Seung-taek Lee (b. 1932, Korea)

1932 Born in Kowon, Korea 1959 B.F.A Dept. of Sculpture, Hongik University, , Korea

Awards

2014 Eunkwan (Korea’s second highest Order for Cultural Merits) Award, Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism, Korea 2009 Winner of Nam June Paik Art Center Prize 2009, Korea 2002 Achievement Award, DongA Art Festival, DongA Media, Korea 2000 Bokwan Order of Culture Merit Award from Minister of Culture, Sports and Tourism, Korea 1994 Award from Minister of Culture, Sports and Tourism, Korea 1985 The grand Prize of International Outdoor Sculpture Festival, Aomori Museum of Art, Japan 1978 Winner of DongA Art Festival, DongA Media, Korea 1977 The grand Prize of Space Art Award, SPACE Magazine, Korea

Selected Exhibitions and Projects

2014 GALLERY HYUNDAI, Seoul, Korea Frieze Master, Regent’s Park, London, UK Frieze Sculpture Park, Regent’s Park, London, UK Artevida: corpo (body), Fundacao Casa France-Brasil, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil 2013 Tele-Be, GALLERY HYUNDAI, Seoul, Korea Expanded Painting, Prague Biennale 6, Prague, Czech 2012 Contemporary Pottery of Korea, Inje Art Center, Inje, Korea Seung-taek Lee, Sungkok Art Museum, Seoul, Korea Remember Me, GALLERY HYUNDAI, Seoul, Korea 2011 International Performing Arts Festival in Busan Port, Songdo Beach, Busan, Korea Large-Scale Nude Photography about AIDS, B-boy Art Theater, Seoul, Korea Tell Me Tell Me: Australian And 1976-2011, National Museum of Contemporary Art, Gwacheon, Korea Sculptures’ Drawing, Seoul Olympic Museum of Art, Seoul, Korea 2010 Installation of a Ringer at Buddha, Gwangju Biennale, Gwangju Museum of Art, Gwangju, Korea Installation of Expanded Pollen, Arko International Modern Art Festival, Arko Art Center, Seoul, Korea Installation of Scarecrow Artists, Nomadic Party, Arko Art Center, Seoul, Korea 2009 Earth Performance, Sarajevo International Performing Arts Festival, Sarajevo, Bosnia Performance: Only the Sky and the Sea know, Busan International Contemporary Art Festival, Bexco, Busan, Korea Yongin Modern Art-Fire Performance, Yongin Ceramics biennale, Yongin, Korea Beginning of New Era, National Museum of Modern Art, Gwacheon, Korea 1st Nam June Paik Art Center Prize, Nam June Paik Art Center, Yongin, Korea 2008 Modern Art Festival, Busan Biennale, Yachting Center, Busan, Korea 2007 Lines in Space, Gyeonggi Museum of Modern Art, Ansan, Korea Alternative Exhibition of Modern Art between Korea & China, Sifang Art Museum, Nanjing, China Wind∙Earth Performance, Performing Art of Korea 1967-2007, National Museum of Modern Art, Gwacheon, Korea Your Island, My Island: Yoido Project, Alternative space Loop, Seoul, Korea Korean Experimental Arts Festival, Hongik University area, Seoul, Korea 2006 Dragon Tail Shaped Roof Tile, Anyang Public Art Project, Anyang, Korea Daeng-gi Kite and Earth Performance, Cheongyecheon Cultural Event, The City Hall of Seoul, Seoul, Korea Earth Performance, Gwangju Body Performance Festival, Gwangju, Korea New Acquisitions 2006, National Museum of Contemporary Art, Gwacheon, Korea 2005 Earth Performance, Chuncheon International Mime Festival, Chuncheon, Korea Record of Nature, , Seoul, Korea 2004 Gwangju Biennale, Jungoe Park Biennale Exhibition Hall, 5.18 Freedom Park area, Gwangju, Korea Dematerialized, MIA, Seoul, Korea 2003 Installation Performance, FAM Art Festival, National Theater, Seoul, Korea 2002 The South-North Dialogue, DongA Art Festival, Sang Gallery, Seoul, Korea Earth Performance, Busan Biennale, Busan Museum of Art, Busan Cultural Center, Me-world, Busan area, Busan, Korea Wind Wind Wind, Ssamji Space, Seoul, Korea

