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Lee Ufan

(Korean, born 1936)

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Lee Ufan

Relatum, 2007

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Lee Ufan

Relatum, 1979

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Lee Ufan

Dialogue , 2008

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relatum by lee ufan

Lee Ufan

Relatum, 1975–2015

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Biography

Timeline

1936
Born in Kyongnam, South Korea
1956
Moved to Yokohama where he studied philosophy at Nihon University
1961
Graduated from Nihon University, Department of Philosophy, Tokyo, Japan
Awarded prize for critical writing, Tokyo, Japan
1973
Since this time, he has been a professor at the Tama Art University, Tokyo
1997
Appointed guest professor at the École Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-Arts, Paris
2000
UNESCO Prize (in Shanghai Biennale), Paris-Shanghai, China
2001
13th Praemium Imperiale (Painting), Tokyo, Japan
11th Hoam prize (Art), Seoul
2005
Artists Summit, Kyoto, Japan
1979 1st Henry Moore Grand Prize, Superlative Prize
1979 11th International Print Biennale in Tokyo, Prize of National Museum of Modern Art

Exhibitions

2022
Lee Ufan, The National Art Center, Tokyo, Japan (solo)
2019
Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, D.C. (solo)
Lee Ufan. Inhabiting Time, Centre Pompidou Metz, Metz, France (solo)
Star Guided Art Tour, Iwami Art Museum, Musada, Japan
Setouchi Triennale, Takamatsu, Japan
2018
Nature Knows No Pause, Massimo de Carlo, Milan, Italy
Just So Stories 1978 I 2018, Galerie nächst St. Stephan Rosemarie Schwarzwälder, Vienna, Austria
Relatum Stage, Serpentine Sculpture Commission, Serpentine Gallery, London, United Kingdom (solo)
Abstract Painting Now! Gerhard Richter, Katharina Grosse, Sean Scully..., Kunsthalle Krems, Krems, Austria, catalogue
2017
The Ha Jung-Woong Museum of Art’s Inaugural Exhibition, Gwangju Museum of Art, South Korea (solo)

Public Collections

Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney
Asia Society Texas Center, Houston
Busan Museum of Art, Korea
Brooklyn Museum, New York
Centre Georges Pompidou, Musée National d’Art Moderne, Paris
Chiba City Museum of Art, Japan
Dallas Museum of Art, Texas
FNAC, Paris
Fondazione Mudima, Milan
Fukuoka Museum of Art, Japan
Galerie Nationale de Prague, Czech Republic
Hokkaido Museum of Modern Art, Sapporo, Japan
Ho-Am Art Museum, Seoul
Hakone Open-Air Museum, Kanagawa, Japan
Hara Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo
Hiroshima City Museum of Contemporary Art, Japan
Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York
Iwaki City Art Museum, Fukushima, Japan
Kröller-Müller Rijksmuseum, Otterloo, The Netherlands.
Kunsthalle Nürnberg, Germany
Kunsthaus Zurich, Switzerland
Kunstmuseum Bonn, Germany
Kunstsammlungen der Ruhr-Universität Bochum, Germany
Leeum, Samsung Museum of Art, Seoul
Lee Ufan Museum, Naoshima, Japan
Frederik Meijer Gardens & Sculpture Park, Grand Rapids, Michigan
Miyagi Museum of Art, Sendai, Japan
Le Musée de Sculpture en Plein Air, Paris
Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo, Japan
Museum of Fine Arts, Gifu, Japan
Museum of Modern Art, Kamakura & Hayama, Japan
The Museum of Modern Art, New York
Museum of Modern Art, Shiga, Japan
Museum of Modern Art, Toyama, Japan
Museum of Modern Art, Wakayama, Japan
The National Museum of Art, Osaka
modNational Museum of Modern Art, Kyoto
National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Seoul
National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo
Nationalgalerie, Berlin
Niigata Prefectural Museum of Art, Japan
Ohara Museum of Art, Okayama, Japan
Queensland Art Gallery, Brisbane, Australia
Seoul Municipal Museum of Art, Korea
Setagaya Art Museum, Tokyo
Sezon Museum of Modern Art, Nagano, Japan
São Paulo Art Library, Brazil
Situation Kunst, Bochum, Germany
Sonja Henle-Niels Onstad Museum, Oslo, Norway
Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden, Germany
Städtisches Museum Leverkusen, Germany
Städtisches Museum im Städel, Frankfurt
Stuttgart Staatsgalerie, Germany
Sunjae Museum of Art, Korea
Takamatsu City Museum of Art, Kagawa, Japan
Tate Gallery, London
Tochigi Prefectural Museum of Fine Arts, Utsunomiya, Japan
Tokyo Metropolitan Art Museum, Japan
Total Contemporary Museum, Seoul
Toyota Municipal Museum of Art, Aichi, Japan
Utsunomiya City Museum of Art, Tochigi, Japan

