(b. 1950, Yeosu, South Korea)
EDUCATION
1978 MFA, Hongik University, Seoul, KR
1974 BFA, Hongik University, Seoul, KR
SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2021 Moving Forest, Matmut for the Arts, Pierre de Varengeville, FR
2020 Orum, Galerie RX, Paris, FR
2019 Orum, Chaumont-sur-Loire Domain, Chaumont-sur-Loire, FR
2019 Between Island and Forest, Gwangju Museum of Art, Gwangju, KR
2019 Bae Bien-U, Chambord National Domain, Chambord, FR
2019 Residence within the framework of Korea in France, Chambord Castle, Chambord, FR
2019 Windscape, Aando Fine Art, Berlin, DE
2019 Windscape, Christophe Guye Gallery, Zurich, CH
2019 Bae Bien-U, Villefavard en Limousin Farm, Villefavard, FR
2019 Bae, Bien-U, Il Woo Space, Seoul, KR
2018 Cycle, Axel Vervoordt Gallery, Antwerp, BE
2016 L’esprit du lieu, Museum of the Sea, Cannes, FR
2016 PART :MEET, Axel Vervoordt Gallery, Hong Kong, CN
2015 Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Métropole, Saint-Étienne, FR
2014 Bae Bien-U: Pins de Gyeon Gju, Chaumont-sur-Loire Domain, Chaumont-sur-Loire, FR
2014 Conterbalance, Axel Vervoordt Gallery, Antwerp, BE
2013 Chaumont sur Loire, Chaumont-sur-Loire, FR
2013 Windscape, Gana Art Center, Seoul, KR
2012 Windscape, Galerie RX, Paris, FR
2012 Sailing the Seas, GS Yeulmaru, Yeosu, KR
2011 Bae, Bien-U, Art Sonje Museum, Gyeongju, KR
2011 Convexconcave, Axel Vervoordt Gallery, Antwerp, BE
2010 Where God and Man Collide, House for Mozart, Salzburg Festival, Salzburg, AT
2009 Soul Garden, National Museum of Contemporary Art (Deoksugung), Seoul, KR
2009 Soul Garden, Museo de Bellas Artes de Granada, Palacio de Carlos V, Granada, ES
2009 Sacred Wood: Bae Bien-U, Aando Fine Art, Berlin, DE
2009 Sacred Wood: Bae Bien-U, Galerie Zur Stockeregg, Zurich, CH
2008 Bae Bien-U, Phillips de Pury & Company, London, GB
2008 Timeless Photography, Bozar Center for Fine Arts, Brussels, BE
2008 Bae, Bien-U: Sonamu, Gana Art Center, New York, NY
2007 K Collection ‘Bae, Bien-U’, Lee C Gallery, Seoul, KR
2007 Sea & Island, Gana Art Center, Busan, KR
2007 Beauty of Korea, Insa Art Center, Seoul, KR
2007 Pine, Gana-Beaubourg Gallery, Paris, FR
2007 Tree – Bae, Bien-U, Bhak Gallery, Seoul, KR
2007 Bae, Bien-U, Sigong Gallery, Daegu, KR
2006 Bae, Bien-U, Photo España (9th Edition), Thyssen Museum, Madrid, ES
2005 Bae, Bien-U, Pollar Gallery, Frankfurt am Main, DE
2003 Tahiti Festival de la Photographie, Tahiti, FR
2002 Bae Bien-U, Art Sonje Center, Seoul, KR
2001 Bae, Bien-U, ISE Cultural Foundation, New York, NY
1998 Photographies de Kyungju, Jean-Luc & Takako Richard Gallery, Paris, FR
1993 Meeting and Departure, Seoul Art Center, Seoul, KR
1989 Landscapes, Hochschule Gallery, Bielefeld, DE
1988 Korean Landscapes, Raiffeisen Bank Gallery, Bamberg, DE
1985 Marado, Hanmadang Gallery, Seoul, KR
1982 Seascapes, Kwan Hoon Gallery, Seoul, KR
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2020 Un monde infini: Artistes chamanes, Fernet-Branca, Saint-Louis, FR
2019 Œuvres Choisies, Galerie RX, Paris, FR
2019 EXPO Chicago, Galerie RX, Chicago, IL
2019 Paris Photo, Galerie RX, Grand Palais, Paris, FR
2018 Œuvres Choisies, Galerie RX, Paris, FR
2018 Fotografías Circa XX Pilar Citoler, Museo Barjola, Gijón, ES
2018 Arts & Nature Social Club, Circle Culture, Berlin, DE
