Kang Collection Exhibits Classic and Contemporary Korean Art
at the 2009 NY Arts of Pacific Asia Fair

Saturday, March 14 to Wednesday, March 18, 2009
Fair hours: Sat-Tue 11-7:30, Wed 11-4:30
Opening preview: Friday, March 13, 6:00 to 10:00 pm
Location: 7 W 34 St @ Fifth Ave, NYC
(across from Empire State Building)

(New York, NY, February 24, 2009)

Exhibition Highlights



For classical arts we'll show a Grapevine Screen, 10 Symbols of Long Life Screen, Paeknapbyung Screen (pictured above), Lotus Screen, classic paintings and calligraphy scrolls.

For contemporary art, we will exhibit Ik-Joong Kang (b. 1960), Her Suyoung (b. 1972), Wonsook Kim (b. 1953), Min Jungyeon (b. 1979).

In total, we will bring about thirty pieces of screens and paintings, and one stone statue.

IK-JOONG KANG (b. 1960)



Ik-Joong Kang has exhibited widely, including a one-person exhibition at the Whitney Museum of American Art at Philip Morris, New York, and a two-person exhibition with Nam June Paik at the Whitney Museum of American Art at Champion, Connecticut. He has had group exhibitions at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, the Ludwig Museum, Cologne, Germany, and the National Museum of Contemporary Art, Seoul. His works are in the collections of the Whitney Museum, Ludwig Museum, the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, and the Lee-um Samsung Museum of Art, Seoul. He has created permanent installations for the San Francisco International Airport, New Jersey Transit Authority, and MTA of New York. Kang's awards include a Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation Fellowship and a Joan Mitchell Foundation Fellowship. Kang received a BFA from Hong-Ik University and a MFA from Pratt, lives and works in New York, with his wife and son.

HER SUYOUNG (b. 1972)



Her Suyoung fuses of literati elements with a contemporary expressivity brings a remarkable, exciting freshness to the classic landscape genre. His work has quickly gained prominence, and in the last two years, Her Suyoung's works have been acquired from Kang Collection by the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, The Arthur M. Sackler Museum at Harvard University,Target Corporate Art Collection,and the Ringling Museum of Art. He lives and works in mainland China.

WONSOOK KIM (b. 1953)



Wonsook Kim's works have been widely collected and exhibited. Her works are in the collections of MoMA, the Brooklyn Museum of Art, Ringling Museum of Art (Sarasota, FL) National Museum of Contemporary Art, Korea; Vatican Collection, Italy; Watari-um Museum, Tokyo; Leeum, Samsung Museum of Art, Seoul; National Museum of Women In the Arts, Washington, D.C., Sunjae Museum, Gyeongju, Korea; North Dakota Museum of Art, and Illinois State University Museum. Kim studied at Hong-Ik University, and has a BFA and MFA from Illinois State University.

JUNG-YEON MIN (b. 1979)



Jung-Yeon Min attended Hong-Ik University and Ecole Nationale Superieure des Beaux-Arts de Paris. She has exhibited in Korea and France. She lives in Paris.