LIM OK-SANG b. 1950
1986 Graduated from École d'art d'Angoulême, Angoulême, France
1974 M.F.A. in Painting, Seoul National University, Seoul
1972 B.F.A. in Painting, Seoul National University, Seoul
Selected Solo Exhibitions
2019 Sound of earth, silence of earth (ASLD Art Students League of Denver, CO, USA)
흙 Heurk (SA+ H queen's, Hongkong)
2017 The Wind Rises (CMAY Gallery, LA, USA)
The Wind Rises (Gana Art Center, Seoul)
2015 Mureungmudeung (May Hall, Gwangju, Korea)
Lim Ok-Sang (Gallery Hana, Germany)
2011 Total Art-Water, Fire, Wind, Flesh, Steel (Gana Art Center, Seoul, Korea)
2003 Autumn story (Pyundo tree Gallery, Seoul, Korea)
2002 Since Iron Age (Insa Art Center, Seoul, Korea)
2001 A song of water and fire (Korea Art Gallery, Pusan, Korea)
2000 D.M.Z Oksanglim ( Orchard Gallery, London Derry, UK, England)
Age of iron and voice of earth (Gana Art Gallery, Seoul, Korea)
1997 Bridge of history (Gana Art Gallery, Seoul, Korea)
In the Spirit of Resistance (Alternative Museum, New york, NY, USA)
1995 Thrusting Earth (Gana Art Gallery, Gana - Beauborg, Paris, France)
1991 Invitational art Exhibition of Oksanglim's paintings (Hoam Gallery; Leeum museum, Seoul, Korea)
1990 Landscape of our times (Ondara Gallery, Jeonju, Jeonbuk, Korea)
1988 Modern History of Africa (Gana Art Gallery, Seoul, Korea)
1984 Seoul Gallery, Seoul
1981 Arco Museum, Seoul
Selected Major Group Exhibitions
2019 Counter ART : Aesthetics of South Korean Activism (Redline Contemporary Art Center, Denver, CO, USA)
One Breath : Infinite vision (Ink studio, Beijing, China)
One Breath : Infinite vision (Korean Cultural Center New York, NY, USA)
2018 Contemporary arts reflection on an ancient kingdom Silla (Gyeongju National Museum, Gyeongju, Korea)
Changwon Sculpture Biennale 2018 (Changwon, Korea)
Language sur le toile (Jungnang Art Center, Seoul)
Digital Promenade (Seoul Museum of Art, Seoul)
2017 A Warm Dinner Table (Tonguidong BoanYeogwan, Seoul)
Korea Tomorrow : Narrative Landscape (Sungkok Art Museum, Seoul)
The Portrait of Youth (National Museum of Korea Contemporary History, Seoul)
Pyungchang Art Banner : All Connected (Seoul)
From Touch to Candlelight (Jeju Museum of Art, Jeju)
April Flower Remember Culture Festival (Arario Museum, Jeju)
2016 Eye and Mind of Korean Contemporary Art II : Reinstatement of Realism (Gannainsa Art Center, Seoul)
2015 PLASTIC MYTH (Asia Culture Center, Gwangju, Korea)
2014 Neo-Sansu, (Daegu Art Museum, Daegu, Korea)
Changwon Sculpture Biennale (Changwon, Korea)
2013 30th anniversary exhibition of Gana Art Gallery (Gana Art Gallery, Seoul)
Haein Art Project : 心 (Haeinsa Seungbo museum, Hapcheon-gun, Gyeongsangnam-do)
2012 Here Are People (Daejeon Museum of Art, Daejeon, Korea)
2011 Seoul (Seoul museum of Art, Seoul)
Abstract It (National Museum od Modern and Contemporary Art Deoksugung, Seoul)
2010 Beijing Biennale (Beijing, China)
'Reality and Statement' 30th Reality and Utterance anniversary show (Insa Art Center, Seoul, Korea)
2009 Beginning of New Era (The Old Defense Security Command Site, National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Seoul)
