Present

President of The Seo-Bo Arts and Cultural Foundation.

Emeritus Professor, College of Fine Arts Hong-Ik University, Seoul.

Education

2000     Honorary Doctoral Degree, Hong-Ik University, Seoul.

1954    Graduated, Painting Dept, of Hong-Ik University, Seoul, Korea.

1994    Founded Seo-Bo Art and Cultural Foundation, Seoul.

Solo Exhibitions

2005    Gallery Samtuh, Seoul

China International Gallery Exposition 2005, Gallery

Samtuh, China World Trade Center, Beijing

2004    Gallery Que Sais Je, Seoul.

Seoul Art Fair 2004, Gallery Samtuh, Seoul Art Center, Seoul

10th MANIF Seoul 2004,(Manifestation D'Art Nouveau International at Forum), Seoul Art Center, Seoul.

China International Gallery Exposition 2004, Gallery Samtuh, China International Science and Technology

 Exposition Center, Beijing.

2003    9th MANIF Seoul 2003, Seoul Art Center, Seoul.

2002    Ci-Gong Gallry Daegu

Ace Gallery Los Angleles, La

Jo Hyun Gallery, Busan.

Melbourne Art Fair 2002, Gallery Samtuh, Melbourne.

Gallery Sejul, Seoul.

Gallery Hyundai, Seoul.

Park Ryu Sook Gallery, Seoul.

Remba Gallery, LA

2000    Tokyo Gallery, Tokyo

Special Invited Exhibition : MANIF 2000, Seoul Arts Center, Seoul.

1999    Gallery Shilla, Daegu.

Ci-Gong Gallery, Daegu.

Ju Hyun Gallery, Busan.

1998    Tokyo Gallery, Tokyo

1997    Ace Gallery Los Angeles, LA

Remba Gallery, LA

Park Ryu Sook Gallery, Seoul.

Gallery Hyundai, Seoul.

Ci-Gong Gallery, Daegu.

1996    Basel Art Fair, Park Ryu Sook Gallery, Messe Basel, Basel.

FIAC 96, Jo Hyun Gallery, Espace Eiffel Branly, Paris.

Jo Hyun Gallery, Busan.

Ci-Gong Gallery, Daegu.

1994    Gallerie Bhak, Seoul

Remba Gallery, LA

Tokyo Gallery, Tokyo

1993     Art LA 93. The 8th International Contemporary Art Fair,

Los Angeles Convention Center, Gallery, World, LA

NICAF Yokohama 93, Sun Gallery, Yokohama.

1991    Park Seo-Bo's Painting : Its Forty Years', The National Museum Of Contemporary Art, Seoul.

Duson Gallery, Seoul.

Gallery World, Busan.

Gallery Kongkan, Busan.

1989    Art LA 89 : The 4th International Contemporary Art Fair,

Los Angeles Convention Center (Jean Art Gallery), LA

1988    Hyundai Gallery, Seoul.

1987    In-kong Gallery, Daegu.

1986    Tokyo Gallery, Tokyo.

1985    Ina Gallery, Tokyo.

1983    Space Gallery, Seoul.

1981    Hyundai Gallery, Seoul.

1978    Tokyo Gallery, Tokyo.

              Tong-In Gallery, Seoul.

1973    Muramatsu Gallery, Tokyo.

              Myungdon Gallery, Seoul.

1970    Seoul Gallery Seoul.

1962    National Central Library Gallery, Seoul.

Group Exhibitions

2004    KIAF 2005(Korea International Art Fair), Gallery Samtuh, COEX/Indian Hall, Seoul.

The 35th Anniversary Exhibition Part2 - Modern And

Contemporary Masters, Gallery Hyundai, Seoul.

Art Taipei 2005, Soka Art Center, Taipei World Trade Center Exhibition Hall3, Taipei.

On Line + Off Line, Um Gallery, Seoul.

2004 The Art Festival For World Peace 2004, Liu Hai Su Art Museum, Shanghai.

Shanghai International Art Fair 2004, Jean Art Gallery, Shanghai Mart Hall, Shanghai.

Melbourne Art Fair 2004, Gallery Samtuh, Melbourne.

