Biography

1976
Born in Seoul

Lives and works in New York

Solo Exhibitions

2023
“THE BIG NUDES”, David Zwirner, New York

2022
“THE BIG NUDES”, 52 Walker, New York
KAT_A, Bad Honnef

2021
“Blood Bath”, Le Consortium, Dijon

2020
“Big Cocks”, Reena Spaulings, New York

2019
“Angel Energy”, Gaga Reena, Los Angeles
“Kanye”, Galerie Buchholz, Berlin

2018
Kunsthalle Zürich
“Men Photographing Men”, Reena Spaulings, New York
“Babies”, Mega Foundation, Stockholm

2016
Real Fine Arts, New York
“#lonelygirl”, Galerie Bernhard, Zurich

2013
“The Great Penetrator”, Real Fine Arts, New York

2010
“The Black Object”, Anna Catharina Gebbers, Berlin

Group Exhibitions

2024

“Udo is Love. Zeit ist die Sünde - Eine Reise in das unfassbare Leben des Udo Kier”, Kölnischer Kunstverein, Cologne

“Are You Joking? Women & Humor”, The Church, Sag Harbor
“Yours Truly”, Nahmad Contemporary, New York
“Coming Soon”, Lafayette Anticipations, Paris
“Composition for the Left Hand. With Works from the Kagge Collection”, Kode Art Museum, Bergen

2022
“The American Friend”, Downs & Ross, New York
“To Begin Again: Artists and Childhood”, Institute of Contemporary Art Boston (ICA), Boston

2021
“A Decade that Exploded”, Rialto 6, Lisbon
“Wish”, Metro Pictures, New York
“New Flesh”, Forde - Espace d’art contemporain, Geneva
“It’s Just a Phase”, Kjøpmannsgata Ung Kunst, Trondheim
“Boys & Girls”, No Gallery, New York

2020
“No Dandy, No Fun”, Kunsthalle Bern
“Image Power”, Frans Hals Museum, Haarlem
“Time is Thirsty”, Kunsthalle Wien, Vienna
“Mercury”, Photomonth Biennial, Tallinn Art Hall, Tallinn
“Maskulinitäten”, Bonner Kunstverein, Bonn / Kölnischer Kunstverein, Cologne / Kunstverein für die Rheinlande und Westfalen, Dusseldorf
“Ritratto d’un capello inquietante”, Galerie Buchholz, Cologne
Whitney Biennial 2019, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York
“Homework”, Castiglioni, Milan
“Chairs Beyond Right and Wrong”, R & Company, New York
“Peel”, Francois Ghebaly, Los Angeles
OpenART Biennale, Örebro
“Straying from the Line”, Schinkel Pavillon, Berlin
“L’Almanach 20”, Le Consortium, Dijon
“Fotograf Festival #X Uneven Ground”, Fotograph Festival, Prague

2019
“Beyond Fashion”, ArtisTree, Hong Kong

2018
“Swingers”, Greene Naftali, New York
“Anti”, 6th Athens Biennale, Athens
“Hölle”, Galerie Buchholz, New York
“@MINED_OUD”, Museo Madre, Naples
FCA Benefit Exhibition, Gladstone Gallery, New York
“Room Raiders”, Mathew, Berlin
“Jahresgaben 2018”, Kölnischer Kunstverein, Cologne

2017
“True Lies”, Night Gallery, Los Angeles
“Earth Day”, Ramiken, New York
Office Baroque, Brussels
“The Love Object”, Team Gallery, New York
“A Spaghetti Dress for World Peace, Paul Soto”, Park View, Los Angeles
“To a Body”, Shoot The Lobster, New York

2016
“Under The Volcano”, Lomex, New York
“Adrift on Plastic Island”, Galerie Bernhard, Zurich
“1.-3. person singular/plural”, Kunstverein Leipzig, Leipzig
“Tomorrow is a New Day”, Walanka, Port Hercules, Monaco

2015
“Abandon the Parents”, Statens Museum for Kunst, Copenhagen
“Misanthrope-NY”, Mathew, New York
“Terrapin”, Svetlana, New York
“FAKE”, Exile, Berlin

2014
Foxy Production, New York
“Essential Loneliness”, Taylor Macklin, Zurich

2013
“Camp Habibi”, Mathew Gallery, Berlin

2003
“White Meat & Sunlight”, Harbord & Wiensowski, Berlin

2002
“Hanayo”, Palais de Tokyo, Paris