Education
1998, Doctor of Fine Arts, Pratt Institute 1956, Bachelor of Art History, University of Tokyo Graduated from Kyunggi High school
Career
Solo Exhibition 2018 More than 30 minutes, Nam June Paik Art Center, Seoul 2015 W3, Hakgojae, Seoul 2014 Nam June Paik, Tate Modern, London 2014 Nam June Paik: Become a Robot, Asian Society, New York, USA 2004 Meet Nam June Paik in Shanghai, Shanghai, China 2014 My Artistic Home: Paik Nam June in Rhineland, National Museum of Contemporary Art, Seoul 2013 Nam June Paik: Art in the Process, Smithsonian Museum, Washington DC, USA 2013 Nam June Paik, Thomas Solomon Gallery, Los Angeles, USA 2012 Nam June Paik Spectrum, Soma Art Museum, Seoul 2012 Nam June Paik: Artistic Course, Smithsonian Museum, Washington DC, USA 2011 Nam June Paik, Kunst Palast Museum of Art, Düsseldorf, Germany; Tate Liverpool, Liverpool, UK 2010 Nam June Paik, Kunst Palast Museum of Art, Dusseldorf, Germany 2007 Nam June Paik and Korea, Fantastic Hyperreal, Telefónica Foundation, Madrid, Spain 2006 Goodbye Nam June Paik, Watari Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo, Japan 2006 Retrospective of Nam June Paik, Museum of Modern Art, New York, USA 2006 Nam June Paik, Orange County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, USA 2006 Nam June Paik on Paper, Bochum Museum, Bochum, Germany 2005 Accidental Coincidence at Handle, Lechmann Gallery, Cologne, Germany 2005 Langdogue, Paris Modern Museum of Modern Art, Paris, France 2004 2004 Award, NRW Art Foundation, Phoenix Hall, Dortmund, Germany 2004 2004 Global Groove, Germany Guggenheim Foundation Museum, Berlin, Germany 2004 Nam June Paik, New South Wales State Museum of Art, Sydney, Australia 2002 Fluxus and Video Sculpture, Wilhelm Rembrücke Art Museum, Duisburg, Germany 2002 Electronic Juggler II, Nam June Paik and the Birth of Video Art, Cabo Palace, Torino, Italy 2000 Nam June Paik's World, Guggenheim Museum, New York Hoam Art Museum, Yongin 2000 Paintings, Contemporary Art Museum, Basel, Switzerland 1999 Fluxus / Video, Bremen Kunsthalle, Bremen, Germany 1997 Nam June Paik, Byron Cohen / René Bergowitz Museum of Contemporary Art, Kansas City, USA 1997 Electronic Superhighway, Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, USA; Honolulu Museum of Art, Honolulu, United States 1996 Nam June Paik Documentation, Canal City Hakata, Fukuoka, Japan 1996 Video Statuette, Electrocurrent, Copenhagen National Museum, Copenhagen, Denmark 1996 Electronic Superhighway, San Jose Museum of Art, San Jose, USA; San Diego Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego, USA 1995 Electronic Superhighway, Holly Solomon Gallery, New York, USA; Indianapolis Museum of Art, Indianapolis, USA; Columbus Museum of Art, Columbus, USA; Pennsylvania Art Academy, Pennsylvania, USA 1995 Baroque Laser, Marie-Himmlerparte Cathedral, Mauritz Church, Germany 1995 Video Sculpture, Installation Art, Ars Nova Museum, Turki, Finland 1995 High Tech Allergy, Wolfsburg Museum of Art, Wolfsburg, Germany 1994 A video of Xiamen, Palazzo Real Les Aregarlios, Milan, Italy 1994 Nam June Paik, Fukuoka Art Museum, Fukuoka, Japan 1994 Electronic Superhighway: Travel with Nam June Paik, Fort Lauderdale Museum of Art, Fort Lauderdale, USA 1994 Nam June Paik's recent work, Albert Brewer - Philippe Gravie, Paris, France 1993 Rehearsal for the Venice Biennale, Germany Pavilion, Holly Solomon Gallery, New York, USA 1993 TV Bed, Fish TV, Growing Egg, Voice Box, Darwin, Video 1991 Video