Art'04 Chicago at Navy Pier, Park Ryu Sook Gallery, Chicago.

Monochrome Paintings Of Korea, Past And Present, Seoul Museum Of Art, Seoul.

KIAF 2004(Korea International Art Fair), Gallery Samtuh And Korea Art Gallery,

COEX/Indian Hall, Seoul.

The Special Show of The Distinguished Contemporary Artists in Korea, China

International Gallery Exposition, Beijing.

China International Gallery Exposition, Un Gallery, China International Science and Technology Exposition Center, Beijing.

2003    Traditional And Innovation Gallery Hyundai, Seoul.

Seoul Art Fair 2003, Gallery Samtuh, Seoul Arts Center, Seoul.

Art Cologne 2003, Park Ryu Sook Gallery, Koln.

Shanghai International Art Fair 2003, Jo-hyun Gallery, Shanghai Mart Hall, Shanghai.

6th Triennale Mondiale D'Estampes Prtit Format 2002, Camalieres France.

FIAC 2003, Ci-Gong Gallery, Paris.

KIAF 2003(Korea International Art Fair), Gallery Samtuh And Jo-hyun Gallery,

COEX/Indian Hall, Seoul.

Art'03 Chicago Ant Navy Pier, Park Ryu Sook Gallery, Chicago

Art'03(Daegu Art Expo 2003), Jo-hyun Gallery And Gallery Shilla, Exco, Daegu.

Tradition and Innovation 3 - Korean ische Gegenwartskunst, Museum Fur Ostasiatische Kunst, Berlin.

White Spectrum-Joseon White Pocelain and Korean Contemporary

Art -, Joseon Royal Kiln Museum, Gwangju.

2002-3 Appreciation of Abstract Paintings, Sung Kok Art Museum, Seoul.

Korean Contemporary Art From The 1970'S To Mid-1980'S Age of Philosophy and Aesthetics, National Museum of Contemporary Art, Seoul.

2002 KIAF 2002(Korea International Art Fair), Jo-hyun Gallery And Gallery Canji, Busan Convention Center, Busan.

30th Anniversary of Jean Art Gallery - Korea Japan Contemporary Art 2002,

Jean Art Gallery, Jean Art Center, Seoul.

2002     Art Cologne 2002, Park Ryu Sook Gallery, Koln.

Art 2002 Chicago at Navy Fair, Park Ryu Sook Gallery, Chicago.

Basel Art Fair, Gallery Hyundai Messe Basel, Basel.

San Francisco International Art Exposition, Park Ryu Sook Gallery, Fort Mason Center, San Francisco.

The Unfinished Century : Legacies 20th Century Art,

Organizers The National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo. The Yomiuri Shimbun, Tokyo Visiting Artist-Maestro of Korean Contemporary Art,

Promoting Kumho Museum and Art Magazine Wolganmisool, Seoul.

Artpalmbeach, Park Ryu Sook Gallery, Palmbeach.

Post Art Fair, Park Ryu Sook Gallery Seoul.

2001    Art Cologne 2001, Park Ryu Sook Gallery, Koln.

Korean Contemporary Art 1970-90, Gallery Hyundai, Seoul.

A Shadow Of Myo-Oh, Gallery Sagan, Seoul.

8th International Work on Paper Fair 2001, Gallery Samtuh, Sydney.

Super Phat, Cypress College Fine Art Gallery, Cypress, CA.

Korean Contemporary Art From Mid-1960s to Mid-1970 : A Decade of Transition And Dynamics, National Museum of Contemporary Art, Seoul.

Art 2001 Chicago Navy Pier, Park Ryu Sook Gallery, Chicago.

Art Miami 2001, Park Ryu Sook Gallery, Miami.

Art Palmbeach 2001, Park Ryu Sook Gallery, Plambeach.

2000    Art Cologne 2000, Park Ryu Sook Gallery, Koln.

12 Contemporary Artists 2000, Sun Gallery, Seoul.

San Francisco International Art Exposition, Park Ryu Sook Gallery, San Francisco.

Postwar Abstract Art in Korea and The West : Passion and

Expression, Ho-Am Art Gallery, Seoul.

