Education
1982, Master of Painting, Seoul National University Graduate School 1979, Bachelor of Painting, Seoul National University
Career
2022 Suh Yongsun: A Recollection, Pines, Gallery JJ, Seoul 2021 Suh Yongsun in Thinking: Garugae Project, Gallery JJ, Seoul Suh Yongsun’s MAGO: Searching for Goddess of our mind, Women’s History Cultural Center, Seoul Herstory House, Seoul Manchupsanjung - Suh Yongsun Paintings, Yeoju Museum, Yeoju 2020 Goguryeo by Suh Yongsun, Gallery Imazoo, Seoul 2019 Head by Suh Yongsun_Conflict, Gallery JJ, Seoul Pain, Symptoms, and Signs: The Remaking of History in Suh Yongsun’s Painting, Art Center White Block, Paju Suh Yongsun: City of Velocity, Niche Gallery, Tokyo, Japan Utopia’s Delay: The Painter and the Metropolis By Suh Yongsun, Mizuma, Kips & Wada Art, Newyork(NY), USA 2018 Self-portrait by Suh Yongsun_Reflection, Gallery JJ, Seoul Suh Yongsun: City and History of Landscape, MK Gallery, Vienna(VA), USA 2017 My Place, Gallery Fukuzumi, Osaka, Japan Suh Yongsun, 37 rue de Montreuil Paris / 222 main Street New Jersey, Galerie La Ville A des Arts, Paris, France Suh Yongsun: Crossing Worlds, Art Mora Gallery, New York(NY), USA 2016 Color色 and Void空 - Suh Yongsun, Kim Chong Yung Museum, Seoul Expanding Lines - Suh Yongsun Drawing, 2016 Representative Artist, Arko Art Center, Seoul 2015 Utopia’s Delay: The Painter and the Metropolis, Kumho Museum of Art/Hakgojae Gallery, Seoul 2014 Suh Yongsun’s Heterotopia – The Forfeiture of Myth, The 26th Lee Jung Seob Art Prize, Chosun Ilbo Art Museum, Seoul Embodied and Embedded Things – Self Portraits and Scenes, Gallery Fukuzumi, Osaka, Japan Historical Imagination – The King Danjong Stories by Suh Yongsun, Art Center White Block, Paju Suh Yongsun, DAAD <Deutscher Akademischer Austaush Dienst), Bonn, Germany 2013 Memory, Representation: Suh Yongsun and 6.25, Korea University Museum, Seoul Selected Group Exhibitions (2017~) 2022 Minimalism-Maximalism-Mechanissmmm Act1-Act2, Art Sonje Center, Seoul 2021 The breath of the earth after the DMZ, Yangpyeong Art Museum, Yangpyeong 20th anniversary of Halartec: Cheolam Grigi, Taibaek Coal Museum, Taibaek/ Mokpo Cultural Center, Mokpo Yeosu International Art Festival ‘Flowing refuses to stop’, Yeosu Expo Convention Center Exhibition hall, Yeosu Battlefront: 20 Artists Stories of the Korean Peninsula, Odusan Unification Tower Gallery, Paju The Era and Individuality, Headen Museum, Seoul The Scenery we face, Our daily gaze, Seoul Olympic Museum of Art, Seoul Shinjayeonism: The Rhizomes entangled with the Indra Net, Jeonbuk Museum of Art, Wanju 2020 The Moment of Gieok(Korean Alphabet ㄱ), Seoul Calligraphy Art Museum, Seoul 2020 Busan Biennale, Words at an Exhibition: exhibition in ten chapters and five poems, Museum of Contemporary art Busan, etc. Busan Early Spring Outing - The House of Artists, Yeoju Art Museum, Yeoju 2019 2019 Seong: Fantastic City, Suwon Ipark Museum of Art, Suwon Immortality in the Cloud, Ilmin Museum of Art, Seoul Visioni di Paesaggi contemporanei dal mondo, Museo di Palazzo Doria Pamphilj, Valmotone, Rome, Italy 2018 The Sea and the Island, Korean Cultural Center, Shanghai, China A New Era of Peace and a Peaceful Land, Grebel Gallery at Conrad Grebel University College, Waterloo, Canada We the People, Ozaneaux ArtSpace, New York(NY), USA From Vietnam to Berlin, Asia Culture Center, Gwangju 2017 Two Reflections, Korean and American Artists Confront Humanity and Nature, Korean Cultural Center in Washington, Washington D.C., USA Expression of Landscape, Daegu Art Museum, Daegu Commodity & Ideology, Klapper Hall Art Gallery, Queens College, New York(NY), USA Selected Residency Programs Torpedo Factory Art Center, Alexandria (VA), USA Art Mora Residency Program, New Jersey (NJ), USA University of Sydney Residency Program, Sydney, Australia RMIT University Artist in Residence, Melbourne, Australia Vermont Studio Center, Vermont (NY), USA
Awards career
2016 Arko Representative Artist Award, Arko Art Center, Seoul 2014 Lee Jung-Seob Art Award, Chosun Ilbo Art Museum, Seoul 2009 Artist of the Year, National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Gwacheon 1984 The 6th JoongAng Special Art Prize, JoonAng Ilbo, Seoul 1982 Dong-A Art Festival, Dong-A Art Award, Dong-A Ilbo, Seoul 1978 The 1st JoongAng Special Art Prize, JoongAng Ilbo, Seoul
Born in 1951, Seoul, Korea. 2001.07 Professor, Hamburg International Academy of Fine Arts, Germany