Nasce a Seul, in Corea del Sud nel 1932. Lavora in diversi ambiti di ricerca spaziando dalla musica alla performance fino alla videoarte, di cui è uno dei pionieri. Si forma a Tokyo in estetica, arte e musica e dopo la laurea prosegue gli studi in Europa prima a Monaco di Baviera e di Colonia e in seguito a Friburgo. Tra il 1958 e il 1963 partecipa alle manifestazioni Fluxus a Düsseldorf ed entra in contatto con J. Cage, W. Vostell e G. Maciunas. Nel 1964 si trasferisce a New York e avvia la trentennale collaborazione con il violoncellista Charlotte Moormann. Paik si dimostra precursore nell’utilizzo di nuove tecnologie, modificate dall’uso convenzionale e finalizzate a nuove possibilità espressive, grazie anche alla lezione di Cage sullo sconfinamento mediale, in cui suono e immagine confluiscono l’uno nell’altro in una dimensione performativa. Nel 1993 è insignito del Leone d’Oro (con Hans Haacke) alla Biennale di Venezia.
SELEZIONE ESPOSIZIONI PERSONALI:
1959
Düsseldorf, Galerie 22
1960
Colonia, Mary Bauermeister Studio
1962
Düsseldorf, Kammerspiele
1963
Wuppertal, Galerie Parnass, Exposition of Music-Electronic Television
1965
New York,
Galleria Bonino, Electronic Art
New York,
New School for Social Research New York, NJ
Paik: Electronic TV, Color TV Experiments, 3 Robots, 2 Zen Boxes & 1 Zen
Can
1967
New York, Art Center of the Paul Klapper Library, Queens College, Expanding Perceptions in the Arts
1968
New York, Galleria Bonino, Electronic Art II
1971
New York,
Galleria Bonino, Electronic Art III
New York,
Rizzoli Screening Room, Hit and Run
Screening of Video Films
1973
New York, The Kitchen, Mercer Arts Center, Videotapes from the Perpetual Pioneer of Video Art
1974
New York,
Galleria Bonino, Nam June Paik: TV Sea:
Electronic Art IV
Syracuse,
Everson Museum of Art, Nam June Paik:
Video’n’Videology 1959-1973
1975
New York,
Rene Block Gallery, Nam June Paik
New York,
Martha Jackson Gallery, Fish on the Sky-Fish
hardly flies anymore on the Sky-let Fisches fly again
1976
New York,
Museum of Modern Art, Projects, Nam June
Paik
New York,
Galeria Bonino, Fish Flies on Sky
Colonia,
Kolnischer Kunstverein; Amsterdam, Stedelijk Museum, Nam June Paik: Werke 1946-1976: Musik-Fluxus-Video
1977
New York,
Museum of Modern Art, Projects: Nam June
Paik
Berlino,
Galerie Rene Block, Fluxus Traffic
Ginevra,
Marika Malacorda, Nam June Paik
1978
Tokyo,
Gallery Watari, A tribute to John Cage
Parigi,
Centre National d’Art et de Culture Georges Pompidou, TV Garden
Parigi,
Musée d’Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, Nam
June Paik
1980
New York,
The New American Filmmakers Series, Whitney Museum of American Art, Nam June Paik
Tokyo,
Gallery Watari, Videa
1981
Tokyo, Sony
Hall, Program of videotapes
Tokyo,
Gallery Watari, Random Access/Paper TV
1982
New York,
Whitney Museum of American Art; Chicago, Museum of Contemporary Art, Nam June Paik
Parigi,
Musée National d’Art Moderne, Centre Georges Pompidou, Tri-Colour Video
1984
Tokyo, Tokyo
Metropolitan Art Museum, Mostly Video
Berlino,
DAAD-Galerie
Parigi,
Musée National d’Art Moderne, Centre Georges Pompidou, Good Morning Mr. Orwell
1985