GALLERY HYUNDAI 110-190 서울시 종로구 삼청로 14 T 02 2287 3500 F 02 2287 3580 www.galleryhyundai.com Opening hours: Tuesday - Sunday, 10am - 6pm 2001 World Peace International Exhibition, The War Memorial of Korea, Seoul, Korea Korean Contemporary Art in the 60s-70s, National Museum of Contemporary Art, Gwacheon, Korea Hair, World’s Artist Award Exhibition, Seoul Arts Center, Seoul, Korea Re-Reading Korean Contemporary Art II, 60~70’s Korean Modern Art’s Critical re-reading, Hanwon Museum of Art, Seoul, Korea 2000 Earth Performance, AIDS prevention, International Performance Festival, Insadong Street, Seoul, Korea Family Picture and Object, DongA Art Festival, National Museum of Contemporary Art, Gwacheon, Korea Hairy Tongue, Seoul Art Festival, Seoul Museum of Art, Seoul, Korea 1999 City and Reflection-Clothes, Food, House, Seoul Museum of Art, Seoul, Korea Separated Families from North Korea and , Seoul Art Festival, Seoul Museum of Art, Seoul, Korea 1998 In the Eye of the Tiger, Ilmin Museum of Art, Seoul, Korea 1997 In the Eye of the Tiger: Visual Arts Exhibition of Korean Artists, Exit Art, New York, USA Experimental Art for 50 years: Lee Seung-taek, ARKO Art Center, Seoul, Korea 1996 96 International ComArt Exhibiton, Suwon, Korea Origin & Myths of Fire–New Art from Japan, China and Korea, Saitama Museum of Modern Art, Saitama, Japan 1994 Korean Contemporary Art, National Art Museum of China, Beijing, China 1993 Korean Contemporary Art, Daejeon EXPO, International Exhibition of Korean Contemporary Art, Daejeon, Korea 1992 Contemporary Art Exhibition, Group Show, Documenta-Halle, Kassel, Germany 1989 Fire Performance, Total Museum of Contemporary Art, Seoul, Korea 1988 Seung-taek Lee, Gallery K, Tokyo, Japan Seung-taek Lee, Who Gallery, Seoul, Korea Seung-taek Lee, Kwanhoon Gallery, Seoul, Korea 1987 Contemporary Art Festival of the 1988 Seoul Olympics, Olympic park, Seoul, Korea 1986 Outdoor Sculpture, Stone Grave, National Museum of Contemporary Art, Gwacheon, Korea Exchange Exhibition of Modern Art between Korea & Japan, Yokohama Museum of Art, Yokohama, Japan 1985 The Symposium of International Sculpture, Aomori Contemporary Art Center, Aomori, Japan; Korean Cultural Center, Los Angeles, USA 1984 Exhibition of Korean Contemporary Art, Taipei Metropolitan Museum of Art, Taipei, Taiwan 1983 Seung-taek Lee, Total Museum of Contemporary Art, Seoul, Korea The Modeling Exhibition of Modern Paper, Alternative Exhibition between National Museum of Contemporary Art, Gwacheon & Saitama Museum of Modern Art, Japan, National Museum of Contemporary Art, Gwacheon, Korea 1982 Seung-taek Lee, Kwanhoon Gallery, Seoul, Korea 1981 Seung-taek Lee, Kwanhoon Gallery, Seoul, Korea Korean Art in 81 years, National Museum of Contemporary Art, Gwacheon, Korea 1979 Contemporary Method of Korean Art, The Fine Art Hall, Seoul, Korea 1978~80 Joongang Art Festival Invitation Artist, Joongangilbo, Seoul, Korea 1973 Avant-Garde Group Exhibition, National Museum of Contemporary Art, Gwacheon, Korea 1971 Seung-taek Lee, The Municipal Central Library, Seoul, Korea 1970 The 3rd Sao Paulo Biennale, Sao Paulo, Brazil 1969 The 6th Paris Biennale, Paris, France 1963 Circular Rotation, National Museum of Contemporary Art, Gwacheon, Korea 1962 New Form of Society, National Museum of Contemporary Art, Gwacheon, Korea 1958 Hongik University Graduation Show, National Museum of Contemporary Art, Gwacheon, Korea

Career

2008 KoPAS Adviser, Korea Performance Art Spirit 2007 Korea ∙ China Contemporary Arts Exchange Exhibition, Nanjing, China 1992 Commissioner, Recycling through Art, National Theater of Korea, Seoul, Korea 1990 Korean Representative Commissioner, Le Biennale di Venezia (The Venice Biennale), Venezia, Italy 1989~Present Adviser, Korean Fine Arts Association 1988 Vice-president, Korean Fine Arts Association 1970~1987 Lectures on Modern Art History (University of Seoul and Graduate school for 9 years, Mokwon University and Graduate school for 9 years) 1986 Exhibition Judge & Commissioner, The 3rd International Shoebox Sculpture Exhibition, Hawaii, U.S.A 1985 Representative Commissioner, The Exchange Exhibition of Modern Art between Korea & Japan, the Korea

Publications

2004 Collection of Seung-taek Lee, ICAS. Inc, publishers, Seoul, Korea 2003 My Hometown Gowon Deokji-river, Misulsegye, Inc, publishers, Seoul, Korea 1977 Translation of Contemporary Sculpture-Tradition & Innovation, Changmi. Inc, Publishers, Seoul, Korea 1975 The History of World’s Female Sculpture, Yeolhwadang. Inc, Publishers, Seoul, Korea

GALLERY HYUNDAI 110-190 서울시 종로구 삼청로 14 T 02 2287 3500 F 02 2287 3580 www.galleryhyundai.com Opening hours: Tuesday - Sunday, 10am - 6pm