The Fourth Asia Pacific Triennial of Contemporary Art

ARTIST BIOGRAPHIES 1997 1996 1995 1994 1992 1991 1990 1989 'Sarajevo 2000', Museum Moderner Kunst Stiftung Ludwig, Vienna, Austria 'Made In France', Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, France Musee DArt Moderne Saint-Etienne, France 'Project 8: Prehistoric Stone & Media Show', Total Contemporary Art Museum, Seoul, Korea 'Small Truths', John Hansard Gallery, Southampton, UK Asiana: Contemporary Art from the Far East', Palazzo Vendramin Calergi, Venice, Italy 'Korean Art 1995: Quality, Quantity, Sensation', National Museum of Contemporary Art, Seoul, Korea 'Matter and Perception 1970: Mono-Ha and the Search for Fundamentals', Gifu Prefectural Museum, Japan 'Japanese Art After 1945: Scream Against the Sky', Yokohama Museum of Art, Japan; USA 'Japanese Contemporary Art', Guggenheim Museum Soho, New York, USA 'Working With Nature: Traditional Thought In Contemporary Art from Korea', Tate Gallery Liverpool, UK; Korea Avantguardie Giapponesi Degli Anni 70', Galleria dArte Moderna di Bologna, Italy Anschitssachen', Galerie M. Bochum, Germany 'Seven Artists: Aspects of Contemporary Japanese Art', Santa Monica Museum of Art, USA; Mexico; Japan 'Minimal Art', The National Museum of Art, Osaka, Japan '20ste Biennale Middelheim-Japan', Middleheim Open-Air Museum of Sculpture, Antwerp, Belgium 'Effets de Miroir', Bibliotheque de Louis Aragon, Choisy, France 1988 'Mono-Ha', Museo Laboratorio di Arte 1987 1986 1985 1984 1983 1982 Contemporanea, Rome, Italy 'Olympiad of Art', Olympic Park, Seoul, Korea 'Le Japon des Avant-Gardes', Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, France 'Seoul-Paris', Centre National des Arts Plastiques, Paris, France 'Mono-Ha', Kamakura Gallery, Tokyo, Japan '40 Years of Japanese Contemporary Art', Tokyo Metropolitan Art Museum, Japan 'Trends of Contemporary Japanese Art 1970-1984: Universality/Individuality', Tokyo Metropolitan Art Museum, Japan ARS 83', Ateneum, Helsinki, Finland 'M. Kawabata, Lee U-fan and Y Saito', Juda Rowan Gallery, London, UK 'Drawing Today: Masters of Drawing: Denes, Gafgen, Tubke, U-Fan: 2nd International Young Artist Triennial of Drawing', Kunsthalle Nuremberg, Germany 'Japanese Contemporary Art Exhibition', Camden Arts Centre, London, UK 1980 1979 1977 1976 1975 1974 1973 1971 1970 1969 1968 'Skulptur im 20 Jahrhundert', Basel, Switzerland 'Japan Kalojdoskop', Sweden '1st Henry Moore Grand Prize Exhibition', Hakone Open-Air Museum, Japan 'Documenta VI', Kassel, Germany '13th Contemporary Art Exhibition of Japan', Tokyo Metropolitan Art Museum, Japan '2nd Biennale of Sydney', Australia 'International Festival of Painting', Cagnes-Sur-Mer, France '3rd Triennale India', Lalit Akademi, New Delhi, India '11th Contemporary Art Exhibition of Japan', Tokyo Metropolitan Art Museum, Japan 'Japan Traditional Gegenwart', Stadtische Kunsthalle, Dusseldorf, Germany 'Sao Paulo Biennale', Brazil '7th Paris Biennale', France Aspects of New Japanese Art', The National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo, Japan 'Trends in Contemporary Art',The National Museum of Modern Art, Kyoto, Japan 'Contemporary Art of Korea', The National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo, Japan Qualifications, qrants & awards 2001 Praemium lmperiale, Painting, Japan Art Association 2000 1991 1979 1961 Ho-Am Prize, Samsung Foundation of Culture, Korea UNESCO Prize for Promotion of the Arts (for Lifetime Achievement) Chevalier de L'.Ordre des Arts et des Lettres, Republique Fran<;aise Superlative Prize, 1st Henry Moore Grand Prize Exhibition, Hakone Open-Air Museum, Japan Graduated Nihon University, Department of Philosophy, Tokyo, Japan Collections Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia Berlin National Galerie, Germany Fondazione Mudima, Milano, Italy Fukuoka Museum of Art, Japan Hara Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo, Japan Hiroshima City Museum of Contemporary Art, Japan Ho-Am Art Museum, Seoul, Korea Kroller-Muller Rijksmuseum, Otterlo, The Netherlands Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, France Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo, Japan Museum of Fine Arts, Gifu, Japan Museum of Modern Art, New York, USA National Museum of Contemporary Art, Seoul, Korea National Museum of Modern Art, Kyoto, Japan National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo, Japan Queensland Art Gallery, Brisbane, Australia Samsung Museum of Modern Art, Seoul, Korea Tate Gallery, London, UK Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Contemporary Art, Japan Selected bibliography Fisher, Jean (ed.). Selected Writings by Lee Ufan 1970-96. Lisson Gallery, London, 1996. Lee, U-fan. 'U-fan Lee: on infinity'. Domus, no.779, February 1996, pp.4-6. Lee, U-fan and Perrodin, Roselyne Marsaud. 'Theorie, Pratique, Meditation: Lee Ufan'. Pratiques: reflexions sur !'art, 7, Autumn 1999, pp.3-23. Perrodin, Roselyne Marsaud. 'Lee Ufan: !.'.affirmation d'un faire poetique'. Pratiques: reflexions sur !'art, 7, Autumn 1999, pp.24-38. Posca, Claudia. 'Lee Ufan: Interconnection - Skulpturen, Bilder, Zeichnungen'. Kunstforum International, no.153, January-March 2001, pp.351-2. Restany, Pierre. 'Lee U Fan and the Mono-ha revolution'. Domus, no.779, February 1996, pp.80-6. • • Lee U-fan Correspondance 1995 Oil on canvas 227 x 181cm Collection:The artist Courtesy: Tokyo Gallery, Tokyo Photograph: Soroku Yamamoto 137