Arts (Painting, Sculpture, Design, Architecture)

Nam June Paik

U. S. A. / July 20, 1932-2006
Media artist

Mr. Paik, an artist representing this high-tech age, has always been a pioneer, opening up new and rich worlds of creation, providing his contemporaries with visions and dreams. To modern art, he introduced the genre now known as "video art," which he then developed into "media art."

BRIEF BIOGRAPHY

1932	Born in Seoul, South Korea
1950	Moved to Hong Kong and later to Japan
1956	Graduated from the University of Tokyo (Arts, the History of Art, Faculty of Literature) and later moved to Germany
1956-1958	Studied the History of Music at Munich University
1958-1963	Produced video art with John Cage (The Laureate of the 1989 Kyoto Prize) and others
1959-present	Activities to found a new genre of video art
1963	The first solo exhibition, Germany, later held solo exhibition in various parts of the world
1964	Moved to New York
1982	Retrospective Show "Twenty years of Nam June Paik's Video Art", the Whitney Museum of American, New York
1984	"Mostly Video", Tokyo Metropolitan Art Museum, Tokyo
1991	"Nam June Paik: Video-Time-Video-Space, Kunsthalle Basel, Kunsthaus Zurich, Switzerland, Pompidow Center, France
1992	"Nam June Paik: Retrospective" Museum of Modern Art, Seoul, South Korea
1997	"The Open-air Sculpture Exhibition" M nster, Germany

AWARDS AND HONORS

1991	Kaiserring Prize, Monchehaus Museum, Germany
1992	UNESCO Picasso Medal
1993	The Gold Lion Award for the best pavilion, the 45th Venice Biennale
1995	The Ho-Am Prize, South Korea

MAJOR WORKS

1963	Robot K-456
1973	Video image from "A Tribute to John Cage"
1981	Video Card "Piano duet by J. Beuys and Nam June Paik"
1984	"Good Morning Mr. Orwell" live satellite program
1986	"Bye Bye Kipling" live satellite program
1988	"The more the better" Seoul Olympic
1992	"Tele-commuting: From Bali to Broadway"
1993	"Saturnian"
1994	"Nomad"

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