Chandelier, Neptune, White Space, Hamburg, Germany 1993 Nomad artist, Germany Pavilion, the 45th Venice Biennale International Art Exhibition, Venice Biennale, Venezia, Italy 1993 Nam June Paik's recent work, Watari Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo, Japan 1992 Before his recent work, Hans Meyer Gallery, Düsseldorf, Germany 1992 Nam June Paik Video · Video Land National Museum of Contemporary Art, Gwacheon 1992 Photos, Holly Solomon Gallery, New York, USA 1992 Nam June Paik's second Novelcento: electronic art, film and media for 21, Palazzo delle Espace Gianni, Rome, Italy 1992 Chase Information Wall Permanent Indoor Sculpture, Chase Metrotec Center, New York, USA 1991 Video time Video Space, Kunsthalle Basel, Basel, Switzerland 1991 Nam June Paik, Bernd & Creeps Gallery, Cologne, Germany 1990 Star, Hans Meyer Gallery, Dusseldorf, Germany 1990 The Sanctuary of San Dominic, Reggio Emilia, Italy 1990 Nam June Paik, TV, Marika Mara Coda Gallery, Geneva, Switzerland 1989 Painting and Sculpture, Holly Solomon Gallery, New York, USA 1989 Nam June Paik Exhibition, Bilbao Museum of Art, Bilbao, Spain 1989 Ferry Electronics, Paris Modern Art Museum, Paris, France 1989 Robot Family, Fukuoka Art Museum, Fukuoka, Japan 1989 San Francisco Museum of Contemporary Art, San Francisco, USA 1988 Metrobot, Museum of Contemporary Art, Cincinnati, USA 1988 Video Work, 1963-88, Heyward Gallery, London, United Kingdom 1987 Bai Bai Kipling Drawing Exhibition, Watari Gallery, Tokyo, Japan 1986 Nam June Paik, Fukui Theater FBC, Fukui, Japan 1984 Art for 25 Million People: Good Morning Mr Orwell, Kunst-Settlet, Dada Gallery, Berlin, Germany 1984 Nam June Paik Video Exhibition, Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Art, Tokyo, Japan 1984 Nam June Paik: BSO, Beyond, Boston Contemporary Art Society, Boston, USA 1982 Nam June Paik, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, USA 1982 Nam June Paik, National Georges Pompidou Arts Culture Center, Paris, France 1981 Vice, Cage, Cunningham, Nam June Paik, Watari Gallery, Tokyo, Japan 1981 Nam June Paik, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, USA 1980 USA New Filmmaker Series, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, USA 1980 Paper TV and Tropical Fish, Watari Gallery, Tokyo, Japan 1978 Retrospective, Nam June Paik, Modern Museum of Modern Art, Paris, France 1978 John Cage Deputies, Watari Gallery, Tokyo, Japan 1977 Project: Nam June Paik, New York Museum of Contemporary Art, New York, USA 1976 1946-1976 Music - Fluxus - Video work, Cologne Art Association, Cologne, Germany 1975 Fish, Flying in the sky, Marcia Jackson Gallery, New York, USA 1974 1959-1973 VIDEO AND BIDIOLOGY, Everson Art Museum, New York, USA 1968 Nam June Paik, New York State University Stony Brook Museum of Art, New York, USA 1968 Electronic Arts II, Bonino Gallery, New York, USA 1968 Electronic Arts III: Back-Abba Video, Bonino Gallery, Intermedia Cooperation, New York, USA 1967 Expanding Art Concept, Godwin - Turnbark Museum, Queens University, New York, USA 1965 Nam June Paik: Cybernetic art and music, New Cool, New York, USA 1965 Nam June Paik: Electronic Arts, Bonino Gallery, New York, USA 1963 Music Exhibition - Electronic TV, Parna Gallery, Wuppertal, Germany 1963 Expand the Art Insights, Paul Clapper Library Art Center, New York, USA Group Exhibition 2017 Reenact history, National Museum of Contemporary Art, Gwacheon 2017 Room of Curiosity, Kimi Art, Seoul 2017 Crack, National Museum