Literature

2019
Lee Ufan, Inhabiting Time, exh. cat. Centre Pompidou – Metz, Metz 2019
2017
Chae-Duporge, Okyang. Lee Ufan: Espaces non-agis. Paris: Éditions Cercle D’Art, 2017; Lee Ufan: Ceramics (digital exhibition catalogue). Text by Valérie Duponchelle. New York: Pace Gallery, 2017.
2016
Lee Ufan & Sėvres. Texts by Valérie Duponchelle. Interview by Yves Mirande. Sėvres, France: Cité de la céramique – Sèvres and Limoges, 2016; Tate Modern: The Handbook. Edited by Matthew Gale. London: Tate Publishing, 2016: 203, illustrated.
2015
From All Sides: Tansaekhwa on Abstraction (exhibition catalogue). Text by Joan Kee. Los Angeles: Blum and Poe, 2015: plates 84–91, illustrated; Dansaekhwa with Lee Ufan (exhibition catalogue). Edited by Yongwoo Lee. Seoul and New York: Kukje Gallery; Tina Kim Gallery, 2015; Lee Ufan Museum. Texts by Soichiro Fukutake and Lee Ufan. Kagawa, Japan Fukutake Foundation, 2015; Lee Ufan: One Man Show (exhibition catalogue). Text by Olga Bakeeva. Moscow: Gary Tatintsian Gallery, 2015; Lee Ufan (exhibition catalogue). Text by Barbara Rose. New York: Pace Gallery, 2015; Lee Ufan: From Point, From Line, From Wind (exhibition catalogue). Interview by Alfred Pacquement. London: Pace London: 2015; Mono-ha (exhibition catalogue). Texts by Achille Bonito Oliva et al. Milan: Fondazione Mudima, 2015.
2014
Formes Simples (exhibition catalogue). Metz and Paris: Éditions du Centre Pompidou-Metz; Fondation d’entreprise Hermès, 2014: 70, 206, illustrated; Ilgen, Fré. Artist? The Hypothesis of Bodiness: A New Approach to Understanding the Artist and Art. Tübingen, Germany: Ernst Wasmuth Verlag GmbH & Co, 2014: 158, 162, 199, illustrated; Lee Ufan, Versailles (exhibition catalogue). Texts by Alfred Pacquement and Tatehata Akira. Paris: Publication de la Réunion des Musées Natioinaux – Grand Palais, 2014; Lee Ufan: The Stone Hunter. Photographs by Fayçal Zaouali. Text by Gino Di Maggio. Milan: Foundazione Mudima, 2014; Lee Ufan (exhibition catalogue). Text by Lee Ufan. Tokyo: Kaikai Kiki Gallery, 2014; Unlimited (exhibition catalogue). Text by Marc Spiegler. Ostfildern, Germany: Hatje Cantz Verlag, 2014: 84–5, illustrated.
2013
Kee, Joan. Contemporary Korean Art: Tansaekhwa and the Urgency of Method. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2013: illustrated; Lee Ufan. Texts by Michel Enrici and Ukai Satoshi. Paris: Actes Sud, 2013; Lee, Ufan. L’art de la résonance. Paris: Beaux-Arts de Paris édeitions, Ministère de la Culture et de la Communication, 2013; Mingei: Are You Here? (exhibition catalogue). Texts by Nicolas Trembley and Yuko Kikuchi. London: Pace London, 2013: illustrated; Parallel Views: Italian and Japanese Art from the 1950s, 60s, and 70s (exhibition catalogue). Edited by Allan Schwartzman. Dallas: Damiani and The Warehouse, 2014: 322–9, illustrated; Personal Structures: Time, Space, Existence (exhibition catalogue). Texts by Karlyn De Jongh and Sarah Gold. Leiden: Global Art Affairs Foundation, [2013]: 191, 192–193, illustrated; Prima Materia (exhibition catalogue). Milan: Electa, 2013.
