Education
1993, Bachelor of Painting in Faculty of Fine Arts, Hongik University 1962-97, Professor of Painting at Hongik University (Retirement in 1997, Since Then emeritus professor) 1977-80, Foundation Director at Korean Art Association / Vice-Chairman at Korea
Career
Solo Exhibition 2011 International Gallery, Seoul 2010 ART TAIPEI 2010, BOOTH NO. A43, Taipei 2009 KIAF 2009 (Korea International Art Fair), Booth No. C-26, COEX, Seoul 2008 "Empty the mind", Arario New York, NEW YORK 2008 KIAF 2008, Wellside Gallery, COEX / Indian Ocean Hall, Seoul 2008 CIGE 2008, Gallery Sutter, China Trade Center, Beijing 2007 Arario Beijing, Beijing 2007 Park Seo-bo, 'Color Writing, Gyeonggi Museum of Art', Ansan 2007 KIAF 2007, Gallery Samta COEX / Indian Ocean Hall, Seoul 2007 CIGE 2007, Gallery Sutter, China Trade Center, Beijing 2006-7 Cabinet des Dessins, Musee de art Moderne, Saint-Etienne Metropole, 2006 Saint-Etienne 2006 KIAF 2006, Gallery Samta, COEX / Indian Ocean Hall, Seoul 2006 Cho Hyun Gallery, Busan 2006 CIGE 2006, Gallery Sutter, China Trade Center, Beijing 2006 SIPA2006, Korea Print Promotion Association, Seoul Arts Center, Hangaram Art Museum, Seoul 2006 China International Art Fair, Samt Gallery, China International Trade Center, Beijing 2005 Shanghai Art Fair 2005, Booth No. B35, Shanghai World Trade Hall, Shanghai 2005 Spring Gallery, Seoul 2005 China International Art Fair, Samt Gallery, National Exhibition Hall, Beijing 2004 Gallery KS, Seoul 2004 Gallery Art Fair, Samt Gallery, Seoul Arts Center, Seoul 2004 The 10th MANIF Seoul 2004, Seoul Arts Center, Seou. 2004 China International Art Fair, Samt Gallery, Beijing China Science and Technology Fair, Beijing 2003 The 9th MANIF Seoul 2003, Seoul Arts Center, Seoul 2002 Construction Gallery, Daegu 2002 ACE Gallery Los Angeles, LA 2002 Cho Hyun Gallery, Busan 2002 Melborne Art Fair, Samt Gallery, Melbourne, Australia 2002 Gallery Sejul, Seoul. 2002 Gallery Hyundai, Seoul. 2002 Park Ryu Sook Gallery, Seoul 2002 Remba Gallery, LA 2000 Tokyo Gallery, Tokyo 2000 MANIF 6! 2000, Seoul International Art Fair "Representative of Korean Art" Exhibition, Seoul Arts Center, Seoul 1999 Gallery Silla, Daegu 1999 Construction Gallery, Daegu 1999 Cho Hyun Gallery, Busan 1998 Tokyo Gallery, Tokyo 1997 ACE Gallery Los Angeles, LA 1997 Park Ryu Sook Gallery, Seoul 1997 Gallery Hyundai, Seoul 1997 Construction Gallery, Daegu 1997 Remba Gallery, LA 1996 FIAC '96, Cho Hyun Gallery, Paris 1996 Basel Art Fair, Park Ryu Sook Gallery, Messe Basel, Basel 1996 Cho Hyun Gallery, Busan 1996 Construction Gallery, Daegu 1996 Park Youngdeck Gallery, Seoul 1994 Park Youngdeck Gallery, Seoul 1994 Remba Gallery, LA 1994 Tokyo Gallery, Tokyo 1993 8th LA ART FAIR, Gallery World, LA 1993 NICAF YOKOHAMA'93 (International Contemporary Art Fair), Sun Gallery, Yokohama, Japan 1991 Retrospective - Park Suk Bo Painting 40 years, National Museum of Contemporary Art, Seoul 1991 Duson Gallery, Seoul 1991 Gallery World, Busan 1991 Gallery Space, Busan 1989 The 4th LA ART FAIR, Jinhwang, LA 1988 Hyundai Gallery, Seoul 1987 Art Gallery, Daegu 1986 Tokyo Gallery, Tokyo (later in the series) 1985 INA Gallery, Tokyo 1983 Space Museum, Seoul 1981 Hyundai Gallery, Seoul 1978 Tokyo Gallery, Tokyo 1976 Tongin Gallery, Seoul. 