Kibong Rhee

• Born in 1957, Seoul, Korea
  Lives and works in Seoul, Korea

Education

• 1985       MFA in Fine Art at Seoul National University, Seoul, Korea
  1981       BFA in Western Painting at Seoul National University, Seoul, Korea

Selected Solo Exhibitions

• 2024
  There is no place, Tina Kim Gallery, New York, US
  
  2022
  Where You Stand, Kukje Gallery, Seoul; Kukje Gallery, Busan, Korea
  
  2012   
  The Cloudium, ARKO Art Center, Seoul, Korea
  
  2011   
  There is No Place, Tina Kim Gallery, New York, US
  
  2008      
  The Wet Psyche, Kukje Gallery, Seoul, Korea
  
  2005      
  The Connective, Sindorico Art Center, Asan, Korea
  
  2003      
  There is No Place - The Connective, Kukje Gallery, Seoul, Korea
  
  2002
  Kukje Gallery, Seoul, Korea
  
  1997      
  about vanishment I, II, Kukje Gallery, Seoul, Korea
  
  1995      
  Yeh Gallery, Seoul, Korea
  
  1994      
  Gallery Seohwa, Seoul, Korea
  
  1993      
  Hena-Kent Gallery, New York, US
  
  1992      
  Gallery Meegun, Four Season Gallery, Seoul, Korea
  
  1991      
  Gallery Meegun, Seoul, Korea
  
  1988      
  In Kong Gallery, Seoul, Korea

Selected Group Exhibitions

• 2025
  Painting. Traces of Intersected Eras, Museum Hodu, Cheonan, Korea
  Ingong Archive, PIBI Gallery, Seoul, Korea
  
  2024
  Gallery Simon 30th Anniversary Exhibition, Gallery Simon, Seoul, Korea
  
  2023
  STILL-LIFE, STILL-CITY, Sehwa Museum of Art, Seoul, Korea
  
  2021
  Ink Dreams: Selections from the Fondation INK Collection, Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA), Los Angeles, US
  
  2019      
  The 25th Anniversary Simon's Friends, Gallery Simon, Seoul, Korea
  
  2018      
  Art in Motion. 100 Masterpieces with and through Media, ZKM, Kalsruhe, Germany
  Neo-Moroism, Tokyo Gallery+BTAP, Beijing, China
  GMoMA Collection Highlights, Gyeonggi Museum of Modern Art, Ansan, Korea
  
  2017      
  Your Hand, My Heart, Gallery Simon, Seoul, Korea
  Neo-Naturalism, Ilwoo Space, Seoul, Korea
  
  2016      
  Neo-Moroism 2016, Tokyo Gallery+BTAP, Beijing, China
  New Romance: Art and the Post Human (Korea-Australia Partnership Exhibition), Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney, Australia
  Partir, Bogéna Galerie, Saint-Paul-de-Vence, France
  We Create Things, Things Create Us, Changwon Sculpture Biennale 2016, Changwon, Korea
  As the Moon Waxes and Wanes: MMCA Gwacheon, 30 Years 1986-2016, National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Gwacheon, Korea
  
  2015      
  New Romance (Korea-Australia Partnership Exhibition), National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Seoul, Korea
  Into Thin Air, Kumho Museum of Art, Seoul, Korea
  
  2014      
  Neo-Sansu, Dague Museum of Art, Daegue, Korea
  K-Pop: Process. Otherness. Play, MOCA Taipei, Taiwan
  Water_Innocence, Seoul Olympic Museum of Art, Seoul, Korea
  Blue & D Major, Ilju & Seonhwa Gallery, Seoul, Korea
  
  2012   
  (Im) Possible Landscape, Plateau (Samsung Museum of Art), Seoul, Korea
  Mediations Biennale 2012, Poland
  2012 Korean Contemporary Art in China: ReBooting, Yan Huang Art Museum, Beijing, China
  SeMA Hidden Track 2012, Seoul Museum of Art, Seoul, Korea
  Korean Painting Now, National Taiwan Museum of Fine Arts, Taiwan
  Wonil Memories-THE BROTHERS, Gallery Sejul, Seoul, Korea
  
