Kim Hong Joo | May 4—July 30, 2023

Kim Hong Joo (Korea,b.1945)

Kim Hong Joo was born in Boeun, Chungcheongbuk-do in 1945. He graduated from the Department of Western Painting at Hongik University in 1969 and from the graduate school of the same university in 1981. He worked as a professor in the Department of Art Education at Mokwon University from 1981 to 2010 and participated in several solo exhibitions and group exhibitions. Among many others, he won the Grand Frontier Prize at the Korea Art Exhibition sponsored by the Hankook Ilbo in 1978, and he received a special prize at the International Painting Exhibition in Cannes, France, in 1980. He also received awards such as the Lee In-sung Art Award, the Paradise Foundation Award, and the Lee Jung-seop Art Award by Chosun Ilbo in 2005, 2006, and 2010, respectively. His works are collected by the National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Seoul Museum of Art, Daejeon Museum of Art, Daegu Art Museum, Gyeonggi Museum of Art, Samsung Museum of Art, and Fukuoka City Museum of Art.