Lee Kang-So
1943
1965

Born in Daegu, Korea
BFA, Seoul National University of Art, Painting Dept., Seoul

Solo Exhibitions
2023
LEE KANG-SO: Wind / Flow, Locks Gallery, Philadelphia, USA
The Wind Blows: About the Sculpture, Leeahn Gallery, Seoul, Korea
2021
From a dream, Gallery Hyundai, Seoul, Korea 2019 Becoming, Palazzo
Caboto, Venice, Italy
2018
Disappearance, Gallery Hyundai, Seoul, Korea 2017 Wooson Gallery, Daegu,Korea
2016
Musée d’art moderne et contemporain de Saint-Étienne Métropole, SaintÉtienne, France2015
Finding Enlightenment in Everyday Life, Ilwoo Space, Seoul, Korea
2012
Gallery Shilla, Daegu, Korea
2011
虛 Emptiness, Daegu Art Museum, Daegu, Korea
2009
Lee Kang-So 1989-2009, Gallery Hyundai, Seoul, Korea
2006
Paysage vu par le cœur, Musée des Arts Asiatiques, Nice, France
2005
Wide White Space, WhiteBox, New York, USA
2003
Art Sonje Museum, Gyeongju, Korea Daegu Arts Center, Daegu, Korea
Gallery Shilla, Daegu, Korea
2002
Le Palais des Congrés de Paris, Paris, France Galerie Hedaes Sevira, Paris,France2001
CAIS Gallery, Seoul, Korea
2000
Tokyo Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
Gallery Robert Y. Carat, Paris, France
Ci-Gong Gallery, Daegu, Korea
1999
Galerie des Ponchettes, Musée d'art moderne et d'art contemporain, Nice,
France CAIS Gallery, Seoul, Korea
1997
Johyun Gallery, Busan, Korea
1994
Ci-Gong Gallery, Daegu, Korea Maek-Hyang Gallery, Daegu, Korea
1993
Bergen Museum of Art and Science, Paramus, USA Haenah-Kent Gallery, NewYork, USA
1992
Salama-Caro Gallery, London, UK Haenah-Kent Gallery, New York, USA
Maek-Hyang Gallery, Daegu, Korea
1990
Haenah-Kent Gallery, New York, USA Tokyo Gallery, Tokyo, JapanGallery Seomi, Seoul, Korea
1989
Inkong Gallery, Daegu, Korea
1988
Inkong Gallery, Daegu, Korea
1985
Gallery Duson, Seoul, Korea

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Gallery Soo, Daegu, Korea
Kwanhoon Gallery, Seoul, Korea
Muramatsu Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
Myong-Dong Gallery, Seoul, Korea

Group Exhibitions
2023
Colorful Korean Painting – From Harmony to Purification, ART SPACE 3,Seoul, Korea
Only the Young: Experiemental Art in Korea, 1960s-1970s, National Museumof Modern and Contemporary Art (MMCA), Gwacheon, Korea; Solomon R.
Guggenheim Museum, New York, USA
2022
A Dream-Enchantement, Changseong-dong Laboratory, Seoul, Korea
Dalseong Daegu Contemporary Art Festival : ART, Co..Evolution, Kangjungbo
The ARC square, Daegu, Korea
2021
Gongmyeong : Resonance, Horim Museum, Seoul, Korea
Playground for Poetry, Daegu Museum, Daegu, Korea
2020
The Modern and Contemporary Korean Calligraphy, National Museum ofModern and Contemporary Art, Deoksugung, Seoul, Korea
HYUNDAI 50, Gallery Hyundai, Seoul, Korea
The Moment of Gieok (Korean Alphabet ᄀ), Seoul Calligraphy Art Museum,Seoul, Korea
2019
Awakenings: Art in Society in Asia 1960s-1990s, National Museum of Modernand Contemporary Art (MMCA), Gwacheon, Korea; National Museum ofModern Art, Tokyo (MOMAT), Tokyo, Japan; National Gallery Singapore,Singapore
2018Contemporary Art Dictionary, 7 Keywords, Jeonbuk Museum of Art, Wanju,Korea
Renegades in Resistance and Challenge, Daegu Art Museum, Daegu, Korea
2017
Rhythm in Monochrome: Korean Abstract Painting, Tokyo Opera City Art
Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
Contemplative Space, Artist Note, Whanki Museum, Seoul, Korea
Rehearsals from the Korean Avant-Garde Performance Archive, Korean
Cultural Centre UK, London, UKWater That Remembers All, Kim Tschang-Yeul Art Museum, Jeju, Korea
2016
KM 9346: Korea-Morbihan 9,346km, Domaine de Kerguéhennec, Bignan,France
As the Moon Waxes and Wanes, MMCA, Gwacheon, Korea
Busan Biennale 2016 Project 1: an/other avant-garde china-japan-korea,Busan Museum of Art, Busan, Korea
Korea Tomorrow 2016: OUT + STANDING, Sungkok Art Museum, Seoul,Korea
2015
The Wall, MMCA, Gwacheon, Korea
Korean Painting, Beyond the Borders, Culture Station Seoul 284, Seoul, Korea