2018 Time Frames: Contemporary East Asian Photography, Baltimore Museum of Art, Baltimore, MD
2018 EXPO Chicago, Galerie RX, Chicago, IL
2017 Photo London Public Commission Project, Somerset House, London, GB
2017 PARIS PHOTO, Galerie RX, Grand Palais, Paris, FR
2017 Into the Woods: Trees in Photography, Victoria and Albert Museum, London, GB
2017 EXPO Chicago, Galerie RX, Chicago, IL
2016 ART 16, London’s Global Art Fair, Galerie RX, London, GB
2016 Art Paris, Art Paris Art Fair, Galerie RX, Paris, FR
2016 Public to Private: Korean Contemporary Photography since 1989, National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Seoul, KR
2016 Venice Biennale, Palazzo Fortuny, Venice, IT (curated by Axel Vervoordt)
2016 Winter, Galerie RX, Paris, FR
2016 Paris Photo, Galerie RX, Paris, FR
2015 A Homage to Korean Architecture – Wisdom of the Earth, Leeum Samsung Museum of Art, Seoul, KR
2015 Venice Biennale, Palazzo Fortuny, Venice, IT
2014 Lost in Landscape, Museo di Arte Moderna e Contemporanea di Trento e Rovereto (MART), Rovereto, IT
2014 Korean Beauty: Two Kinds of Nature, National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Seoul, KR
2013 L’Arbre qui ne meurt pas, Théâtre des Sablons, Neuilly-sur-Seine, FR
2013 Landscape, MART Museum, Rovereto, IT
2013 Pleasure, Galerie RX, Paris, FR
2013 Free Style: A Dialogue between Art and Design, Hongik University Museum of Art, Seoul, KR
2013 Art in Busan, Busan Museum of Modern Art, Busan, KR
2013 International Photography Festival, Ulsan, KR
2013 Korean Contemporary Photographers: 2009 Odyssey, Hangaram Art Museum, Seoul, KR
2013 MoA Picks: Reminiscing the Medium – A “Post” Syndrome, Seoul National Museum of Art, Seoul, KR
2013 Simply Beautiful, Le Grand Jardin, Joinville, FR
2013 The Modern Photography, Gwangju Museum of Art, Gwangju, KR
2013 The 6th Photo Festival: Bae Bien-U & Elger Esser, Gana Art Center, Seoul, KR
2012 The Aged Future, Culture Station Seoul 284, Seoul, KR
2011 TRA: Edge of Becoming, Palazzo Fortuny, Venice, IT
2011 38°N Snow South: Korean Contemporary Art, Galleri Charlotte Lund, Stockholm, SE
2010 The Wind in the Pines: 5,000 Years of Korean Art, Hermitage Museum, St. Petersburg, RU
2010 Eternal Blinking, University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa, Honolulu, HI
2009 Infinitum, Palazzo Fortuny, 53rd Venice Biennale, Venice, IT
2008 Bozar Festival: Made in Korea, Bozar Centre for Fine Arts, Brussels, BE
2007 Void in Korean Art, Leeum Samsung Museum of Art, Seoul, KR
2006 Simply Beautiful, Centre PasquArt, Biel, CH
2006 Photography Festival, Tahiti, FR
2005 Bae Bien-U & Kim Atta, Gana-Beaubourg Gallery, Paris, FR
2004 Real Reality, Kukje Gallery, Seoul, KR
2004 Bae Bien-U, Bohnchang Koo and Byung Hun Min, White Wall Gallery, Seoul, KR
2003 Time of Nature, Time of Human, Daejeon Municipal Museum of Art, Daejeon, KR
2003 People Walking on the Water: Cheonggyecheon Project, Seoul Museum of Art, Seoul, KR
2003 REAL-SCAPE Revisited, National Museum of Contemporary Art, Gwacheon, KR
2002 Now, What Is Photography?, Gana Art Center, Seoul, KR
2002 15 Photographes Coréens, Photo Gallery, Montpellier, FR
2001 Central Connecticut State University, New Britain, CT
2001 Internationale Fototage Herten, Herten, DE
2000 FotoFest: Contemporary Photographers from Korea, Williams Tower Gallery, Houston, TX
2000 Slowness of Speed, Art Sonje Center, Seoul, KR
