NAM JUNE PAIK NAM JUNE PAIK Born 1932 Seoul, Korea 1950 Moved to Hong Kong and later to Japan Has lived and worked in New York, USA since 1964 Selected solo exhibitions 2002 'Special Exhibition of Nam June Paik', Korean Folk Village Art Museum, Yongin City, Korea 2000 ‘The Worlds of Nam June Paik’, Ho-Am Art Gallery, Seoul, Korea; USA; Spain 1999 'Nam June Paik: Fluxus/Video', Kunsthalle Bremen, Germany 1997 'Coyote 3', Anthology Film Archives, New York, USA (performance) 1996 'Electronic Undercurrents: Nam June Paik Video Sculpture', Statens Museum fur Kunst, Copenhagen, Denmark 1995 'Nam June Paik '95: Art and Communication', Gallery Hyundai, Seoul, Korea Fukuoka Art Museum, Japan 1994 ‘The Electronic Super Highway: Travels with Nam June Paik’, Fort Lauderdale Museum of Art, USA 1993 'Feedback & Feedforth', Watari-Um Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo, Japan 1992 ‘Nam June Paik Retrospective', National Museum of Modern Art, Seoul, Korea 1991 ‘Video Time — Video Space’, Kunsthalle Basel and Kunsthaus Zurich, Switzerland; Germany; Austria 1990 'Nam June Paik: Beuys Vox 1961–86', Gallery Hyundai and Gallery Won, Seoul, Korea 1989 ‘Nam June Paik: The Family of Robot’, Fukuoka Art Museum, Japan 'Nam June Paik: Eine Kerze', Portikus, Frankfurt am Main, Germany 1988 ‘Nam June Paik: Video Works 1963–88’, Hayward Gallery, London, UK 1984 ‘Nam June Paik — Mostly Video’, Tokyo Metropolitan Art Museum, Japan 'Concert Performance with Two Pianos' (with Joseph Beuys), Sogetsu Hall, Tokyo, Japan (performance) 1982 ‘Nam June Paik Retrospective Exhibition', Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, USA 'Tricolor Video', Musée National d’Art Moderne, Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, France 1981 ‘By With Of On Beuys, Cage, Cunningham, Paik’, Watari-Um Gallery, Tokyo, Japan 1980 ‘The New American Filmmakers Series, Nam June Paik’, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, USA 1979 Guadalcanal (with Charlotte Moorman), WNET/Thirteen, New York, USA (performance) 1978 ‘A Tribute to John Cage’, Watari-Um Gallery, Tokyo, Japan ‘Nam June Paik Retrospective’, Musée d’Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, France 1977 'Fluxus Traffic', Rene Block Gallery, Berlin, Germany 1976 ‘Moon Is The Oldest TV-Set’, Rene Block Gallery, New York, USA 'Nam June Paik: Werke 1946–1976: Musik-Fluxus-Video', Kölnischer Kunstverein, Cologne, Germany 1975 Rene Block Gallery, New York, USA 1974 Global Groove (with Charlotte Moorman), WNET/Thirteen, New York, USA 1971 ‘Electronic Art III ' (Paik-Abe Video Synthesizer with Charlotte Moorman), Galeria Bonino in collaboration with Intermedia Institute, New York, USA (performance) 1967 Opera Sextronique (with Charlotte Moorman), Filmmakers’ Cinémathêque, New York, USA (performance) 1965 ‘Nam June Paik: Cybernetics Art and Music’, New School for Social Research, New York, USA (performance) 1965, '68, '74 'Electronic Art', Galeria Bonino, New York, USA 1964 '2nd Annual New York Avant Garde Festival', duet II (with Charlotte Moorman and Toshi Ichiyanagi); plus-minus by Karlheinz Stockhausen (with Charlotte Moorman and robot); Robot Opera. Action Music (as part of Karlheinz Stockhausen’s Originale). These were Paik’s first performances with Moorman. 