Cincinnati, Carl Solway Gallery; Chicago, International Art Exposition, Nam June Paik: Family of Robot
1986
New York, Holly Solomon Gallery, Nam June Paik: Sculpture, Painting and Laser Photography
1988
Los Angeles,
Dorothy Goldeen Gallery, Nam June Paik:
Beuys and Bogie
New York,
Holly Solomon Gallery, Nam June Paik:
Color Bar Paintings
Londra,
South Bank Centre, Nam June Paik: Family
of Robot
1989
Londra,
Mayor Rowan Gallery
Madrid,
Galerie Juana Mordo
Amburgo,
Weisses Haus
Parigi,
Musée d’Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, La
Fée Electronique
1990
Francoforte,
Deutsches Post Museum, Pre-Bell Man (Public
Sculpture)
New York,
Holly Solomon Gallery
Bruxelles,
Galerie Mauricd Keitelman
Düsseldorf,
Galerie Hans Mayer
1991
Zurigo,
Kunsthaus; Basilea, Kunsthalle; Dusseldorf, Kunsthalle, Nam June Paik: Retrospektive
Cincinnati,
Carl Solway Gallery, Recent Video Sculptures
1992
Düsseldorf,
Galerie Hans Mayer, New Video Sculptures
Vienna,
Museum des 20. Jahrhunderts, Nam June
Paik: Retrospective
Seoul,
Museum of Modern Art, Nam June Paik:
Retrospective
Roma,
Palazzo delle Esposizioni, Nam June Paik:
Arti Elettroniche
1993
Venezia, Biennale di Venezia, Artist as Nomad
Zurigo,
Sammlung Hauser & Wirth, Jardin
illumine
1994
New York, Associated of American Art, The Art Show
1995
Indianapolis,
Indianapolis Museum of Art (itinerante), The
Electronic Super Highway, Nam June Paik in the Nineties
Berlino,
Galerie Fine Art Rafael Vostell, New Work
Turku, Ars
Nova, Nam June Paik, Video Sculptures and
Video Installations
Münster,
Westfalisches Landesmuseum Munster, Name
June Paik-Baroque Laser
1996
Copenaghen, Statens Museum fur Kunst, The Electronic Super Highway, Bill Clinton Stole my Ideas
1997
New York,
Kim Foster Gallery
New York,
Anthology Film Archives
Kansas City,
Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, The
Electronic Super Highway, Nam June Paik in the Nineties
1999
Mosca, TV
Gallery, Medium is the Message
Brema,
Kunsthalle, Nam June Paik: Fluxus/Video
2000
New York,
Guggenheim Museum; Seoul, Hoam Museum, The
Worlds of Nam June Paik
Basilea,
Museum fur Gegenwartskunst, Nam June
Paik, Zeichnungen
Santa
Barbara, Santa Barbara Museum of Art, Nam
June Paik: Video Art Pioneer
2002
Duisburg,
Wilhelm-Lehmbruck Museum, Nam June Paik,
Fluxus und Video Skulptur
Torino,
Palazzo Cavour, Il giocoliere elettronico
2004
Berlino,
Deutsche Guggenheim, Nam June Paik:
Global Groove
Dortmund,
Phoenix Halle, Nam June Paik, Award 2004
der Kunstschiftung NRW
Sydney, Art
Gallery of New South Wales
2005
Colonia,
Galerie Reckermann, Den Zufall im Griff
Parigi,
Musée d’Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris à la Maison de la Radio France, Olympe de Gouges
2006
Tokyo, The
Watari Museum of Contemporary Art, Bye
Bye, Nam June Paik
New York,
Museum of Modern Art, In memorian
Bochum,
Kunstmuseum Bochum, Paik on Paper
2007
Madrid,
Fundaciòn Telefonica, Nam June Paik y
Corea, de la Fantastico a lo hiperreal
New York,
James Cohan Fallery, Nam June Paik
2008
Karlsruhe, Foyer of the EnBW, Nam June Paik – Works from the ZKM Collection
2009
New York,
James Cohan Gallery, Nam June Paik Live
Feed: 1972-1994
Beijing,
CAFA Art Museum-China Central Academy of Fine Arts, Nam June Paik
