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IK-JOONG KANG 161 Bowery #7 New York, NY 10002 Ikjoongkang@yahoo.com www.ikjoongkang.com www.amazedworld.com BORN 1960, CHEONG JU, KOREA WORKS/LIVES IN NEW YORK EDUCATION 1987: Pratt Art Institute (MFA), Brooklyn, NY 1984: Hong Ik University (BFA), Seoul, Korea SELECTED ONE OR TWO-PERSON EXHIBITIONS / PROJECTS 2005: Amazed World, Muhammad Ali Center, Louisville, KY 2004: Moon of Dream (126,000 Children's Drawings from 141 Countries), Ho Su Lake, Il San, Korea 2004: Buddha with Lucky Objects 2004, Speed Museum, Louisville, KY 2003: Buddha with Lucky Objects and Other Works, Sabina Lee Gallery, Los Angeles, CA 2003: Amazed World and Other Works, Goethe Institute, Berlin, Germany 2003: Kang & Zhang, Shanghai Contemporary, Albrecht, Pruess & Ochs, Shanghai, China 2003: Happy Relief and other works, Hutchins Gallery, Long Island University, Long Island, NY 2002: Buddah Eating Rice, Shanghai Contemporary at Bund Center, Shanghai, China 2002: Bridges - Interspace - Sky ( in part of Space, Time and Architecture, organized by National Gallery and Deutscher ) Collaboration with Zeiger and Schell Architecture firm, Pruess and Ochs Gallery, Berlin , Germany 2002: Cologne Pagoda and Other Works, National Museum of East Asian Art, Berlin, Germany 2001: Cologne Sculpture, Cologne Messe, Cologne, Germany 2001: Amazed World (34,000 children's drawings from 135 countries ), United Nations, New York, NY 2001: Enter the Heaven, Cultural Center at Geistag, Munchen, Germany 2000: Enter the Heaven, Asian Fine Arts Berlin, Berlin, Germany 1999: 100000 Dream (50,000 children's drawings from South Kore ) Pa Ju Unification Park, Korea 1998: Nam June Paik/Ik-Joong Kang, Asian Fine Arts Factory, Berlin, Germany 1997: Throw Everything Together and Add, Venice Biennale, Korean Pavillion, Venice, Italy 1996: 8490 Days of Memory, Whitney Museum of American Art at Philip Morris, New York, NY 1996: 365 Days of English, Contemporary Arts Forum, Santa Barbara, CA. 1996: Throw Everything Together and Add (50,000 works), Art Space Seoul, Cho Sun Il Bo Museum, Hak Ko Jae Gallery, Seoul, Korea 1996: Buddha Eating Chocolate, Leeds Metropolitan University, Leeds, England 1994: Multiple Dialogue, collaboration with Nam June Paik, Whitney Museum of American .Art at Champion, CT 1994: Throw Everything Together & Add (20,000 works), CAPP ST. Project, San Francisco, CA 1992: Ik-Joong Kang, 3 x 3, Queens Museum of Art, Queens, NY 1992: Buddha Learning English, Asian American Art Center, New York, NY 1991: More is More, Collaboration with Bing Lee, Amelie A. Wallace Gallery, SUNY at Old Westbury, NY 1990: Ssound Paintingss, Main Gallery, Montclair State College, Montclair, NJ 1988: 6000 Works, Broadway Windows Gallery, New York, NY 1987: 3000 Works, Thesis show, Pratt Art Institute, New York, NY 1986: One Month Living Performance, Two Two Raw Gallery, New York, NY 1985: 1000 Works, Long Island University, Brooklyn Campus, Brooklyn, NY SECLECTED PUBLIC PERFORMANCES 1990: Untitled, Collaboration with Sang-Won Park, Main Gallery, Montclair State College, Montclair, NJ 1990: Untitled, Collaboration with Sang-Won Park, Epoche Gallery, Brooklyn, NY 1987: Everybody Thinks Oral Sex, Bronx River Gallery, Bronx, NY 1986: Flying Paintings, Openplatz, Kassel, Germany 1986: For the Cold Wall Collaboration with Antonin Mares, Legien/Leuschordamm, Berlin, Germany SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS 2005: In Search of Dreams Across the Pacific, Howard County Arts Council, Ellicott City, MD 2005: Thirty ways of making painting, Carl Solway Gallery, Cincinnati, OH 2004: Declaration (100 Artists for Peace), National Museum of Contemporary Art, Gwa Cheon, Korea 2004: Kwang Ju Biennale, Citiy Museum, Kwang Ju, Korea 2004: Pedestrian, Bronx River art Center, Bronx, NY 2003: Dream and Reality, Smithsonian Museum International Gallery, Washington D,C. 2003: Explaining Magic, Rotunda Gallery, Brooklyn, NY 2003: Der Rest der Welt, Neuffer im Park, Pirmasens, Germany 2002: Buenos Aires International Biennale, National Museum of Arts, Buenos Aires, Argentina 2002: 70 Artist around World Cup, Gallery Hyundai, Seoul, Korea 2000: Neuerwerbungen aus der sammlung Ludwig, Museum Ludwig Cologne, Cologne, Germany 2000: Koreamerica Korea, Art Sonje Center, Seoul, Korea 2000: Continental Shift, Museum Ludwig Aachen, Aachen 2000: Six Degrees of Inspiration, Contemporary Art Center of Virginia, Virginia Beach, VA 1999: Kunst-Welton in Dialog,, Museum Ludwig Cologne, Cologne, Germany 1999: Crossing Zones, Depaul University Art Gallery, Chicago, IL 1999: Words, Texts, and meaning in the Permanent Collection, The Bronx Museum of the Arts, Bronx, NY 1999: Year of the Tiger, National Musuem of Contemporary Art, Seoul, Korea 1998: Notes Across Asia, Konzerthaus Berlin, Germany 1998: Year of the Tiger, Haus Der Kulturen Der Welt, Berlin, Museum Lugwig, Aachen, Germany 1998: Where I am (Expo 98), Galeria Municipal Da Mitra, Lisbon, Portugal 1997: American Stories, Setagaya Museum, Tokyo, Japan 1997: Kwang Ju Biennale, Citiy Museum, Kwang Ju, Korea 1997: Objectivity, Contemporary Art Center, Virginia Beach, VA 1996: Just Past/Permanent Collection, 1975-96, The Museum of Contemporary Art Los Angeles, CA 1996: Sites of Chinatown, Museum of Chinese in the America, New York, NY 1994: Old Glory, New Story, Capp Street Project, San Francisco, CA Santa Monica Museum, Santa Monica, CA 1994: Habana International Biennial, Centro Wifredo Lam, Habana, Cuba 1993: New Expressions in Asian American Art, CUNY Graduate Center, New York, NY 1993: Slow Art, P.S.1 Museum, Long Island City, NY 1993: Dismantling Invisibility, A Space Gallery, Toronto, Canada, Art in General, New York, NY 1991: Louder, University of Illinois, Gallery 400, Chicago, IL 1990: International Art Show, Iida Museum, Japan 1990: Food, Hunterdon Art Center, Hunterdon, NY 1990: China, Hongkong Art Center, Hong Kong P.S. 1 Museum, Long Island City, NY 1990: Artist Against Racism, Bedford Styvesant, Cultural Center, Brooklyn, NY .The Clocktower, New York, NY 1989: Uptown Downtown, Asian American Art Center/City Gallery, New York, NY 1987: Togetherness Always, Bronx River Gallery, Bronx, NY 1987: Personal History, Minor Injury, New York, NY 1986: Micro Max, Now Gallery, New York, NY 1985: Summer Group Show, Lasser Gallery, New York, NY 1982: Fu Exhibition, Total Gallery, Seoul, Korea 1981: Independent, National Art Museum, Seoul, Korea SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY 2004: Karen Gahafer, "Buddha with Lucky Objects", Angelo, Aug./Dec. 2004 2004: Jilian Kalonick, "Portrait of the Artist", The Princeton Packet, March 12 2004: "Library Artist Seeks World Language Student", Town Topics, Feb. 4 2004: "Library Mural will be