Melbourne Art Fair 2000, Jean Art Gallery, Melbourne.

Figurative Non-Figurative, Gana Art Center, Seoul.

What is so of itself, POSCO Art Museum, Seoul.

An Aspect of Korean Contemporary Art, -In The 1950s to The 1960s-, National Museum of Contemporary Art, Seoul.

The Special Exhibition of The Facet of Korean and Japan Contemporary Art at

"Man+Space" Gwang Ju Biennale 2000, Gwang Ju.

1999-75  Ecole De Seoul, National Museum of Contemporary Art and

Gwan-Hoon Gallery, Seoul

1999    korean Art of 50 Years : 1950-1999, Gallery Hyundai, Seoul.

NICAF Tokyo' 99, Jean Art Gallery and Galerie Bhak, Tokyo.

Les Peintres Du Silence, Musee Des Arts Asiatiques, Nice.

1999-98 Between The Unknown Straits-Art Now in Korea and Japan, Meguro Museum Of Art.

Tokyo and The Museum of Art, Osaka, And Art Center, Seoul.

Korean Monochromism : Methods, Ideas and Spirits, Busan Metropolitan Art

Museum, Busan.

1998    Les Peintres Du Silence-La Coree D' Aujourd' Hui, Musee

Chateau Des Ducs De Wurtemberg, Montbeliard France.

1997    FIAC 97, Gallerie Denise Rene, Escace Eiffel Branly, Paris.

Seoul Print Art Fair, Galerie Bhak, Seoul Art Center, Seoul.

1996     Tokyo International Forum Art Collection : A Boat of Diversit, Tokyo.

SIAF'96 (Seoul International Art Fair), Gallery Hyundai,

Jean Art Gallery, Sun Gallery, COEX, Seoul.

Clay Work of Korean Contemporary Artists-Chung,

Chang-Sup, Kim, Tschang-Yeul, Park, Seo-Bo, Tokyo Gallery, Tokyo.

96 Joong-Ang Biennale(Held By Joongang Il-Bo), Seoul Museum of Art, Seoul.

Spirit of Korea Abstract Painting, Ho-Am Art Gallery, Seoul.

Black And White, Gallery Seomi, Seoul.

Korean Monochrome Painting in The 1970s, Gallery Hyundai, Seoul.

1995    52 Artists Among Home and Abroad, Gallery Hyundai, Seoul.

Art 1995 Chicago at Navy Pier, Gallery Hyundai, Chicago.

1994    The Faces of Contemporary Art 40 Years, Ho-Am Art Gallery, Seoul.

NICAF Yokohama '94(International Contemporary

Art Fair, Japan), Tokyo Gallery and Jean Art Gallery, Yokohama.

1993     Korean Art : Yesterday and Now, Hanlim Gallery, Daejeon, Korea.

In The Occasion of Daejeon Expo '93, "Future Lies Ahead"(Selected By Pontus

Hulten), Daejeon Korea.

12 Contemporary Artists From Korea, The Miyagi Museum of Art, Sendai Japan.

4 Korean Contemporary Artists, Ci-Gong Gallery, Daegu.

1992     Working with Nature - Traditional Thought in Contemporary

Art From Korea-, Tate Gallery Liverpool, Liverpool England.

Korean Contemporary Painting - The Brush Stroke and Its Expressions, Ho-Am

Art Gallery, Seoul.

Korean Contemporary Art, Shimonoseki City Art Museum

And Niigata City Art Museum And Kasama Nichido Museum of Art

Foundation And Mie Prefectural Art Museum, Japan.

1991    Exhibition of 25 Korean Contemporary Artists, Hyundai Gallery, Seoul.

The 2nd Tokyo Art Expo 1991, Duson Gallery, Tokyo International Trade Center,Harumi Tokyo.

Inaugural Exhibition of Korean Contemporary Art, Gyeongju.

Contemporary Art in Monochrome, From The Museum Collection,

Tokyo Metropolitan Art Museum, Tokyo.

Contemporary Korean Painting, Zagreb, Ljublijana, Sarajevo, Beograd.

Line And Expression, The Museum of Modern Art, Saitama Japan.

