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Nam June Paik

South Korean, 1932–2006




BIOGRAPHY

Considered the father of video art, Nam June Paik pioneered the use of televisual electronic media in art. An integral member of the Fluxus movement alongside John Cage and George Macunias, Paik sought new modes of artistic expression and cultural exchange in his music, performances, and media works. Paik recognized the TV as more than a content delivery mechanism in works such as Zen for TV, a broken television broadcasting only a horizontal line across the screen. He created numerous robots composed of television sets, produced a synthesizer that allowed him and others to manipulate electronic imagery in real-time, and made the first video collages with found imagery. Coining the term “the electronic superhighway,” he imagined a world in which human beings near and far would be connected through radio waves and television broadcast channels—in many ways predicting the internet. Paik explored the widening reach of media in his large-scale video installations that display an assault of flickering of images and masterpieces like Good Morning, Mr. Orwell, a groundbreaking live performance broadcast on television in five countries on January 1, 1989, which offered a utopian answer to Orwell’s bleak predictions for the future in his classic novel 1984.

South Korean, 1932–2006, Seoul, South Korea

EXHIBITION HIGHLIGHTS

2017
Hosfelt Gallery, 
San Francisco, 
Garage Inventors
2016
Gagosian, 
Paris, 
LEXICON: A Group Exhibition of Text-Based Works
2016
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (SFMOMA), 
San Francisco, 
Campaign for Art
2016
Whitechapel Gallery, 
London, 
Electronic Superhighway (2016 – 1966)
2015
Gagosian - Nick, 
Central, 
Art Basel Hong Kong 2015
2015
Joseph K. Levene Fine Art, Ltd., 
New York, 
Black or White
2014
Fondation Louis Vuitton, 
Paris , 
Installment 2: The Collection
2014
Leeum, Samsung Museum of Art, 
Seoul , 
Leeum Collection: Beyond Space
2014
Joseph K. Levene Fine Art, Ltd., 
Summer Art Deals
2013
Schellmann Art, 
Berlin, 
Wall Works, Nationalgalerie Berlin





Curriculum Vitae

South Korean, 1932–2006, Seoul, South Korea
Note: Artist CVs are assembled using exhibition data available on Artsy; they reflect partial exhibition histories.

GROUP SHOWS

2017
Hosfelt Gallery, 
San Francisco,
Garage Inventors
2016
Gagosian, 
Paris,
LEXICON: A Group Exhibition of Text-Based Works
2016
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (SFMOMA), 
San Francisco,
Campaign for Art
2016
Whitechapel Gallery, 
London,
Electronic Superhighway (2016 – 1966)
2015
Gagosian - Nick, 
Central,
Art Basel Hong Kong 2015
2015
Joseph K. Levene Fine Art, Ltd., 
New York,
Black or White
2014
Fondation Louis Vuitton, 
Paris ,
Installment 2: The Collection
2014
Leeum, Samsung Museum of Art, 
Seoul ,
Leeum Collection: Beyond Space
2014
Joseph K. Levene Fine Art, Ltd., 
Summer Art Deals
2013
Schellmann Art, 
Berlin,
Wall Works, Nationalgalerie Berlin
2009
Nam June Paik Art Center, 
Seoul, South Korea,
EXPostition of mythology – ELectronic technology

FAIR HISTORY ON ARTSY

2017
Seoul,
Galerie Bhak at KIAF 2017
2017
Seoul,
Song Art Gallery at KIAF 2017
2017
Seoul,
Art Works Paris Seoul Gallery at KIAF 2017
2017
Seoul,
Bode Gallery at KIAF 2017
2017
Seoul,
Leeahn Gallery at KIAF 2017
2017
Johyun Gallery at Art Stage Jakarta 2017
2017
Basel,
James Cohan at Art Basel 2017
2017
Basel,
Galerie Hans Mayer at Art Basel 2017
2017
Galerie Bhak at Art Central 2017
2016
Miami Beach,
Carl Solway Gallery at PULSE Miami Beach 2016
2016
Seoul,
Art Works Paris Seoul Gallery at KIAF 2016
2016
Seoul,
Arario Gallery at KIAF 2016
2016
Seoul,
Toki-no-wasuremono at KIAF 2016
2016
Köln,
Galerie Thomas at Art Cologne 2016
2016
Galerie Bhak at Art Central 2016
2016
Singapore,
Toki-no-wasuremono at Art Stage Singapore 2016
2015
Miami Beach,
Carl Solway Gallery at PULSE Miami Beach 2015
2015
上海市,
Gallery Hakgojae at ART021 Shanghai Contemporary Art Fair 2015
2015
NYC,
Carl Solway Gallery at IFPDA Print Fair 2015
2014
Miami Beach,
James Cohan Gallery at Art Basel in Miami Beach 2014
2014
Galerie Hans Mayer at FIAC 14
2014
Galerie Hans Mayer at Art Basel Hong Kong 2014
2014
10 Bayfront Ave, Singapore 018956,
Space Cottonseed at Art Stage Singapore 2014

ARTICLES ON ARTSY

2017
Why Shamanic Practices Are Making a Comeback in Contemporary Art
2017
Can Anything Be Performance Art?
2017
How the Fluxus Movement Took Art out of Museums and Galleries
2016
Galerie Thomas Celebrates Two Postwar Giants: Joseph Beuys and Nam June Paik
2016
Nam June Paik, Father of Video Art, Remembered at Gallery Hyundai
2015
The Most Iconic Artists of the 1970s
2015
The Most Iconic Artists of the 1960s
2014
10 Video Artists Who Revolutionized Technology in Art
2014
Dog

Works by Nam June Paik

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