1963 ‘Piano for All Senses’, Amstel 47, Amsterdam, The Netherlands. Performed by P. Broetzman, W. de Ridder, M. Montwe and T. Schmit in Paik’s absence. Exposition of Music-Electronic Television, Galerie Parnass, Wuppertal- Elberfeld, Germany (Paik's first solo exhibition) 1961 ‘Action Music; Do It Yourself – Answers to La Monte Young; Simple; Read Music’, Liljevalchs Konsthall, Stockholm, Sweden; Denmark; Norway (performance) 1959 Hommage à John Cage. 'Bildschreine' exhibition, Galerie 22, Düsseldorf, Germany (performance) Selected group exhibitions 2001 ‘Double Feature: Paul Kos and Nam June Paik’, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, USA 'Perth International Arts Festival', John Curtin Gallery, Curtin University, Perth, Australia 2000 ‘Media _city Seoul 2000', Seoul Metropolitan Museum of Art, Korea 'La Estampa Coreana Contemporanea: Reflejo de Una Cultura', Calcografia Nacional, Madrid, Spain 1999 ‘The American Century: Art and Culture, 1900–2000 (Part 2)’, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, USA ‘Rewind to the Future’, Bonner Kunstverein, Germany 'Fluxus in America', Rafael Vostell Gallery, Berlin, Germany '1999 Passage: I Love Art', Watari-Um Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo, Japan 'The Liquid Medium', Queensland Art Gallery, Brisbane, Australia 1998 ‘Poetics of Time’, Ho-Am Art Museum, Seoul, Korea 'Art Documentary '98', Hiroshima City Museum of Contemporary Art, Japan 1997 'Skulptur. Projekte In Munster 1997', Germany ‘Biennale d’Art Contemporain de Lyon (4e)’, France ‘Francesco Conz and the Intermedia Avant-Garde’, Queensland Art Gallery, Brisbane, Australia ‘Out of Actions: Between Performance and the Object, 1949–1979’, The Geffen Contemporary, Los Angeles, USA 1996 ‘Mediascape’, Guggenheim Museum SoHo, New York, USA 'The World Over/Under Capricorn: Art in the Age of Globalisation', Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, The Netherlands; Aotearoa New Zealand 1995 ‘infoART: ‘95 Kwangju Biennale’, Korea 'Asiana: Contemporary Art from the Far East: 46th Venice Biennale', Palazzo Vendramin Calergi, Venice, Italy ‘4th International Istanbul Biennial: The Vision of Art in a Paradoxical World’, Turkey ‘Information and Reality: Korean Contemporary Art’, Fruitmarket Gallery, Edinburgh, UK ‘1968’, National Gallery of Australia, Canberra, Australia 'The Tiger's Tail: 15 Contemporary Artists for Venice '95', National Museum of Contemporary Art, Seoul, Korea; Italy 'Art and Electronics', Hong Kong Arts Centre 'Eine Lange Geschichte mit vielen Knoten (A Long Tale With Many Knots): Fluxus in Deutschland, 1962–1994', Institut fur Auslandsbeziehungen, Stuttgart, Germany; Israel; Australia; Aotearoa New Zealand; Japan; Korea 'Korean Art 1995: Quality, Quantity, Sensation', National Museum of Contemporary Art, Seoul, Korea 1994 ‘Japanese Art after 1945: Scream against the Sky’, Yokohama Museum of Art, Japan; USA ‘Home Video Redefined: Media, Sculpture and Domesticity’, Center of Contemporary Art, Miami, USA 'Transformers: A Moving Experience', Auckland Art Gallery, Aotearoa New Zealand 1993 ‘Neither East nor West: Seven Contemporary New York Artists', Taipei Gallery, Taiwan ‘Artist as Nomad’, German Pavilion, 45th Biennale di Venezia, Italy 'Fluxus and after', Queensland Art Gallery, Brisbane, Australia 'Taejon Expo ‘93’, Korea ‘Les Pensées Bleues: Georg Baselitz, Enzo Cucchi, Wolfgang Laib, Nam June Paik, Jean-Pierre Raynaud', capcMusée d’art contemporain de Bordeaux, France 1990 ‘The Readymade Boomerang: Certain