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BIOGRAFIE
| 1932 | geboren in Seoul/Korea |
| 1950 | Ausbruch des Koreakrieges, die Familie flieht über Hongkong nach Tokio. |
| 1952 - 1956 | Paik studiert westliche Ästhetik, Musik- und Kunstwissenschaft an der Universität Tokio Thema seiner Abschlussarbeit ist der deutsche Komponist Arnold Schönberg |
| 1956 - 1958 | Studium der Musikgeschichte an der Universität München und Komposition bei Wolfgang Fortner an der Freiburger Musikhochschule |
| 1958 - 1963 | Zusammen mit Karlheinz Stockhausen arbeitet Paik im WDR-Studio für Elektronische Musik |
| 1958 | Begegnung mit dem amerikanischen Komponisten John Cage in Darmstadt |
| 1963 - 1964 | Japanreise erste Versuche, statt mit Pinsel und Farbe mit technischen Mitteln zu malen mit Abe baut er einen Roboter als Imitation des Menschen, der "Urgroßvater" seiner späteren "Family of Robot" |
| 1964 - 1967 | Paik zieht nach New York dort lernt die Cellistin Charlotte Moorman kennen |
| 1977 | Heirat mit der Videokünstlerin Shigeko Kubota |
| 1979 | Professur an der Kunstakademie Düsseldorf |
| 1988 | lebt Paik in New York und Wiesbaden |
| 1996 | Paik erleidet einen Schlaganfall und ist nun im Rollstuhl |
| 2006 | gestorben in Miami/USA |
AUSSTELLUNGEN
| 2019 | Tate Modern, London, UK James Cohan, New York, NY |
| 2018 | Museo Nazionale Delle Arti Del XXI Secolo, Rome, Italy Santa Barbara Museum of Art, Santa Barbara, CA |
| 2017 | San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA |
| 2016 | Dongdaemun Design Plaza, Seoul, South Korea |
| 2015 | James Cohan Gallery, New York, NY Hakgojae Gallery, Seoul, South Korea |
| 2014 | Galerie Mitterand, Paris Asia Society, New York, NY |
| 2013 | La Virreina - Centre de la Imatge, Barcelona K20 Grabbeplatz, Dusseldorf Beirut Art Center, Beirut Bonnefantenmuseum, Maastricht La Maison Rouge, Paris |
| 2012 | American Art Museum, Washington, DC |
| 2011 | Center for Contemporary Art, CCA Kitakyushu, Japan The National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC Auditorium Parco della Musica, Rome LEE galerie BERLIN, Berlin, Germany |
| 2010 | FACT, Foundation for Art and Creative Technology, Liverpool Tate Liverpool, Liverpool Museum Kunstpalast, Düsseldorf Galleria Six, Milan |
| 2009 | Beall Center for Art + Technology, Irvine, CA Johyun Gallery - Busan, Busan James Cohan Gallery - New York, New York City, NY CAFA Art Museum - China Central Academy of Fine Arts, Beijing Museum Moderner Kunst Stiftung Ludwig - MUMOK, Vienna |
| 2008 | EnBW, Karlsruhe, Germany |
| 2007 | doART Beijing, China James Cohan Fallery, New York City, NY Fundación Telefónica, Madrid, Spain |
| 2006 | The Watari Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo, Japan |
| 2004 | Deutsche Guggenheim, Berlin, Germany |
| 2003 | Mano Gallery, Seoul, South Korea |
| 2002 | Museum fur Moderne Kunst, Frankfurt Wilhelm Lehmbruck Museum, Duisburg |
| 2001 | Guggenheim Museum, New York, NY Centre d’Art Contemporain, Geneva, Switzerland Guggenheim Bilbao, Spain Gallery Hyundai, Seoul, South Korea Galerie BHAK, Seoul, South Korea |
| 2000 | Museum fur Moderne Kunst, Frankfurt Museum fur Gegenwartskunst, Basel, Switzerland Sprengel Museum, Hannover, Germany Guggenheim Museum, New York Hoam Museum, Seoul, South Korea |
| 1999 | TV Gallery, Moscow, Russia Kunsthalle, Bremen, Germany |
| 1998 | College of Pennsylvania Galleries,York, PA |
| 1997 | Galerie Bhak, Seoul, South Korea Kim Foster Gallery, New York, NY Holly Solomon Gallery, New York, NY Anthology Film Archives, New York, NY National Museum of American Art, Washington Museum of Contemporary Art, Jacksonville, FL Skulpture Projects in Munster, Westfalisches Landesmuseum, Munster, Germany |
| 1996 | Museum of Art, San Jose Culturgest, The Electronic Super Highway: Nam June Paik in the Nineties, Lisbon |
| 1995 | Gallery Hyundai, Seoul |
| 1994 | The Howard Wise Gallery Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY |
| 1993 | The Watari Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo, Japan Holly Solomon Gallery, New York, NY German Pavilion, Venice Biennale 1993, Venice, Italy |