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Taehwa River Eco Art Festival 2015: Beyond Walled Enclosure, Taehwa River
Grand Park, Ulsan, Korea
Korean Modern and Contemporary Art, Daejeon Museum of Art, Daejeon,Korea
Untitled, MMCA, Gwacheon, Korea
Korean Beauty: Two Kinds of Nature, MMCA, Seoul, Korea
Time of Resonance, Jeju Museum of Art, Jeju, Korea
Between the Lines: Korean Contemporary Art Since 1970, Arario Gallery,Cheonan, Korea
Video Artists, Bongsan Cultural Center, Daegu, Korea
At the Nexus of Painting and Writing, Seoul Calligraphy Art Museum, Seoul
Arts Center, Seoul, Korea Writing Becomes Painting, POSCO Art Museum,Seoul, Korea
Hommage à Whanki, Whanki Museum, Seoul, Korea
New Start 2013, Seoul National University Museum of Art, Seoul, Korea
2013 Daegu Contemporary Art, Daegu Art Factory, Daegu, Korea
Thought in Korean Modernism Art, Pohang Museum of Steel Art, Pohang,Korea
A Bigger Splash: Painting after Performance, Tate Modern, London, UK
Dansaekhwa: Korean Monochrome Painting, MMCA, Gwacheon, Korea
Korean Painting Now, National Taiwan Museum of Fine Arts, Taichung,Taiwan
2012 Gangjeong Daegu Contemporary Art Festival: Riverside Rhapsody,Gangjeong Riverside, Daegu, Korea
Lee In-Sung Art Award Winners Special Exhibition, Daegu Art Museum,Daegu, Korea
Tell Me Tell Me: Australian and Korean Art 1976-2011, MMCA, Gwacheon,Korea; Museum of Contemporary Art Australia, Sydney, Australia
Qi (氣, Energy) is Full, Daegu Art Museum, Daegu, Korea
Masterpieces Exhibition in Autumn, Jeonbuk Museum of Art, Wanju, Korea
靑-Beyond the Blue, Gallery Hyundai, Seoul, Korea
Korean Avant-Garde Drawing 1970-2000, SOMA Seoul Olympic Museum ofArt, Seoul, Korea Soul of Line, Lee Ungno Museum, Daejeon, Korea
2010 In the Midst of the Korean Contemporary Art, Gallery Hyundai, Seoul,Korea
New Acquisitions 2008, MMCA, Gwacheon, Korea
Platform Seoul 2008: I Have Nothing to Say and I Am Saying It, ArtsonjeCenter, Seoul, Korea
Korean Abstract Art 1958-2008, Seoul Museum of Art (SeMA), Seoul, Korea
Oriental Perspective: Contemporary Art of Korea-China, Beijing World Art
Museum, Beijing, China
48th October Salon: Micro-Narratives, Belgrade Cultural Center, Belgrade,Serbia