of Contemporary Art, Gwacheon, Korea 2015 TV is TV, Nam June Paik Art Center, Yongin 2014 Moments We admire, SamSangdong Contemporary Art Museum, Hangzhou, China 2014 Good morning Mr Orwell 2014, Nam June Paik Art Center, Yongin 2014 A Day with Nam June Paik, Gyeonggi Museum of Art, Ansan From the end of 2014 to Cristo, Nam June Paik Art Center, Yongin 2013 Treadmill, Nam June Paik Art Center, Yongin 2013 Soft disturbance- Nam June Paik, Nam June Paik Art Center, Yongin 2013 Korean Contemporary Printmaking 50 years ago, Manila Metropolitan Museum of Art, Manila 2013 New & Now: Seoul Museum of Art 2012 New Collection, Seoul Museum of Art, Seoul 2012 Nostalgia is the square of feedback, Nam June Paik Art Center, Yongin 2012 Global Groove, Ely and Eddie Broad Museum of Art, East Lansing, USA 2012 X-Sound: After John Cage and Nam June Paik, Nam June Paik Art Center, Yongin 2012 Kwangju Museum of Art's 20th Anniversary Special Exhibition II: Jin, Tong. - Korean Contemporary Art since 1990's, Gwangju City Museum of Art, Gwangju 2011 Video, Art, History, 1965-2010, Singapore Museum of Art, Singapore 2011 Measurement of the World, Heterotopia and Knowledge Space in Art, Kunsthaus, Graz, Austria 2011 with video and post [with Jude Yarkut], National Museum of Contemporary Art, Paris, France 2011 TV Coke, Nam June Paik Art Center, Yongin 2011 MediaScape, Nam June Paik, Nam June Paik Art Center, Yongin 2010 Past-Present, Pompidou Center New Media Collection, Telefónica Foundation, Madrid, Spain 2010 Art Gwangju 2010, Kim Daejung Convention Center, Gwangju 2010 Trickster Makes the World, Nam June Paik Art Center, Yongin 2010 Moving Image, Artist & Film, Ludwig Museum, Cologne, Germany Flower of May 2010, Gwangju Biennale Foundation, Gwangju 2010 Random Access, Nam June Paik Art Center, Yongin 2009 Vital Signals, 1960-70s Japanese and American Video Art, Open Television, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, USA 2009 Open TV, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, USA 2009 Art is Great!, Hamburg Bahnhof Museum of Modern Art, Berlin, Germany 2009 Record Again, Aachen Ludwig Forum, Aachen, Germany 2009 exhibition of myths? Electronic Technology, Nam June Paik Art Center, Yongin 2009 Macro, Summer in Rome, Rome National Museum of Modern Art, Rome, Italy 2009 Pop-Up !, Aachen Ludwig Forum, Aachen, Germany; Hessel Museum, New York, USA From the 1950s to the present, San Francisco Museum of Contemporary Art, San Francisco, USA 2009 Nam June Paik Festival Nu Jump, Nam June Paik Art Center, Yongin 2008 Fluxus Scores and Instructions, Conversion Point, Making Salad, Danish Museum of Contemporary Art, Rothschild, Denmark 2008 Good morning Mr. Nam Nam Joon, Korean Cultural Institute, London, UK 2008 Pompidou Center New Media 1965-2003, Shea Do National Museum of Contemporary Art, Lisbon, Portugal 2007 Fluxus, Knotty History, Germany 1962-1994, Andalusian Contemporary Art Center, Seville, Spain 2007 Pompidou Center, Video Art 1965-2005, ACMI, Melbourne, Australia 2007 First Generation, Art and Moving Images, 1963-1986, MNCARS, Madrid, Spain 2007 New Media Collection, 1965-2005, Sydney Modern Art Museum, Sydney, Australia 2006 80s video, North Rhine-Westphalia Museum, Düsseldorf, Germany 2006 Video, Art, History, 1965-2005, Pompidou Center New Media Collection, Miami Art Central, Miami, USA 2006 New Media Collection, 1965-2005, Pompidou Center, Taipei City Museum of Art, Taipei, Taiwan 2006 Nothing, Kunsthalle Museum of