LEE UFAN Born in Haman-gun, Gyeongsang Nam-do, South Korea, 1936 Education School of Art, Seoul National University, Seoul, South Korea, 1956 (moved to Japan) Nihon University, Department of Philosophy, Tokyo, Japan, 1961 Lives and works in Kamakura, Japan and Paris, France One-Person Exhibitions 2019 Inhabiting time, Centre Pompidou-Metz, Metz, France Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington D.C. Dia:Beacon, Beacon, NY 2018 Relatum - Stage, Serpentine Galleries, London, UK Pace Gallery, New York, NY 2017 Ceramics, Pace Gallery, New York, NY Pressentiment, Centre de Création Contemporaine Olivier Debré, Tours, France Lee Ufan chez Le Corbusie, Couvent de la Tourette, Éveux, Rhone-Alpes, France The Ha Jung-Woong Museum of Art’s Inaugural Exhibition, Gwangju Museum of Art, South Korea Jardin François 1er, Tours, France 2016 The Cane of Titan, The State Hermitage Museum, St. Petersburg, Russia House of Air, Chateau La Coste, Le Puy-Ste-Réparade, France Kamel Mennour Gallery, Paris, France Fragments and Window, Sèvres Gallery, Paris, France 2015 New Works, Pace Gallery, Hong Kong, China From Point, From Line, From Wind, Pace Gallery, London, UK Palazzo Contarini Polignac, Venice, Italy Pace Gallery, New York, NY Lisson Gallery, London, UK Color Halation / Space Halation, SCAI The Bathhouse, Tokyo, Japan 2014 Kaikai Kiki Gallery, Tokyo, Japan Gary Tatintsian Gallery, Moscow, Russia Palace of Versailles, Versailles, France BLUM & POE LOS ANGELES NEW YORK TOKYO 2013 Dissonance, Chapelle Saint-Laurent - Le Capitole, Arles, France Musée de la Chasse et de la Nature, Paris, France Galerie Kamel Mennour, Paris, France 2012 The Art of Emptiness, Asia Society, Houston, TX 2011 Marking Infinity, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, NY Bilder and Skulpturen, Galerie Thaddeus Ropac, Salzburg, Austria SCAI The Bathhouse, Tokyo, Japan Dialogue: Lee Ufan, Gallery Hyundai, Seoul, South Korea 2010 Resonancia, Galeria Elvira Gonzalez, Madrid, Spain Blum & Poe, Los Angeles, CA 2009 Kukje Galley, Seoul, South Korea Peintures et Sculptures, Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac, Paris, France 2008 Lisson Gallery, London, UK Royal Museums of Fine Arts of Belgium, Brussels Dahlem Museum, Berlin, Germany Pace Wildenstein, New York, NY Dialogue: In Watercolours, Tokyo Gallery + BTAP, Tokyo, Japan 2007 SCAI the Bathhouse, Shiraishi Contemporary Art Inc., Tokyo, Japan 52nd Venice Biennale, Palazzo Palumbo Fossati, Venice, Italy Galerie Nächst St. Stephan Rosemarie Schwarzwälder, Vienna, Austria 2006 Silence, Galerie m, Bochum, Germany Galerie Micheline Swzajcer, Antwerp, Belgium Terra cotta et aquarelles sur papier, IBU Gallery, Paris, France Konggan Gallery, Busan, Korea Shirota Gallery, Tokyo, Japan Gallery Muramatsu, Tokyo, Japan 2005 The Art of Margins, Yokohama Museum of Art, Japan Musee d’Art Moderne, Saint-Etienne, France 2004 Moderato cantabile, Lee Ufan, Simon Callery, Nishikawa, Galerie Philippe Casini, Paris, France Peinture Sculpture, Espace d’Art Contemporain Fernet Branca, Alsace, France (ext cat.) BLUM & POE LOS ANGELES NEW YORK TOKYO The Art of Encounter, Lisson Gallery, London, UK (ext cat.) 2003 Samsung Museum of Modern Art, Seoul, South Korea Gallery