Ik-Joong Kang

Ik-Joong Kang was born in Cheongju, Korea, in 1960 and received his BFA from Hong-Ik University in Seoul, Korea, in 1984. He moved to New York in 1984 to study at the Pratt Institute where he received his MFA in 1988. He has been widely exhibited, including a solo exhibition at the Whitney Museum of American Art at Philip Morris, New York (1996); a two-person show with Nam June Paik at the Whitney Museum of American Art at Champion, Connecticut (1994); and group exhibitions at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles (1996); the 47th Venice Biennale (1997); Museum Ludwig, Cologne (2000); the National Museum of Contemporary Art, Seoul (2010); and the Korean Pavilion for the Shanghai Expo (2010). Kang has received awards and fellowships including a Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation Fellowship, a Joan Mitchell Foundation Fellowship and a Special Merit Award from the 47th Venice Biennale, Venice, Italy (1997). Kang acknowledges the support of the Ministry of Unification in the process of collecting drawings and materials from people displaced from North to South Korea as a consequence of the Korean War.