KIM WHANKI (1913-1974)
1913 Born in Shinan, Jeollanam-do, Korea
1936 BFA Nihon University, Fine Arts Department, Tokyo, Japan
SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2018 Kim Whanki, Daegue Art Museum, Daegue, Korea
Kim Whanki Catalogue Raisonee – Drawing I, Whanki Museum, Seoul, Korea
Whanki’s Works on Paper, Whanki Museum, Seoul, Korea
2017 The lines that I draw could reach to the end of the sky, Whanki Museum, Seoul, Korea
2016 The Man is gone and the Art has remained, Whanki Museum, Seoul, Korea
2015 KIM WHANKI LINE • SURFACE • DOT, Gallery Hyundai, Seoul, Korea
Whanki’s New York Period: Abstraction and the Aesthetics of the Sublime, Whanki Museum, Seoul, Korea
2013 Kim Whanki: Works on Paper, Gallery Hyundai, Seoul, Korea
The Centennial Celebration of Kim Whanki’s Birth II: Where, in What Form, Shall We Meet Again,
Whanki Museum, Seoul, Korea
2012 Kim Whanki, Gallery Hyundai, Seoul, Korea
2004 The 30th Anniversary Exhibition of the Death of Whanki: The Man is gone and the Art has remained,
Whanki Museum, Seoul, Korea
2002 Kim Whanki Special Exhibition: Kim Whanki Drawings from the 1950s, Whanki Museum, Seoul, Korea
1999 The 25th Anniversary Exhibition of the Death of Whanki, Whanki Museum, Seoul, Korea
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2017 Ode to Forgetting, Nam-Seoul Museum of Art, Seoul, Korea
Rhythm in Monochrome: Korean Abstract Painting, Tokyo Opera City Art Gallery, Japan
New Acquisitions 2013~16 Samramansang: from Kim Whanki to Yang Fudong, National Museum of Modern
and Contemporary Art, Seoul, Korea
2016 When Process Becomes Form: Dansaekhwa and Korean Abstraction, Villa Empain, Boghossian
Foundation, Brussels, Belgium
After Drawing, Gallery Hyundai, Seoul, Korea
2015 Korean Abstract Painting- 45th Anniversary of Gallery Hyundai, Gallery Hyundai, Seoul, Korea
2014 The Artistic Spirits of Modern Artists on Paper, Gallery Hyundai, Seoul, Korea
2011 靑-Beyond the Blue, Gallery Hyundai, Seoul, Korea
2010 In the Midst of the Korean Contemporary Art, Gallery Hyundai, Seoul, Korea
HONORS AND DISTINCTIONS
1970 Korea Art Award Exhibition Grand Prize
1963 Sao Paulo Biennale Honorary Award
SELECTED COLLECTIONS
National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Gwacheon, Korea Guggenheim Museum, New York Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo Samsung Museum of Art Leeum, Seoul, Korea Seoul Museum, Seoul, Korea