LEE Jong-Gu

LEE Jong-Gu
Born in 1954 Seosan, Chungnam, Korea

EDUCATION
1976    B.F.A. Department of Painting, Chung-Ang University, Seoul, Korea
1988    M.F.A. Major of Arts Education, Graduate School of Education, In-Ha Uinversity, Incheon, Korea

SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITION
2016    Reinstatment of Realism, Ganainsa Art Center, , Seoul, Korea
2009    A Country: Three Landscapes, Hakgojae Gallery, Seoul, Korea
2006    Two Rooms, Baghdad_Daechu-Ri, Space Peace, Seoul, Korea
2005    Artist of the Year 2005, National Museum of Contemporary Art, Gwacheon, Korea a
2004    Spirit of Soil, Face of Soil, Book House Gallery, Heyri Art Village, Paju, Korea
2003    Looking for the Owner―Journey on Iraq and Islam, Shinsegae Gallery, Incheon, Korea
1996    Gana Art Prize Award Commemorating Exhibition, Gana Art Gallery, Seoul, Korea
1992    People of Soil, Hakgojae Gallery, Seoul, Korea
1990     Ojiri People, Ojiri Primary School, Seosan, Korea
1986    People of Soil, Grimmadang Min, Seoul, Korea

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITION
2017    From Torch to Candlelight (Jeju Museum of Museum of Art, Jeju, Korea 2015   The 10th Gwangju Biennale – Sweet Dew-After 1980, Gwangju Museum of Art, Gwangju, Korea
2015    Uproarious, Heated, Inundated (National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Seoul, Korea)
2012    Korean Contemporary Art – Grand Narrative (National Museum of Contemporary Art, Gwacheon, Korea)
2011     Korean Rhapsody (Samsung Lium Museum,  Seoul, Korea)
2010    Realism n Asian Art (National Museum of Contemporary Art, Korea)
2007    Art toward the Society: Realism n Korean Art 1945~2005 (Fukuoka Asian Art Museum, Japan)
2006    100 Years of Korean Art (National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Korea)
1994     The Fifteen Years of Minjung Art(National Museum of Contemporary Art, Gwacheon)
1993    Across the Pacific―Korean Contemporary Art (The Queens Museum of Art, New York, USA)
1988    Minjung Art – New Cultural Movement of Korea (Artists Space, New York, USA)