Multilingual", The Princeton Paket, Feb. 3 2004: Chris Karmiol, "Art Work by Donation", The Times, Jan.18 2004: "Community Invited to Help Create Art for New Library", Town Topics, Jan. 14 2004: "Artist Invites Public to Donate Artifacts for Library's New Mural", The Princeton Packet, Jan. 13 2003: Jennifer Potash, "Library Mural to Tell Princeton's story", The Princeton Packet, Dec. 12 2003: Abby Ranger, "Buddha Artist Explains his Diaries and Notes", Brooklyn Height Press, Nov. 27 2002: Alexander Ochs, "It's Like My brain-like Frozen Memories", Exh. Cat., Sep. 2002: Jonathan Peyser, "Ik-Joong kang in the United Nations", Sculpture Magazine, Sep. 2002: Uta Rahman-Stenert, "The View is Better from a Distance", Exh. Cat., Sep. 2002: Craig Hartman, "San Francisco International Airport", Architectute and Urbanism, Feb. 2002: Val Castronovo, "Amazed World", Secretariat News, March 2001: Werner Bloch, "Hunderttausend Traume", Frankfurter allgemeine Zeitung, July 25 2001: Gert Gliewe, "Asien im Gasteig: Bruce lee Kampft gegen 1080 Madonnen, Feb. 23 2001: Soon Young Yoon, "Amazed World", Exh. Cat., Sep 2000: Juan Matos Capote, "Una Sola Corea", La opinion, Feb 2000: Von Katrin Bettina Moller, "Auf dem Laufsteg mit Bruce Lee", Der Togess-Piefel, Feb. 26. 2000: Micaela givannotti, "Ik-Joong Kang", tema celeste, April 2000: Teresa Annas, "Sweet Solute", The Virginia Piolot, Jan. 27 1999: Michael Duncan, "Kunststag 1999", Art Net Magazine, May 1998: Dinah Ryan, "Objectivity", Sculpture, Nov. 1998: Joan Kee, "Living on the Edge", Art Asia Pacific, Issue 19. 1998: Andrew Decker, "The Art of Now", Diversion Magazine, April 1997: Marcia E. Vetrocq, "A Space Odyssey", Art in America, Sept. 1997: Teresa Annas, "Worldly Visions", The Virginia Pilot, Dec. 13. 1997: Carol Lutfy, "Artist Profile - Ik Joong Kang", Art News, Mar. 1997: Yukiya Kawaguchi, "Journey Through Many Stories", Exh. Cat., Sept. 1997: Wakaudo Onishi, "American Stories", Asahi Shimbun, Aug. 29. 1997: Dr. Armin A. Walla, "Von der Zukunft in die Vergangenheit", Mnemosyne, Sept 1997: Carol Lutfy, "Artist Profile - Ik Joong Kang", Atelier magazine, Mar. 1997: Kwang-Su Oh, "Ik-Joong Kang, Venice Biennale", Exh. Cat., June. 1996: Grace Glueck, "8,490 Days of Memory", New York Times, Aug. 2. 1996: Kim Levin, "Art Short Lists", Village Voice, July 30. 1996: Marina Walker, "Assimilation", The Independent, June 27. 1996: Kay Kumiyama, "Home Sweet Homange", A. Magazine, Oct/Nov. 1996: Michael Darling, "In the name of Compassion", Santa Barbara News-Press, June 28. 1996: Soon-Young Yoon, "Let Them Eat Chocolate", The Earth Times, Nov. 16 1996: Eugenie Tsai, "8,490 Days of Memory", Exh. Cat., July 1996: Joan Kee, "8,490 Days of Memory", Art Net Magazine, July 1996: Sun-Jung Kim, "Ik-Joong Kang", Space Magazine, May 1996: Howard Halle, "8490 Days of Memory", Time Out New York, Aug. 7 1996: Eric Roberts, "Choc. Art goes up the wall", Yorkshire Post, Jan. 19 1994: Vivien Raynor, "A Dialogue Made of Korean Look at a New Home", New York Times, Sept. 18 1994: Kim Levin, "Choice", Nam June Paik and Ik-Joong Kang, Village Voice, Sept. 6 1994: Kate Jennings, "Multiple Dialogue", Darien News Review, Aug. 4 1994: Michael Rush, "Nam June Paik and Ik-Joong Kang", Art New England, Dec. 1994: Carolee Ross, "Whitney's Art Happening", Advocate, Aug. 21 1994: Eugenie Tsai, "Good and Plenty", Exh. Cat., July 1994: Byron Kim, "The Nomadic Art of Nam June Paik and Ik-Joong Kang", Exh. Cat., July 1994: Kenneth Baker, "Future is Now at Capp Street", San Francisco Chronicle, Jan. 26 1994: David Bonetti, "Remarkable Opening for Capp Street', San Francisco Examiner, Feb. 2 1994: Gary Gach, "Mosaic of a Modern Mind in Motion", Asian Week, Mar. 4 1992: Eugenie Tsai "Kang", Godzilla, May. 1992: Marjorie Connelly, "Sunday Outing", New York Times, Apr. 5 1992: Byron Kim, "Ik-Joong Kang", Asian New Yorker, Spring. 