Art, Frankfurt, Germany 2006 Germany's 60's video art, Bremen Kunsthalle, Bremen, Germany 2006 enlarged snow, Zurich Museum of Art, Zurich, Switzerland 2006 Photo-Traffic, Saint-Gervais Contemporary Image Center, Geneva, Switzerland 2006 Shop, Pierre Hoover Video Art Collection, National Museum of Modern Art, Grenoble, France 2006 Summer of Love, Vienna Kunsthalle, Vienna, Austria 2006 Swallow My Seas, Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Hummelec, Denmark 2006 Tokyo - Berlin, Berlin - Tokyo, Mori Art Museum, Tokyo, Japan 2006 The 35th Rotterdam International Film Festival, Rotterdam, Netherlands 2005 Woman, Modification of Modernism, Museum of the Hoan Miro, Barcelona, ​​Spain 2005 Meeting with Modernism, Contemporary Art Museum, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil 2005 Fredrick Christian Flick Collection, Hamburg Bahnhof Museum of Modern Art, Berlin, Germany From 2005 Oki Electro Nikko, Rivoli Castle, Rivoli, Italy 2005 50th Anniversary Documentary, 1955-2005, Kunsthalle Predeciana, Kassel, Germany 2005 Mix Double, Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh, USA 2005 Value Ling, Franz-Gehrig Museum, Burgdorf, Switzerland Early Videography in 2005, National Museum of Contemporary Art, Athens, Greece 2005 205 New Collection, K21 Kunsthalle, Düsseldorf, Germany 2005 I am making artworks, Queensland Art Gallery, Brisbane, Australia 2005 German Art Area, National Museum of Contemporary Art, Bucharest, Romania 2005 Theater Art, Villa Manin Contemporary Art Center, Codro Ipoh, Italy 2005 World Heritage, Carnegie Museum Selection, Columbus Museum of Art, Columbus, USA 2005 Story about US, World Cultural House, Berlin, Germany 2005 Wonder Wall, NIMK, Amsterdam, Netherlands 2005 Hyundai, Juan Marquee Foundation, Madrid, Spain 2005 1965-2005 Time Video - Nobu Media Collection, Pompidou Center, Lacca Director's Contemporary Art Foundation, Barcelona, ​​Spain 2005 Superstars, Kunsthalle, Vienna, Austria 2004 Light and Sound, History of 20th Century Sound, National Georges Pompidou Arts Culture Center, Paris, France 2004 Video sculptures in Germany, since 1963, National Museum, Bangkok, Thailand 2004 Hypermedia, Orange County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, USA 2004 Father, Baby, Bronx Art Museum, New York, USA 2004 video, Recovered Video Collection, Aachen Ludwig Forum, Aachen, Germany Before and after the 2004 exhibition, the National Museum of Modern Art, Rome, Italy 2004 Agnes b.,? Frax Midi Pyrenees Collection, Toulouse, France 2004 Video Art, Traveling Owned, Lesamenti Foundation, Luxca, Italy 2004 Art & Life, Hara Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo, Japan 2004 Treasure Island, a 10-year collection at the Wolfsburg Museum, Wolfsburg Museum, Wolfsburg, Germany 2004 I Love Art 7, Watari Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo, Japan 2003 video footage, single channel work? From Pamela and Richard Kramerich Collection & New Art Trust, New York Contemporary Art Museum PS1, New York, USA 2003 Who Fears Contemporary Art ?, Israel Museum, Jerusalem, Israel 2003 X-screen, 1960-1970 Film installation and action, Museum of Contemporary Art, Vienna, Austria 2003 Recent Acquisitions, Montreal Contemporary Art Museum, Montreal, Canada 2003 Nothing Special, Technology Foundation for Art and Creative Technology, Liverpool, UK 2002 Animals come to Lechhev, National Georges Pompidou Arts Center, Children's Gallery, Paris, France 2002 Fluxus and Video Sculpture, Wilhelm