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Void in Korean Art, Leeum Samsung Museum of Art, Seoul, Korea
Breath, SeMA Nam-Seoul, Seoul, Korea
Performance Art of Korea 1967-2007, MMCA, Seoul, KoreaCritical Perspective Some 130 Artists, Insa Art Center, Seoul, Korea
Elastic Taboos: Within the Korean World of Contemporary Art, Kunsthalle
Wien, Vienna, Austria
The Root of Honam Abstract Painting, WooJaeGil Art Museum, Gwangju,Korea
Passion, Seongnam Arts Center, Seongnam, Korea
The Development of Korean Modernism, Kumho Museum of Art, Seoul, Korea
Contemporary Korean Artists, SeMA Nam-Seoul, Seoul, Korea
Review Daegu Contemporary Art Festival 74-79, Daegu Arts Center, Daegu,Korea
2003 Title Match Exhibition: Lee Kang-So vs. Jo Seub, Ssamzie Space, Seoul,Korea
Drawing: Its New Horizons, MMCA, Seoul, Korea
The Seoul Art Exhibition, SeMA, Seoul, Korea
White Spectrum: Joseon White Porcelain and Korean Contemporary Art,Gyeonggi Ceramic Museum, Gwangju, Korea
The Mechanics of Expansion and Restoration: Kim Ku-Rim. Lee Kang-So, Lee
Seung-Taek, Seo Seung-Won, Choi Myeong-Yeong, Hanjeon Plaza Gallery,Seoul, Korea
The Understanding of Abstract Painting, Sungkok Art Museum, Seoul, Korea
Korea Young Artists Biennale 2002, Daegu Arts Center, Daegu, Korea
Korean Contemporary Artists' Exhibition: Winds of the Spirit, Nepal
Association of Fine Arts Hall, Kathmandu, Nepal
Korean Contemporary Artists, Museo de la Nación, Lima, Peru
Korean Contemporary Art from mid-1960s to mid-1970s: A Decade ofTransition and Dynamics, MMCA, Gwacheon, Korea
6,70s Korean Contemporary Art, Hanwon Museum of Art, Seoul, Korea
Foundations, Perspectives, Seoul Museum, Seoul, Korea
Plane as Spirits, Busan Art Museum, Busan, Korea
Gwangju Biennale 2000: Man + Space, Gwangju Museum of Art, Gwangju,Korea
The Evolution and Transition of Korean Print, Daejeon Museum of Art,Daejeon, Korea
What is so of itself, POSCO Art Museum, Seoul, Korea
Corée Pays du Matin Calme, Musée des Arts Asiatiques, Nice, FranceKorea-Japan Paintings Exchange Exhibition, Seoul Gallery, Seoul, Korea
Les Peintres du Silence, Musée Montbéliard, Montbéliard, France
Art Beyond Borders: Celebrating Expo 98, Mitra Art Gallery, Lisbon, Portugal
A Point of Contact: Korean, Chinese, Japanese Contemporary Art, Daegu ArtsCenter, Daegu, Korea

