Yoo Geun-Taek
 
1997    M.F.A. in Oriental Painting at Hongik University, Seoul, Korea
1988    B.F.A. in Oriental Painting at Hongik University, Seoul, Korea
1965    Born in Asan, South Chungcheong Province, Korea
 
Currently teaches at Oriental Painting Department of Sungshin University, Seoul, Korea
 

Selected Solo Exhibitions

2022	Growing Room, Newchild Gallery, Belgium
2021	Layered Time, Savina Museum, Seoul, Korea
2017	A Walk Through Time, Sungkok Art Museum, Seoul, Korea Promenade, Gallery Hyundai, Seoul, Korea
2016	Yoo Geun-Taek, 21yo-j gallery, Tokyo, Japan The Whole Gravity of Painting, Summoned, Tama Art University Museum, Tokyo, Japan Breath of Life, The Korea Society Gallery, New York, USA Life on the Corner, Shinsegae Gallery, Busan, Korea
2015	Everlasting Tomorrow, Force Gallery, Beijing, China A Passage – The Scenery outside the Window, Bongsan Cultural Center, Daegu, Korea
2014	Everlasting Tomorrow, OCI Museum of Art, Seoul, Korea
2013	風·景, Gallery Dugahun, Seoul, Korea
2012	The One Day, Gallery Hyundai, Seoul, Korea
2010	Yoo Geun-Taek, Gallery Bundo, Daegu, Korea Depiction of the Universe, Artside Gallery, Beijing, China
2009	Depiction of the Universe, Savina Museum of Contemporary Art, Seoul, Korea Yoo Geun-Taek, LA Artcore Gallery, Los Angeles, USA
2008	Yoo Geun-Taek, 21+Yo Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
2007	Citynet Asia 2007, Seoul Museum of Art, Seoul Skin of Life – Drawings on the Diagonal Lines that Sustain Me, Dongsanbang Gallery, Seoul, Korea
2005	Yoo Geun-Taek, Millennium Gallery, Beijing, China Yoo Geun-Taek, 21+Yo Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
2004	Between Scenes and Events, A Deviation Beyond the Routine, Savina Museum of Contemporary Art, Seoul, Korea 2003 A Scene,Artforum Newgate, Seoul, Korea Velocity of Landscape, Kwanhoon Gallery, Seoul, Korea
2002	Figure – The Internal Reason: Drawing for Grandmother, Gallery Doll, Seoul, Korea Yoo Geun-Taek, Dongsanbang Gallery, Seoul, Korea East Wind, Kwanhoon Gallery, Seoul, Korea
2001	Yoo Geun-Taek, 21+Yo Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
2000	Yoo Geun-Taek, The 19thSuk Nam Arts Award Exhibition, Moran Gallery, Seoul, Korea
1999	Yoo Geun-Taek, Wonseo Gallery, Seoul, Korea
1997	From here where you are,Art center of Korea Art and Culture Foundation, Seoul, Korea Seoul Engraving Art Festival, Seoul Arts Center Hangaram Art Museum, Seoul Yoo Geun-Taek: Recent Works, Kumho Museum of Art, Seoul, Korea
1996	The Power of Everyday Life, Reform an Experience, Kwanhoon Gallery, Seoul, Korea
1994	Yoo Geun-Taek, Kumho Gallery, Seoul, Korea
1991	Yoo Geun-Taek, Kwanhoon Gallery, Seoul, Korea

 

Selected Group Exhibitions

2022	Frieze New York 2022,The Shed, New York, USA Art Busan 2022, Bexco Exhibition Center, Busan, Korea Remember,Indipress Gallery, Seoul, Korea The painter en plein air, A-Lounge Gallery, Seoul, Korea Unboxing Project,Newspring Project, Seoul, Korea Seen Unseen – the idea of contemporary art, Showum Gallery, Daegu, Korea
2021	The World Calligraphy Biennale of Jeollabuk-do
2020	Ogamdo: 5 Scenes of Korean Art, Manarat Al Saadiyat, Abu Dhabi, Arab Serendipity, Savina Museum, Seoul, Korea A World in Which Poop Becomes a Flower, Zaha Museum, Seoul, Korea A Very Long wait, New Child Gallery, Antwerp, Belgium Kang Hong Ku ,Yoo Geun Taek ‘A Scenic Walk’, Nook Gallery, Seoul, Korea Hanyang Cheondo,Museum of Cheongju National University of Education, Cheongju, Korea Artists in Their Times,MMCA, Seoul, Korea
2019	Disturbing Narratives, The Parkview Museum, Singapore Land of Sisyphos, A-Loung, Seoul, Korea Hanguk-Hwa, Mindful Landscape,Daejeon Museum of Art, Daejeon, Korea Scent of the Wind,Maehyang-ri Studio, Hwaseong, Korea New Acquisitions 2017-2018, MMCA, Gwacheon, Korea Sky, Human, Earth, Haeden museum of Art, Incheon, Korea
2018	MEGA BRIDGE Water and Land Niigata Art Festival, Northern Culture Museum, Niigata, Japan The Blue, Seong Buk Museum of Art, Seoul, Korea This Side of Paradise, Special Exhibition Hall, Anyang Museum, Anyang, Korea Trahere, Art Center White Block, Paju, Korea Yuyusan-su - Playing in Seoul, Sejong Cultural Center, Seoul, korea
2017	The Painting Show, Goyang Aram Nuri Arts Center, Goyang, Korea The Red Brick House, OCI Museum of Art, Seoul, Korea Isualizing Today, Hongik Museum of Art, Seoul, Korea Korea Tomorrow, Narrative Landscape, Sungkok Art Museum, Seoul, Korea Walking on Seongnam, Seongnam Cube Art Museum, Seongnam, Korea Variants of Objects, Daejeon Museum of Art, Daejeon, Korea
2016	Hwahyang Manri, Live in Gallery, Busan, Korea between the relationships, Fill Gallery, Seoul, Korea Ways of Seeing Nature, Nook gallery, Seoul, Korea Being in Nature, Museum SAN, Wonju, Korea Eating Tools, Nam-Seoul Living Arts Museum, Seoul, Korea Between People and People, Jeju Museum of Art, Jeju, Korea Korea now, Korean Cultural Center in Hungary, Budapest, Hungary
2015	The Flame of Seoul, 63 Art Museum, Seoul, Korea Same Difference, Yoo Geun-Taek & Lee Kwang-Ho, Space BM, Seoul, Korea STOP, and SEE, National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Korea, Gwacheon, Korea Walking in the Spring, Summer, Fall and Winter, Seoul Museum, Seoul, Korea Expressions and gestures, Soma museum of art, Seoul, Korea Sadness in a dream, Zaha museum, Seoul, Korea Beyond the Borders, Culture Station Seoul 284, Seoul, Korea Artist Portfolio II, Savina Museum, Seoul, Korea
2014	Garden, National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Seoul, Korea A Form of Thinking – Rediscovery of Drawing, Museum SAN, Wonju, Korea The Moment, We Awe: Korean Contemporary Art, Sanshang Contemporary Art Museum, Hangzhou, China The East Bridge: In the Absence of Avant-Garde Reading, 798 Art Factory, Beijing, China
2013	We, Now Here: Today’s Korean Painting_ Self-reflection and Self-awareness, Gallery Santorini Seoul, Seoul, Korea Awful landscape, Force Gallery, Beijing, China Neo-Mōrōism, Tokyo Gallery + BTAP, Beijing, China Real Landscape, True Reflection, OCI Museum of Art, Seoul, Korea house & home: Finding Myself, Jeju Museum of Art, Jeju, Korea Korean Art: An Age of Grand Navigation, Busan Museum of Art, Busan, Korea
2012	Manner and Landscape – The Vitality of Art, Daegu Art Factory, Daegu, Korea KOREA TOMORROW 2012, Hangaram Art Museum, Seoul, Korea Manner in Korean paintings, Hite Collection, Seoul Flower in the Moment, OCI Museum of Art, Seoul, Korea Discovery of Landscape, Shinsegae Gallery, Seoul, Korea GROWTH, Force Gallery, Beijing, China
2011	The Harmony – The More, The Better¸ Gallery Maum, New York, USA Nature, Life, Human, Daegu Art Museum, Daegu, Korea Seoul, City Exploration, Seoul Museum of Art, Seoul, Korea Self Camera: Repositioning Modern-Self, Sungsan Art Hall, Changwon, Korea
2010	21 & Their Times, Kumho Museum of Art, Seoul, Korea Korean Avant-Garde Drawing: 1970-2000, Seoul Olympic Museum of Art Museum of Art, Seoul, Korea Free Style: A Dialogue between Art and Design, Hongik Museum of Art, Seoul, Korea 30thAnniversary of the Young Korean Artists, MMCA, Gwacheon, Korea Eternal Blinking: Contemporary Art of Korea,Gallery of University of Hawaii, USA
2009	Flare: A Brand New Start in Art, MMCA, Seoul, Korea My Way, My Work, Vit Gallery, Seou, Korea Korea on the Rocks, Art Seasons Gallery, Zurich, Switzerland Cross Animate, Coreana Museum of Art, Seoul, Korea
2008	Beyond Definition, Interalia Gallery, Seoul, Korea Form, Idea, Essence and Rhythm: Contemporary East Asian Ink Painting, Taipei Fine Arts Museum, Taipei, Taiwan Art in Busan 2008: Welcome back to Busan, Busan Museum of Art, Busan, Korea One Fine Spring Day, Gwangju Museum of Art, Gwangju, Korea Inter_viewing Paintings, Seoul Olympic Museum of Art, Seoul, Korea
2007	Beyond Art Festival, Daejeon Museum of Art, Daejeon, Korea The Way of Seeing Art, Savina Museum of Contemporary Art, Seoul, Korea Asia Modern Art Project – City_net Asia 2007, Seoul Museum of Art, Seoul, Korea The 3rdChengdu Biennale, Chengdu Contemporary Art Museum, Chengdu, China Hommage 100: Korean Contemporary Art 1970-2007, Korea Art Center, Seoul, Korea Korean Paintings 1953-2007, Seoul Museum of Art, Seoul, Korea
2006	Drawn to Drawing, Seoul Olympic Museum of Art, Seoul, Korea Korea and China Ink Paintings Exchange Exhibition, Uijae Museum of Korean Art, Gwangju, Korea
2005	Echo of Daily Life, Park Soo Keun Museum, Yanggu, Korea Landscape Full of Nature, Chungmu Arts Center Gallery, Seoul, Korea Ink Paintings of Korea and China, Seoul Museum of Art, Seoul, Korea New Trends in Traditional Paintings, Gyeonggi Museum of Art, Ansan, Korea
2004	Modernism Art in Korea, Kumho Museum of Art, Seoul, Korea Resonance: Aesthetics of Korea, Hakgojae Gallery, Seoul, Korea Artists on Journey, Seoul National University Museum, Seoul, Korea Atelier Report, Savina Museum of Contemporary Art, Seoul, Korea Mapp-Media Workshop, Moran Gallery, Seoul, Korea
2003	Real-scape Revisited, MMCA, Gwacheon, Korea Discovery of Seoul Life – See the Dead Zone of Life, Ssamzie Space, Alternative Space Loop, Seoul, Korea People Who Walk on Water, Seoul Museum of Art, Seoul, Korea The House, Ga Gallery, Seoul, Korea Oriental Painting Paradiso, POSCO Art Museum, Seoul, Korea Invigorating Name - Mother, Munhwa Ilbo Gallery, Seoul, Korea Face, Expression, Daejeon Museum of Art, Daejeon, Korea Environmental Art– Water, Seoul Museum of Art, Seoul, Korea
2002	Here, Is, Insa Art space, Seoul, Korea
2001	The Scent and Shape of Ink: Contemporary Ink Painting of China, Japan and Korea, MMCA, Gwacheon, Korea People I’ve Met, Keumsan Gallery, Seoul, Korea Odyssey, Sungsan Art Hall, Changwon, Korea
2000	Young Korean Artists 2000 – Toward the New Millennium, MMCA, Gwacheon, Korea
1999	Beyond Landscape, Art Sonje Museum, Gyeongju, Korea The Status and Prospect of Korean Art, Daejeon Museum of Art, Daejeon, Korea
1998	Rediscovery of Drawing, Whanki Museum, Seoul, Korea
1997	Status of Five Contemporary Korean Painters, Plus Gallery, Seoul, Korea The Leading Artists of 21st Century Korean Art, Sun Gallery, Seoul, Korea
1996	The Development of Korean Modernism – Modern’s Conquest, Kumho Museum of Art, Seoul, Korea Ink Painting after the Ink Painting Movement, Whanki Museum, Seoul, Korea Korean Contemporary Art, Finding the Current State of Painting, Sungkok Art Museum, Seoul, Korea Today’s Korean Painting – Context and Development, Dukwon Gallery, Seoul, Korea
1995	Representative Works by Leading Artists of 2000s Korean Art, Munhwa Ilbo Gallery, Seoul, Korea The Way of Self-existence II, Kumho Gallery, Seoul, Korea
1994	Suggestion for Tomorrow – The New Generation’s Perspective, Hangaram Art Museum, Seoul, Korea
1993	Our Art, New Generation’s Method, Gallery Seoho, Seoul, Korea
1992	Today’s Life – Today’s Art, Kumho Gallery, Seoul, Korea ‘92 Seoul Contemporary Korean Painting Exhibition, Seoul Museum of Art, Seoul, Korea
1990	SeekingHuman, Samjeong Gallery, Seoul, Korea