Vienna,
MUMOK, Nam June paik – Music for all
Senses
2010
Milano,
Galleria Six, Nam June Paik
Düsseldorf,
Museum Kunstpalast, Nam June Paik
Liverpool,
Tate Liverpool, Nam June Paik
Liverpool,
FACT, Nam June Paik
2011
Berlino, LEE
galerie BERLIN, Nam June Paik
Kitakyushu,
Centre for Contemporary Art, VIDEO
SCREENING 2 2011
Washington,
The National Gallery of Art, In the
Tower: Nam June Paik
Roma,
Auditorium Parco della Musica, Nam June
Paik
2012
Washington, Smithsonian American Art Museum, Nam June Paik
2014
New York, Asia Society, Nam June Paik: Becoming Robot
2015
New York, James Cohan Gallery, Nam June Paik
2016
Londra, Tate
Modern, Nam June Paik
Seoul,
Dongdaemun Design Plaza, The Paik Nam
June Show
2017
San Francisco, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, Nam June Paik: In Character
SELEZIONE ESPOSIZIONI COLLETTIVE:
1959
Düsseldorf, Galerie 22
1962
Wiesbaden, Fluxus Festival
Roma,
Galleria La Salita, Notations
1964
New York, Canal Street, Flux Concerts
1966
Boston,
Institute of Contemporary Art, Art turns
On
Providence,
Museum of Art – Rhode Island School of Design, Programmed Art
1967
New York,
The Jewish Museum, The Artist as Filmaker
Minneapolis,
Walker Art Center, Light, Motion, Space
1968
Londra,
Institute of Contemporary Art, Cybernetic
Serendipity: The Computer and the Arts
New York,
Museum of Modern Art, The Machine, As
Seen at the End of the Mechanical Age
1969
Detroit, The Detroit Institute of Arts, New Ideas, New materials
1970
Colonia, Kolnischer Kunstverein, Happening and Fluxus
1971
New York,
Museum of Modern Art, Cineprobe
New York,
Whitney Museum of American Art, Videoshow
1973
Tubingen, Kunsthalle Tubingen, Cremer Collection – European Avant-Garde 1950-1970
1974
Colonia, Kunsthalle Koln, Project ‘74
1975
Cambridge,
Massachusetts Institute of Technologies, Art
transition
Philadelphia,
Institute of Contemporary Art, Video Art
Zurigo,
Kunsthaus Zurich, The Museum of Drawers
New York,
Museum of Modern Art, Open circuits: The
Future of Television
1976
Kassel, Documenta 6
New York,
Whitney Museum of American Art, Biennial
Exhibition
1981
New York, Whitney Museum of American Art, Biennial Exhibition
1982
Amsterdam,
Stedelijk Museum, 60’80
attitudes/concepts/images
Colonia,
Kolnischer Kunstverein, Videokunst in
Deutschland, 1963-1982
1984
Venezia, La Biennale di Venezia
Amsterdam,
Stedelijk Museum, The Luminous Image
1987
New York,
Whitney Museum of American Art, Biennial
Exhibition
Los Angeles,
Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Avant-Garde
in the Eighties
Kassel, Documenta 8
1988
Los Angeles, Museum of Contemporary Art (itinerante), The Arts for Television
1989
New York, Whitney Museum of American Art, Image World: Art and Media Culture
1992
Montreal,
Musée d’Art Contemporain de Montreal, Pour
la Suite du Monde
New York,
New Museum of Contemporary Art, Flux
Attitudes
1993
Venezia, Biennale di Venezia
Chicago, Art Chicago International 1993
Londra,
National Potrait Gallery, The Portrait
Now
Tokyo, The
Watari Museum of Contemporary Art, Feedback
and Feedforth
1994
New York,
Whitney Museum of American Art, The
Howard Wise Gallery: TV as a Creative Medium
Parigi,