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Development of Korean Modernism: Conquest of Modern, Kumho Museum ofArt, Seoul, Korea
A Prospect of Korean Contemporary Art, Kowoon Art Museum, University ofSuwon, Suwon, Korea Grafica Massima, Galleria D’arte, Milan, Italy
Korean Contemporary Art, National Art Museum of China, Beijing, China
Joint Exhibition of the International Studio Programs, Fine Art Center, Korean
Culture and Art Foundation, Seoul, Korea
The Faces of Contemporary Art 40 Years, Ho-Am Art Museum, Seoul, Korea
Seoul 600 International Art Festival, MMCA, Seoul, Korea
The Beginning of Korean Modern Art, Seonam Gallery, Seoul, Korea
12 Contemporary Korean Artists, The Miyagi Museum of Art, Sendai, Japan
4 Contemporary Artists of Korea: Chung Chang-Sup, Yun Hyong-Keun, Park
Seo-bo, Lee Kang-So, Ci-Gong Gallery, Seoul, Korea
Jasper Johns, Kim Young-ju, Nam June Paik, Robert Rauschenberg, AndyWarhol, Lee Kang-So, Haenah-Kent Gallery, New York, USA
Working with Nature: Traditional Thought in Contemporary Art from Korea,
Tate Liverpool, Liverpool, UK
Flow from the Far East: Recent Korean Art Scene, Concourse Gallery,
Barbican Centre, London, UK
Encounters with Diversity: The 1992 International Studio Artists Exhibition,
Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center, New York,USA
Jean-Michel Basquiat, Jonathan Borofsky, Richard Bosman, Lee Kang-So,Terry Winters, Haenah-Kent Gallery, New York, USA
The Brush Stroke and Its Expression: 1992 Korean Contemporary Painting,
Ho-Am Art Museum, Seoul, Korea
Contemporary Korean Painting, National Museum of Modern Art, Zagreb,
Yugoslavia; Cankarjev Dom, Ljubljana, Slovenia; Collegium Artisticum,Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina; Museum of Contemporary Art, Belgrade,Serbia
TRIANGLE Artists Workshop 1991, 10th Anniversary, Suzanne Lemberg Usdan
Gallery, Bennington College, Bennington, USA
A Grouping for the Identity of Korean Contemporary Art II - The Art in the‘Reduction’ and ‘Expansion’ Period, Hanwon Gallery, Seoul, Korea
Six Artists Exhibition: Chung Chang-Sup, Yun Hyong-Keun, Kim Tschang-yeul,Park Seo-bo, Lee Ufan, Lee Kang-So, Nabis Gallery, Seoul, Korea
Inaugural Exhibition of Korean Contemporary Art, Wooyang Museum ofContemporary Art, Gyeongju, Korea
Lee Kang-So, Hori Kosai, Saem Art Gallery, Seoul, Korea
1990 Korean Contemporary Painting, Ho-Am Art Museum, Seoul, Korea
Autumn Muramatsu, Muramatsu Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
Today's Artists, Fine Art Center, Korean Culture and Arts Foundation, Seoul,Korea

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89 Seoul Art Exhibition, SeMA, Seoul, Korea
Korean Contemporary Art, Situation of the 80s, Dongsoong Art Center, Seoul,Korea 1989 Korean Contemporary Painting, Ho-Am Art Museum, Seoul,Korea
The Contemporary Korean Art, Total Art Museum, Jangheung, Korea
Korean Modern Painting in the 70s, Walker Hill Art Center, Seoul, Korea
Olympiad of Art: The International Contemporary Painting, MMCA, Seoul,Korea
The 2nd Sea Art Festival, Busan, Korea
Evidence: Today’s Art by Inspection, Baiksong Gallery, Seoul, Korea
Contemporary Art Festival 85, MMCA, Seoul, Korea
Human Documents 84/85, Tokyo Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
Contemporary Art Festival 84, MMCA, Seoul, Korea
Korean Contemporary Art: The Flow of the 70s, Taipei Fine Arts Museum,Taipei, Taiwan
Modern Art of Korea, Tokyo Metropolitan Art Museum, Tokyo; MOMAT,Tokyo; Tochigi Prefectural Museum of Fine Arts, Utsunomiya; The National
Museum of Art, Osaka; Hokkaido Museum of Modern Art, Sapporo; Fukuoka
Prefectural Museum of Art, Fukuoka, Japan
4th Seoul International Print Biennale, MMCA, Seoul, Korea
New Paper Work, Spring Gallery, Taipei, Taiwan
Contemporary Art Festival 83, MMCA, Seoul, Korea
Contemporary Paper Craft and Paper Composition, MMCA, Seoul, Korea;
Kyoto City Museum of Art, Kyoto; Saitama Museum of Art, Saitama;
Kumamoto Traditional Crafts Center, Kumamoto, JapanThe Contemporary Artist’s Print and Drawing, Kwanhoon Gallery; MyongDong Gallery, Seoul, Korea
Exhibition of Korean Contemporary Printmakers Association, Total ArtMuseum, Seoul, Korea
Korean Drawing Now, Brooklyn Museum, New York, USASeoul 10 Artists’ Works, Kwanhoon Gallery, Seoul, Korea
Korean Drawing, Fine Art Center, Korean Culture and Art Foundation, Seoul,Korea
Drawing 81, MMCA, Seoul, Korea
Exhibition of Korean Contemporary Prints by 9 Artists, Gallery Komai, Tokyo,
Japan
Print and Drawing, MMCA, Seoul, Korea
International Impact Art Festival, Kyoto Municipal Museum of Art, Kyoto,Japan
Asia Contemporary Art Festival Part II, Tokyo Metropolitan Art Museum,
Tokyo; Fukuoka Art Museum, Fukuoka, Japan
Contemporary Art: 36 Artists, Kwanhoon Gallery, Seoul, Korea
Space International Print Biennale, Space Art Museum, Seoul, Korea
Prints and Drawings by 8 Artists, Maek-Hyang Gallery, Seoul, Korea