Rembrücke Art Museum, Duisburg, Germany 2002 My artistic hometown: Rhineland, NRW? Dusseldorf Forum, Dusseldorf, Germany 1999 Geometric Shapes: Structure of Modern Art, Albert and Pike, Daimler-Chrysler Collection, New National Gallery, Berlin, Germany 1999 XXth Century Art in Germany, Hamburg Bahnhof Museum of Modern Art, Berlin, Germany 1999 American Century: Art and Culture 1900-2000 (Part 2), Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, USA 1998 Out of Action: Between Performance and Goods, 1949-1979, MOCA Geffen Contemporary, Los Angeles, USA 1997 Sculpture, Project in Munster 1997, Munster, Germany 1996 Mixed Pixels: Nam June Paik and Students, Video Dream 1978-1995, Düsseldorf Museum of Art, Düsseldorf, Germany 1996 Media Landscape, Guggenheim Museum Soho, New York, USA 1996 Sound Art, Berlin Academy of Arts, Berlin, Germany 1995 Knotted History: Fluxes in Germany 1962-1994, Orangery Museum, Paris, France 1995 1st Gwangju Biennale Special Exhibition: Info Art 95, Gwangju Museum of Art, Gwangju 1995 The 4th Istanbul Biennale, Istanbul Art and Culture Foundation, Istanbul, Turkey 1995 3rd Lyon Biennale: Installation Art, Cinema, Video, Computer, Lyon Museum of Modern Art, Lyon, France 1994 Redefining Home Video: Media, Sculpture, Home, Contemporary Art Center, Miami, USA 1995 Japanese Art after 1945: Scream Towards the Sky, Yokohama Museum of Art, Yokohama, Japan 1995 Howard Weiss Gallery: TV as Creative Material, 1969, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, USA 1993 In the spirit of Fluxus, Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, USA 1993 George Basselitz, Enzookuchi, Wolfgang Lives, Paik Nam June, Jean Pierre Raynard, Bordeaux Museum of Contemporary Art, Bordeaux, France 1991 I love art, Wataru Contemporary Art Museum, Tokyo, Japan 1990 8th Sydney Biennale: Ready Made Boomerang, Specific Relations in 20th Century Art, Sydney, Australia 1989 Whitney Biennale, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, USA 1989 Image World: Art and Media Culture, Whitney Museum of Art, New York, USA 1988 On Track: Art Exhibition in Technology, Nova Building, Alberta, Canada 1988 Video Art: Expanding Forms, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, USA 1988 Australian Biennale 1988: Southern Cross, A View of World Art 1940-1988, New South Wales State Museum of Art, Sydney, Australia 1988 Present location of art, New National Gallery, Berlin, Germany 1987 Whitney Biennale, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, USA 1987 Time, fashion, enthusiasm: the outward appearance of art, 1977-1987, National Georges Pompidou Arts Culture Center, Paris, France 1987 Documenta 8, Kassel, Germany 1987 Art for Television, Contemporary Art Museum, Los Angeles, USA 1985 Video Sculpture, ARCA Contemporary Art Center, Marseille, France 1984 The 41st Venice Biennale: Art, Current Events, and History, British Council, London, UK 1984 Video: Retrospect, Long Beach Museum of Art, Long Beach, USA 1984 Contents: Current Focus, Hershey Museum and Sculpture Park, Washington DC, USA 1983 USA Video: Twenty New Works, Hyogo Prefectural Museum of Art, Hyogo, Japan 1983 Whitney Biennale, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, USA 1982 Attitude / Concept / Image, Municipal Museum of Art, Amsterdam, Netherlands 1982 Wiesbaden Fluxus 1962-82, Short History of Fluxus 1,2,3, Nassau Museum Wiesbaden, Wiesbaden, Germany 1981 Whitney Biennale, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, USA 1980 