Relations in 20th Century Art: 8th Biennale of Sydney’, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia 1991 'Under the Influence of Fluxus', Plug In Inc., Winnipeg, Canada; USA; South America 1989 ‘Magiciens de la Terre', Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, France ‘Image World: Art and Media Culture’, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, USA ‘Theme Hiroshima’, Hiroshima City Museum of Contemporary Art, Japan 'La Fée Electronique', Musée d'Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, France 1987 ‘The Arts for Television’, The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, USA 'L'Epoque, La Mode, La Morale, La Passion: Aspects de l'Art d'Aujourdhui, 1977–1987', Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, France 1986 'Prospect 86: Eine Internationale Ausstellung Aktueller Kunst', Frankfurter Kunstverein, Frankfurt, Germany 1985 'Video Sculptur: Retrospektiv und Aktuell', ARCA Centre d'Art Contemporain, Marseilles, France; Germany; Switzerland 1984 Won Gallery (with Merce Cunningham), Seoul, Korea Watari-Um Gallery (with Joseph Beuys), Tokyo, Japan 1983 ‘American Video: Twenty New Works’, Hyogo Prefectural Museum of Modern Art, Japan 1982 '1962 Wiesbaden Fluxus 1982: eine kleine Geschichte von Fluxus in drei Teilen' (with John Cage), Wiesbaden, Germany '60–80 Attitudes/Concepts/Images', Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam 1980 'Mein Kölner Dom' (with Ingo Gunther), Kölnischer Kunstverein, Cologne, etc., Germany 1977 ‘Documenta 6’, Kassel, Germany 1976 'The River: Images of the Mississippi', Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, USA 1975 ‘Video Art USA: 13th Bienal de Sao Paulo', Brazil 1974 '5th International Experimental Film Competition', Knokke-Heist, Belgium '2nd International Computer Arts Festival', The Kitchen, Mercer Centre, New York, USA (Performance) 1972 'Cineprobe: An Evening with Jud Yalkut and Nam June Paik', The Museum of Modern Art, New York, USA 1970 'Vision and Television', Rose Art Gallery, Brandeis University, Waltham, USA 'Happening and Fluxus', Kölnischer Kunstverein, Cologne, Germany 1969 'Electric Art', UCLA Art Galleries, Los Angeles, USA 'TV As A Creative Medium', Howard Wise Gallery, New York, USA 1968 'Cybernetic Serendipity', Institute of Contemporary Art, London, UK; USA 'The Machine: As Seen at the End of the Mechanical Age', The Museum of Modern Art, New York, USA 1967 ‘Light/Motion/Space’, Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, USA 1966 'Kinetic and Programmed Art', Museum of Art, Providence, USA 1965 ‘Art Turned On’, Boston Institute of Contemporary Art, USA 1962 'World Graphic Scores', Minami Gallery, Tokyo, Japan '1st Fluxus International Festival of Very New Music', Wiesbaden, Germany Qualifications, grants & awards 2001 Lifetime Achievement in Contemporary Sculpture Award, International Sculpture Center, USA 2000 Geum-Gwan Medal, Government of Korea Order of Merit for Culture 1998 The Kyoto Prize, The Inamori Foundation, Japan 1995 Ho-Am Prize, Korea 1993 Golden Lion, XLV Biennale di Venezia, Italy 1992 UNESCO Picasso Medal 1991 Kaiserring Prize, Monchehaus Museum fur Moderne Kunst, Germany Will-Grohmann Preis, Akademie der Kunste, Berlin, Germany 1977 Solomon R. Guggenheim Fellowship 1971 Artist-in-residence, WNET-TV, New York, USA 1969 Artist-in-residence, WGBH-TV, Boston, USA 1958 Studied at University