Hyundai, Seoul, South Korea Correspondance, Lisson Gallery, London, UK The Search for Encounter, Ho-Am Art Gallery and Rodin Gallery, Seoul, South Korea 2002 SCAI the Bathhouse, Shiraishi Contemporary Art Inc; Tokyo, Japan 2001 Konggan Gallery, Busan, South Korea Paintings 1973-2001, Kunstmusum Bonn, Bonn, Germany Sigong Gallery, Daegu, South Korea 2000 Konggan Gallery, Busan, South Korea 1999 Galerie Liliane & Michel Durand-Dessert, Paris, France Kamakura Gallery, Tokyo, Japan New Paintings, Tokyo Gallery, Tokyo, Japan 70s Prints, Takeda Art Co. Inc., Tokyo, Japan 1998 Painting and Sculpture, Städelsches Museum im Städel, Frankfurt, Germany Print Works 1970-1998, Mitaka City Gallery of Art, Tokyo, Japan Sigong Gallery, Daegu, South Korea Mitaka City Gallery of Art, Tokyo, Japan Niigata City Art Museum, Niigata, Japan Shirota Gallery, Tokyo, Japan 1997 Galerie Nationale du Jeu de Paume, Paris, France Space Shimoda, Tokyo, Japan Gallery Hyundai, Seoul, South Korea Gallery Bhak, Seoul, South Korea Anche il vuoto lavora, Lorenzelli Arte, Milan, Italy 1996 Lisson Gallery, London, UK Galerie J. Moussion, Paris, France Konggan Gallery, Busan, South Korea Tokyo Gallery, Tokyo, Japan 1995 Tokyo Gallery, Tokyo, Japan Galerie de Paris, Paris, France BLUM & POE LOS ANGELES NEW YORK TOKYO Galerie m Bochum, Germany Städtisches Museum Schloss Morsbroich, Leverkusen, Germany 1994 The National Museum of Contemporary Art, Seoul, South Korea Fondazione Mudima, Milan, Italy Inkong Gallery, Seoul, South Korea 1993 The Museum of Modern Art, Kamakura, Japan Works from ‘70s & ‘80s, Tokyo Gallery, Tokyo, Japan Kamakura Gallery, Tokyo, Japan Shirota Gallery, Tokyo, Japan 1992 Galerie de Paris, Paris, France SAGA - mmg, Grand Palais, Paris, France Space Gallery Busan, South Korea (ext cat.) Konggan Gallery, Busan, South Korea 1991 With Winds ’91, Lorenzelli Arte, Milan, Italy (ext cat.) Inkong Gallery, Seoul, South Korea (ext cat.) Gallery Ueda, Tokyo, Japan (ext cat.) Tokyo Gallery, Tokyo, Japan Hara Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo, Japan (exet cat.) 1990 Kamakura Gallery, Tokyo, Japan Inkong Gallery, Seoul, South Korea Hyundai Gallery, Seoul, South Korea (ext cat.) 1989 With Winds, Paintings 1986/88, Galerie m Bochum, Germany (etx cat.) Galerie de Paris, Paris, France Gallery Ueda, Tokyo, Japan Shirota Gallery, Tokyo, Japan Tokyo Gallery, Tokyo, Japan 1988 Traces of Sensitivity and Logic, Museum of Fine Arts, Gifu, Japan (ext cat.) Galerie Anselm Dreher, Berlin, Germany Ex Oriente, Padiglione D’Arte Contemporanea, Milan, Italy (ext cat.) 1987 Hyundai Gallery, Seoul, South Korea (ext cat.) 1986 From Winds, Tokyo Gallery, Tokyo, Japan BLUM & POE LOS ANGELES NEW YORK TOKYO Gallery Ueda, Tokyo, Japan Galerie de Paris, Paris, France Shirota Gallery, Tokyo, Japan 1985 Kamakura Gallery, Tokyo, Japan 1984 Hyundai Gallery, Seoul, South Korea (ext cat.) Galerie de Paris, Paris France Shirota Gallery, Tokyo, Japan 1983 Gallery Ueda, Tokyo, Japan Tokyo Gallery, Tokyo, Japan 1982 Studio Marconi, Milan, Italy 1981 Shirota Gallery, Tokyo, Japan 1980 Skulpturenmuseum Glaskasten Marl, Marl, Germany Gallery Ueda, Tokyo, Japan Tokyo Gallery, Tokyo, Japan Galerie Eric Fabre, Paris, France 1979 Gallery Takagi, Nagoya, Japan Muramatsu Gallery, Tokyo, Japan Jin Gallery, Seoul, South Korea Skulpturenmuseum Glaskasten Marl, Marl, Germany 1978 Skulpturen, Galerie m, Bochum, Germany Gallery Hyundai, Seoul, South Korea (cat.) From Point–From Line, Düsseldorf Kunsthalle, Düsseldorf, Germany (cat.) Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Humlebæk, Denmark Antwerp Gallery, Antwerp, Belgium Shirota Gallery, Tokyo, Japan 1977 Tokyo Gallery, Tokyo, Japan (cat.) Galerie Eric Fabre, Paris, France Sakura Gallery, Nagoya, Japan (Cat.) BLUM & POE LOS ANGELES NEW YORK TOKYO 1976 Galerie m Bochum , Bochum, Germany Spectrum Gallery, Antwerp, Belgium (cat.) 1975 Galerie Eric Fabre, Paris, France 1974 Tamara Gallery, Tokyo, Japan 1973 Tokyo Gallery, Tokyo, Japan 1972 Myong-Dong Gallery, Seoul, South Korea 1971 Pinar Gallery, Tokyo, Japan 1970 Tamura Gallery, Tokyo, Japan 1967 Sato Gallery, Tokyo, Japan Grou p Exhibitions 2019 Awakenings : Art in Societ y in Asia 1960s – 1990s, National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Gwacheon, South Korea The Challenging Souls: Yves Klein, Lee Ufan, Ding Yi, Power Station of Art, Shanghai, China The Nature Rules: Dreaming of Earth Project , Hara Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo, Japan Setouchi Triennale of Art, Seto Insland Sea, Japan 2018 Correlation , Yoshii Gallery, New York, NY Natur e Knows No Pause , Massimo De Carlo, Milan, Italy Catch It and Lose It, Locks Gallery, Philadelphia, PA 2017 SCAI Par k, Tokyo, Japan Rhythm in Monochrom e: Korean Abstr act Painting, Tokyo Opera City Ar t Gallery, Japan Who C an Be Strangers ? The A rt of Mono -ha and Dansaekhwa , Blum & Poe at Adrian Rosenfeld Gallery, San Francisco, C A Wha t is the Relationship Between Ceramics and Contemporary Art?, Kaikai Kiki Gallery, Tokyo, Japan The Weight of Lightness: Ink Art at M+, M+ Pavilion, Hong Kong, China When Attitude Become Form: Japanese Art of the 1970s through the Photography of Anzaï Shigeo , National Museum of Art, Osaka, Japan BLUM & POE LOS ANGELES NEW YORK TOKYO 2016 Dansaehkwa and Minimalism , Blum & Poe, Los Angeles, CA; traveled to Blum & Poe, New York, NY When Proces s Become s Form: Dansaekhw a an d Korean Abstraction, Boghossian Foundatio n – Villa Em pai n, Brussels, Belgium Takashi Murakami’ s Superfla t Collection: From Shōhaku and Rosanjin to Anselm Kiefer, Yokohama Museum of Art , Yokohama, Japan Kor ean Abstract Art: Early Works, Waldorf Astoria Hotel, New York, NY After Drawing, Gallery Hyundai, Seoul, South Korea 2015 MOT C ollection: Postwar Art in Close-Up, Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo, Japan Things: Rethinki ng Japanes e Photogr aphy and Art in 1970s , The Nati onal Museum of M oder n Art, Tokyo, Japan Geometrie s On and Of f the Grid : Art Fro m 1950 to the Present, The Warehouse, Dallas, TX Enrico Castellani and Lee Ufan: Surfaces and Correspondences , Lorenzelli Arte, Milan, Italy Mono -Ha, Fondazione Mudima, Milan, Italy 45th Anniversar y of Gallery Hyundai: Korean Abstract Painting, Gallery Hyundai, Seoul, South Korea Mono- ha: Works on Paper, Tokyo G allery + BTAP, Tokyo, Japan Simple Form s: Contemplating Beauty, Mori Art Museum, Tokyo, Japan Takahashi Collecti on: Mirror Neuron, Tokyo Opera City