  2011   
  Rewriting Worlds, 4th Moscow Biennale of Contemporary Art, Moscow, Russia
  
  2010   
  Screaming From The Mountain, Sørlandets Kunstmuseum, Norway
  Sensorium, Korea University Museum, Korea.
  The Scents of Forest, Sound of Forest, Ewha Womans University Museum, Korea
  And_Writers, Nanjing Biennale, Najing, China
  Mirrors of continuous changes, TaeKwang Industrial Co, Korea
  Living in Evolution, Busan Biennale 2010, Busan, Korea
  Pine and Bamboo_Clear Sounds and Pure Scents, Ewha Womans University Museum, Seoul, Korea
  30th Anniversary of the Young Korean Artists 1981-2010, National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Gwacheon, Korea
  
  2009      
  Reflection, Dojima River Forum, Osaka, Japan
  The 6th Asia Pacific Triennial of Contemporary Art, Gallery of Modern Art, Brisbane, Australia
  Biennale Cuvée 2009, OK Centre for Contemporary Art, Linz, Austria
  In Search for the Sublime, Leyoung Contemporary Art Museum, Yongin, Korea
  Another Masterpiece, Gyeonggi Museum of Modern Art, Ansan, Korea
  
  2008      
  Drawn in the Clouds: Contemporary Asian Art, Museum of Contemporary Art Kiasma, Helsinki, Finland
  2008 Sevilla Biennale, Sevilla and Granada, Spain
  Re-Imagining Asia, House of World Cultures, Berlin, Germany / New Art Gallery Walsall, Walsall, United Kingdom
  Emergent Poetics, Emocaoartificial, Sao Paulo, Brazil
  Wonder, Singapore Biennale 2008, Singapore
  A Moonlit Garden, KIAF Special Exhibition, Seoul, Korea
  14th Anniversary Simon's Friends, Gallery Simon, Seoul, Korea
  Hakgojae Collection, Hakgojae Gallery, Seoul, Korea
  
  2007      
  Thermocline of Art - The New Asian Wave, ZKM, Kalsruhe, Germany
  Simon’s Six Friends, Gallery Simon, Seoul, Korea
  Void in Korean Art, Leeum, Samsung Museum of Art, Seoul, Korea
  
  2006      
  Simon’s Five Friends, Gallery Simon, Seoul, Korea
  
  2005      
  The Blue, Gallery Gana, Seoul, Korea
  Flower, calling your name, Bundo Gallery, Daegu, Korea
  Before & Now, Gallery Simon, Seoul, Korea 
  Cool & Warm, Sunggok Museum, Seoul, Korea
  Echo Beyond Time: The Traditional and the Modern, Ewha Woman’s University Museum, Seoul, Korea
  
  2004      
  Image Utopia, Museum Han Jun Plaza, Seoul, Korea
  The 10th Anniversary Exhibition of Gallery Simon, Gallery Simon, Seoul, Korea    
  VENTD’EST, Chapelle de la Sorbonne, Paris, France
  
  2003
  Seoul Book Art-Art Book Art, National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Gwacheon, Korea
  
  2002      
  Chemical Art, Gallery Sagan, Seoul, Korea
  
  2000~2001       
  John’s Church Project, Seongnam, Korea
  
  2001      
  Lunapark, Uta Nusser, Württembergischer Kunstverein, Stuttgart, Germany
  
  1999      
  Dialogue, Total Museum, Seoul, Korea
  Sweet Lips, CAIS Gallery, Seoul, Korea
  Korean Contemporary Art-Trends in the 90’s, EllenKim Murphy Gallery, Seoul, Korea
  Seeing Again, Woong Jeon Gallery, Seoul, Korea
  