1973 Muramatsu Gallery, Tokyo (series of mythology) 1973 Myongdong Gallery, Seoul 1970 Seoul Gallery, Seoul (Genetic Series Announced) 1962 National Library of Korea Gallery, Seoul (Plasma Series Announced) Group Exhibition 2018 SeMA Collection Olympic Memorial Exhibition: Harmony and Forward, Chungmu Art Center Gallery, Seoul 2017 Rediscovery of Color Exhibition, Museum Mountain, Wonju 2014 10th Anniversary Exhibition of Liu: Sympathy (sympathy), Samsung Museum of Art Lium, Seoul 2014 Artist, Special Exhibition of the Artistic Soul, Kim Bong Sung Art Center, Seoul 2012 Monochrome Exhibition in Korea, National Museum of Contemporary Art, Gwacheon 2012 Kwangju Museum of Art 20th Anniversary Special Exhibition I: Two Modernisms, Gwangju Museum of Art, Gwangju 2010 FIAC 2010, International Gallery, Grand Rapids, Louvre, Paris 2010 Clay Arc Gimhae Art MuseumS pecial Exhibition in the second half of 2010 OFF THE WALL: Architecture Ceramics, Boundary at the front Clay Arc Gimhae Museum, Gimhae 2010 "THE PRESENCE" commemorating the opening of Seongbuk-gu Lib Art Museum, Seongbuk-gu Lib Art Museum, Seoul 2010 ART HK'10 (Hong Kong International Art Exhibition), Geumsan Gallery (BOOTH NO.4), Hong Kong 2010 Legend - Asian Contemporary Art Festival, SOKA ART CENTER, Beijing 2010 In the center of Korean contemporary art, Gallery Hyundai (Gangnam), Seoul 2009 Signal, National Museum of Contemporary Art, Seoul, Korea 2009 MIXOGRAFIA - Innovation and Collaboration - The Vivian and Fordon Gilkey Center for Graphic Arts, Portland Museum 2009 The Color of Nature - Korean Solid Painting - Wellside Gallery, Shanghai Kim Chang - Yeol, Park Seo - bo, Lee U - hwan, Three Artists, Cho Hyun Gallery, Busan 2008-9 Exploring Transcendental Beauty 2008 Singapore Korea Festival Korean Contemporary Art Exhibition, Singapore Museum of Art, Singapore 2008 SIPA 2008, Samt Gallery, Seoul Arts Center, Seoul 2008 Busan Biennale, Art is alive - Aisa Director of Contemporary Art, Busan City Hall, Busan 2008 Korean Abstract Painting 1958-2008, Seoul Metropolitan Museum of Art, Seoul 2007 Crossroads of the city - New York, Paris, Seoul -, Belgrade Art Museum, Belgrade 2007 Moving Poetry, Gallery Beierer, Basel 2007 Genealogy of Korean Contemporary Art, Ian Gallery, Daegu 2007 Flexible taboos, Kunsthalle Vienna, Vienna 2006 'Working with Nature' (Tate Gallery Liverpool) - 14 years later, Gallery Sutter, Seoul 2006 SIPA 2006, Hangaram Art Museum, Seoul 2006 Art Singapore 2006, Lee Hwaik Gallery, Singapore 2006 'Settled Statue', Gallery SP, Seoul 2006 Melbourne Art Fair 2006, Gallery Sutter, Melbourne 2006 Art `06 Chicago, UM Gallery, Chicago 2006 Art Fair Bologna, Galerie Dorothea Van Der Koelen Mainz, Bologna Exhibition Center, 2006 Exhibition Center, Bologna, Italy 2005 Tradition and the spirit of the times - Korean contemporary art - Gallery Helhof, Gallery Hana, Kronberg, Germany 2005 Shanghai Art Fair Korea Art Contest - Park Seo-bo, Jung Chang-sup, Yun Hyung-kun - Shanghai World Trade Hall, Shanghai Art Cologne New 2005 Gallery Mainz Dorothea, Cologne 2005 Korean Monochrome Painting - Park Seo Bo, Lee Uhwan, Kim Ki Rin, Yun Hyung Keun - Gallery Mainz Dorothea, Mainz Germany 2005 Art & Issue- Intermediate Art Exchange Exhibition, Soka contemporary space, Beijing 2005 Gallery Art Fair, Samt Gallery, Jinhwang Gallery, Gallery Sejul, Seoul Arts Center, Seoul 2005 Korean Contemporary Art, Busan Museum of