Lee U-FAN LEE U-FAN Born 1936 Kyongsangnamdo, Korea Moved to Japan 1956 Currently lives and works in Japan and France Selected solo exhibitions 2002 SCAI The Bathhouse, Tokyo, Japan 2001 'Lee U-fan: Painting 1973–2001', Kunstmuseum, Bonn, Germany 1999 ‘Lee U-Fan ‘70s Prints’, Takeda Art Co. Inc., Tokyo, Japan 1998 'Lee U-Fan Bilder und Skulpturen', Stadelsches Kunstinstitut und Stadtische Galerie Frankfurt am Main, Germany 'Lee Ufan Print Works 1970–1998', Mitaka City Gallery of Art, Tokyo, Japan 1997 Galerie Nationale du Jeu de Paume, Paris, France 1996 Lisson Gallery, London, UK 1995 Stadtisches Museum Leverkusen, Germany 1994 Fondazione Mudima, Milano, Italy The National Museum of Contemporary Art, Seoul, Korea 1993 The Museum of Modern Art, Kamakura, Japan Toshi Shuppan, Tokyo, Japan 1991, '97 Lorenzelli Arte, Milano, Italy 1991 Hara Museum ARC, Gunma, Japan 1989 'With Winds: Lee U-Fan 1989', Gallery Ueda, Tokyo, Japan 1988 'Development of Sensitivity and Logic', Museum of Fine Art, Gifu, Japan Galerie Anselm Dreher, Berlin, Germany Padiglione d'Arte Contemporanea, Milano, Italy 1986, '89, '93, '98 Shirota Gallery, Tokyo, Japan 1985, '90, '93, '99 Kamakura Gallery, Tokyo, Japan 1978, '84, '87, '90, '94, '97 Galerie Hyundai, Seoul, Korea 1973, '77, '80, '83, '86, '91, '93, '95, '99 Tokyo Gallery, Japan Selected group exhibitions 2001 'Century City: Art and Culture in the Modern Metropolis', Tate Modern, London, UK 'Ikiro: Be Alive. Contemporary Art from Japan 1980 to the Present', Kroller-Muller Museum, Otterlo, The Netherlands 2000 'Man + Space: 2000 Kwangju Biennale', Korea ‘Shanghai Biennale 2000’, China 1999 'Kunstwelten im Dialog', Museum Ludwig, Cologne, Germany 'Korean Monochromism: Methods, Ideas and Spirits', Pusan Metropolitan Museum of Art, Korea 1998 ‘Poetics of Time’, Ho-Am Art Museum, Seoul, Korea 'Sarajevo 2000', Museum Moderner Kunst Stiftung Ludwig, Vienna, Austria 1997 'Made In France', Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, France 1996 Musée D'Art Moderne Saint-Etienne, France 'Project 8: Prehistoric Stone & Media Show', Total Contemporary Art Museum, Seoul, Korea 'Small Truths', John Hansard Gallery, Southampton, UK 1995 'Asiana: Contemporary Art from the Far East', Palazzo Vendramin Calergi, Venice, Italy 'Korean Art 1995: Quality, Quantity, Sensation', National Museum of Contemporary Art, Seoul, Korea 'Matter and Perception 1970: Mono-Ha and the Search for Fundamentals', Gifu Prefectural Museum, Japan 1994 ‘Japanese Art after 1945: Scream Against the Sky’, Yokohama Museum of Art, Japan; USA 'Japanese Contemporary Art', Guggenheim Museum Soho, New York, USA 1992 'Working With Nature: Traditional Thought In Contemporary Art from Korea', Tate Gallery Liverpool, UK; Korea 'Avantguardie Giapponesi Degli Anni 70', Galleria d'Arte Moderna di Bologna, Italy 'Anschitssachen', Galerie M. Bochum, Germany 1991 'Seven Artists: Aspects of Contemporary Japanese Art', Santa Monica Museum of Art, USA; Mexico; Japan 1990 'Minimal Art', The National Museum of Art, Osaka, Japan 1989 '20ste Biennale Middelheim-Japan', Middleheim Open-Air Museum of Sculpture, Antwerp, Belgium 'Effets de Miroir', Bibliothèque de Louis Aragon, Choisy, France 1988 'Mono-Ha', Museo Laboratorio di Arte Contemporanea, Rome, Italy ‘Olympiad of Art’, Olympic Park, Seoul, Korea 1987 'Le Japon des Avant-Gardes', Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, France 1986 'Seoul-Paris', Centre National des Arts Plastiques, Paris, France 'Mono-Ha', Kamakura Gallery, Tokyo, Japan 1985 '40 Years