Lee Ufan

Lee Ufan (born 1936 in Kyongnam, Korea) is a Korean artist and academic, honored by the government of Japan for having "Contributed to the development of contemporary art in Japan."^[1]

Contents 1 Career 2 Honors 3 Notes 4 Reviews 5 References 6 External links

Career

In 1956, Lee Ufan moved to Yokohama, Japan and studied philosophy. In 1973, he became a professor at the Tama Art University in Tokyo. Lee Ufan won the Praemium Imperiale prize for painting in 1996. The following year he was appointed guest professor at the École Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-Arts in Paris.

His work has been featured at many museums including the Yokohama Museum of Art and the National Museum of Contemporary Art in Seoul.

Lee Ufan is represented by The Pace Gallery in New York.

Currently, his work is being displayed at the Solomon R. Gugghenheim Museum in New York City.

Honors

• Order of the Rising Sun, Gold Rays with Rosette, 2009.^[1]
• Ho-Am Prize in the Arts, 2001
• Praemium Imperiale, 2001.^[2]

Notes

Reviews

• LG Williams, Tokyo weekender, "Lee Ufan: A single stroke is not enough", February 9, 2011.

References

• Japanese Ministry of Foreign Affairs, "2009 Autumn Conferment of Decorations on Foreign Nationals," p. 9.

External links

• Situation Kunst (for Max Imdahl), Art Collections of Ruhr-University Bochum
• The Pace Gallery
• About the Yokohama Museum of Art
• Yokohama Museum of Art: The Collection and Architecture
• Lee Ufan on artnet
• Lorenzelli Arte: Lee Ufan Biography

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