Modern Art, Busan 2005 Park Seo-bo, Kim Chang-ryul 2 Exhibition, Gallery Hyundai Dougahun, Seoul 2005 Space Gallery Opening 30th Anniversary Exhibition -from Modern to Contemporary-, Busan Space Gallery, Busan 2005 4th Korea International Art Fair, Samt Gallery, COEX / Indian Ocean Hall, Seoul 2005 Commemorating the 35th anniversary of the opening -Modern & Contemporary Masters-PartⅡ, Gallery Hyundai, Seoul 2005 ART 'TAIPEI 2005, Soka Art Center, Taipei World Trade Center Exhibition 3, Taipei 2005 UM Gallery Opening Exhibition: ON Line + OFF Line, UM Gallery, Seoul 2004 World Peace Grand Art Exhibition, Liu Hai Su Art Museum, Shanghai 2004 Shanghai International Art Fair 2004, Jinhua Lang, Shanghai World Trade Hall, Shanghai 2004 MELBOURNE Art Fair 2004, Samt Gallery, Melbourne 2004 ART'04 CHICAGO at Navy Pier, Park Ryu Sook Gallery, Chicago 2004 Korean Flat Painting. Yesterday and Today, Seoul Museum of Art, Seoul 2004 3rd Korea International Art Fair, Samt Gallery, Korea Art Gallery, COEX / Indian Ocean Hall, Seoul 2004 Special Exhibition of China International Art Fair: Korea Contemporary Art Exhibition, Beijing China Science and Technology Fair, Beijing 2004 China International Art Fair, UM Gallery, Beijing China Science and Technology Fair, Beijing 2004 20th Anniversary Exhibition of Park Ryu Sook Gallery 20th Anniversary, Park Ryu Sook Gallery, Seoul 2003 Tradition and Innovation - Globalization of Korean Contemporary Art, Gallery Hyundai, Seoul 2003 Gallery Art Fair, Samt Gallery, Seoul Arts Center, Seoul 2003 ART COLOGNE 2003, PARK Ryu Sook Gallery, Cologne 2003 Shanghai International Art Fair, Cho Hyun Gallery, Shanghai World Trade Hall, Shanghai 2003 6th Triennale Mondiale D'Estampes Petit Format 2002, Chamalieres France 2003 FIAC 2003, Construction Gallery, Paris 2003 2nd Korea International Art Fair, Samt Gallery, Cho Hyun Gallery, COEX / Indian Ocean Hall, Seoul 2003 ART'03 CHICAGO at Navy Pier, Park Ryu Sook Gallery, Chicago 2003 ART'03 (Daegu Art Expo 2003), Cho Hyun Gallery, Gallery Silla, Expo, Daegu 2003 Tradition and Innovation (3), Museum of East Asian Art, Berlin, Berlin 2003 White Spectrum - Joseon White porcelain and Contemporary Korean Art, Joseon Dynasty Museum, Gwangju 2002-3 Understanding of Abstract Art, Sungkok Art Museum, Seoul 2002-3 Development of Contemporary Korean Art In the mid-1970s - mid 1980s, "The Age of Thought and Sensibility", National Museum of Contemporary Art, Seoul 2002 The 1st Korea International Art Fair, Cho Hyun Gallery, Gallery Kanji, Busan Conservation Center, Busan 2002 Korea, Japan Contemporary Art 2002, Jinhwa Lan, Jin Art Center, Seoul 2002 ART COLOGNE 2002, Park Ryu Sook Gallery, Cologne. 2002 ART 2002 CHICAGO at Navy pier, Park Ryu Sook Gallery, Chicago 2002 Basel Art Fair, Gallery Hyundai, Basel. 2002 San Francisco Art Fair, Park Ryu Sook Gallery, San Francisco 2002 Unfinished Century, Tokyo National Museum of Modern Art, Yomiuri Shimbun, Tokyo 2002 Finding Artists - Maestro of Korean Art, Kumho Museum of Art,2 002 Monthly Art Joint Planning, Seoul 2002 ART PALMBEACH, Park Ryu Sook Gallery, Palm Beach 2002 POST ART FAIR, Park Ryu Sook Gallery, Seoul 2001 ART COLOGNE 2001, Park Ryu Sook Gallery, Cologne 2001 Development of Contemporary Korean Art: 1970-90, Gallery Hyundai, Seoul 2001 Shadow of Myoo, Gallery Sagan, Seoul 2001 The 8th