: Aperto-93, 45th Venice Biennale, Venice, Italy (group)
1993: Changing I: Dense Cities, Shedhalle, Zurich, Switzerland (group)
1993: The Final Frontier, New Museum for Contemporary Art, New York, US (group)
1993: Galerie Max Hetzler, Cologne, Germany (group)
1993: In Out of the Cold, Center for the Arts at Yerba Buena, San Francisco, US (group)
1993: Recent Acquisitions, Moderna Museet, Stockholm, Sweden (group)
1993: Künstlerhaus Bethanien, Berlin, Germany (group)
1993: Nordanstad Gallery, New York, US (group with Rachel Berwick)
1992: The Artifice of Expenditure, Nordanstad-Skarstedt Gallery, New York, US (solo)
1992: Unfair, Nordanstad Gallery at Balloni Halle, Cologne, Germany (group)
1992: Galerie Metropol, Vienna, Austria (group)
1992: Mimique, Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, New York, US (group)
1988: Demolition Daze, exhibition/auction, Rifle Sport Gallery, Minneapolis, Minnesota, US (group)

Literature

2007: Michael Joo, texts by Michael Joo and Bruce W Ferguson, interview between Hans Ulrich Obrist and Michael Joo and conversation between Michael Joo and Paul Black, Other Criteria, UK
2004: Michael Joo, North Carolina: MIT List Visual Arts Center and the Palm Beach Institute of Contemporary Art.
2001: Michael Joo, Seoul: published in conjunction with the national presentation of the Korean Pavilion for the