1990    1990 Autumn Muranatsu Muranatsu Gallery, Tokyo.

Contemporary Art of 80'S 100 Forms : Index Gallery + Naichara Yascuke, Tokyo.

1989    Revolution : Flash-Back, Paris Art Center, Paris.

Commissioned Work "Theme Hiroshima" Hiroshima City Museum of

Contemporary Art, Hiroshima Japan.

1988    The 43rd La Biennale Di Venezia, Venice.

Contemporary Art And Olympics : Exhibition of Official Fine Art Posters

And Lithographs of The 24th Oympiad Seoul 1988,

Lioyd Shin Gallery, Seoul.

Olympiad Of Art : The International Contemporary Painting Exhibition

Sponsored by Seoul Olympic Organizing Committee,

Organized by The National Museum of Contemporary Art, Seoul.

Modernism in The Korean Contemporary Art : 1970-1979,

Hyundai Department Store Gallery, Seoul.

The Exhibition of Korean Modern Painting in The 70'S, Walker Hill Art Center, Seoul.

4 Korean Painters, Tokyo Gallery, Tokyo.

1987    Art LA '87 : (The 2nd International Contemporary Art Fair), Jean Art Gallery, Los Angeles Convention Center, LA.

Black and White in Korea Art Today, The National Museum of Contemporary Art, Seoul.

The 3rd Toyama Now '87-New Art Around The Pacific-, The Museum

of Modern Art Toyama, Toyama Japan.

1986    Black and White in Art Today, The Museum of Modern Art, Saitama, Japan.

Korean Art Today, The National Museum of Contemporary Art, Seoul.

Modern Korean Art Festival '86(Seoul Asian Games Organizing Committee), Seoul.

'86 Seoul Contemporary Asian Art Show (Sponsored by Seoul Asian Games Organizing Committee, Organized by The National Museum of Contemporary Art), Seoul.

Exposition Seoul-Paris, Seoul Press Center Gallery and Center

National Des Arts Plastiques, Seoul and Paris.

1985    Human Documents '84/'85, Tokyo Gallery Tokyo.

Contemporary Korean Paper Art, Sarah Spurgeon Gallery, Central Washington

University, U.S.A.

Minimal and Maximal, Hu Gallery, Jeon Gallery, Seoul.

70 Years Korean Western Painting, Ho-Am Art Gallery, Seoul.

Modern Art From The Past, 40 Years For Commemoration of Korean Independence Day of Korea, The National Museum of Contemporary Art, Seoul.

1984     Korea Contemporary Fine Art Exhibition "The Stream of The 70s". Taipei Fine

Art Museum, Taipei.

Korean Contemporary Art of The 60'S "The Outskirts of Informel", Walker Hill

Art Center, Seoul.

The Exhibition of White Painting, Cultural Center of France in Seoul, Seoul.

Art Today - The Collection of Tokyo Metropolitan Art Museum, Tokyo.

FIAC 84, Jean Art Gallery, Galleries Nationals Du Grand Palais, Paris.

Korean Contemporary Art of The 60'S "Paris Biennale". Duson Gallery, Seoul.

1983-82 New Paper Works : "Korea and Japan," The National Museum of Contemporary Art Seoul and Kyoto Municipal Museum of Art And Museum of Modern Art, Saitama and Kumamoto Museum, Seoul And Japan.

1983    Korean Contemporary Art Exhibition "The Letter Half of The 70'S"

An Aspect, Tokyo, Tojiki, Osaka, Sapporo, Fukuoka, Japan.

Korea : New Paper Work, Spring Gallery, Taipei.

1981    Korean Drawing Now, The Brooklyn Museum, New York.

1980    Exhibition Marking The Fukuoka Art Museum'S First Anniversary, Asian Artists

Exhibition Part 2, "Festival : Contemporary Asian Art Show", Fukuoka Art

Museum, Fukuoka.

1979    Korean Contemporary Art : Unique Methods of Exhibit By Four

Artists, Hyundai Gallery, Seoul.

Korean Arts : Methods of Today, Fine Art Center gallery, Seoul.

1978    Korea : The Trend for The Past 20 Years of Contemporary Arts,

The National Museum of Contemporary Art, Seoul.