International Works on Paper Fair 2001, Gallery Samt, Sydney 2001 Super PHAT, Cypress University Art Museum, Cypress CA 2001 Development of Korean Contemporary Art: Transition and Dynamics, National Museum of Contemporary Art, Seoul 2001 ART 2001 CHICAGO At Navy Pier, Park Ryu Sook Gallery, Chicago 2001 ART MIAMI 2001, Park Ryu Sook Gallery, Miami 2001 ART PALMBEACH 2001, Park Ryu Sook Gallery, Palm Beach 2000 ART COLOGNE 2000, Park Ryu Sook Gallery, Cologne 2000 2000 Contemporary Art Contemporary Art Exhibition, Sun Gallery, Seoul 2000 San Francisco Art Fair, Park Ryu Sook Gallery, San Francisco 2000 Abstract Art in Korea and the West: Passion and Expression, Samsung Museum of Art, Seoul 2000 MELBOURNE Art Fair 2000, Jinhwang, Melborn 2000 Design and Non-Exhibition, Gana Art Center, Seoul 2000 It is the nature of itself. So is the nature itself, Posco Museum of Art, Seoul 2000 "The Origin of Contemporary Art in Korea," National Museum of Contemporary Art, Seoul 2000 "People + Inter" Gwangju Biennale 2000: Special Exhibition "Korea-Japan Contemporary Art Exhibition", Gwangju Metropolitan Museum of Art, Gwangju 1999-75 Ecole de Seoul, National Museum of Contemporary Art, Kwanhoon Museum of Art, Seoul 1999 50 years of Korean art: 1950-1999, Gallery Hyundai, Seoul 1999 NICAF TOKYO '99, Jinhwang Ran, Park Youngdeck Gallery, Tokyo 1999 Artists of Silence, Asian Art Museum, Nice 1999-98 Korea-Japan Contemporary Art Exhibition - Between Us and Others 1999-98 Meguro-gu Art Museum, Tokyo, National Museum of Art, Osaka Art Center, Seoul 1999-98 The Idea and Spirit of Korean Monochromatic Paintings - Park Seo Bo, Jung Hyun Bae, Uhwhan Lee, Hwang Hwang, Busan Museum of Art, Busan 1998 Silent painter - 8 contemporary authors - Montbeliardy Museum of Art, Montbeliard France 1997 FIAC '97, Gallery de Nice Rene, Paris 1997 Tokyo International Forum Art Collection "Ship of Diversity", Tokyo International Forum, Tokyo 1996 SIAF '96 (Seoul International Art Festival), Gallery Hyundai, Jinhwang, Sun Gallery 1996 Korea General Trade Center General Exhibition Hall, Seoul 1996 Korean Contemporary Artists - Dong Chang-Sup, Kim, Chang-Ryul, Park Su-Bo -, Doban Exhibition, Tokyo Gallery, Tokyo 1996 '96 Central Biennale (sponsored by Joongang Ilbo), Seoul Museum of Art, Seoul 1996 "The Spirit of Korean Abstract Painting", Hoam Gallery, Seoul 1996 BLACK & WHITE, Gallery Seomi, Seoul 1996 Korean Monochrome Exhibition in the 1970s, Gallery Hyundai, Seoul 1995 52 artists from Korea and abroad, Gallery Hyundai, Seoul 1995 ART 1995 CHICAGO At Navy Pier, Gallery Hyundai, Chicago 1994 "The Face of 40 Years of Contemporary Art" Hoam Gallery, Seoul 1994 NICAF YOKOHAMA (International Contemporary Art Fair), Tokyo Gallery, Jinhwang, Japan Yokohama 1993 Korean Art Yesterday and Today, Hanlim Gallery, Daejeon 1993 Four members of Contemporary Korean Art, Shigong Gallery, Daegu 1993 '93 Daejeon EXPO art event on the other side of the future (Pontus Holten selection), Daejeon 1993 12 artists from Korea Contemporary Art, Miyagi Art Museum, Sendai, Japan 1992 With Nature - Traditional spirit in Korean contemporary art, Tate Gallery, Liverpool, UK 1992 Seongeomyo and Expression 1992 Contemporary Korean Painting, Hoam Gallery, Seoul 1992 Korean Contemporary Art Exhibition (Shimonoseki City Museum, Niiga Art Museum, Gasa Manichide Art Museum, Mie