Moon Beom

Education 

1980 

B.F.A. in Painting, Seoul National University, Seoul, Korea

1982 

M.F.A. in Painting, Seoul National University, Seoul, Korea

Present 

Professor at College of Art and Design, Konkuk University, Seoul, Korea

Selected Solo Exhibitions

2013 

Kim Foster Gallery, New York, USA

2011 

Gallery Simon,Seoul, Korea

2010 

Kim Foster Gallery, New York, USA

2007 

Kim Foster Gallery, New York, USA

PKM Gallery, Seoul, Korea

2005 

Kim Foster Gallery, New York, USA

2004 

PKM Gallery. Seoul, Korea

2003

Kim Foster Gallery, New York, USA

2002 

Shin Gallery, Cheongju, Korea

2001 

Kim Foster Gallery, New York, USA

1999 

Kukje Gallery, Seoul, Korea

1997 

Shilla Gallery, Deagu, Korea

1996 

Gallery Bhak, Seoul, Korea

Shilla Gallery, Deagu, Korea

1994 

Seohwa Gallery, Seoul, Korea

Gallery Bhak, Seoul, Korea

Shilla Gallery, Deagu, Korea

1993 

Icon Gallery, Seoul, Korea

1991 

Jean Gallery, Seoul, Korea

1989 

Soo Gallery, Seoul, Korea

1987 

Fine Art Center, Seoul, Korea

Kwanhoon Gallery, Seoul, Korea

1982 

Total Gallery, Seoul, Korea

Selected Group Exhibitions

2016  

Contemporary Sansuhwa, Pearl Lam Galleries, Hong Kong, China

Busan Biennale 2016, F1963 (KISWIRE Suyeong Factory), Busan, Korea

2014 

Sequential Abstraction, Kim Foster Gallery, New York, USA

L’Avventura, Kim Foster Gallery, New York, USA

Form as Thinking: Rediscovery of Drawing, Museum San, Wonju, Korea

simon’s friends: 20th Anniversary Exhibition, Gallery Simon, Seoul, Korea

2013 

Zeitgeist Korea, National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Seoul, Korea

Scenes vs Scenes, Buk Seoul Museum of Art Inaugural Exhibition, Seoul, Korea

(Not) Water, Kim Foster Gallery, New York, USA

2012 

Korean Eye, Saatchi Gallery, London, UK

Dansaekhwa: Korean Monochrome Painting, National Museum of Contemporary Art, Gwacheon, Korea

SeMA GOLD 2012:Hidden Track, Seoul Museum of Art, Seoul, Korea

(Im)Possible Landscape, Plateau Samsung Museum of Art, Seoul, Korea

2011 

Post Nature, WooMin Art Center, Chungju, Korea

Out of blue, Strohl Art Center, New York, USA

Embracing The Void, HADA Contemporary, London, UK

2010 

invisible windows, yfoGallery, Deagu, Korea

2009 

Drawing Painting, Kim Foster Gallery, New York, USA

Foregrounded, PKM Gallery, Seoul, Korea

Ethics, Kunstdoc Gallery, Seoul, Korea

Anamnesis and Extrapolation, PKM Gallery, Beijing, China

2008 

YOUniverse, Seville Biennale, Andalusian Centre of Contemporary Art of

Seville (CAAC), Seville & The Palace of Charles V, Alhambra, Granada, Spain

Drawing Painting, Kim Foster Gallery, New York, USA

Simon's Friends, Gallery Simon, Seoul, Korea

2007

Percept/Scape-Concet/Scape, Gallery Lux, Seoul, Korea

Inagural Exhibition, Museum of Art,Seoul National Univ., Seoul, Korea

Hommage 100, Korea Art Center, Busan, Korea

Simon's Friend, Gallery Simon, Seoul, Korea

2006 

Simply Beauiful, Center Pasqu Art, Biel, Switzerland

Camera Work, Seoul Museum of Art, Seoul, Korea

Viewing Object, Seoul Museum of Art, Seoul, Korea

Simon's Friend, Gallery Simon, Seoul, Korea

2005 

The Diversity Show, Credit Suisse First Boston, Curated by Betty Levin, New York, USA