| 1992 | Musée D'art Contemporain de Montreal, Montreal, Canada Galerie Hans Mayer, Dusseldorf, Germany Korean Pavilion, World Expo, Seville, Spain Museum des 20. Jahrhunderts, Vienna, Austria Museum of Modern Art, Seoul, South Korea Palazzo delle Esposizioni, Rome, Italy Museum of Modern Art, Seoul, South Korea |
| 1991 | Kunsthaus, Zurich Kunsthalle, Basel, Switzerland Kunsthalle, Dusseldorf, Germany Carl Solway Gallery, Cincinnati, OH |
| 1990 | Hans Mayer, Dusseldorf, Germany Deutsches Post Museum, Frankfurt Residential Development, Philadelphia, PA Galerie Maurice Keitelman, Brussels, Belgium Holly Solomon Gallery, New York, NY |
| 1989 | La Fée Electronique Musée d'Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, France Galerie du Génie, Paris, France Galerie de Paris, Paris, France Mayor Rowan Gallery, London, England Galerie Juana Mordo, Madrid, Spain Weisses Haus, Hamburg, Germany Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY |
| 1988 | Dorothy Goldeen Gallery, Los Angeles, CA Holly Solomon Gallery, New York, NY Hayward Gallery, South Bank Centre, London, England |
| 1986 | Holly Solomon Gallery, New York, NY |
| 1985 | Carl Solway Gallery, Cincinnati, OH International Art Exposition, Chicago, IL |
| 1984 | Tokyo Metropolitan Art Museum, Tokyo, Japan Galerie Esperanza, Montreal, Canada |
| 1982 | Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam, The Netherlands Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, IL Centre Georges Pompidou, Musée National d'Art Moderne, Paris, France Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, IL |
| 1981 | Sony Hall, Tokyo, Japan Gallery Watari, Tokyo, Japan Die Nutzlichen Kunste, West Berlin, Germany |
| 1980 | Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY Gallery Watari, Tokyo, Japan Stadtische Kunst-halle, Dusseldorf, Germany |
| 1978 | Gallery Watari, Tokyo, Japan Rene Block Gallery, Berlin, Germany Musée d'Art Moderne, Centre National d'Art et de Culture Georges Pompidou, Paris, France Musée d'Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, France |
| 1977 | Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY Galerie Rene Block, West Berlin, Germany Galerie Marika Malacorda, Geneva, Switzerland |
| 1976 | Rene Block Gallery, New York, NY Kölnischer Kunstverein, Cologne, Germany Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, The Netherlands Galeria Bonino, New York, NY The Kitchen, New York, NY |
| 1975 | Rene Block Gallery, New York, NY Martha Jackson Gallery, New York, NY |
| 1974 | Electronic Art IV, Galeria Bonino, New York, NY Everson Museum of Art, Syracuse, NY Galeria Bonino, New York, NY |
| 1973 | The Kitchen, Mercer Arts Center, New York, NY |
| 1972 | Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY |
| 1971 | Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY Galeria Bonino in collaboration with Intermedia Institute, New York, NY Rizzoli Screening Room, New York, NY Millennium Film Workshop, New York, NY |
| 1968 | Institute of Contemporary Art, London, England State University of New York, Stony Brook, NY |
| 1967 | Art Center of the Paul Klapper Library, Queens College, City University of New York, NY |
| 1965 | New School for Social Research New York, NY Galleria Bonino, New York, NY |
| 1963 | Galerie Parnass, Wuppertal, Germany |
| 1962 | Kammerspiele, Dusseldorf, Germany |
| 1961 | Galerie Lauhus, Cologne, Germany |
| 1960 | Mary Bauermeister Studio, Cologne, Germany |
| 1959 | Galerie 22, Dusseldorf, Germany |
AUSZEICHNUNGEN
| 2001 | Wilhelm-Lehmbruck-Preis der Stadt Duisburg |
| 1998 | Kyoto-Preis |
| 1995 | Ho-Am-Preis |
| 1993 | Goldener Löwe für den besten Länderpavillon auf der Biennale von Venedig |
| 1992 | Picasso-Medaille der UNESCO |
| 1991 | Kaiserring der Stadt Goslar |
| 1989 | Kurt-Schwitters-Preis, Hannover |
| 1981 | Will-Grohmann-Preis |
WERKE IN SAMMLUNGEN
| Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL Reina Sofía National Museum, Madrid, Spain DaimlerChrysler Collection, Berlin, Germany Musée d'Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, France Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, New York Art Museum of the Americas, Washington, DC National Gallery of Australia, Canberra, Australia San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, DC Guggenheim Museum, New York, NY |