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Exhibition of Korean, Chinese Contemporary Prints, Shinsegae Gallery, Seoul,Korea
Modern Korean Prints and Tapestries, Pao Sui Long Gallery, Hong Kong Arts
Center, Hong Kong
Today’s Method, Fine Art Center, Korean Culture and Art Foundation, Seoul,Korea
Seoul, Painting: 15 Artists, Fine Art Center, Korean Culture and Art
Foundation, Seoul, Korea
Contemporary Korean Printmakers Association Exhibition, Fine Art Center,
Korean Culture and Arts Foundation, Seoul, Korea
The 5th Daegu Contemporary Art Festival, Yoojin Art Musem; Lee Gallery;
Yeemock Gallery; City Library Gallery; Maeil Gallery; Maek-Hyang Gallery;
Daebo Gallery, Daegu, Korea
14 Contemporary Artists Exhibition, Elcanto Museum, Seoul, Korea
Trend of the Korean Modern Art for the Past 20 Years, MMCA, Seoul, Korea
Exhibition of Seoul International Prints, MMCA, Seoul, Korea
Iran International Culture and Arts Festival, Teheran, IranThe 1st Jeonbuk Contemporary Art Festival, Jeonbuk Art Hall, Jeonju, Korea
Daegu Contemporary Artists Association, Young Artists Center, Daegu, Korea
The 4th Daegu Contemporary Art Festival, Daegu City Public Gallery, Daegu,Korea
The 14th São Paulo Art Biennale, São Paulo, Brazil
Korea: Facet of Contemporary Art, Tokyo Central Museum of Art, Tokyo,Japan
Contemporary Korean Painting, National Museum of History, Taipei, Taiwan
The 2nd Gwangju Contemporary Art Festival, Jeonil Museum of Art, Gwangju,Korea
The 2nd Busan Contemporary Fine Art Festival, Busan Cultural Center Gallery,Busan, Korea
The 3rd Daegu Contemporary Art Festival, Daegu City Public Gallery, Daegu,Korea
The 2nd Biennale of Sydney: Recent International Forms in Art, Art Gallery of
New South Wales, Sydney, Australia
The 10th International Biennale Exhibition of Prints in Tokyo, MOMAT,Tokyo, Japan
8 Korean Contemporary Artists, Seoul Gallery, Seoul, Korea
7 Korean Contemporary Artists, Daebaek Gallery, Daegu, Korea
7 Artists Today, Hyundai Hwarang, Busan, Korea
The 1st Gwangju Contemporary Art Festival, Jeonil Museum of Art, Gwangju,
Korea
The 1st Busan Contemporary Art Festival, Busan Cultural Center Gallery,Busan, Korea
The 11th Exhibition of Shincheje Group, Fine Art Center, Korean Culture andArts Foundation, Seoul, Korea