Art Museum), Japan 1991 25 Korean Contemporary Art Artists, Hyundai Gallery, Seoul 1991 2nd TOKYO ART EXPO 1991, Duson Gallery, Tokyo 1991 Invitation Exhibition of Contemporary Art in Korea, Sonje Museum of Contemporary Art, Gyeongju 1991 President's Exhibition "From Monochrome to Monochrome" Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Art, Tokyo 1991 Contemporary Korean Painting Exhibition, Yugoslavia 1991 Line and Expression, Saidama Museum of Modern Art, Japan 1991 Korean Contemporary Painting Exhibition, Zagreb National Gallery, Yugoslavia 1990 Fall · MURAMATSU Exhibition, Muramatsu Gallery, Tokyo 1990 FORMS, INAX Gallery + 80s Art 100, Nakahara Yusuke, Tokyo 1989 Invitational 24 people celebrating the 200th anniversary of the French Revolution, Paris Art Center, Paris 1989 Hiroshima, Hiroshima, HIROSHIMA, Hiroshima-shi modern art museum, Japan 1988 The 43rd Venice Biennale, Venice, Italy 1988 Contemporary Art and Olympics - 24th Seoul Olympics Official Art Print Exhibition, Loyalty Shinhwang, Seoul 1988 The 24th Seoul Olympic Art: Organized by the Organizing Committee of the Seoul Olympic Games hosted by the International Contemporary Art Festival, National Museum of Contemporary Art, Seoul 1988 Modernism of Korean Art: 1970 ~ 1979, Trade Center Hyundai Department Store Museum of Contemporary Art, Seoul 1988 Contemporary Painting: The Flow of the Seventies, Walkerhill Art Museum, Seoul 1988 Four people from Korea, Tokyo Gallery, Tokyo 1987 Art LA '87 (2nd International Contemporary Art Festival), Jinhwang, LA 1987 "Black and White" in Contemporary Korean Art, National Museum of Contemporary Art, Seoul 1987 3rd Toyama International Contemporary Art Exhibition, Toyama Shimbun Museum of Modern Art, Toyama, Japan 1987 2nd LA ART FAIR, exhibited in Jinhwang, Los Angeles 1986 Contemporary "White and Black" exhibition, Saitama Museum of Modern Art, Japan 1986 Commemorating the opening of the National Museum of Contemporary Art, "Korean Contemporary Art Yesterday and Today", National Museum of Contemporary Art, Seoul 1986 '86 Contemporary Korean Art Contest (Organized by Seoul Organizing Committee for Asian Games), Seoul 1986 '86 Seoul Asian Contemporary Art Exhibition (hosted by Seoul Asian Games Organizing Committee), Seoul 1986 Seoul - Paris Exhibition (sponsored by Korean Buddhist Cultural Association), Seoul Gallery, Paris National Museum of Contemporary Arts, Paris 1985 Human document '84 / '85, Tokyo Gallery, Tokyo, Japan 1985 Contemporary Korean Paper Art, Central Washington University, USA 1985 Minimization and Maximization Before, After Gallery, Seoul, Seoul 1985 "40 years of Contemporary Art" commemorating the 40th anniversary of liberation, National Museum of Contemporary Art, Seoul 1984 Korean Contemporary Art Exhibition: Birds of the Seventies, Taipei City Museum of Art, Taipei 1984 Korean Contemporary Art in the 60's - Inforamel and its surroundings, Walkerhill Museum, Seoul 1984 White Contemporary Art Contest, sponsored by the French Cultural Center in Seoul, Seoul 1984 Today's Art - In the Works of the Chiefs - Focusing on the Part I'83 Collection, Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Art, Tokyo 1984 FIAC '84, Jinhwang, National Grand Pallet Art Museum, Paris 1984 Korean Contemporary Art Exhibition of the 60's - Focused on the works of Paris Biennale, Duson