Won-il Rhee

Won-il Rhee (Korean: ζŽεœ†δΈ€, 2 November 1960 – 11 January 2011) was a Korean digital art curator. He was born and died in Seoul.

Rhee was the artistic director in 2002 and 2006 of the Media City Seoul Biennale. He was the leading curator of the Total Museum of Art and co-ordinator of the Korean Pavilion for the 1995 Venice Biennale. Also, he served as executive head of the exhibition team for the Third Gwangju Biennale.[1]

From 1996 to 2002 he was head curator at the Sung-Kok Museum of Art and in 2002 he was appointed artistic director of the Media City Seoul Biennale. In 2003 he became chief curator at the Seoul Museum of Art. He also served as the Asian Editor for Flash Art based in Milan and New York City.

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Curatorial projects

On January 11, 2011, Rhee died suddenly of a heart attack.[2]

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Footnotes

  1. ^ [1] ZKM Rhee biography
  2. ^ [2] Wonil Rhee (1960-2011) In memory of Wonil Rhee Obituary by Peter Weibel

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