Born in 1955
Lives and works in Seoul
Education
1980
BFA, College of Fine Art, Seoul National University, Seoul
1982
MFA, College of Fine Art, Seoul National University, Seoul
Selected Solo Exhibitions
2007
Kim Foster Gallery, New York
Possible Worlds, PKM Gallery, Seoul
2005
Kim Foster Gallery, New York
2004
Radom Landscapes, PKM Gallery, Seoul
2003
Kim Forster Gallery, New York
2001
Kim Foster Gallery, New York
1999
Kukje Gallery, Seoul
1997
Gallery Shilla, Teagu, Korea
1996
Gallery Bhak, Seoul
Gallery Shilla, Teagu
1994
Seohwa Gallery, Seoul
Gallery Bhak, Seoul
Gallery Shilla, Teagu, Korea
1993
Icon Gallery, Seoul
1991
Jean Gallery, Seoul
1989
Soo Gallery, Seoul
1987
Fine Art Center, Seoul
Kwanhoon Gallery, Seoul
1982
Total Gallery, Seoul
Selected Group Exhibitions
2009
“Foregrounded,” PKM Gallery, Seoul
2008
Winter Collection, PKM Gallery, Seoul
2007
“Percept/scape-concept/scape,” Gallery Lux, Seoul
2006
“Terrain,” Kim Foster Gallery, New York
“Camera Work,” City Museum of Art, Seoul
2006
“Simply Beautiful,” Centre PasquArt, Biel/ Bienne, Switzerland
2005
“The Diversity Show,” curated by Betty Levin, Credit Suisse First Boston, New York
“Le Flux,” Galerie Lumen, Paris
“Cool & Warm,” Sunggok Museum of Art, Seoul
“Echo Beyond the Time,” Ewha Womans University Museum, Seoul
2004
“Painting That Paint Themselves,” Kresge Art Museum, East Lansing, Michigan
“Collectors Gallery,” Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, New York
2002
“Inaugural Exhibition,” curated by Robert C Morgan, Chelsea Art Museum, New York
4th Gwangju Biennial, Gwangju, Korea
“An Hors D'oveure,” Kim Foster Gallery, New York
2001
“Black & White,” Kim Foster Gallery, New York
2000
3rd Gwangju Biennial, Gwangju, Korea
1999
“Nature,” Parkyusook Gallery, Seoul
“Three Friends,” Simon Gallery, Seoul
“Seoul 80 - Sweet Lips,” Contemporary Art in Seoul
1998
“Spiritual- scapes,” Generous Miracles Gallery, New York
1997
“Paik Nam June, Moon Beom, Park Hyun-Ki, Chun Kwang-Young,” Kim Foster Gallery, New York
1996
“Window Display Project,” Gallery Hyundai, Seoul
“Anachrome,” Gallery Seowha, Seoul, Korea
“Install – Scape,” Taegu Center of Culture, Taegu, Korea
1995
Red Mill Gallery, VSC, Vermont
“Seoul 80 – Intertextuality, Speed,” Gaain Gallery, Seoul
“Information & Reality, Korean Contemporary Art,” Fruitmarket gallery, Edinburgh, UK
“Fusing Cement in Art,” Sunggok Museum of Art, Seoul
1994
“Logos & Pathos,” Kwanhoon Gallery, Seoul
1993
“Contemporary-Communication Art,” Galerie Bhak, Seoul
1992
“Informel après Informel,” Chosunilbo Gallery, Seoul
1991
“Korean Contemporary Art,” Sonjae Museum of Contemporary Art, Kyungju, Korea
1990
“Nineties Artists of Korea,” Seoul Museum of Art, Seoul
1989
“Kim Yong-Ik, Moon Beom, Hong Myung-Sup,” Space Gallery, Seoul
1988
“Korean Contemporary Painting,” National Museum of History, Taipei
1987
“Tail of Elephant,” Kanagawa Gallery, Yokohama, Japan
1986
“Korean Art – Old and New,” City Hall, Kyoto
1985
“Seoul 16 Young Artists,” Kwanhoon Gallery, Seoul
1984
“Korean Art Now,” City Museum, Taipei
1983
“Contemporary Paper Works, Korea and Japan,” City Museum, Kyoto
“Korea New Paper Works,” Spring Gallery, Taipei
“Three Korean Artists in L.A.,” Artcore Gallery, Los Angeles
1982
“After Logicalness,” Su Gallery, Taegu, Korea
“Common Sense, Susceptibility, Symptom,” Kwanghoon Gallery, Seoul
1981
“32e Salon de Jeune Peintre & Expression,” Grand Palais, Paris
“Seoul 80 – Objecthood,” Space Gallery, Seoul
“Seoul 80 – Work by Screen,” Dongduk Gallery, Seoul
“Seoul 80 –Report on Masters,” Space Gallery, Seoul
1980
“Seoul 80 –Work with Photo,” Space Gallery, Seoul
1979
“Performance, The Thing which to See,” Naengchun Valley, Taegu, Korea
1978
“Performance, See & Look,” Nakdong River, Taegu, Korea
Fellowship Program
1995
Vermont Studio Center(Johnson,VT.), sponsored by Freeman Foundation
1992
The Millay Colony for the Arts(Austerlitz,NY.), sponsored by Mid-America Art Alliance and USIA
Public Collection
National Museum of Contemporary Art, Seoul, Korea
Sonjae Museum of Contemporary Art, Kyungju, Korea
Samsung Museum of Modern Art, Seoul
Hoam Gallery, Seoul, Korea
Sunggok Museum of Art, Seoul, Korea
Kumho Museum of Art, Seoul, Korea
Posco Center, Seoul, Korea
STAR Tower, Seoul
Tower Palace, Seoul
Selected Bibliography
Art in America, review by Jonathan Goodmann, March, 2008
Catalogue for exhibition at PKM GALLERY with essay by Richard Vine 2004
Art Press, review by Robert C. Morgan, Sept 2003
Tema Celeste Contemporary Art, "Concepts by hand," review by Robert C. Morgan, Jan./Feb. 2002
Art in America, "Moon Beom at Kim Foster" review by Richard Vine, December, 2001
Art Forum, "Moon Beom: Kim Foster Gallery" review by Barry Schwabsky, May, 2001
Sculpture, "The Globalized Artist in the New Millennium" review by Robert C. Morgan, October 2000
The End of the Art World, by Robert C. Morgan, p, 46-47, Allworth Press, 1999
Catalogue for exhibition at Kukje Gallery, essay by Park Kyung-mee, May 1999, Korea
Korean Art Magazine Wolganmissol, review by Song Mi-Sook, April 1999, Korea
Flash Art, review by Grady T. Turner, Jan/Feb. 1998, Italy
Time Out, review by Martha Schwendener, July 31, 1997, New York
Review, review by Robert C. Morgan, 1997, New York
Gallery Shilla Feature, review by You Phila, November 1996, Korea
Korean Art Magazine Wolganmissol, review by Kim Hong-Hee, August 1995, Korea
Art Vivant, essay by Lee Yong-Woo, vol. 39, 1995, Korea
Korean Art Magazine Gana Art, review by Kim Hyun-Do, December 1994, Korea
Korean Art Magazine Wolganmissol, review by Song Mi-Sook, October 1994, Korea
Korean Art Magazine Space, review by Lee Yong-Woo, April 1994, Korea
Korean Art Magazine Wolganmissol, review by Park Jung-Ki, April 1993, Korea
Catalogue for exhibition at Icon Gallery, essay by Yoon Nan-Ji, 1993, Korea
Korean Art Magazine Wolganmissol, review by Lim Du-Bin, October 1989, Korea