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The 9th Biennale de Paris 1975, Musée National d’Art Moderne, Paris, France
Lee Kang-So, Choi Byung-So, City Library Gallery, Daegu, Korea
The 2nd Daegu Contemporary Art Festival, Keimyung University Art Museum,Daegu, Korea
The 10th Exhibition of Shincheje Group, Miro Gallery, Seoul, Korea
The 9th Exhibition of Shincheje Group, Miro Gallery, Seoul, Korea
The 1st-24th École de Seoul, MMCA; Kwanhoon Gallery, Seoul, Korea
The 1st-10th Seoul Contemporary Art Festival, MMCA; Fine Art Center,
Korean Culture and Arts Foundation, Seoul, Korea
Exhibition of Korea Experimental Artists, Daebaek Gallery, Daegu, Korea
Seoul Biennale, Organized by A.G Group, MMCA, Seoul, Korea
The 8th Exhibition of Shincheje Group, Myong-Dong Gallery, Seoul, Korea
The 7th Exhibition of Shincheje Group, MMCA, Seoul, Korea
The 1st Daegu Contemporary Art Festival, Keimyung University Art Museum,Daegu, Korea
Contemporary Korean Art 1957-1972: Abstraction = Situation, Myong-DongGallery, Seoul, Korea
The Invitational Exhibition of Korean Contemporary Artists, Daebaek Gallery,Daegu, Korea
The 6th Exhibition of Shincheje Group, Myong-Dong Gallery, Seoul, Korea
The 5th Exhibition of Shincheje Group, Shinsegae Gallery, Seoul, Korea
Exposé, Daebaek Gallery, Daegu, Korea
The 3rd A.G. Exhibition, MMCA, Seoul, Korea
72 Exhibition of A.G Prints, National Information Center Gallery, Seoul, Korea
The 4th Exhibition of Shincheje Group, Press Center Gallery, Seoul, Korea
The 1st-7th Independent, MMCA, Seoul, Korea
The 2nd A.G. Exhibition, MMCA, Seoul, Korea
Painting: Today's Korea, Myong-Dong Gallery, Seoul, Korea
The 3rd Exhibition of Shincheje Group, Press Center Gallery, Seoul, Korea
The 2nd Korea Grand Prix, MMCA, Seoul, Korea
The 2nd Exhibition of Shincheje Group, Korean Information Center, Seoul,Korea
The 1st Exhibition of Shincheje Group, Korean Information Center, Seoul,Korea

Selected Awards and Residency
2002
The 3rd Lee In-Sung Art Prize, Daegu, Korea
1991TRIANGLE Artist Workshop, New York, USA1991
MoMA P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center, New York, USA
1985
Guest Artist, University at Albany, SUNY, New York, USA
1983
The 4th Seoul International Print Biennale, Superior Class Prize, Organized by
Dong-A Ilbo and MMCA, MMCA, Seoul, Korea

Selected Collections
National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Gwacheon, Korea
Ho-Am Art Museum, Yongin, Korea
Wooyang Museum of Contemporary Art, Gyeongju, Korea
Kumho Museum of Art, Seoul, Korea
Seoul Museum of Art, Seoul, Korea
Daejeon Museum of Art, Daejeon, Korea
Busan Museum of Art, Busan, Korea
Daegu Arts Center, Daegu, Korea
Hongik University Museum, Seoul, Korea
Keimyung University Art Museum, Daegu, Korea
Busan City Hall, Busan, Korea
Daegu City Hall, Daegu, Korea
Lenox Collection, New Jersey, USA
Mie Prefectural Art Museum, Mie Prefecture, Japan
Gyeongnam Art Museum, Changwon, Korea
Daegu Art Museum, Daegu, Korea
Written Foundation, Frankfurt, Germany
Asia Culture Center, Gwangju, Korea
Victoria & Albert Museum, London, UK
Rachofsky Collection, Dallas, USA
Boehringer Ingelheim GmbH Collection, Ingelheim, Germany
Paradise City Art Foundation, Incheon, Korea