Kibong Rhee

1957       

Born in Seoul, Korea 

 

Education

1981     

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

 

1985     

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

 

Solo Exhibitions

2012       

Arko, Seoul, Korea

2008     

Kukje Gallery, Seoul, Korea

 

2005     

Sindorico Art Center, Asan, Korea

 

2003     

Kukje Gallery, Seoul, Korea

 

2002     

Kukje Gallery, Seoul, Korea

 

1997    

Kukje Gallery, Seoul, Korea

 

1995     

Yeh Gallery, Seoul, Korea

 

1994     

Gallery Seowha, Seoul, Korea

 

1993     

Hena-Kent Gallery, New York, U.S.A.

 

1992     

Gallery Meegun, Seoul, Korea

Four Season Gallery, Seoul, Korea

 

1991    

Gallery Meegun, Seoul, Korea

 

1988     

In Kong Gallery, Seoul, Korea

 

Selected Group Exhibitions

2019     

The 25th Anniversary Simon’s Friends, Gallery Simon, Seoul, Korea

 

2018   

Writing the History of the Future, ZKM, Karlsruhe, Germany

2017       

Neo-naturalism, Ilwoo Space, Seoul, Korea

Your Hand, My Heart, Gallery Simon, Seoul, Korea

2016       

K Museum Opening Special Exhibition (Part. II), K Museum of Contemporary Art, Seoul, Korea

Partir, Bogéna Galerie, Saint-Paul de Vence, France 

Changwon Sculpture Biennale 2016, Changwon, Korea 

New Romance: art and the posthuman, Museum of Contemporary Art Australia, Sydney, Australia

2015     

Korea-Australia Partnership Exhibition New Romance, MMCA, Seoul, Korea    

Into Thin Air, Kumho Museum of Art, Seoul, Korea 

2014       

Neo-Sansu, Daegue Museum of Art, Daegue, Korea

K-Pop-Process. Otherness. Play, MOCA, Taipei, Taiwan

Water_Innocence, SOMA, Seoul, Korea

2012       

(Im)Possible Landscape, Plateau, Seoul, Korea

 Mediations Biennale, Poznan, Poland

ReBooting, The Yan Huang Art Museum, Beijing, China

SeMA Hidden Track 2012, SeMA, Seoul, Korea

Korean Painting Now, National Taiwan Museum of Fine Arts, Taichung, Taiwan

2011       

Moscow Biennale, Moscow, Russia

2010       

Screaming From The Mountain, Sørlandets Kunstmuseum, Kristiansand, Norway

Sensorium, Korea University Museum, Seoul, Korea

The scent of forest sound of forest, Ewah Womans Univesity Museum, Seoul, Korea

And_writers 2010, Nanjing Biennale, Nanjing, China

Mirrors of continuous changes, TaeKwang Industrial Co., Seoul, Korea

Busan Biennale, Busan, Korea

2009     

Reflection, Dojima River Forum, Osaka, Japan

Asia Pacific Triennial of Contemporary Art, Queensland, Australia

Gallery of Modern Art, Queensland, Australia

Biennale Cuvée 2009, Linz, Austria

 

2008     

Drawn in the Clouds: Contemporary Asian Art, Museum of Contemporary Art Kiasma, Helsinki, Finland

2008 Sevilla Biennale, Sevilla and Granada, Spain

Re-Imagining Asia, House of World Cultures, Berlin, Germany / New Art Gallery Walsall, Walsall, UK

Emergent Poetics, Emocao art.ificial, Sao Paulo, Brazil

Singapore Biennale 2008, Singapore 

2007     

Thermocline of Art - The New Asian Wave, ZKM, Karlsruhe, Germany

Friends of Simon, Simon Gallery, Seoul, Korea 

2006       

Friends of Simon, Simon Gallery, Seoul, Korea

2005       

The Blue, Gallery Gana, Seoul, Korea

Before & Now, Simon Gallery, Seoul, Korea

Cool & Warm, Sungkok Museum, Seoul, Korea 

2004       

Image Utopia, Museum Han Jun Plaza, Seoul, Korea

Ventd’est, Chapelle de la Sorbonne, Paris, France

2003       

Seoul Book Art-Art Book Art, MMCA, Gwacheon, Korea

2002       

Chemical Art, Gallery Sagan, Seoul, Korea

Luna Park, Kunstverein, Stuttgart, Germany

1999       

Dialogue, Total Museum, Seoul, Korea

Sweet Lips, CAIS Gallery, Seoul, Korea

1998       

4+1 Korean Artists, Hofstra Museum, New York, U.S.A.

Spiritual-Scape, Generous-Miracle Gallery, New York, U.S.A.

Chorus & Distortion, Gallery Untitled, New York, U.S.A. 

Contemporary Art Polemics: Media & Surface, Sungkok Museum, Seoul, Korea

Project 8, Total Museum, Seoul, Korea 

Picaf98, City Museum, Busan, Korea 

Logos & Pathos, Kwanhoon Gallery, Seoul, Korea

1997       

2nd Gwangju Biennale, Gwangju, Korea

Réalité Seoul, GongPyung Art Center, Seoul, Korea

1996       

Ana-chrome, Gallery Seohwa, Seoul, Korea

Art at Home, Gallery Seomi, Seoul, Korea

1995       

The Eye of Dealer, Hangaram Museum, Seoul, Korea

Total Prized Artists’ Show, Total Museum, Seoul, Korea

Logos & Pathos, Kwanhoon Gallery, Seoul, Korea

Korea Contemporary Art, China Museum, Beijing, China

Seoul ‘80, Gallery Gain, Seoul, Korea

Retrospective of Contemporary Art ’50, Seoul Press Center, Seoul, Korea

1994       

Logos & Pathos, Kwanhoon Gallery, Seoul, Korea

Artists of Yeh Gallery, Yeh Gallery, Seoul, Korea

Seoul ’80, Shilla Gallery, Daegu, Korea

Suggestion, Hangaram Museum, Seoul, Korea

1993       

Language of Figurative, Gallery Vinkel, Seoul, Korea

Ecole de Seoul, Kwanhoon Gallery, Seoul, Korea

Total Grand Art Exhibition, Total Museum, Seoul, Korea ,   etc

 

Collection

Leeum, Samsung Museum of Art, Seoul, Korea

MMCA, Seoul, Korea

SeMA, Seoul, Korea

Gyeonggi Museum of Modern Art, Ansan, Korea

Artsonje Museum, Seoul, Korea

ZKM Museum, Karlsruhe, Germany

Neuberger Berman Collection, New York, U.S.A.

Jill Sander Collection, Germany

Ronald and Ann Pizzuti, Columbus, Ohio, U.S.A.

Barbara & Richard Lane, New York, U.S.A.

Mitchell & Fran Harwood, New York, U.S.A.

Gerald Lippes, New York, U.S.A.

Brigitte Wagner-Halswick, Cologne, Germany

Luigi & Lidia Zaza, Chiasso, Switzerland

Reverend Alfred R. Shands, Kentucky, U.S.A. ,   etc