2012
Art as Magic: Visionary Artists and Their Inner Supernatural World (exhibition catalogue), Nagoya, Japan: Aichi Prefectural Museum of Art, 2012: 81, illustrated; Chong, Doryun. Tokyo 1955–1970: A New Avant-Garde (exhibition catalogue). Texts by Michio Hayashi, Mika Yoshitake, Miryam Sas et al. New York: The Museum of Modern Art, 2012: 120, plate 111, illustrated; Mono-Ha (exhibition catalogue). Text by Mika Yoshitake. Los Angeles: Blum & Poe, 2012: plate 19, 20, 30-35, illustrated; Requiem for the Sun: The Art of Mono-Ha (exhibition catalogue). Text by Mika Yoshitake. Los Angeles: Blum & Poe, 2012.
2011
Chikako, Takaoka. The Complete Catalogue of Ohara Museum of Art (I): Foreign Artists. Okayama, Japan: Ohara Museum of Art, 2011: 53, illustrated; Lee, Ufan. “Robots and Painters.” In Painting. London: Whitechapel Ventures Limited, 2011: 63–65; Lee Ufan: Marking Infinity (exhibition catalogue). Texts by Alexandra Munroe, Tatehata Akira, Mika Yoshitake and the artist. New York: Guggenheim Museum Publications, 2011; Tricks & Humor (exhibition catalogue). Japan: Yokosuka Museum of Art, 2011: 83, illustrated.
2010
50 Years at Pace (exhibition catalogue). Texts by Arne Glimcher et al. New York: The Pace Gallery, 2010: illustrated; Gold, Sarah, Karlyn De Jongh and Peter Lodermeyer. Personal Structures: Time-Space-Existence. Cologne: DuMont Buchverlag, 2010: 222–225, illustrated; Lee, Ufan. L’Atelier de Lee Ufan. Interview with Renaud.Siegmann. Paris: Thalia Édition, 2010; Lee Ufan Museum. Texts by Silke von Berswordt-Wallrabe, Tadao Ando and the artist. Kagawa, Japan: Naoshima Fukutake Art Museum Foundation, 2010; Painting: Process and Expansion. From the 1950s to the Present Day (exhibition catalogue). Text by Edelbert Köb. Cologne: Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther König, 2010: 304, illustrated; Tokyo Gallery + BTAP: 1950–2010. Tokyo and Beijing: Tokyo Gallery+BTAP, 2010.
2009
Art of Our Time. Vol. 2, 1999–2008. Tokyo: The Japan Art Association, 2009; Godfrey, Tony. Painting Today. London: Phaidon Press Limited, 2009: illustrated; Lee Ufan: Peintures et Sculptures (exhibition catalogue). Paris: Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac, 2009: illustrated; Lee Ufan: Sculpture (exhibition catalogue). Texts by Henri-Francois Debailleux and Lee Ufan. Seoul: Kukje Galley, 2009; Personal Structures in New York (exhibition catalogue). New York: Bertha and Karl Leubsdorf Art Gallery, Hunter College, 2009; Vervoordt, Axel, ed. In-Finitum (exhibition catalogue). Ghent: MER Paper Kunsthalle, 2009.
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