Secondes Rencontres Du Grand Paris, Paris.

1977,69 The 1st And 8th Cagnes International Painting Festival, Cagnes-Sur-Mer France.

1977     Exhibition of 6 Korean Contemporary Artists, Muramatsu Gallery, Tokyo.

Korea : Facet of Contemporary Art, Tokyo Central Museum of Art, Tokyo.

Korean Contemporary Painting, National Museum of History, Taipei.

Korea : 6 Contemporary Artist Exhibition, Galerie Beaux-Art, Nagoya Japan.

1975    Korea : Five Artist Five Hinseck, White, Tokyo Gallery Tokyo.

1975,65 The 8th and 13rd Biennale De Sao Paulo, Brazil.

1973     Exhibition of Korean Contemporary Art 1957-1972,

Abstraction = Situation, Myong-Dong, Gallery, Seoul.

Exhibition of 100 Modern Painting, The National Museum of

Contemporary Art, Seoul.

1972-71 Korean Contemporary Painting Exhibition, Paris France and West Germany.

1972-69 Korean Contemporary Painting Exhibition, India, Afganistan, Nepal.

1970    Special Exhibition of "Expo '67" Korean Pavilion, Osaka.

1969-58 Invitational Exhibition of "Korean Contemporary

Artists", Held By Cho-Sun Daily News Seoul.

1968     Korean Contemporary Painting Exhibition, Tokyo National Museum of Moderm Art, Tokyo.

1967    Special Exhibition of "Expo '67" Korean Pavilion, Canada.

1966    The Invitation Exhibition of Contemporary Artists From Six Countries of Far

East, Messiah Department Store, New York.

1965-62 Cultural Freedom Contemporary Art Exhibition, Held by The Congress

for Cultural Freedom, Korea, Seoul.

1963    The 3rd Biennale De Paris, Paris.

4 Young Korean Artists Exhibition, Galerie Lambert, Paris.

1964-62 The Actuel Exhibition, Seoul.

1962    The First Salgon International Biennale Exhibition, Saigon Vietnam.

1961    Jeunes Peintres Du Monde A Paris (Held by National Committee of I.A.A France), Paris.

1960-57 The Hyun-Dae(Contemporary) Exhibition, Held by Hyun-Dae Artists Association, Seoul.

1957    The Korean Contemporary Artists Exhibition, World House Gallery, New York.

Awards

1995    Seoul Metropolitan Cultural Prize, Seoul.

1994    An Order of Cultural Merits, Korea.

1987    The 1st Art and Culture Grand-Prize (The Federation of Artistic And Cultural Organizations of Korea), Seoul.

1984    National Medal (The Medal of Seokryu), Korea.

1979    The 11th Culture and Art Prize The Republic of Korea(Sponsored by Ministry of Public Information), Seoul.

1976    The 2nd Joong-Ang Cultural Grand-Prize(Joong-Ang Daily News), Seoul.

1961    The 1st Prize at The Jeunes Peintres Du Monde A Paris (National Committee Of I.A.A.), Paris France.

Public Collections

The National Museum of Contemporary Art, Seoul.

Walker Hill Art Center, Seoul.

The Contemporary Museum of Hong-Ik University, Seoul.

Leeum Samsung Art Museum, Seoul.

Fukuoka Art Museum, Fukuoka, Japan.

Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo.

Ohara Museum, Kurashiki Japan.

The Museum of Modern Art Toyama, Toyama Japan.

The Museum of Contemporary Art, Hiroshima Japan.

Son Je Museum of Contemporary Art, Gyeongju Korea.

Gidang Art Museum, Cheju Korea.

Sculpture Park, The Shin Chon Jee Art Museum, Cheju Korea.

Shimonoseki City Art Museum, Shimonoseki Japan.

Gwangjo City Art Museum, Kwangju Korea.

The Museum of Ehwa Women's University, Seoul.

Busan Metropolitan Art Museum, Busan.

Posco Art Museum, Seoul.

Mie Prefectural Art Museum, Mie Japan.

Han-Lim Art Museum, Daejun.

Total Museum, Seoul.

Seoul Museum of Art, Seoul.