Le Flux, Galerie Lumen, Paris, France

Echo Beyond the time, Ewha Univ. Museum, Seoul, Korea

Cool & Warm, Sungkok Art Museum, Seoul, Korea

Simon's Five Friends, Gallery Simon, Seoul, Korea

2004 

Paintings That Paints Themselves, Kresge Art Museum, East Lansing, Michigan, USA

New York Art Scene 2004, Collectors Gallery, Albright-Knox Art Gallery,

Buffalo, New York, USA

Gallery Simon's 10th Anniversary exhibition, Gallery Simon, Seoul, Korea

2003 

Samadhi-Contemplation, Inaugural Exhibition, Chelsea Art Museum, New York, USA

Simon's Five Friends, Gallery Simon, Seoul, Korea

2002 

Inaugural Exhibition of Seoul Museum of Art, Seoul, Korea

Gwangju Biennale, Liberty Park, Gwangju, Korea

Au Hors D'eouvre, Kim Foster Gallery, New York, USA

dis/location, 291 Gallery, Daegu, USA

2001 

Rebirth of Painting, National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Gwacheon, Korea

Black & White, Kim Foster Gallery, New York, USA

Simon's Seven Friends, Gallery Simon, Seoul, Korea

2000 

Gwangju Biennale, City Museum of Art, Gwangju, Korea

Art and Order, Noh Gallery, Seoul, Korea

Traces, CAIS Gallery, Seoul, Korea

1999 

Nature, Parkyusook Gallery, Seoul, Korea

Works on Paper, Seowha Gallery, Seoul, Korea

Simon's Three Friends, Gallery Simon, Seoul, Korea

Seoul 80 - Sweet Lips, CAIS Gallery, Seoul, Korea

1999-86 

Logos & Pathos, Kwanhoon Gallery, Seoul, Korea

1998 

Spiritual-scapes, Generous Miracles Gallery, New York, USA

1997 

Namjune Paik, Moon Beom, Hyunki Park, Kwangyoung Chun, Kim Foster Gallery, New York, USA

1996 

Window Gallery Project, Hyundai Gallery, Seoul, Korea

anachrome, Seowha Gallery, Seoul, Korea

Install-Scape, Teagu Center of Culture, Daegu, Korea

1995 

Seoul 80 - Intertextuality, Speed, Gaain Gallery, Seoul, Korea

Information&Reality-KoreanContemporary Art, FruitmarketGallery, Edinburgh, UK

Fusing Cement in Art, Sunggok Museum of Art, Seoul, Korea

1993 

Contemporary-Communication Art, Gallery Bahk, Seoul, Korea

1992 

Informel apres Informel, Chosunilbo Gallery, Seoul, Korea

Seoul 80 - Ten Years After, Seowha Gallery, Seoul, Korea

1991 

Korean Contemporary Art, Sonje Museum of Art, Gyeongju, Korea

1990 

Artists of Nineties, City Museum of Art, Seoul, Korea

1989 

Kim Yongik, Moon Beom, Hong Myungsup, Space Gallery, Seoul, Korea

1988 

Korean Contemporary Painting, Nat'l Museum of History, Taipei

1987 

Tail of Elephant, Kanagawa Gallery, Yokohama, Japan

1986 

Korean Art-Old and New, City Hall, Kyoto, Japan

1985 

Seoul-16 Artists, Kwanhoon Gallery, Seoul, Korea

1984 

Korean Art Now, City Museum of Art, Taipei

1983 

Contemporary Paper Works-Korea & Japan, City Museum of Art, Kyoto, Japan

New Paper Works from Korea, Spring Gallery, Taipei

Three Korean Artists in L.A., Artcore Gallery, Los Angeles, USA

1982 

After Logicalness, Soo Gallery, Daegu, Korea

Common Sense,Susceptibility,Symptom, Kwanhoon Gallery, Seoul, Korea

1981 

32e Salon de Jeune Peintre & Expression, Grand Palais, Paris, France

Seoul 80 - Objecthood, Space Gallery, Seoul, Korea

Seoul 80 - Work by Screen, Dongduk Gallery, Seou, Korea

Seoul 80 - Report on Masters', Space Gallery, Seoul, Korea

1980 

Seoul 80 - Work with Photo, Space Gallery, Seoul, Korea

1979

Performance, 'The Thing Which to See', Naengchun Valley, Daegu, Korea

1978 

Performance, 'See & Look', Nakdong River, Daegu, Korea