Centre Georges Pompidou, Hors limities,
l’art et la vie, 1952-1994
1995
Lione, 3° Biennale de Lyon
Ginevra,
Palais des Nations, Dialogues of Peace
1996
New York, Guggenheim Museum Soho, Mediascape
1997
Washington,
National Museum of American Art
Jacksonville,
Museum of Contemporary Art
Münster, Skulpture Projects in Munster
1999
Thun, Kunst Museum, Stille Wasser, 7 Raume, 7 Kunstler un Franz Gertsch
2000
Francoforte,
Museum fur Moderne Kunst
Basilea,
Museum fur Gegenwartskunst
Hannover,
Sprengel Museum
Austin,
Austin Museum of Art, The New Frontier,
Art and television 1960-65
2001
Bilbao,
Guggenheim Bilbao
Denver,
Denver Art Museum, Collecting Ideas:
Works from the Pollu and Mark Addison Collection
Ferrara,
Galleria Civica d’arte moderna, L’arte
elettronica, metamorfosi e metafore
2002
New York,
P.S.1. Contemporary Art Center, Video
acts, single channel works from the collections of Pamela and Richard Kramlich
and new Art Trust
Francoforte,
Museum fur Moderne Kunst
Duisburg,
Stiftung Wilhelm Lehmbruck Museum, Fluxus
und Videoskulptur
2003
Vienna, Museum Moderner Kunst Stiftung Ludwig, X-screen, Film Installations and Actions in the 1960s and 1970s
2004
Barcellona,
Fundaciò Juan Mirò, Woman, metamorphosis
of modernity
Rio de
Janeiro, Museu de Arte Moderna, Encontros
con o modernism
Berlino,
Hamburger Bahnof, Friederich Christian
Flick Collection
New York,
Bronx Museum of the Arts, Becoming
father, becoming Infant
Amsterdam, World Wide Video Festival
Tokyo, Hara
Museum of Contemporary Art, Art &
Life
Tokyo,
Watari Museum of Contemporary Art, Nam
June Paik, Fabrice Hybert
2005
Vienna,
Kunsthalle, Superstars
Rivoli,
Castello di Rivoli, Dall’occhio
elettronico
Kassel,
Kunsthalle Fridericianum, Jahre-Years documenta
1955-2005
Amsterdam,
Netherlands Media Art Institute Montevideo, Wonderwall
2006
Madrid,
Museo Nacional Centro de arte Reina Sofia, First
Generation. Art and the Moving Image 1963-1986
Sydney,
Museum of Contemporary Art, The New Media
Collection 1965-2005
Zurigo,
Kunsthalle, The Expanded Eye
Berlino,
Neue nationalgalerie
Francoforte,
Schirn Kunsthalle, Nothing
2007
Siviglia,
Centro Andaluz de Arte Contempotraneo, Fluxus,
una larga historia con muchos nudos, Allemania 1962-1994
Melbourne,
Australian Centre for the Moving Image, Centre
Pompidou. Video Art 1965-2005
2009
Los Angeles,
Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Open
television
Yogin, Nam
June Paik Art Center, Exposition of
mythology. Electronic technology
Roma, Museo
d’Arte Contemporanea, Macro, Summer in
Rome
San
Francisco, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, The Art of participation, 1950 to now
2010
Colonia, Museum Ludwig, Moving Images, Artist & Video-Film
2011
Singapore,
Singapore Art Museum, Video, an art, a
History, 1965-2010
Parigi,
Musée National d’Art Moderne-Centre de creation industrielle, Video et après
2013
Beirut, Beirut Art Center, Video Vintage 1963-1983
2015
Lione, MAC, Ce fabulex monde moderne
New York,
Whitney Museum of American Art, America
is hard to see
Washington,
Smithsonian American Art Museum, Watch
This! Revelations in Media Art
2018
Boston, Institute of Contemporary Art, Art in the Age of the Internet, 1989 to Today