2000 Odense Foto Triennale, Odense, DK
1999 Figure and Landscape in Korea, Hanlim Museum, Daejeon, KR
1999 Commemorative Photograph Exhibition, Korean Culture and Arts Foundation Museum, Seoul, KR
1999 Contemporary Asian Art from the Lewitt Collection, Montserrat College of Art Gallery, Beverly, MA
1999 Sonahmuyeo, Whanki Museum, Seoul, KR
1999 Photography – New Vision, National Museum of Contemporary Art, Seoul, KR
1999 Photography Today, Art Sonje Museum, Gyeongju, KR
1999 The 150th Anniversary of Photography Show, Bamberg Neue Residenz, Bamberg, DE
1998 Alienation and Assimilation, Museum of Contemporary Photography, Chicago, IL
1998 Contemporary Art from Korea, Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin, DE
1998 Slowness of Speed, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, AU
1997 Fast Forward, The Power Plant, Toronto, CA
1997 Inside Out, Institute of Contemporary Art, Philadelphia, PA
1996 An Aspect of Korean Art in the 1990s, National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo, JP
1995 Territory of Mind, Mito Art Tower, Ibaraki, JP
1994 Visions from the Land of Morning Calm, Pima Community College Art Gallery, Tucson, AZ
1994 Contemporary Photography of Korea, Seoul Arts Center, Seoul, KR
1993 Contemporary Photography in Seoul, Seoul Arts Center, Seoul, KR
1992 Horizon of Korean Photography, Seoul Museum of Art, Seoul, KR
1991 Horizon of Korean Photography, Total Museum of Art, Jangheung, KR
1989 150th Anniversary of Photography, Neue Residenz, Bamberg, DE
PUBLIC COLLECTIONS
Victoria and Albert Museum, London, United Kingdom.
National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, Australia.
National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, South Korea.
National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo, Japan.
Contemporary Arts Museum Houston, Houston, USA.
Museum of Contemporary Photography Chicago, Chicago, USA.
21C Museum, Kentucky, Kentucky, USA.
Leeum, Samsung Museum of Art, Seoul, Korea.
Seoul Museum of Art, Seoul, Korea.
Domaine de Chaumont sur Loire, France.
The Sol LeWitt Collection, USA.
Elton John Collection, United Kindgom.
Afinsa Collection, Germany.
Isac Andic Ermay, MANGO Collection, Spain. - SISLEY Collection, Italy.
Calder Foundation, USA.
Baltimore Museum of Art, Baltimore, USA.
Société Générale’s Contemporary Art Collection, Paris, France.
Photographs by Bae Bien-U, Changdeokung, Korean Architecture, South Korea.
PUBLICATIONS
2018 And Pines Embroidered the Sky, Arnaud Bizalion Editor, FR
2015 Bae Bien-U: D’une forêt l’autre, Somogy Art Editions, FR
2014 Elements between the Sea and the Sky of Jeju, P.I.E. Books, JP
2011 Windscape, Hatje Cantz Verlag, DE
2011 Baram, Hangilart, KR
2010 Painting with Light, Culturebooks, KR
2009 Changdeokgung, Culturebooks, Seoul, KR
2009 Alhambra, Jardín del Alma – Soul Garden, Patronage of Alhambra and Generalife, ES
2008 Sacred Wood, Hatje Cantz Verlag, DE
2005 The Beauty of Korea, Youlhwadang Publishers, KR
2005 Bae Bien-U, Hong Design, KR
1999 Horizon, Hong Design, KR
1998 Chongmyo Royal Ancestral Shrine of the Chosun Dynasty, Samsung Foundation of Culture, KR
1995 Art Vivant – Bae Bien-U’s Works, Sigongsa, KR
1993 Sonamu, Ahn Graphics and Books, KR
1985 Marado, Ahn Graphics and Books, KR
1982 Works – Bae Bien-U, Madang Publishing Company, KR