1992: Kim Levin, "Choice" Village Voice, Feb. 25. 1992: Esther Iverem "Tiny Windows on the World", New York Newsday, Feb. 4. 1992: Louis Grachos, "3 x 3" exh. Cat., Jan. 1991: Byron Kim, "Ik-Joong Kang", Artspiral, Winter 1991: Helen A. Harrison, "Two Artists View the World in Statements with 3,142 Images," The New York Times, Mar. 17 1990: Eileen Watkins, "Thousand Paintings," Star Ledger, Dec. 9 1990: Marion Budick, "Ik-Joong Kang,", Art Times, Nov. 1990: M.L. Emblen, "Painting with Sound," New York Times, Oct. 28 1990: William Zimmer, "Food Made Larger Than Life," New York Times, Oct. 28 1990: Jeffery Newman and Lorenzo Pace, "Ssound Paintingss", Exh. Cat., Oct. 1989: John Perreault, "Through a Glass Darkly," Art Forum, Mar. 1988: Kim Levin, "Choice", Village Voice, Nov. 5 1988: Dorene Lomanto & Warwick Alder, The Washington Square News, Nov. 7 1985: Vicky Hall, Seawanhaka, Oct. 17 AWARDS/COMMISSIONS 2005: Commission, New Jersey Transit Authority, (Newwark Broad St. Station), NJ 2003: Commission, Princeton Public Library, NJ 1997: Special Merit Award, 47th Venice Biennale, Venice, Italy 1997: Louise Comfort Tiffany Foundation Fellowship 1997: Today's Young Artist Award (Department of Cultural Affair, Korea) 1996: The Joan Mitchell Foundation Fellowship 1994: Commission, San Francisco International Ariport (main terminal), CA 1994: New York Foundation of Art Fellowship in Painting 1992: Commission, Department of Cultural Affairs, (Queens Vocational School), NY 1991: Commission, Metropolitan Transit Authority, (Queens Main Street Station), NY 1990: New York Foundation of Art Fellowship in Painting COLLECTION Museum Ludwig Cologne, Cologne, Germany (2000) Presdient's Committee on Arts and Humanity, Washington, D.C. (1999) The Sanitas, Madrid, Spain (1999) Whitney Museum of American Art, NY (1997) Samsung Museum, Seoul, Korea (1997) The Bronx Museum of the Arts, NY (1997) The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA (1996) ARTIST BOOK 1996: "Starving Artists' Restaurant Guide", published by wife's generous donation 1991: "Throw Everything Together and Add," published by Ik-Joong Kang's 1990 tax return money. ARTIST TALK University of Cincinnati, OH (2005) Princeton Public Library, NJ (2004) National Museum of East Asian Art, Berlin, Germany (2002) Parsons School of Design, NY (1999) Long Island University, C.W. Post (1997, 2003) Brooklyn College, NY (1997) Syracuse University, NY (1997) Whitney Museum of American Art at Philip Morris, NY (1996) Leeds Metropolitan University, England (1996) Hartwick College, NY (1995) Whitney Museum of American Art at Champion, CT (1994) School of Visual Arts, NY (1994) PRATT Art Institute, NY (1990, 1994) New York University, NY (1993) State University of New York at New Paltz, NY (1993) Queens Museum of Art, NY (1992) Montclair State College, NJ (1990)
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