For Eyes and Ears, Berlin Academy of Arts, Berlin, Germany 1980 Meeting point of Parnas, 1949-1965, Vondel Hoyte Art Museum, Wuppertal, Germany 1980 My Cologne Cathedral, Cologne Art Association, Cologne, Germany; Balaf-Riharts Museum, Cologne, Germany; Ludwig Museum, Cologne, Germany 1977 Whitney Biennale, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, USA 1977 Documenta 6, Kassel, Germany 1976 New York - Downtown Manhattan: Soho, Berlin Academy of Arts, Berlin, Germany 1976 River: Image of Mississippi, Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, USA 1975 Video Art, University of Pennsylvania, Pennsylvania Academy of Arts, Philadelphia USA 1975 The 13th Sao Paulo Biennale, Video Art USA, Sao Paulo, Brazil 1975 Vision for hearing: objects, concerts and visual music, Düsseldorf Museum, Düsseldorf, Germany 1975 Dazzling Reality, Wright State Museum of Art, Dayton, USA 1974 Current Art 74: American Art Exhibition, Kennedy Arts Center, Washington DC, USA 1974 Videotape, Cologne Art Association, Cologne, Germany 1974 Art is art, perspective towards international art after the seventies, Project 74, Cologne Kunsthalle, Cologne, Germany 1974 The 5th International Film Competition, Khonoke Hajj Casino, Khonoke Hajj, Belgium 1973 Cream - Europe Avalanche 1950-1970, Tübingen Museum, Tübingen, Germany 1973 Circuit: Video Invitation, Everson Museum of Art, Syracuse, USA 1972 Cine Probe: Evening with Jude Yalukut and Nam June Paik, New York Museum of Contemporary Art, New York, USA 1971 Hit and Run Screening (Jude Yalukut and Collabo), Resizione Preview Room, New York, USA 1970 Happening and Fluxus, Cologne Art Association, Cologne, Germany 1970 Visual and Television, Brandeis University Rose Museum, Waltham, USA 1969 Electrical Art, UCLA Gallery, Los Angeles, USA 1969 TV as creative medium, Howard Wise Gallery, New York, USA 1969 Other Ideas, Detroit Art Museum, Detroit, USA 1968 Art Edition: New Challenge, New York University Loew Student Center, New York, USA 1968 One Collection: Contemporary Art, Ballap-Riharts Museum, Cologne, Germany 1968 The Unexpected Pleasure of Artificial Brain Science: Computers and Art, Contemporary Art Society, London, UK 1968 Machinery: At the end of the technological age, New York Museum of Contemporary Art, New York, USA 1967 Artist as an image maker, Jewish Museum, New York, USA 1967 Light / Motion / Space, Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, USA 1967 Light on Orbit, Howard Weiss Gallery, New York, USA 1966 Kinetic and Programmed Art, Rhode Island Design School Museum, Providence, USA 1965 Coordinated Art, Boston Museum of Contemporary Art, Boston, USA 1962 World Sculptural Figures, Minami Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
Awards career
2006 The American Hero of Time Magazine 2001 Wilhelm Rembrücke, Duisburg, Germany 2001 Contemporary Sculpture Achievement Award, International Sculpture Center, Hamilton, USA 2000 National Art Club, New York, USA 2000 Brass Culture Medal, Korea 1998 Goethe Medal, Weimar, Germany 1998 Kyoto Prize, Artistic Philosophy Division, Kyoto, Japan 1995 Fukuoka Asian Culture Prize, Fukuoka, Japan 1995 Hoam Art Award, Seoul, Korea 1993 The 45th Venice Biennale Golden Lion Award, Venezia, Italy 1993 Picasso Medal, UNESCO 1991 Goslla Kaiser Ling Sang, Gosla, Germany 1991 Scohigan Medal Video Installation Division, USA 1981 Bill Groman, Berlin, Germany
Born in Seoul in 1932. Activities in Seoul November,2006 Selected as a Hero of Asia, Time USA