  1998      
  4+1 Korean Artists, Hofstra Museum, New York, US
  Spiritual-Scape, Generous-Miracle Gallery, New York, US
  Chorus & Distortion, Gallery Untitled, New York, US
  Contemporary Art Polemics: Media & Surface, Sunggok Museum of Art, Seoul, Korea
  Project 8, Total Museum of Contemporary Art, Seoul, Korea
  PICAF 98, City Museum, Busan, Korea
  Friends of Simon, Gallery Simon, Seoul, Korea
  Logos & Pathos, Kwanhoon Gallery, Seoul, Korea
  
  1997      
  Upmapping the Earth, 2nd Gwangju Biennale, Gwangju, Korea
  Réalité Seoul, GongPyung Art Center, Seoul, Korea
  Seeing Again, Woong Jeon Gallery, Seoul, Korea
  
  1996      
  Ana-chrome, Gallery Seohwa, Seoul, Korea
  Contemporary Print Art Fair, Seoul Arts Center, Seoul, Korea
  Art at Home, Gallery Seomi, Seoul, Korea
  Logos & Pathos, Kwanhoon Gallery, Seoul, Korea
  
  1995      
  The Eye of Dealer, Seoul Arts Center, Seoul, Korea
  Total Prized Artists’ Show, Total Museum of Contemporary Art, Seoul, Korea
  Logos & Pathos, Kwanhoon Gallery, Seoul, Korea
  Korea Contemporary Art, China Museum, Beijing, China
  Seoul ‘80, Gallery Gain, Seoul, Korea
  Retrospective of Contemporary Art ’50, Seoul Press Center, Seoul, Korea
  Art Space, Seoul, Korea
  
  1994      
  Logos & Pathos, Kwanhoon Gallery, Seoul, Korea
  Artists of Yeh Gallery, Yeh Gallery, Seoul, Korea
  Seoul ’80, Shilla Gallery, Daegu, Korea
  Suggestion, Seoul Arts Center, Seoul, Korea
  OPEN STUDIO, OPEN STUDIO, Seongnam, Korea
  Simon's Seven Friends, Gallery Simon, Seoul, Korea
  
  1993      
  Language of Figurative, Gallery Vinkel, Seoul, Korea
  Ecole de Seoul, Kwanhoon Gallery, Seoul, Korea
  Seoul ’80, Gallery Seohwa, Seoul, Korea
  Total Grand Art Exhibition, Total Museum of Contemporary Art, Seoul, Korea
  Réalité Seoul, Gallery Forum, Seoul, Korea
  Logos & Pathos, Kwanhoon Gallery, Seoul, Korea
  Commemoration exhibition for 15th anniversary of Gallery Yeh, Gallery Yeh, Seoul, Korea
  
  1992      
  Form & Representation, Los Angeles, US
  92 Seoul Art Fair, Seoul Arts Center, Seoul, Korea 
  Human, the Face and History, Art Center, Seoul, Korea
  Consciousness, Sound, Echo, Gallery Four Season, Seoul, Korea
  Ecole de Seoul, Kwanhoon Gallery, Seoul, Korea
  21 Korea Contemporary Art, Gallery 21, Seoul, Korea
  Réalité Seoul, Gallery Ikon, Deokwon Gallery, Seoul, Korea
  
  1991      
  Ulsan Gallery Opening Show, Ulsan, Korea
  Four Exhibitions, Gallery Focus, Seoul, Korea
  Informal après Informal, Chosun Ilbo Gallery, Seoul, Korea
  New Image New Age, Gallery Meegun, Seoul, Korea
  Korea Contemporary Art, Fondation Vasarely, Aix- en- Provence, France
  Logos & Pathos, Kwanhoon Gallery, Seoul, Korea
  