2008 Busan Biennale-Sea-Art Festival (Haeundae, Busan, Korea)
The 25th Ganan Art Anniversary Exhibition : The Bridge (Gana Art Center, Seoul)
2005 Logic and Prospects of National Art (Mokpo Culture and Arts, Mokpo, Korea)
The 25th commemoration Exhibition of 5.18 Democratic Movement-Meet on the Road Again, (Gonpyeong Art Center, Seoul)
The 60th Commemoration Exhibition od Independence -Berlin to DMZ (Seoul Olympic Museum, Seoul; Jeonju; Busan)
Good Pupil from a Lousy Teacher (Kyeonghyang Gallery, Seoul)
Reread Fabre's Souvenirs Entomologiques Kinetic Art (Gail Art Museum, Gapyeong, Korea)
The Battle of Visions (Frankfurt Book Fair Culture Event (frankfurt am Main, Frankfurt, Germany)
Non-Possession and Life-Je Jung-Gu, in His Memory (Hakgojae Gallery, Seoul)
2004 Bejing Biennale (Bejing, China)
Peace Declaration 2004. l00 Global Artists (National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Gwacheon, Korea)
Atelier People (Gana Art Center, Seoul)
Steel of Steel (Posco Art Museum, Seoul)
Perspective of Contemporary Art (Sejong Center, Seoul)
2003 Environmental Art : Water (Seoul Museum of Art, Seoul)
Belonging to the Motherland (Seiong Center, Seoul)
Pyeongchangdong People (Gana Art Center, Seoul)
2001 Korean Art 2001: Reinstatement of Painting (National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Gwacheon, Korea)
Kim Youn-Su Commemoration Exhibition of Kim Youn-Su's Retirement (Hakgojae Gallery, Seoul)
Younpilam-Temple of Sabulsan-Mountain Exhibition (Hakgojae Gallery, Seoul)
The 1980's Realism and the Age (Gana Art Center, Seoul)
Family (Seoul Museum of Art, Seoul)
2000 Kim Young-Hwan Exhibition of Poetry and Painting (Gana Art Center, Seoul)
1999 Northeastern Asia and the 3rd World Art (Seoul Museum of Art, Seoul)
1998 Rebellious imagination (21th Century Gallery, Seoul)
The 50th Commemoration Exhibition of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (Seoul Arts Center Hangaram Museum, Seoul)
Gana Art Center Inaugural Exhlbition (Gana Art Center, Seoul)
1997 Korean Modern Art Exhibition (The Gallery ot Lu Xun Academy of Fine Arts, Shenyang, China)
The 2nd Gwangju Biennale Special Exhibition (Gwangju, Korea)
In the Sprit of Resistance (Alternative Museum, NY, USA)
1996 Korean Artists of the 20th Century (Gallery Roh, Seoul)
1995 Korean Art, Light and Color (Hoam Gallery, Seoul)
The Tigers Tail - ll Homecoming Show of '95 Venice Biennale, Venice, Italy)
The Tigers Tail - I Venice Biennale Korean Pavilion (National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Gwacheon, Korea)
The 50th Anniversary of independence History-Art Exhibition (Seoul Arts Center Hangaram Art Museum, Seoul)
Information and Reality (The Frultmarket Gallery, Edinburgh, Scotland)
The 1st Gwangju Biennale - international Exhibition (Gwangju, Korea)
Korean Contemporary Art (The National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Gwacheon, Korea)
1994 Commemorative Exhibition on the 100th Anniversary of Donghak Revolution (Seoul Arts Center Hangaram Art Museum, Seoul)
40 Years’ History of Korean Modern Art (Hoam Gallery, Seoul)
Seoul 600 Years. Changes of Seoul's Landscape (Seoul Arts Center Hangaram Art Museum, Seoul)