of Japanese Contemporary Art', Tokyo Metropolitan Art Museum, Japan 1984 'Trends of Contemporary Japanese Art 1970–1984: Universality/Individuality', Tokyo Metropolitan Art Museum, Japan 1983 'ARS 83', Ateneum, Helsinki, Finland 'M. Kawabata, Lee U-fan and Y. Saito', Juda Rowan Gallery, London, UK 1982 'Drawing Today; Masters of Drawing: Denes, Gafgen, Tubke, U-Fan: 2nd International Young Artist Triennial of Drawing', Kunsthalle Nuremberg, Germany 'Japanese Contemporary Art Exhibition', Camden Arts Centre, London, UK 1980 'Skulptur im 20 Jahrhundert', Basel, Switzerland 'Japan Kalojdoskop', Sweden 1979 '1st Henry Moore Grand Prize Exhibition', Hakone Open-Air Museum, Japan 1977 ‘Documenta VI’, Kassel, Germany '13th Contemporary Art Exhibition of Japan' , Tokyo Metropolitan Art Museum, Japan 1976 '2nd Biennale of Sydney', Australia 'International Festival of Painting', Cagnes-Sur-Mer, France 1975 '3rd Triennale India', Lalit Akademi, New Delhi, India '11th Contemporary Art Exhibition of Japan', Tokyo Metropolitan Art Museum, Japan 1974 'Japan Traditional Gegenwart', Stadtische Kunsthalle, Düsseldorf, Germany 1973 'Sao Paulo Biennale', Brazil 1971 '7th Paris Biennale', France 1970 'Aspects of New Japanese Art', The National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo, Japan 1969 'Trends in Contemporary Art', The National Museum of Modern Art, Kyoto, Japan 1968 'Contemporary Art of Korea', The National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo, Japan Qualifications, grants & awards 2001 Praemium Imperiale, Painting, Japan Art Association Ho-Am Prize, Samsung Foundation of Culture, Korea 2000 UNESCO Prize for Promotion of the Arts (for Lifetime Achievement) 1991 Chevalier de L'Ordre des Arts et des Lettres, Rèpublique Française 1979 Superlative Prize, 1st Henry Moore Grand Prize Exhibition, Hakone Open-Air Museum, Japan 1961 Graduated Nihon University, Department of Philosophy, Tokyo, Japan Collections Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia Berlin National Galerie, Germany Fondazione Mudima, Milano, Italy Fukuoka Museum of Art, Japan Hara Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo, Japan Hiroshima City Museum of Contemporary Art, Japan Ho-Am Art Museum, Seoul, Korea Kroller-Muller Rijksmuseum, Otterlo, The Netherlands Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, France Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo, Japan Museum of Fine Arts, Gifu, Japan Museum of Modern Art, New York, USA National Museum of Contemporary Art, Seoul, Korea National Museum of Modern Art, Kyoto, Japan National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo, Japan Queensland Art Gallery, Brisbane, Australia Tate Gallery, London, UK Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Contemporary Art, Japan Selected bibliography Fisher, Jean (ed.). Selected Writings by Lee U-fan 1970–96. Lisson Gallery, London, 1996. Lee, U-fan. ‘U-fan Lee: on infinity’. Domus, no.779, February 1996, pp.4–6. Lee, U-fan and Perrodin, Roselyne Marsaud. ‘Theorie, Pratique, Méditation: Lee Ufan’. Pratiques: reflexions sur l’art, 7, Autumn 1999, pp.3–23. Perrodin, Roselyne Marsaud. ‘Lee Ufan: L’affirmation d’un faire poétique’. Pratiques: reflexions sur l’art, 7, Autumn 1999, pp.24–38. Posca, Claudia. ‘Lee Ufan: Interconnection — Skulpturen, Bilder, Zeichnungen’. Kunstforum International, no.153, January–March 2001, pp.351–2. Restany, Pierre. ‘Lee U Fan and the Mono-ha revolution’. Domus, no.779 February 1996, pp.80–86. Artists and Works Print friendly version