  1990      
  Inaugural Exhibition, Seoul Arts Center, Seoul, Korea
  Réalité Seoul, Seomi Center, Seoul, Korea
  Logos & Pathos, Kwanhoon Gallery, Seoul, Korea
  Exhibition of Invited Contemporary Artist, Lotte Gallery, Seoul, Korea
  Korea Contemporary Art, Ho-am Museum, Seoul, Korea
  Invited Exhibition of Choi Gallery, Choi Gallery, Seoul, Korea
  Memorial Exhibition of the 3rd Gallery, The 3rd Gallery, Seoul, Korea
  Contemporary Artists in ’90 Show, Seoul Museum of Art, Seoul, Korea
  March in Seoul, Soo Gallery, Seoul, Korea
  Exhibition Image and Abstraction, Deco Museum, Seoul, Korea
  
  1989
  The Exhibition of Miniature Works, Soo Gallery, Seoul, Korea
  Logos & Pathos, Kwanhoon Gallery, Seoul, Korea
  Réalité Seoul, Seomi Center, Seoul, Korea
  Chosunilbo Art Museum, Seoul, Korea
  
  1988      
  Rhee, Ki Bong/ Choi Jung Hwa Show, Batang-Gol Gallery, Seoul, Korea
  Logos & Pathos, Kwanhoon Gallery, Seoul, Korea
  March in Seoul, Soo Gallery, Seoul, Korea
  Réalité Seoul, Growrich Gallery, Seoul, Korea
  
  1987
  The Artist’s Today, Kwanhoon Gallery, Seoul, Korea
  Réalité Seoul, Art Center, Seoul, Korea
  Invited Exhibition of Awarded Artist in Grand Art Exhibition of Korea, Art Center, Seoul, Korea
  
  1986
  Logos & Pathos, Kwanhoon Gallery, Seoul, Korea
  Korea Grand Art Exhibition, National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Gwacheon, Korea
  Contemporary Form, Dooson Gallery, Seoul, Korea
  Seoul Art Festival, Art Center, Seoul, Korea
  Contemporary Art Trend ‘86, The 3rd Gallery, Seoul, Korea
  Seoul 79 Artist, Kwanhoon Gallery, Seoul, Korea
  
  1985      
  1985, The 3rd Gallery, Seoul, Korea
  Young Artist 16, Kwanhoon Gallery, Seoul, Korea
  
  1984      
  Contemporary Art 82, Dooson Gallery, Seoul, Korea
  
  1983      
  Contemporary Print 5, Yun Gallery, Seoul, Korea
  Independent, National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Gwacheon, Korea
  Young Printmaker 20, Yun Gallery, Seoul, Korea
  Modern Painting, Art Center, Seoul, Korea
  
  1982-1984        
  Contemporary Art 82, Lotte Gallery, Seoul, Korea
  The Artist Today, Art Center, Los Angeles, US

Selected Awards

• 1994      
  Total Art Prize
  
  1986      
  Grand Prize, The Grand Art Exhibition of Korea

Selected Public and Private Collections

• Leeum Museum of Art, Seoul, Korea
  National Museum of Contemporary Art, Seoul, Korea
  Seoul Museum of Art, Seoul, Korea
  Gyeonggi Museum of Modern Art, Ansan, Korea
  Artsonje Museum, Seoul, Korea 
  ZKM Museum, Karlsruhe, Germany
  Neuberger Berman Collection, New York, US
  Jill Sander Collection, Germany
  Ronald and Ann Pizzuti, Columbus, Ohio, US
  Barbara & Richard Lane, New York, US
  Mitchell & Fran Harwood, New York, US
  Gerald Lippes, Buffalo, New York, US
  Brigitte Wagner-Halswick, Cologne, Germany
  Luigi & Lidia Zaza, Chiasso, Switzerland
  Reverend Alfred R. Shands, Kentucky, US
  Louis Vuitton Collection, Paris, France
  Los Angeles County Museum of Art, California, US