Korean Minjung Art (The National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Gvvacheon, Korea)
1993 The 1st Triennale Asia-Pacific Contemporary Art (Brisbane, Queensland, Australia)
The 3th Total Art Grand Award (Total Museum ot Contemporary Art, Seoul)
1992-3 Exhibition of the Travel to the Silk Road (Donga Gallery, Seoul)
1991 Anti~apartheid (Seoul Arts Center Hangaram Art Museum, Seoul)
Major Public Art Projects
2019 Playground ‘Playground on Ridge of a mountain (Changsin-dong, Jongno-gu, Korea)
Jeon Tae-il Passade (Jeon Tae-il Memorial Hall, Seoul)
2018 ‘Golden chain’ 5th World script symposia (Seoul, Korea)
2017 ‘Script-link’ 4th World script symposia (Seoul, Korea)
2016 ‘Place of Memory’ Japanese millitery ‘Comfort Women’ (Namsan, Seoul, Korea)
‘Haengnang’ 3th World script symposia (Seoul, Korea)
2015 ‘Changsindong:Re-Yagi’ Communication Center (Jongro-gu, Seoul, Korea)
2014 The tree of Peace and Reconciliation (Sejong Cultural Center, Seoul, Korea)
Flowers fade before blooming (Cheonggye Square, Seoul, Korea)
2012 Now, It’s a farming (Gwanghwamun Square, Seoul, Korea)
2011 'The son of Land' Moo Hyun Roh_monument (Bongha, Gyeongbuk, Korea)
2010 'Prism of Hope' / Eagon Windows & Door systems(Seoul, Korea)
'The World where people living' Design (Bongha, Gyeongbuk, Korea)
'Climate Crisis Clock' Performance (Copenhagen, Denmark)
2009 ‘The water drop’ (Taebeak-si, Gangwon-do, Korea)
'Sky in a Bowl' at Worldcup Park (SangamDong, Seoul Korea)
2008 Anti MB Candlelight (Sejong st., Seoul, Korea)
A tombstone of poetry for Moon-Ik Hwan’s words (Hanshin university, Jeollanam-do, Korea)
Playground ‘Caterpillar dream’ (Disabled-accessible playground, National Assembly, Seoul)
2007 STOP CO2 ( the square of Seoul City Hall, Korea)
2006 Playground ‘I’m a magpie’ (Siheung-si, Gyunggi-do, Korea)
Playground ‘Imagination, The world of giants’ (Seoul Forest, Seoul, Korea)
2005 The street of Jeon Tae-il (the Cheonggye creek, Seoul, Korea)
'The navel of the world'/ The Book Theme Park (Seongnam-si , Korea)
2003 'For labor' / Green hospital (Seoul, Korea)
'A dreaming school' project KB bank (Korea)
'A song for the jar of moon ' The world Ceramic Biennale' (Yeoju-gun, Korea)
2001 Ellza (the Joint Security Area of Panmunjeom, Korea)
2000 'Time' ( Yeongam-gun, Jeollanam-do, Korea)
God of freedom in Korea (Meahyang-ri, Hwaseong-si, Gyeonggi-do, Korea
1996 'History of Gwanghwamun' (Gwanghwamun station, Seoul, Korea)
Collection
National Museum of Contemporary Art, Korea
Seoul Museum of Art
Busan Museum of Art
Leeum Art Museum
Sungkok Art Museum
Gana Art Gallery
Gana Foundation for Arts and Culure
Gwangju Biennale
Hansol Museum
Gyeonggido Museum of Art
Total Museum
OCI Museum
Jeju Art of Museum
Contemporary Art of Seoul National University
Awards
2004 Dong-A play award for Stage Design
1993 Total Art Award
1992 Gana Art Award
1985 Hak Won Art Award
Books
2017 [Without wall Museum], Epiphany
[Look at, Ok-Sang], Nanda
2003 [Autumn Story Diary], MyungSang
2000 [Who doesen't dream of a beautiful world?], itreebook
2000 [Without wall Museum] itreebook