Gallery, Seoul 1983-82 Exhibition of Hyundai · Paper (Korea and Japan), National Museum of Contemporary Art, Kyoc City Museum of Modern Art 1983-82 Saitama Shimbun Museum of Modern Art, Kumamoto Art Museum, Seoul, Kyodo, Urawa, Kumamoto 1983 Korean Contemporary Art Exhibition: Late 70's - One aspect, Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Art 1983 Museum of Modern Art, National Museum of Art, Hokkaido Museum of Modern Art, Fukuoka Art Museum, Japan 1983 New Hanseong Painting Exhibition (Paper and Art Forms), Haruni Art Gallery, Taipei 1981 Korean Contemporary Drawing Exhibition, Brooklyn Museum of Art, New York 1980 Asian Art Exhibition Part 2 Asian Contemporary Art Exhibition, Fukuoka Art Museum, Fukuoka, Japan 1979 Four ways of Korean Contemporary Art, Hyundai Gallery, Seoul 1979 Korean Contemporary Art · Today's Method, Korea Art Promotion Center, Seoul, Korea 1978 Trend of Korean Contemporary Art for 20 years, National Museum of Contemporary Art, Seoul 1978 The 2nd Paris International Contemporary Art Meeting, National Grand Pallet Museum, Paris 1977-69 The 1st and 8th International Calligraphy Conference, France 1977 Korean Contemporary Art Exhibition, Muramatsu Gallery, Tokyo, Japan 1977 Section of Korean Contemporary Art, Tokyo Central Museum of Art, Tokyo, Japan 1977 Korea Modernization Exhibition, National History Museum, Taipei 1977 Korean Contemporary Art Repairs 6 Artists, Gallery Bozajar, Nagoya, Japan 1975 Five Artists in Korea, Five White, Tokyo Gallery, Tokyo 1975,65 The 8th, 13th Sao Paulo Biennale, Brazil. 1973 Korean Contemporary Art 1957 ~ 1972 Abstract = Context, Myeongdong Gallery, Seoul. 1973 Korea 100 Artists Exhibition, National Museum of Contemporary Art, Seoul. 1972-71 Korean Contemporary Painting Exhibition, Paris, West Germany. 1972-69 Korean Contemporary Painting Exhibition, India, Afghanistan, Nepal. 1970 EXPO '70 Korean Pavilion Special Exhibition, Osaka, Japan. 1969-58 Contemporary Korean Artist Invitation Competition (Chosun Ilbo), Deoksugung Museum, Seoul. 1968 Korean Contemporary Painting Exhibition, Tokyo National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo. 1967 EXPO '67 Korean Pavilion Special Exhibition, Montreal, Canada. 1966 Invitation Exhibition of Modern Art in 6 Far Eastern Countries, Macy 's Department Store, New York. 1965-62 1st ~ 4th Cultural Freedom Invitation Exhibition (hosted by Korea Headquarters for World Culture Freedom Conference), Seoul. 1964-62 Achut Eunjeon, Seoul. 1963 3rd Paris Biennale, Paris. 1963 Korean Young Artists 4th Exhibition, Langheer Gallery, Paris. 1962 The 1st Saigon International Biennale, Vietnam Cy. 1961 World Youth Painting Exhibition in Paris (sponsored by the French National Commission for UNESCO), Paris, France. 1960-57 Modern Warfare, Organized by the Association of Contemporary Artists, Seoul. 1957 Korean Contemporary Painting Exhibition, World House Gallery, New York.
Awards career
2011 Eungwan Order of Culture 1999 the first proud art impression 1995 44th Seoul Arts Awards 1994 Okgwan Order of Culture 1987 Grand Prize in Art Culture Awards 1984 National Medal of Merit 1979 11th President of the Arts and Culture Awards 1972 a presidential citation 1961 First Prize in Paris by World Youth Artist
Born in Yecheon, Gyeongsangbuk-do Activities in Seoul 1988, Chairman of Servo Art Foundation