PO KIM

Born in Korea in 1917, Po Kim studied art in Tokyo, Japan. He returned to Korea in1946 to establish Fine Art Department of Chosun University in Kwangju, Korea, where he was a professor and a chairman. In 1955, he came to United States on a fellowship at University of Illinois and eventually moved to New York City two years later. He taught briefly at New York University. In 2000, Po Kim received Honorary Doctorate Degree of Letters from Chosun University. Po Kim's career as an artist spans more than six decades. Trained in academic style of painting in his student days, his works developed into abstraction in the fifties, and his mature style in the abstracted idiom. Po Kim passed on February 7, 2014 in New York City.

SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2011
Po Kim Solo Exhibition at Donghwa Gallery in Englewood, New Jersey

2007
Retrospective at Korean national Museum of Art in Seoul, Korea

2005, 2003, 2000
Chosun University Art Museum in Kwangju, Korea

1997
Nabi Gallery in New York City

1995
Hankaram Art Museum and Seoul Art Center, Retrospective Exhibition in Seoul Korea

1992
Haenah-Kent Gallery in New York

1983
Gallery Hahn in Munich, Germany

1982
Knoll International in Munich, Germany

1981
Altes Dampfbad, Baden-Baden, Germany

1980
Gallery of modern Art International, Baldham-Munich

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2007
Korean Mission to the United Nations Gallery in New York

2006
Kwangju City Museum in Kwangju Korea, "In the Search for the Root"
National Museum of Contemporary Art in Seoul Korea, "Encounter with Modernism"

2005
Tenri Cultural Institute in New York, "Expressive Gesture".

2003
Gary Snyder Fine Arts in New York ,"Modern American Art, 1930-1975"
Smithsonian Institute, International Gallery in Washington DC "Dream and Reality"

1997
Jane Voorhees Zimmerli Art Museum, Rutgers University of New Jersey, "Asian Traditions/Modern Expressions"

1993
Haenah-Kent Gallery in New York, "Jo Anne Larson, Po Kim, Lynda Benglis, Alan Shields, Ralph Wickser"

1985
Henry Street Settlement, in New York T The Gatherings of the Avant Garde: The Lower East Side, 1948-1970"

1981
Brooklyn Museum of Art in New York, "Korean Drawing Now".

COLLECTIONS

Chicago Art Institute, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, National Museum of Contemporary Arts, Korea, Seoul Art Center, Kwangju City Museum of Art in Korea, Hanlim Art Museum, Daejon, Korea and numerous public and private collections.