 
Award
2017    The 1stGwangju Hwaru Artist Award, Gwangju Bank, Asia Culture Center, Gwangju, Korea
2009    The 9thHa Chong-Hyun Art Prize, Ha Chong-Hyun Art Prize Committee, Seoul, Korea
2003    Today's Young Artist Award, Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism, Sejong, Korea
2000    The 19thSuk Nam Arts Award, Suk Nam Arts and Cultural Foundation, Seoul, Korea

 
Public Collections
Art Bank, National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Seoul, Korea
Busan Museum of Art, Busan, Korea
Chengdu Contemporary Art Museum, Chengdu,China
Daejeon Museum of Art, Daejeon, Korea
Gyeonggi Museum of Modern Art, Ansan, Korea
Hana Bank, Seoul, Korea
Jeju Museum of Art, Jeju, Korea
Jeon Deung Sa, Incheon, Korea
Kumho Museum of Art, Seoul, Korea
Leeum, Samsung Museum of Art, Seoul, Korea
Moran Museum of Art, Namyangju, Korea
National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Korea, Seoul, Korea
OCI Museum of Art, Seoul, Korea
Savina Museum of Contemporary Art, Seoul, Korea
Seoul Museum of Art, Seoul, Korea
Seoul Olympic Museum of Art, Korea
Sungkok Art Museum, Seoul, Korea
Sungshin University Museum, Seoul, Korea
White Rabbit Collection, Sydney, Australia
Xian Diplomat, Xian, China