b. 1969
EDUCATION
2002 M.F.A. School of Art, Yale University, New Haven, CT, U.S.A.
1998 B.F.A. College of Fine Arts, HongIk University, Seoul, Korea
SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITION
2022 Highlighting Korean Contemporary Artist Iv - Hyungkoo Lee, Busan Museum of Art, Busan, Korea
2021 Chemical Volume, P21, Seoul, Korea
Chemical, DOOSAN Gallery, Seoul, Korea
2019 Penetrale, P21, Seoul, Korea
2015 ANIMATUS, AVENUEL ART HALL, Seoul, Korea
Gallus, PERIGEE GALLERY, Seoul, Korea
ANIMATUS, Polytechnic Museum, Gorky Park, Moscow, Russia
2014 MEASURE, Gallery Skape, Seoul, Korea
2012 Face Trace, Gallery Skape, Seoul, Korea
2010 Eye Trace, DOOSAN Gallery, Seoul, Korea
2008 ANIMATUS, Natural History Museum, Basel, Switzerland
ANIMATUSEUM, ARARIO Gallery, New York, NY, U.S.A.
2007 The Homo Species, Korean Pavilion, Giardini, Venice Biennale, Venice, Italy
2006 ANIMATUS, ARARIO Gallery, Cheonan, Korea
2004 The Objectuals, Sungkok Art Museum, Seoul, Korea
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITION
2022 Masquerade, MMCA, Gwacheon, Korea
Human, 7 questions, Jeonnam Museum of Art, Gwangyang, Korea
2021 Human, 7 questions, Leeum Museum, Seoul, Korea
2020 Art & Energy: Energy Exchanger & Reservoir in Our Life, Jeonbuk Museum of Art,
Wanju-gun, Korea
2019 Show Me Your Selfie, Goyang Aram Nuri Aram Art Museum, Goyang, Korea
2018 Asia Triennial Manchester 2018, Holden Art Gallery, Manchester School of Art, Manchester, UK
Enfants Terribles As Ever, SSamziespace 1998-2008-2018, Donuimun Museum Village, Seoul, Korea
2018 Title Match, Hyungkoo Lee vs. Min Oh, Buk-Seoul Museum of Art, Seoul, Korea
Daejeon Biennale 2018: Bio Fantasy, Daejeon Museum of Art, Daejeon, Korea
2017 New Acquisitions, National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Seoul, Korea
2016 2016 Doublesensation, Gallery Rae, Busan, Korea
Please Return to Busan Port, Vestfossen Kunstlaboratorium, Norway
2015 Animamix Biennale 2015-2016, Daegu Art Museum, Daegu, Korea
Have a Good Day Mr. Kim, Michael Horbach Foundation, Choi&Lager Gallery, Cologne, Germany
Black Box Formula, Royal College of Art, London, UK
2014 Spectrum – Spectrum, PLATEAU, Seoul, Korea
Doublesensation, Gallery Rae, Busan, Korea
2013 Hidden Dimension, Gallery Skape, Seoul, Korea
Who is Alice?, Spazio Lightbox, Venice, Italy
Age of Grand Navigation, Busan Museum of Art, Busan, Korea
Beastly Hall, A Place Where Artists and Creatures Collide, Hall place & Gardens, London, UK
2012 One must imagine Sisyphus happy, Neo Bankside, London, UK
FREEDOM NOT GENIUS, Pinacoteca Agnelli, Turin, Italy
Thoughts on Body, SOMA Museum of Art, Seoul, Korea
Superhuman, Wellcome Collection, London, UK
Re-Opening, DOOSAN Gallery, Seoul, Korea
Keeping It Real:Korean Artist in the Age of Multi-Media Representation, CU Art Museum,
Colorado, U.S.A.
2011 Sculptor’s Drawing, SOMA Museum of Art, Seoul, Korea
Reopen at Hannam, Gallery Skape, Seoul, Korea
Bad Exhibition, Pin Gallery, Beijing, China
2010 Made in Popland, National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Gwacheon, Korea
Plastic Garden, Shanghai Minsheng Museum, Shanghai, China
Artist’s Body, Coreana Museum of Art space*c, Seoul, Korea
2009 D AiR, DOOSAN Gallery New York, NY, U.S.A.
Extreme Frontiers, Urban Frontiers, Institute Valencia d’Art Modern, Valencia, Spain
VRAOUM!, La Maison Du Rouge, Paris, France
Mythologies, Haunch of Venison, London, UK
Read and Feel the Pictures, Seoul Museum of Art, Seoul, Korea
2008 GSK Contemporary, Royal Academy of Arts, London, UK
METAMORPHOSES Korean Trajectories, Espace Louis Vuitton, Paris, France
2007 Contemporary Korean Art: Wonderland, National Art of Museum China, Beijing, China
2006 ALLLOOKSAME? Art China Korea Japan Art, Fondazione Sandretto re Rabaudengo, Turin, Italy
Give Me Shelter, Union Gallery, London, UK
Art Spectrum, Leeum, Seoul, Korea
2005 Visions of the Body, Seoul Museum of Art, Seoul, Korea
2004 Young Artist from Korea, China, and Japan, National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art,
Gwacheon, Korea
The Joan Mitchell Foundation 2002&2003 MFA Grant Recipients, Cue Art Foundation Gallery,
New York, U.S.A.
Out the Window: Spaces of Distraction, Project Space Zip, Seoul, Korea
Out the Window: Spaces of Distraction, The Japan Foundation Forum, Tokyo, Japan
2003 Fake & Fantasy, Art Center Nabi, Seoul, Korea
Energy, Project Space Zip, Seoul, Korea
Beauty, Sungkok Art Museum, Seoul, Korea
Pleasure Factory, Seoul Museum of Art, Seoul, Korea
2001 The Wight Biennial, The New Wight Gallery, UCLA, Los Angeles, CA, U.S.A.
RESIDENCIES AND AWARDS
2009 Gyeonggi Creation Center 2009, Pilot program, Ansan, Korea
DOOSAN Residency New York, New York, NY, U.S.A.
2007 The 39th National Awards for ‘Today’s Korean Young Artists’, Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism, Seoul, Korea
2003 SSamziespace Studio Program, Seoul, Korea
2002 Joan Mitchell Foundation Award, New York, NY, U.S.A.
2001 Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, Skowhegan, ME, U.S.A.