of Munich, Department of Art History (musicology) 1957–58 Studied composition with Wolfgang Fortner at the Musikhochschule Freiburg, Germany 1956–57 Studied music history with Thrasybulos Georgiades, University of Munich, Germany 1956 Graduated University of Tokyo, Japan (studies in music, art history, philosophy) Collections Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia Gallery Hyundai, Seoul, Korea Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington DC, USA John Kaldor, Sydney, Australia Museum of Contemporary Art (MOT), Tokyo, Japan National Gallery of Australia, Canberra National Museum of American Art, Washington, DC, USA National Museum of Contemporary Art, Seoul, Korea Queensland Art Gallery, Brisbane, Australia Sonje Museum of Contemporary Art, Kyungju, Korea Stuart Collection, University of California, San Diego, USA Watari-Um Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo, Japan Selected bibliography Ashton, Dore. 'Love-making on the moon is four times hard'. Modern Painters, vol.13, no.1, Spring 2000,pp.54–6. Blom, Ina. ‘The touch through time: Raoul Hausmann, Nam June Paik and the transmission technologies of the avant-garde’. Leonardo, vol.34, no.3, 2001, pp.209–15. Decker-Phillips, Edith. Paik Video. Barrytown Ltd, Barrytown, NY, 1998. Fargier, Jean-Paul. Nam June Paik. Art Press, Paris, 1989. Goodman, Jonathan. ‘TV Buddha, video fish: the worlds of Nam June Paik’. Art AsiaPacific, no.29, 2001, pp.22–24. Hanzal, Carla. ‘Traversing the worlds of Nam June Paik’. Sculpture, vol.20, no.5, June 2001, pp.18–23. Herzogenrath, Wulf & Schmidt, Sabine Maria. Nam June Paik: Fluxus, Video. Kunsthalle Bremen, Bremen, 1999. Kernan, Nathan. ‘Nam June Paik’. Burlington Magazine, vol.142, no.1167, June 2000, pp.394–6. Kim, Alice. ‘Coyotes and wolves: an interview with Nam June Paik’. New Art Examiner, vol.28, no.7, April 2001, pp.38–43. Landy, Leigh & von Graevenitz, Antje. ‘”I make technology ridiculous” — the unusual dialectics of Nam June Paik’. Avant Garde, no.7, 1992, pp.79–108. Matzner, Florian (ed.). Nam June Paik: Baroque Laser. Cantz, Ostfildern, 1995. Meairs-Conzen, Ina. Nam June Paik: Beuys Video Wall — Beuys Hat. Werkstudien der Staatsgalerie Stuttgart, Stuttgart: Cantz, 1992. Mellencamp, Patricia. ‘The old and the new: Nam June Paik’. Art Journal, vol.54, no.4, Winter 1995, pp.41–7. Morgan, Robert C. ‘Global grooving at the Guggenheim: Nam June Paik’. Sculpture, vol.19, no.3, April 2000, pp.26–31. Paik, Nam June & Decker, Edith. (eds). Nam June Paik: Niederschriften eines Kulturnomaden. DuMont, Cologne, 1992. Paik, Nam June, Stooss, Toni & Kellein, Thomas. Nam June Paik: Video Time, Video Space [exhibition catalogue]. H.N. Abrams, New York, 1993. Rhee Jong-soong. ‘Portapaik’. Art AsiaPacific, vol.3, no.3, 1996, pp.52–7. Serwer, Jacquelyn D. ‘Nam June Paik: technology’. American Art, vol.8, no.2, Spring 1994, pp.87–91. Silver, Kenneth E. ‘Nam June Paik: video's body’, Art in America, vol.81, no.11, November 1993, pp.100–107. Smith, Walter. ‘Nam June Paik's TV Buddha as Buddhist art’. Religion and the Arts, vol.4, no.3, 2000, pp.359–73. The World of Video Art According to Nam June Paik: Harmony of High Technology and Art. National Museum of Contemporary Art, Seoul, 1988. Zurbrugg, Nicholas. ‘Nam June Paik: an interview’. Visible Language, vol.29, no.2, Spring 1995, pp.122–37. Artists and Works Print friendly version