1932 Born in Seoul
Studied Aesthetics at the University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
Studied European philosophy and contemporary music, Germany
2006 Die in Miami
Selected Solo Exhibitions
2019 Nam June Paik: The Future Is Now. Tate Modern, London, England.
Nam June Paik: Music Is Not Sound. James Cohan, New York, NY.
2018 Videocittà. Museo Nazionale Delle Arti Del XXI Secolo, Rome, Italy.
Nam June Paik: TV Clock. Santa Barbara Museum of Art, Santa Barbara, CA.
2017 Nam June Paik: In Character. San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA.
2016 The Paik Nam June Show. Dongdaemun Design Plaza, Seoul, South Korea.
2015 Nam June Paik. James Cohan Gallery, New York, NY.
Nam June Paik W3. Hakgojae Gallery, Seoul, South Korea
2014 Meeting Namjune Paik in Shanghai, Hakgojae Shanghai gallery, Shanghai
2013 NanJune Paik: Exhibition of music 1963-2013, Korea cultural foundation gallery.
2012 NamJune Paik: Ad Libitum, Space CAN, Beijing
Spectrum, SOMA Museum, Seoul
X sound: John Cage, Nam June Paik and After, NJP Art Center, Yongin
Nam June Paik, Auditorium Parco della Musica, Rome
In the Tower: Nam June Paik, The National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C
VIDEO SCREENING 2 2011, Center for Contemporary Art, Kitakyushu
2011 Beyond the time, Lotte Gallery, Busan
Mefdiascape, NJP Art Center, Yongin
2010 NamJune Paik, LEEAHN GALLERY, Changwon
NamJune Paik, Bongeunsa, Seoul
Nam June Paik, Museum Kunstpalast, Dusseldorf
Nam June Paik, Galleria Six, Milan
2009 NamJune Paik & Kim, Jong Hak, PYO Gallery, Seoul
Multiple Dialogue - NamJune Paik & Kang, Ik Joong, National Museum of Contemporary Art, Gwacheon
EXPosition of Mythology - Electronic Technology, Nam June Paik Art Center, Yongin
NamJune Paik, JoHyun Gallery, Busan
NamJune Paik - vision and Television, China Central Academy of Fine Arts, Beijing
The First Stop on the Super Highway - NamJune Paik & kim, Joo Hyun, Nam June Paik Art Center, Yongin
Media Alchemy of Nam June Paik, UCI (Claire Trevor School of the Arts) Beall Center, California
Nam June Paik, PLATOON kunsthalle, Seoul
2008 Nam June Paik- the NEXT, LEEAHN GALLERY, Daegu
Nam June Paik: Intimate and meditative works by the master, Korean Cultural Service NY, New York
NamJune Paik & Kim, Tchang Yeul, Gallery Hyundai, Seoul
2007 Nam June Paik‘s Vision of Korea- Fantasy and Hyper- reality, ARCO, Madrid
Nam June Paik, Retrospective: From Here to Eternity, National Museum of Contemporary Art, Gwacheon
Videostampa, Stampa, Basel
Nam June Paik, James Cohan Gallery, New York
Nam June Paik: Rhapsody in Video, Korean Broadcasting Service (KBS) Exhibition Hall, Seoul
Nam June Paik, doART CHINA, Beijing
2006 From Here to Eternity, National Museum of Contemporary Art, Gwacheon
Homage to Nam June Paik, Leeum Samsung Museum of Art, Seoul
The Memory of Nam June Paik: Memorabilia, Gyeonggi Cultural Foundation, Yongin
Homage to Nam June Paik, Kunsthalle Bremen
Nam June Paik Videos at the Expanded Eye, Kunsthaus Zurich, Zurich
Nam June Paik: Video Tribute, Observatori Festival, Valencia
Nam June Paik- In Memoriam, Museum of Modern Art, New York
Nam June Paik: Memorial in Los Angeles, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles
Projected Realities: Video Art from East Asia, Asia Society, New York
UsMap(1995), Megatron Matrix(1995), Permanent Exhibition, Smithsonian American Museum, Washington D.C
2005 Nam June Paik, Orange County Museum of Art, Newport Beach, California
2004 Nam June Paik- Global Groove 2004, Deutsche Guggenheim, Berlin
Nam June Paik, National Gallery of Australia Canberra, Canberra
Nam June Paik, Galerie Proarta, Zurich
Nam June Paik, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney
2002 Nam June Paik - Rhineland is my artistic Heimat, NRW-Forum Kultur und Wirtschaft, Dusseldorf
Nam June Paik, ll giocoliere elettronico, Palazzo Cavour, Turin
Nam June Paik, Laboratorio Arte Alameda, Mexico City
Nam June Paik, Galerie Proarta, Zurich
2001 The Worlds of Nam June Paik, Museo Guggenheim Bilbao, Bilbao
Double Feature: Paul Kos and Nam June Paik, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco,
Nam June Paik, Wood Street Galleries, Pittsburg
2000 The Worlds of Nam June Paik, Solomon R, Guggenheim Museum, New York
The Worlds of Nam June Paik, Rodin Gallery, Seoul
Nam June Paik- Video Art Pioneer, Santa Barbara Museum of Art, Santa Barbara, California
Nam June Paik, Zeichnungen, Museum Fur Gegenwartskunst-Emanuel Hoffmann- stiftung, Basel
Awards
This is Not a Love Song . La Virreina - Centre de la Imatge, Barcelona, Spain.
Public Collections
Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, New York, NY.
Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL.
Art Museum of the Americas, Washington, DC.
Cincinnati Art Museum, OH.
Contemporary Arts Center, Cincinnati, OH.
DaimlerChrysler Collection, Berlin, Germany.
Detroit Museum of Art, MI.
Deutsches Post Museum, Frankfurt, Germany.
Folkwangmuseum, Essen, Germany.
Guggenheim Museum, New York, NY.
Hiroshima Museum, Hiroshima, Japan.
Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, D.C.
Kunstmuseum, Düsseldorf, Germany.
Los Angeles County Museum of Art, CA.
Louisiana, Humblebaek, Denmark.
Monchehaus Museum, Goslar, Germany.
Musee d'Art Contemporain, Foundation Edelman, Lausanne, Switzerland.
Musee d'Art Moderne, Paris, France.
Musee d'Art Moderne, Saint Etienne, France.
Musée d'Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, France.
Musee National d'Art Moderne, Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, France.
Museum am Ostwall, Dortmund, Germany.
Museum of Modern Art, Frankfurt, Germany.
Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY.
Museum of Modern Art, Seoul, South Korea.
Museum of Technology, Karlsruhe, Germany.
Museum Ludwig, Aachen, Germany.
Museum Ludwig, Cologne, Germany.
Museum Moderner Kunst Stiftung Ludwig, Vienna, Austria.
Nationalgalerie, Berlin, Germany.
National Gallery of Australia, Canberra, Australia.
National Museum of American Art, Washington, D.C.
Reina Sofía National Museum, Madrid, Spain.
Reynolda House, Museum of American Art, Winston-Salem, NC.
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA.
Staatsgalerie Stuttgart, Germany.
Stadtische Kunsthalle, Mannheim, Germany.
Stadische Museum, Monchengladbach, Germany.
Statens Kunst-musee, Stockholm, Sweden.
Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
Tokyo Metropolitan Museum, Tokyo, Japan.
Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN.
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY