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b. 1936, Kyongsang-namdo, South Korea

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Lee Ufan is recognized for his unconventional artistic processes which underscore the relationship between the viewer, the artwork, and the spaces they inhabit and for philosophical writings that challenge prevailing notions of artmaking with attention on spatial and temporal conditions.

Lee’s first one-artist exhibition occurred at Sato Gallery, Tokyo, in 1967, and coincided with the publication of The Aesthetics of Self-Contradiction, his critical examination of aesthetics, cultural production, and national identity. His drawings and paintings in the mid-1960s expressed this critique in visual form and were precursors to his From Point and From Line series, which concluded in 1984. Exhibiting a distilled visual language based on an amalgamation of Eastern and Western aesthetics and philosophy, these works emphasize system, structure, and process through fields of dots or lines to create tension between his gestures and the picture plane, while marking the passage of time.

Lee Ufan, *Relatum - the cane of titan*, 2015, steel and stone, 49" × 10' × 29-1/2" (124.5 cm × 304.8 cm × 74.9 cm), overall installation 39-1/2" × 41-1/2" × 29-1/2" (100.3 cm × 105.4 cm × 74.9 cm), stone 3" × 9' 10-1/4" × 3" (7.6 cm × 300.4 cm × 7.6 cm), steel pole © 2019 Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York

In 1968, Lee was introduced to artists Nobuo Sekine, Takamatsu Jirō, and Kishio Suga, who, with Lee, formed the Mono-ha—or School of Things—group, with Lee as Mono-ha’s leading theorist and practitioner. The group rejected Western notions of representation and emphasized material, perception, and the interrelationships between space and matter, creating works from raw, natural, and industrial materials with little manipulation. That same year, Lee presented Phenomenon and Perception B at the National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo, his first site-specific sculptural floor-based work comprised of a heavy stone dropped on a glass plate. He would later retroactively title his three-dimensional works Relatum (1968–) to suggest an individual element within a relation defined by both space and object.

Lee Ufan, *From Line*, 1979, glue and mineral pigment on canvas, 64" x 51-1/4" (162.6 cm x 130.2 cm) © 2019 Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York

By the mid-1970s, Lee had been appointed as a Professor at Tama Art University (1973–2007), prompting him to return to painting. During this period, he became a central figure in the Korean monochrome painting school known as Dansaekhwa. Defined by action and process, works from the school were characterized by repetitive minimalist gestures denoting an association between the body and temporality.

From the 1980s onward, Lee developed four additional series of paintings, From Winds (1982–86), With Winds (1987–91), Correspondence (1991–2006), and Dialogue (2006–), all of which explore the dynamic between temporality, gesture, and space. He continued to produce site-specific installations from the Relatum series, presenting monographic exhibitions of his work in museums and galleries across Europe and Japan. In 2008, Pace presented Lee’s first one-artist exhibition in the United States. After having worked with ceramics since the 1970s, Lee began a two-year residency at the Manufacture de Sèvres, France, in 2014, where he produced pieces in terracotta and porcelain. Exploring the idea of chance, collapse, and debris through fired clay, Lee welcomed the chemistry of fire as an unpredictable and autonomous actor in his creative process.

In 2010, the Lee Ufan Museum, dedicated to the artist’s oeuvre, opened on the Japanese island of Naoshima. Lee has published over seventeen books throughout the course of his career, spanning poetry, art history, philosophy, and criticism, including his essay From Object to Being (1969), for which he received a prize for critical writing.

Lee Ufan, *From Line*, 1983, pigment suspended in glue on canvas, 17-15/16" × 20-7/8" (45.6 cm × 53 cm) © 2019 Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York

Lee Ufan, *Relatum - expansion place*, 2008, steel, stone, 10" x 87" x 10-1/2" (25.4 cm x 221 cm x 26.7 cm), 2 steel plates, each 15" x 18" x 16" (38.1 cm x 45.7 cm x 40.6 cm), dark stone 15" x 15" x 12" (38.1 cm x 38.1 cm x 30.5 cm), light stone © 2019 Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York

Lee Ufan, *Relatum - The Arch of Versailles*, 2014, stainless steel and two stones, 36' 6-3/16" x 49' 2-9/16" x 6' 6-3/4" (1,113 cm x 1,500 cm x 200 cm), overall installed © 2019 Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York

Lee Ufan, *Dialogue*, 2018, acrylic on canvas, 63-3/4" × 51-3/16" (161.9 cm × 130 cm) © 2019 Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York

Lee Ufan, *Dialogue*, 2016, acrylic on canvas, 89-3/8" × 71-5/8" (227 cm × 181.9 cm) © 2019 Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York

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Dates

Born 1936, Kyongsang-namdo, South Korea

Lives and works in Kamakura, Japan, and Paris

Education

1956, Seoul National University, moved to Japan

1961, Nihon University, Philosophy

1973–91, Professor at Tama University

2026

Lee Ufan, Dia Beacon, New York, opens May 8, 2026.

2024

Lee Ufan: Quiet Resonance, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, August 31, 2024–September 2025.

Lee Ufan, Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam, May 30–October 27, 2024. (Catalogue)

2023

Lee Ufan, Hamburger Bahnhof - Nationalgalerie der Gegenwart, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, October 27, 2023–April 28, 2024. (Catalogue)

2022

Lee Ufan: Matter in Contact, SCAI THE BATHHOUSE, Tokyo, September 13–October 15, 2022.

Lee Ufan: 15th Anniversary of the National Art Center, National Art Center, Tokyo, August 10–November 7, 2022. Traveled as: Lee Ufan: 20th Anniversary of Hyogo Prefectural Museum of Art, Hyogo Prefectural Museum of Art, Kobe, Japan, December 13, 2022–February 12, 2023. (Catalogue)

2021

Lee Ufan: Response, Lisson Gallery, London, November 16, 2021–January 22, 2022.

Lee Ufan: Requiem, Les Alyscamps, Arles, France, October 30, 2021–September 29, 2022. (Catalogue)

Lee Ufan, Pace Gallery, East Hampton, New York, July 22–August 8, 2021.

2019

Lee Ufan: Open Dimension, Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C., September 27, 2019–October 18, 2020. (Catalogue)

Lee Ufan: Acorns and Wildcat, Cahiers d’Art, Paris, June 7–September 28, 2019.

Lee Ufan: Traces, Cahiers d’Art, Paris, June 7–September 28, 2019.

Lee Ufan, Dia Beacon, New York, opened May 5, 2019.

Lee Ufan: Inhabiting Time, Centre Pompidou-Metz, France, February 27–September 30, 2019. (Catalogue)

2018

Lee Ufan, Pace Gallery, 510 West 25th Street, New York, September 14–October 13, 2018.

Lee Ufan: Relatum – Stage, Serpentine Sackler Gallery, London, February 6–July 29, 2018. (Catalogue)

2017

Lee Ufan chez Le Corbusier, Couvent de la Tourette, Éveux, Rhone-Alpes, France, September 20–December 20, 2017. (Catalogue)

Lee Ufan: Pressentiment, Centre de Création Contemporaine Olivier Debré, Tours, France, July 8–November 12, 2017. (Catalogue)

Lee Ufan, Jardin François 1er, Tours, France, July 1–December 31, 2017.

Lee Ufan: Ceramics, Pace Gallery, 32 East 57th Street, New York, March 10–April 8, 2017. (Digital catalogue)

Lee Ufan: The Ha Jung-Woong Museum of Art’s Inaugural Exhibition, Gwangju Museum of Art, South Korea, March 3–June 25, 2017. (Catalogue)

2016

Lee Ufan: Les Fragments et la Fenêtre, Galerie de Sèvres, Cité de la céramique, Paris, September 28–November 10, 2016. (Catalogue)

Lee Ufan, Kamel Mennour Gallery, Paris, June 22–July 23, 2016.

Lee Ufan, Château la Coste, Le Puy-Sainte-Réparade, France, May 29–September 24, 2016.

Sculpture in the Courtyard: Lee Ufan. The Cane of Titan, State Hermitage Museum, St. Petersburg, March 16–October 9, 2016.

2015

Lee Ufan: New Works, Pace Gallery, Hong Kong, November 20, 2015–January 9, 2016.

Lee Ufan: From Point, From Line, From Wind, Pace Gallery, London, September 15–October 31, 2015. (Catalogue)

Lee Ufan, Pace Gallery, 534 West 25th Street, New York, May 15–June 27 (extended through August 21), 2015. (Catalogue; text by Barbara Rose)

Lee Ufan, Lisson Gallery, London, March 25–May 9, 2015. (Catalogue)

2014

Lee Ufan: One Man Show, Gary Tatintsian Gallery, Moscow, November 14, 2014–March 23, 2015. (Catalogue)

Lee Ufan, Kaikai Kiki Gallery, Tokyo, July 26–August 22, 2014. (Catalogue)

Lee Ufan Versailles, Château de Versailles, June 17–November 2, 2014.

2013

Lee Ufan, Kamel Mennour, Paris, November 6–December 21, 2013.

Lee Ufan: Tension précaire, La Chapelle Saint-Laurent-Le Capitole, Arles, France, July 1–September 22, 2013. (Catalogue)

2011

Dialogue: Lee Ufan, Gallery Hyundai, Seoul, November 15–December 18, 2011. (Catalogue)

Lee Ufan: Marking Infinity, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, June 24–September 28, 2011. (Catalogue)

Lee Ufan: Bilder und Skulpturen, Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac, Salzburg, April 14–June 18, 2011. (Catalogue)

Lee Ufan, SCAI The Bathhouse, Tokyo, January 14–March 5, 2011.

2010

Lee Ufan: Resonancia, Galería Elvira González, Madrid, September 9–October 30, 2010.

Lee Ufan, Blum & Poe Gallery, Los Angeles, January 16–February 20, 2010. (Catalogue)

2009

Lee Ufan: Bewegte Stille, Kunstverein Lippstadt, Germany, September 6–October 25, 2009.

Lee Ufan: Peintures et Sculptures, Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac, Paris, September 3–October 2, 2009. (Catalogue)

Lee Ufan: Sculpture, Kukje Galley, Seoul, August 28–October 9, 2009. (Catalogue)

2008

Lee Ufan, PaceWildenstein, 32 East 57th Street and 534 West 25th Street, New York, September 19–October 25, 2008. (Catalogue)

Living with Contemporary Art, No. 7: Lee Ufan: Drawings, Nagoya Gallery, May 22–29, 2008.

Lee Ufan, Royal Museum of Fine Arts of Belgium, Brussels, April 19–June 29, 2008. (Catalogue)

Lee Ufan, Lisson Gallery, London, April 2–May 10, 2008. (Catalogue)

Lee Ufan: Dialogue; In Watercolors, Tokyo Gallery, March 5–29, 2008.

Lee Ufan: “Dialogue Sea and Island” Lithographs, Shirota Gallery, Tokyo, February 25–March 8, 2008.

Lee Ufan: A Dialogue, Museen Dahlem, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, February 12–May 25, 2008. (Catalogue)

2007

Lee Ufan Collection Exhibition, Gallery Micah, Seoul, 2007.

Lee Ufan, SCAI The Bathhouse, Tokyo, September 14–October 27, 2007.

Lee Ufan: Resonance, Palazzo Palumbo Fossati, 52nd Biennale di Venezia, June 10–November 27, 2007. (Catalogue)

Lee U-Fan: New Prints, Soh Gallery, Tokyo, March 3–25, 2007.

Lee Ufan, Galerie nächst St. Stephan Rosemarie Schwarzwälder, Vienna, February 21–April 21, 2007.

Lee Ufan: Correspondance Paintings 1995–2005, McCaffrey Fine Art, New York, February 19–March 16, 2007.

Living with Contemporary Art, No. 2: Lee Ufan, Nagoya Gallery, February 7–17, 2007.

2006

Lee Ufan, Muramatsu Gallery, Tokyo, 2006.

Lee Ufan, Gallery Kongkan, Busan, South Korea, November 13–28, 2006.

Lee Ufan, Galerie Micheline Szwajcer, Antwerp, October 20–December 2, 2006.

Lee Ufan: Werke aus der Sammlung Dieter und Si Rosenkranz, Museen Dahlem, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, September 5–December 10, 2006.

Lee Ufan: Terra cotta et aquarelles sur papier, IBU Gallery, Paris, June 7–July 29, 2006.

Lee Ufan: Silence, Galerie m Bochum, Germany, March 31–June 28, 2006.

Lee Ufan: “Silently” Lithographs, Shirota Gallery, Tokyo, January 10–28, 2006.

2005

Lee Ufan, Musée d’Art Moderne de Saint-Etienne, France, December 10, 2005–February 19, 2006. (Catalogue)

Lee Ufan; The Art of Margins, Yokohama Museum of Art, Japan, September 17–December 23, 2005. (Catalogue)

Lee Ufan, Queensland Art Gallery, Brisbane, Australia, June 1–November 6, 2005.

2004

Lee Ufan: Peinture Sculpture, Espace d’Art Contemporain Fernet Branca, Saint-Louis, France, June 16–October 31, 2004. (Catalogue)

Lee Ufan: The Art of Encounter, Lisson Gallery, London, January 21–February 28, 2004. (Catalogue)

2003

Lee Ufan, Gallery Hyundai, Seoul, October 9–26, 2003.

Lee Ufan: The Search for Encounter, Ho-Am Art Gallery, Seoul, and Rodin Gallery, Seoul, October 3–November 16, 2003. (Catalogue)

2002

Lee Ufan, SCAI The Bathhouse, Tokyo, April 16–May 25, 2002.

2001

Lee Ufan, Shirota Gallery, Tokyo, 2001.

Lee Ufan, Sigong Gallery, Daegu, South Korea, 2001.

Lee Ufan: Gemälde 1973 bis 2001, Kunstmuseum Bonn, June 17–September 9, 2001. (Catalogue)

2000

Lee Ufan, Kongkan Gallery, Busan, South Korea, 2000.

Lee Ufan: Interconnection, Galerie m Bochum, Germany, October 27, 2000–February 21, 2001.

1999

Lee U-fan: 70s Prints, Takeda Art Co. Inc., Tokyo, 1999.

Lee Ufan: Peintures 1974–1999, Sculptures 1999, Galerie Liliane et Michel Durand-Dessert, Paris, October 23–November 27, 1999.

Lee U Fan, Tokyo Gallery, February 12–March 6, 1999. (Catalogue)

Lee Ufan, Kamakura Gallery, Tokyo, January 22–February 24, 1999. (Brochure)

1998

Lee Ufan, Sigong Gallery, Daegu, South Korea, 1998.

Lee U-Fan, Gallery Rho, Seoul, November 1998.

Lee Ufan: Bilder und Skulpturen, Städelsches Kunstinstitut und Städtische Galerie, Frankfurt, June 5–August 2, 1998. (Catalogue)

Lee Ufan: “Eastern Gate” Aquatint, “Correspondence ‘98” Lithographs, Shirota Gallery, Tokyo, March 30–April 18, 1998. (Brochure)

Lee Ufan: Print Works 1970–1998, Mitaka City Gallery of Art, Tokyo, February 14–March 29, 1998. Traveled to: Sapporo Art Park, Japan; Itami City Museum of Art, Hyogo; Ashikaga Museum of Art, Tochigi; Nigata City Art Museum. (Catalogue)

Collection II: Lee U-Fan, Soh Gallery, Tokyo, February 14–March 8, 1998.

1996

Lee Ufan, Galerie J. Moussion, Paris, 1996.

Lee Ufan, Tokyo Gallery, 1996.

Lee Ufan, Galerie Rabouan Moussion, Paris, November–December 1996.

Lee Ufan, Gallery Kongkan, Busan, South Korea, November 20–December 2, 1996. (Catalogue)

Lee Ufan, Lisson Gallery, London, October 18–November 16, 1996. (Catalogue)

1995

Lee Ufan, Galerie de Paris, 1995.

Lee Ufan, Ingong Gallery, Seoul, 1995. (Catalogue)

Lee Ufan, Tokyo Gallery, November 8–25, 1995. (Catalogue)

Lee Ufan: Entsprechungen–Setzungen 1994/1995, Galerie m Bochum, Germany, September 22–November 20, 1995.

Lee Ufan, Städtisches Museum Schloss Morsbroich, Leverkusen, Germany, March 11–April 30, 1995. (Catalogue)

1994

Lee Ufan, Galerie Hyundai, Seoul, 1994. (Catalogue)

Lee Ufan, National Museum of Contemporary Art, Seoul, September 3–22, 1994. (Catalogue)

Lee Ufan, Fondazione Mudima, Milan, June 2–July 15, 1994. (Catalogue)

1993

Lee Ufan, Toshi Shuppan, Tokyo, 1993.

Lee Ufan, Kamakura Gallery, Tokyo, April 12–May 12, 1993. (Catalogue)

Lee Ufan, Museum of Modern Art, Kamakura, Japan, April 11–May 23, 1993. (Catalogue)

Lee Ufan: Works from ‘70s and ‘80s, Tokyo Gallery, April 5–24, 1993.

Lee Ufan: Watercolors, Shirota Gallery, Tokyo, April 5–17, 1993. (Brochure)

1992

Lee Ufan, Galerie de Paris, 1992.

Lee Ufan, Gallery Kongkan, Busan, South Korea, 1992. (Catalogue)

Lee Ufan, SAGA, Grand Palais, Paris, 1992.

Lee Ufan: In Milano; Prints, Gallery Ueda, Tokyo, December 7–25, 1992.

1991

Lee Ufan, Ingong Gallery, Seoul, November 19–28, 1991. (Catalogue)

Lee Ufan, Tokyo Gallery and Gallery Ueda, Tokyo, September 27–October 19, 1991. (Catalogue)

Lee Ufan: With Winds ’91, Lorenzelli Arte, Milan, May 1991. (Catalogue)

Lee Ufan, Hara Museum ARC, Gunma, Japan, May 25–July 14, 1991. (Catalogue)

1990

Lee Ufan, Ingong Gallery, Seoul, 1990.

Lee Ufan, Gallery Hyundai, Seoul, August 28–September 7, 1990. (Catalogue)

Lee U-Fan, Gallery Ueda, Tokyo, June 1990.

Lee Ufan: Sculpture Works, Kamakura Gallery, Tokyo, January 12–February 7, 1990. (Catalogue)

1989

Lee Ufan, Galerie de Paris, 1989.

Lee Ufan: With Winds, Tokyo Gallery and Gallery Ueda, Tokyo, November 24–December 9, 1989. (Catalogue)

Lee Ufan: “Dalla memoria di una citta” Lithographs, Shirota Gallery, Tokyo, July 3–15, 1989. (Brochure)

Lee Ufan: With Winds, Paintings 1986–88, Galerie m Bochum, West Germany, April 23–June 21, 1989. (Catalogue)

Lee Ufan: “From Island” Carborundums, “From Port” Drypoints, Shirota Gallery, Tokyo, February 6–18, 1989. (Brochure)

1988

Lee Ufan, Galerie Anselm Dreher, Berlin, 1988.

Lee U Fan: Ex Oriente, Padiglione d’Arte Contemporanea, Milan, October 4–December 31, 1988. (Catalogue)

Lee Ufan: Traces of Sensitivity and Logic, Museum of Fine Art, Gifu, Japan, January 5–February 11, 1988. (Catalogue)

Toki no furue (exhibition catalogue). Tokyo: Ozawa Shoten, 1988. Revised edition, Tokyo: Misuzu Shobō, 2004.

1987

Lee Ufan, Gallery Hyundai, Seoul, November 5–14, 1987. (Catalogue)

Lee U-Fan: Working with Clay, Gallery Ueda, Tokyo, February 2–14, 1987. (Catalogue)

1986

Lee Ufan, Galerie de Paris, December 1986.

Lee Ufan: From Winds, Tokyo Gallery, October 13–25, 1986. (Catalogue)

The Printworks of Lee U-Fan: 1970–1986, Shirota Gallery, Tokyo, June 16–28, 1986. (Catalogue)

Lee U-Fan: Folding Screens, Gallery Ueda, Tokyo, January 10–25, 1986. (Catalogue)

1985

Lee Ufan, Studio d’Ars, Milan, April 1985.

Lee U-fan: Sculpture, Kamakura Gallery, Tokyo, January 10–26, 1985. (Catalogue)

1984

Lee Ufan, Gallery Hyundai, Seoul, and Korea Gallery, Seoul, September 12–20, 1984. (Catalogue)

Lee Ufan: Working with Paper, Galerie Humanité, Nagoya, Japan, July 5–18, 1984.

Lee Ufan: “In the Ruins” Lithographs, Shirota Gallery, Tokyo, July 3–14, 1984. (Brochure)

Lee Ufan, Galerie de Paris, April 1984.

1983

Lee U-Fan: Paper Works, Gallery Ueda, Tokyo, November 23–December 3, 1983. (Catalogue)

Lee U Fan, Tokyo Gallery, November 14–30, 1983. (Catalogue)

1982

Lee Ufan, Studio Marconi, Milan, November 1982.

Lee Ufan, Kaneko Art Gallery, Tokyo, November 4–20, 1982.

1981

Lee Ufan: Watercolors, Drawings, Woodcuts, Soker-Kaseman Gallery, San Francisco, March 1981.

Lee U-Fan: Watercolors, Shirota Gallery, Tokyo, February 2–14, 1981.

1980

Lee Ufan, Galerie Eric Fabre, Paris, 1980.

Lee Ufan, Tokyo Gallery and Gallery Ueda, Tokyo, October 6–18, 1980. (Catalogue)

1979

Lee Ufan, Skulpturenmuseum Glaskasten Marl, West Germany, 1979.

Lee Ufan: Drawing Exhibition, Kaneko Art Gallery, Tokyo, October 1979. (Catalogue)

Lee Ufan: Watercolors, Jean Art Gallery, Seoul, September 20–27, 1979.

Lee Ufan, Lee Gallery, Daegu, South Korea, June 1979.

Lee U-Fan: Relatum Series 1969–1979, Gallery Takagi, Nagoya, Japan, May 1979. (Catalogue)

Lee Ufan, Muramatsu Gallery, Tokyo, April 1979.

1978

Lee Ufan, Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Humlebæk, Denmark, September 1978. (Catalogue)

Lee Ufan: Skulpturen, Galerie m Bochum, West Germany, August 20–October 15, 1978. (Catalogue)

Lee U-Fan: From Point—From Line, Städtische Kunsthalle, Düsseldorf, July 21–August 27, 1978. (Catalogue)

Lee Ufan, Gallery Hyundai, Seoul, April 10–17, 1978. (Catalogue)

Lee Ufan, Antwerp Gallery, February 1978.

Lee Ufan: Sculptures, Tamura Gallery, Tokyo, January 1978.

Lee Ufan: “From Point,” “From Line” Lithographs and Watercolors, Shirota Gallery, Tokyo, January 6–14, 1978. (Brochure)

1977

Lee Ufan, Galerie Eric Fabre, Paris, November 30, 1977–January 20, 1978.

Lee Ufan, Sakura Gallery, Nagoya, Japan, April 13–30, 1977. (Catalogue)

Lee U Fan, Tokyo Gallery, March 1–19, 1977. (Catalogue)

1976

Lee Ufan, Gallery Spectrum, Antwerp, November 1976. (Catalogue)

Lee Ufan, Kaneko Art Gallery, Tokyo, November 1976.

Lee Ufan: Drawings, Myongdong Gallery, Seoul, June 26–July 5, 1976.

Lee Ufan: Bilder und Zeichnungen, Galerie m Bochum, West Germany, May 26–July 6, 1976.

1975

Lee Ufan, Galerie Eric Fabre, Paris, 1975.

Lee Ufan, Gallery Hyundai, Seoul, 1975.

Lee Ufan, Kaneko Art Gallery, Tokyo, 1975.

Lee Ufan: Ausmalungen, Galerie m Bochum, West Germany, June 6–July 18, 1975.

1974

Lee Ufan, Galerie Eric Fabre, Paris, November 1974.

Lee Ufan, Tamura Gallery, Tokyo, July 22–28, 1974.

1973

Lee U-fan, Tokyo Gallery, September 10–22, 1973.

1972

Lee Ufan, Myongdong Gallery, Seoul, August 21–27, 1972.

1971

Lee Ufan: Prints, Shirota Gallery, Tokyo, November 29–December 5, 1971.

U-fan Lee, Pinar Gallery, Tokyo, January 9–23, 1971. (Brochure)

1970

Lee Ufan, Tamura Gallery, Tokyo, January 12–24, 1970.

1967

Lee Ufan, Sato Gallery, Tokyo, March 13–18, 1967.

Lee Ufan
Group Exhibitions

Lee Ufan Group Exhibitions

2025

Minimal, Pinault Collection, Paris, October 8, 2025–January 18, 2026.

Pace: 65 Years: Part I, II & III, Pace Gallery, Geneva, May 21–December 19, 2025.

Making of Modern Korean Art: the Letters of Kim Tschang-Yeul, Kim Whanki, Lee Ufan, and Park Seo-Bo, 1961–1982, Tina Kim Gallery, New York, May 5–June 21, 2025. (Catalogue)

Postcards from the Heart: Selections from the Brigitte and Henning Freybe Collection, Vancouver Art Gallery, Canada, April 18–October 5, 2025.

2024

My World, Singer Laren, the Netherlands, September 18, 2024–January 12, 2025. (Catalogue)

Correspondence: Lee Ufan and Mark Rothko, Pace Gallery, Seoul, September 4–October 26, 2024.

2023

Chewing Gum VI, Pace Gallery, Hong Kong, August 4–September 7, 2023.

Encounter: Lee Ufan and Claude Viallat, Pace Gallery, London, June 2–July 29, 2023. (Catalogue)

Icônes, Punta della Dogana, Venice, April 2–November 26, 2023. (Catalogue)

2022

Being In the World: The Tenth Anniversary of the Long Museum, Long Museum (West Bund), Shanghai, November 13, 2022–February 5, 2023.

New Abstracts: Recent Acquisitions, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, November 12, 2022–May 29, 2023.

Cloud Walkers, Leeum Museum of Art, Seoul, September 2, 2022–January 8, 2023.

MOT Collection: Rewinding the Collection 2nd, Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo, Saturday, July 16–October16, 2022.

2021

Colours of the imagination: Collection Exhibitions curated by Ryan Gander, Tokyo Opera City Art Gallery, April 17–24 June 24, 2021.

Silence, Pace Gallery, Geneva, September 3–October 30, 2021.

Ink Dreams: Selections from the Fondation INK Collection, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, September 19–December 12, 2021.

Jours blancs, Galerie Kamel Mennour, Paris, October 18, 2021–February 9, 2022.

2020

National Gallery of Victoria Triennial, Melbourne, Australia, December 19, 2020–April 18, 2021. (Catalogue)

STARS: Six Contemporary Artists from Japan to the World, Mori Art Museum, Tokyo, July 31, 2020–January 3, 2021. (Catalogue)

On View in East Hampton, Pace Gallery, 68 Park Place, East Hampton, New York, July 22–29, 2020.

Sculpture & Nature, Schlossgut Schwante Sculpture Park, Oberkrämer, Germany, opens June 19, 2020.

Three Masters of Contemporary Art: Takamatsu Jiro, Wakabayashi Isamu, and Lee Ufan, Setagaya Art Museum, Tokyo, April 18–June 7, 2020.

2019

Images and Dialogues: Lee Ufan / Wang Shuye x Du Dakai / Liu Jude, Visual Art Center, Academy of Arts & Design, Tsinghua University, Beijing, October 10–31, 2019.

Chewing Gum III, Pace Gallery, 12/F, H Queen’s, 80 Queen’s Road Central, Hong Kong, May 25–July 4, 2019.

The Challenging Souls: Yves Klein, Lee Ufan, Ding Yi, Power Station of Art, Shanghai, April 28–July 28, 2019. (Catalogue)

2018

Nature Knows No Pause, Massimo de Carlo, Milan, May 29–July 13, 2018.

2017

Ufan Lee & Young Sook Park: New Works / Art + Form, Y-S-P, New York, November 30, 2017–September 9, 2018.

Japanorama. Nouveau regard sur la creation contemporaine, Centre Pompidou-Metz, France, October 20, 2017–March 5, 2018.

Everything at Once, The Store Studios, London, October 5–December 10, 2017.

Who Can Be Strangers? The Art of Mono-ha and Dansaekhwa, Adrian Rosenfeld Gallery, San Francisco, July 7–September 28, 2017.

2016

Lee Mingwei and his Relations: The Art of Participation, Auckland Art Gallery, New Zealand, November 5, 2016–March 19, 2017.

Dansaekhwa, PIASA, Paris, June 21–July 9, 2016.

After Drawing, Gallery Hyundai, Seoul, May 26–July 10, 2016.

When Process Becomes Form: Dansaekhwa and Korean Abstraction, Boghossian Foundation, Villa Empain Brussels, February 20–April 24, 2016.

Dansaekhwa & Minimalism, Blum & Poe, Los Angeles, January 16–March 12, 2016. Traveled to: Blum & Poe, New York, April 14–May 21, 2016.

2015

Unidades y continuidades, Kurinanzutto, Mexico City, November 5, 2015–January 9, 2016.

Serial Structures, Serial Procedures, Kunstsammlungen der Ruhr-Universität Bochum, Germany, September 6–November 8, 2015.

Enrico Castellani and Lee Ufan: Surgaces et Correspondences, Lorenzelli Arte, Milan, May 21–July 16, 2015.

Dansaekhwa, 56th International Art Exhibition, La Biennale di Venezia, Palazzo Contarini-Polignac, Venice, May 7–August 15, 2015. (Catalogue)

Korean Abstract Painting: 45th Anniversary of Gallery Hyundai, Gallery Hyundai, Seoul. March 25–April 22, 2015. (Catalogue)

Geometries On and Off the Grid: Art from 1950 to the Present, The Warehouse, Dallas, February 2–November 30, 2015.

2014

From All Sides: Tansaekhwa on Abstraction, Blum and Poe, Los Angeles, September 13–November 8, 2014. (Catalogue)

The Art of Dansaekhwa, Kukje Gallery, Seoul, August 28–October 19, 2014.

Formes Simples, Centre Pompidou-Metz, France, June 13–November 2014. (Catalogue)

Genius Loci (Spirit of Place), Palazzo Franchetti, Venice, June 7–November 23, 2014.

Korean Beauty: Two Kinds of Nature, Seoul Museum of the National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, May 17–September 28, 2014.

Other Primary Structures: Others 2, Jewish Museum, New York, May 25–August 3, 2014.

2013

Mingei: Are You Here?, Pace London, 6–10 Lexington Street, October 15–December 14, 2013. Traveled to: Pace Gallery, 508 West 25th Street, New York, March 7–April 5, 2014. (Catalogue)

Parallel Views: Italian and Japanese Art from the 1950s, 60s, and 70s, The Warehouse, Dallas, February 17–October 31, 2013. (Catalogue)

Paradise, Pace Gallery, 534 West 25th Street, New York, July 15–August 16, 2013.

Takahashi Collection: Mindfulness!, Kirishima Open-Air Museum, Kagoshima, Japan, July 12–September 1, 2013.

Prima Materia, Punta della Dogana, Venice, May 30, 2013–December 31, 2014. (Catalogue)

2012

Tokyo 1955–1970: A New Avant-Garde, The Museum of Modern Art, New York, November 18, 2012–February 25, 2013. (Catalogue)

Summer Group Show 2012, The Pace Gallery, 32 East 57th Street, New York, July 30–August 24, 2012.

Papierwelten, Galerie nächst St. Stephan Rosemarie Schwarzwälder, Vienna, July 19–September 12, 2012.

Art as Magic: Visionary Artists and Their Inner Supernatural World, Aichi Prefectural Museum of Art, Nagoya, Japan, April 13–June 24, 2012. (Catalogue)

Requiem for the Sun: The Art of Mono-Ha, Blue & Poe, Los Angeles, February 25–April 14, 2012. Traveled to: Gladstone Gallery, New York, June 22–August 3, 2012 (Catalogue).

John Latham / Lee Ufan, Lisson Gallery, Milan, February 10–March 23, 2012.

2011

Beijing Voice: Leaving Realism Behind, The Pace Gallery, Beijing, November 19, 2011–February 12, 2012.

Burning, Bright: A Short History of the Light Bulb, The Pace Gallery, 545 West 22nd Street, New York, October 28–November 26, 2011.

Tricks & Humor, Yokosuka Museum of Art, Japan, September 10–November 6, 2011. (Catalogue)

Pure Clay: Young Sook Park and Lee Ufan, RH Gallery, New York, June 28–August 31, 2011.

The World Belongs to You, Palazzo Grassi, Francois Pinault Foundation, Venice, June 2–December 31, 2011. (Curated by Caroline Bourgeois)

Silence and Time, Dallas Museum of Art, May 29–August 28, 2011.

In Praise of Doubt, Punta della Dogana, Francois Pinault Foundation, Venice, April 10, 2011–December 31, 2012. (Curated by Caroline Bourgeois)

2010

50 Years at Pace, The Pace Gallery, 545 West 22nd Street, New York, September 17–October 23, 2010. (Catalogue)

Painting: Process and Expansion: From the 1950s to the Present Day, Museum Moderner Kunst Stiftung Ludwig Wien, Austria, July 9–October 3, 2010. (Catalogue)

Personal Structures: Time-Space-Existence, Kunstlerhaus Palais Thurn & Taxis, Bregenz, Austria, January 15–February 21, 2010

2009

15th Anniversary Inaugural Exhibition, Blum & Poe, Los Angeles, October 3–November 14, 2009.

A Walk in the Park: Outdoor Sculpture at PaceWildenstein, PaceWildenstein, 545 West 22nd Street, New York, June 19–July 24, 2009.

Boule to Braid, Lisson Gallery, London, June 24–August 15, 2009.

In-Finitum, Palazzo Fortuny, Venice, June 6–November 15, 2009. (Catalogue)

Personal Structures in New York, Bertha and Karl Leubsdorf Art Gallery, Hunter College, New York, March 26–May 9, 2009. (Catalogue)

2008

Red Wind, Blum & Poe, Los Angeles, June 28–August 23, 2008.

The Thin Line of Shadow: Lee Ufan, Günther Uecker, Roman Opalka, Fondazione Mudima, Milan, June 9–July 10, 2008.

Sensitive Systems, Gallery Hakgojae, Seoul, March 28–April 25, 2008.

2007

48th October Salon: Micro Narratives, October Salon, Belgrade Cultural Center, Serbia, September 29–November 11, 2007.

What is Mono-ha?, Beijing Tokyo Art Projects, Japan, May 13–June 24, 2007. (Catalogue)

L’art de Monet et sa Postérité, National Art Center, Tokyo, April 7–July 2, 2007.

Elastic Taboos: Within the Korean World of Contemporary Art, Kunsthalle Wien, February 23–June 10, 2007. (Catalogue)

2006

Shelter: Art for Women in Forced Prostitution, Neue Nationalgalerie, Berlin, October 27, 2006–January 28, 2007.

Fever Variations: Gwangju Biennale 2006, Korea, September 8–November 11, 2006. (Catalogue)

La force de l’art, Grand Palais, Paris, May 10–June 25, 2006.

Motion on Paper, Ben Brown Fine Arts, London, July 5–September 22, 2006.

2005

Reconsidering Mono-ha, The National Museum of Art, Osaka, Japan, October 25–December 18, 2005. (Catalogue)

Moderato cantabile, Lee Ufan, Simon Callery, Nishikawa, Galerie Philippe Casini, Paris, October 11–December 17, 2005.

(In)visible (In)corporeo, Museo d’Arte Provincia di Nuoro, Italy, June 30–September 4, 2005.

2004

Rimpa, National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo, August 21–October 3, 2004. (Catalogue)

L’art au future antérieur: Liliane et Michel Durand-Dessert, l’engagement d’une galerie 1975–2004, Musée du Grenoble, France, July 10–October 4, 2004. (Catalogue)

2003

Happiness: A Survival Guide for Art + Life, Mori Art Museum, Tokyo, October 13, 2003–January 18, 2004.

Anni ’70, 80, 90, Lorenzelli Arte Gallery, Milan, May 2003. (Catalogue)

2002

Les années 70: l’art en cause, Musée d’art contemporain Entrepôt, Bordeaux, France, October 18, 2002–January 19, 2003. (Catalogue)

APT 2002: Asia-Pacific Triennial of Contemporary Art, Queensland Art Gallery, Australia, September 12, 2002–January 23, 2003. (Catalogue)

2001

Monoha: School of Things, Kettle’s Yard, Cambridge, May 26–July 22, 2001. Traveled to: Newlyn Art Gallery, United Kingdom, September 9–October 13, 2001. (Catalogue)

Silence/Violence, SCAI The Bathhouse, Tokyo, May–June 2001.

Le Tribú dell’Arte, Galleria d’Arte Moderna e contemporanea, Rome, April 24–October 7, 2001. (Catalogue)

Ikiro: Be Alive, Contemporary Art from Japan 1980 to the Present, Kröller-Müller Museum, Otterlo, The Netherlands, April 7–July 8, 2001. (Catalogue)

Century City: Art and Culture in the Modern Metropolis, Tate Modern, London, February 1–April 29, 2001. (Catalogue)

2000

Bernard Frize, Katharina Grosse and Lee Ufan, Galerie Monika Reitz, Frankfurt, 2000.

2000 Shanghai Biennale: UNESCO Prize for the Promotion of the Art, China, November 6–January 6, 2000.

Man + Space: Gwangju Biennale 2000, Korea, March 29–June 7, 2000.

1999

Korean Monochromism: Methods, Ideas and Spirits, Busan Metropolitan Museum of Art, Korea, 1999.

Kunst-Welten im Dialog: von Gauguin zur globalen Gegenwart, Museum Ludwig, Cologne, November 5, 1999–March 15, 2000. (Catalogue)

1998

Contemporary Art of Korea-Time, Hoam Art Gallery, Seoul, 1998.

Korean Monochromism: Methods, Ideas and Spirits, Busan Metropolitan Museum of Art, Korea, 1998.

Poetics of Time, Ho-Am Art Museum, Seoul, 1998.

Koreanische Positionen der Gegenwart, Dorothea van der Koelen Gallery, Mainz, Germany, November 21, 1998–January 5, 1999. Traveled to: Weisee Gallery, Cologne, February 26–April 20, 1999. (Catalogue)

Sarajevo 2000, Museum Moderner Kunst Stiftung Ludwig, Vienna, October 27, 1998–January 10, 1999. (Catalogue)

1997

Made in France 1947–1997, Musée Nationale d’Art Moderne, Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, January 30–September 29, 1997. (Catalogue)

1996

Small Truths: Repetition and the Obsessional in Contemporary Art, John Hansard Gallery, Southampton, United Kingdom, November 19, 1996–January 11, 1997.

Project 8: Prehistoric Stone and Media Show, Total Contemporary Art Museum, Seoul, September 3–October 20, 1996.

Papier Europäer, Galerie M, Bochum, Germany, August 21–November 14, 1996.

Japon 1970: Matière et Perception, Le Mono-Ha et la Recherche des Fondements de l’Art, Musée d’Art Moderne, Saint-Etienne, France, June 26–September 8, 1996.

1995

Asiana: Contemporary Art from the Far East, Palazzo Vendramin Calgeri, Venice, 1995.

Mono-ha, The Museum of Fine Art, Gifu, Japan, 1995.

Bestandsaufnahme XII, Galerie M, Bochum, Germany, December 17, 1995–March 13, 1996.

Korean Art 1995: Quality, Quantity, Sensation, National Museum of Contemporary Art, Seoul, August 17–September 15, 1995.

Movement of a Line—II, Base Gallery, Tokyo, February 22–March 25, 1995. (Catalogue)

Matter and Perception 1970: Mono-Ha and the Search for Fundamentals, The Museum of Fine Art, Gifu, Japan, February 17–March 26, 1995. Traveled in Japan through December 17, 1995. (Catalogue)

1994

Postwar Art in Japan, Yokohama Museum of Art, Japan, 1994.

Malerei, Galerie M, Bochum, Germany, Winter 1994–March 1995.

Japanese Art after 1945: Scream against the sky, Yokohama Museum of Art, Japan, February 5–March 30, 1994. Traveled to: Guggenheim Museum SoHo, New York, September 14, 1994–January 8, 1995.

1993

Spiritual in Art, Fukuyama Museum of Art, Hiroshima, 1993.

1992

Anschitssachen, Galerie M, Bochum, Germany, 1992. (Catalogue)

Avanguardie Giapponesi degli anni 70, Galleria d’Arte Moderna, Bologna, 1992. (Catalogue)

Seven Artists: Aspects of Contemporary Japanese Art, Nagoya City Art Museum, Japan, August 15–September 27, 1992.

Working with Nature: Traditional Thought in Contemporary Art from Korea, Tate Gallery, Liverpool, April 8–June 21, 1992. (Catalogue)

1991

Seven Artists: Aspects of Contemporary Japanese Art, Santa Monica Museum of Art, California, March 29–May 26,1991. Traveled to: Portland Art Museum, Oregon Art Institute, June 21–August 8, 1991; Museo Rufino Tamayo, Arte Contemporaneo Internacional, Mexico City, November 14, 1991–February 2, 1992; Contemporary Arts Center, New Orleans, March 21–May 10, 1992. (Catalogue)

1990

Minimal Art, The National Museum of Art, Osaka, Japan, 1990.

Bestandsaufnahme VII, Galerie M, Bochum, Germany, March 17–May 21, 1990.

Blau: Farbe der Ferne, Heidelberger Kunstverein, Germany, March 2–May 13, 1990. (Catalogue)

1989

Effets de Miroir, Bibliothèque Louis-Aragon, Choisy, France, 1989. (Catalogue)

New Tools, New Images: Europalia 89, Japan in Belgium, Museum van Hedendaagse Kunst, Gent, Belgium, October 1–December 3, 1989.

20th Biennale Middelheim-Japan, Open-Air Museum of Sculpture, Middleheim, Antwerp, Belgium, June 18–October 29, 1989. (Catalogue)

Croisement de Signes, Institut du Monde Arabe, Paris, April 24–August 15, 1989. (Catalogue)

1988

Monoha: La Scuola della Cose, Museo Labatorio di Arte Contemporanea, Rome, 1988.

Symposium of Olympic Sculpture, Olympic Park, Seoul, 1988. (Catalogue)

1987

Mono-Ha and Postmono-Ha, Seibu Museum of Art, Tokyo, 1987.

The Tenth Anniversary Exhibition: Painting 1977–1987, The National Museum of Art, Osaka, Japan, October 3–December 6, 1987.

1986

Contemporary Japanese Calligraphy and Painting, Galerie Nationale de Prague, 1986. (Catalogue)

Le Japon des Avants-Gardes 1910–1970, Musée National d’Art Moderne, Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, 1986. (Catalogue)

Mono-Ha, Kamakura Gallery, Tokyo, 1986.

Seoul-Paris, Centre National des Arts Plastiques, Paris, 1986. (Catalogue)

1985

40 Years of Japanese Contemporary Art: 10th Anniversary New Building, Tokyo Metropolitan Art Museum, October 12–December 8, 1985. (Catalogue)

Ecole de Seoul, Gallery Kwan-Hoon, Seoul, September 11–17, 1985.

Artists’ Books: Japan, Franklin Furnace, New York, March 15–April 20, 1985.

1984

Trends of Contemporary Japanese Art 1970–1984: Universality/Individuality, Tokyo Metropolitan Art Museum, 1984.

Wiesbaderner Skulpturentage, Wiesbaden, Germany, 1984. (Catalogue)

1983

ARS 83 Helsinki, Art Museum of the Ateneum, Helsinki, 1983.

Tokyo Gallery in London: Minoru Kawabata, Lee U-Fan and Yoshishige Saito, Juda Rowan Gallery, London, February 1–March 5, 1983. (Catalogue)

1982

Material Gets Art, Nationalgalerie, Staatliche Museen, Berlin, October 7–December 5, 1982. (Catalogue)

Drawing Today; Masters of Drawing: Denes, Gafgen, Tubke, U-Fan: 2nd International Young Artist Triennial of Drawing, Kunsthalle Nürnberg, Germany, June 11–October 31, 1982. Traveled to: Musée contonal des beaux arts, Lausanne, December 1, 1982–January 31, 1983. (Catalogue)

1982 Japanese Contemporary Art Exhibition, Camden Arts Center, London, January 27–February 21, 1982. (Catalogue)

1980

Contemporary Art in Japan, Museum of Modern Art, Stockholm, 1980.

Japan Kalejdoskop, Sweden, 1980. (Catalogue)

Skulptur im 20 Jahrhundert, Basel, Switzerland, May 10–September 14, 1980. (Catalogue)

1979

11th International Prints Biennale, National Museum of Modern Art, Kyoto, 1979.

1st Henry Moore Grand Prize Exhibition, Hakone Open-Air Museum, Kanagawa, Japan, August 1–November 30, 1979.

1978

Focus 78, Centre Culturel du Marais, Paris, 1978. (Catalogue)

Z.B. Sculpture, Städtisches Museum im Städel, Frankfurt, June 1978–May 1979. (Catalogue)

1977

Drawing 5 Artists, Miami Gallery, Tokyo, 1977.

13th Contemporary Art Exhibition of Japan, National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo, 1977.

Prints Acquisitions 1973–1976, The Museum of Modern Art, New York, November 23, 1977–February 20, 1978.

Documenta VI, Kassel, Germany, June 24–October 2, 1977. (Catalogue)

1976

International Festival of Painting, Cagnes-sur-Mer, France, 1976.

The 2nd Biennale of Sydney 1996: Recent International Forms in Art, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Australia, November 14–December 19, 1976.

Ecole de Seoul, National Museum of Modern Art, Seoul, June 26–July 1, 1976.

1975

Contemporary Art of Japan, Museum of Ietevorg, Stockholm, 1975.

Contemporary Art of Japan, Sonja Henle-Niels Onstad Museum, Oslo, 1975.

11th Contemporary Art Exhibition of Japan, Tokyo Metropolitan Art Museum, 1975.

3rd Triennale India, National Academy of Art, New Delhi, 1975. (Catalogue)

1974

Japan Traditional Gegenwart, Städtisches Kunsthalle, Düsseldorf, 1974.

Japanese Art in Louisiana, Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Humlebaek, 1974.

1973

The Contemporary Art Exhibition of Japan: 20 Years of Contemporary in Retrospective, Tokyo and Kyoto, 1973. (Catalogue)

XII Biennale de São Paulo, Brazil, October–November 1973. (Catalogue)

1972

8th International Prints Biennale, Tokyo, 1972.

Napoli International Exhibition, Naples, 1972.

2nd International Biennale of Prints in Seoul, National Museum of Modern Art, Seoul, June 1–20, 1972.

1971

7th Biennale de Paris, Parc Floral, Paris, September 24–November 1, 1971. (Catalogue)

10th Contemporary Art Exhibition of Japan: Man and Nature, Tokyo Metropolitan Art Museum, May 10–30, 1971.

1970

7th International Prints Biennale, Tokyo, 1970.

Mono-ha, The Museum of Fine Art, Gifu, Japan, 1970.

Aspects of New Japanese Art, National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo, August 4–40, 1970.

1969

5th International Young Artists Exhibition, Japan Culture Forum, Tokyo, 1969.

9th Contemporary Art Exhibition of Japan, Tokyo Metropolitan Art Museum, 1969.

X Biennale de São Paulo, São Paulo, September–December 1969. (Catalogue)

Trends in Contemporary Art, National Museum of Modern Art, Kyoto, August 19–September 23, 1969.

1968

Contemporary Art of Korea, National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo, July 19–September 1, 1968.

Lee Ufan
Public Collections

Lee Ufan Public Collections

Amorepacific Museum of Art, Seoul

Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney

Art Sonje Center, Seoul

Asia Society Texas Center, Houston

Boghossian Foundation, Brussels

Busan Museum of Art, South Korea

The Brooklyn Museum, New York

Castello di Ama, Gaiole in Chianti, Italy

Centre National des Arts Plastiques, Paris

Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris

Château la Coste, Le Puy-Sainte-Réparade, France

Chiba City Museum of Art, Japan

Commanderie de Peyrassol, Flassans-sur-Issole, France

Daegu Art Museum, South Korea

Daejeon Museum of Art, South Korea

Dia Art Foundation, New York

Domaine des Etangs, Massignac, France

Domnick Collection, Nürtingen, Germany

Donjon de Vez, France

Foundation Arc-en-Ciel, Tokyo

Frederik Meijer Gardens and Sculpture Park, Grand Rapids, Michigan

Fukuoka Art Museum, Japan

Fukutake Foundation, Naoshima, Japan

Fukuyama Museum of Art, Japan

Guggenheim Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates

Gwangju Museum of Art, South Korea

The Hakone Open-Air Museum, Kanagawa, Japan

Hiroshima City Museum of Contemporary Art

Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C.

Hokkaido Museum of Modern Art, Sapporo, Japan

Hyogo Prefectural Museum of Art, Kobe, Japan

Iwaki City Art Museum, Japan

Kamakura City, Japan

Kawamura Memorial DIC Museum of Art, Sakura, Japan

Museum of Art, Kochi, Japan

Korea University Business School, Seoul

Kröller-Müller Museum, Otterlo, the Netherlands

Kunsthaus Zürich

Kunstmuseum Bonn, Germany

Leeum, Samsung Museum of Art, Seoul

Lee Ufan Museum, Naoshima, Japan

Los Angeles County Museum of Art

Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Humlebæk, Denmark (on long-term loan from The Riklis Collection of McCrory Corporation)

M+, Hong Kong

The Maxine and Stuart Frankel Foundation for Art, Bloomfield Hills, Michigan

Mildura Arts Centre, Australia

Miyagi Museum of Art, Sendai, Japan

Mori Art Museum, Tokyo

Musée d'art moderne et contemporain de Saint-Étienne Métropole, France

Museum DKM, Duisburg, Germany

Museum Morsbroich, Leverkusen, Germany

Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo

Museum of Fine Arts, Gifu, Japan

The Museum of Modern Art, Gunma, Japan

The Museum of Modern Art, Gunma, Japan (on extended loan from a private collection)

Museum of Modern Art, Kamakura & Hayama, Japan

The Museum of Modern Art, New York

Museum of Modern Art, Saitama, Japan

Museum of Modern Art, Wakayama, Japan

Nagoya City Art Museum, Japan

Namdo Cultural Foundation, Gwangju, South Korea

National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.

National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne

The National Museum of Art, Osaka

National Museum of Modern Art, Kyoto

National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Seoul

National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo

Neues Museum, Nuremberg, Germany (on long-term loan from the City of Nuremberg)

Nationalgalerie, Berlin

Niigata City Art Museum, Japan

Niigata Prefectural Museum of Modern Art/Niigata Bandaijima Art Museum, Nagaoka/Niigata, Japan

Ohara Museum of Art, Okayama, Japan

Pinault Collection, Paris

POSCO Art Collection, Seoul

Queensland Art Gallery, Brisbane, Australia

The Rachofsky House, Dallas, Texas

Rachofsky Collection and Dallas Museum of Art, Texas

Ruhr-Universitat Bochum, Germany

San Francisco Museum of Modern Art

Sapporo Art Museum, Japan

SBS, Seoul

Sekigahara Ningenmura Foundation, Gifu, Japan

Seoul Museum of Art

Seoul Olympic Museum of Art

Seoul Shinmun

Setagaya Art Museum, Tokyo

Sezon Museum of Modern Art, Nagano, Japan

Shiga Museum of Art, Otsu, Japan

Shimane Art Museum, Japan

Shiseido Art House, Kakegawa, Japan

Shizuoka Prefectural Museum of Art, Japan

Situation Kunst, Bochum, Germany

The Smart Museum of Art at the University of Chicago

Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York

Sprengel Museum Hannover, Germany (on permanent loan from a private collection)

Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, Museum für Asiatische Kunst

Staatsgalerie, Stuttgart, Germany

Städel Museum, Frankfurt

Situation Kunst, Bochum, Germany

Takamatsu Art Museum, Japan

Tate, London

Tokyo Opera City Art Gallery

Tongyeong City, South Korea

Toyama Prefectural Museum of Art and Design, Japan

Toyota Municipal Museum of Art, Nagoya, Japan

Triton Collection Foundation, Rotterdam

Utsunomiya Museum of Art, Japan

Wooyang Museum of Contemporary Art, Gyeongju, South Korea

Worcester Museum of Art, Massachusetts

Yeongam Ha Jungwoong Museum of Art, Yeongam, South Korea

Yokohama Museum of Art, Japan (on loan from Asahi Beer Holdings)

Lee Ufan
Periodicals

Lee Ufan Periodicals

2025

Making of Modern Korean Art: the Letters of Kim Tschang-Yeul, Kim Whanki, Lee Ufan, and Park Seo-Bo, 1961–1982 (exhibition catalogue). New York: Gregory R. Miller & Co.; Tina Kim Gallery, 2025.

DIOR LADY ART: The Lady Dior Reinvented by 99 Artists. Texts by Hervé Mikaeloff, Jérôme Hanover and Anne Malherbe. New York: Rizzoli International Publications, 2025: 214–217, 244.

Semff, Michael. An Artist a Day: A Daily Diary of Artists’ Birthdays. Munich: Prestel, 2025: n.p., illustrated.

2024

Lee Ufan in het | at the Rijksmuseum (exhibition catalogue). Edited by Kate Bell and Ellen Slob. Texts by the artist, Mels Evers, Alfred Pacquement, Taco Dibbits, et al. Amsterdam: Rijksmuseum, 2024.

My World (exhibition catalogue). Texts by Jan Rudolph de Lorm, and Hans den Hartog Jager. Laren, the Netherlands: Singer Laren; Zwolle, the Netherlands, 2024: 79, illustrated.

2023

Encounter: Lee Ufan and Claude Viallat (exhibition catalogue). Texts by Lee Ufan and Alfred Pacquement. New York: Pace Publishing, 2023.

Icônes (exhibition catalogue). Texts by François Pinault, Bruno Racine, Marie-José Mondzain, Bice Curiger, and Emma Lavigne. Venice: Marsilio Editori, S.p.A., 2023: 138–141, illustrated.

Lee Ufan: 15th Anniversary of the National Art Center (exhibition brochure). Tokyo: National Art Center, 2023.

Lee Ufan: Documents 2022–23 (exhibition catalogue). Texts by Alexander Munroe, Mika Yoshitake, and Doryun Chong, et al. Tokyo and Kobe, Japan: National Art Center; Hyogo Prefectural Museum of Art, 2023.

Lee Ufan (exhibition catalogue). Edited by Sam Bardaouil and Till Fellrath. Berlin: Hamburger Bahnhof and Nationalgalerie der Gegenwart, 2023.

Morley, Simon. World of Art: Modern Painting. New York: Thames & Hudson, 2023: 285, illustrated.

2022

Aquin, Stéphane, and Anne Reeve, eds. Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden: The Collection. New York: DelMonico Books, 2022: 383, illustrated.

Booth, David; Pesanti, Heather. Paradox Cove. Austin, Texas: David Booth, 2022.

2021

Ink Dreams: Selections from the Fondation INK Collection (exhibition catalogue). Texts by Elinor K. Cervone, Britta Erickson, Wan Kong, Stephen Little, and Celia Yang. Los Angeles: Los Angeles County Museum of Art; New York: Delmonico Books, 2021: 55, illustrated.

Lee Ufan Prints: 1970–2019 (exhibition catalogue). Texts by Lee Ufan. Tokyo: ABE Shuichi, 2021.

2020

Korean Art from 1953: Collision, Innovation, Interaction. Texts by Yeon Shim Chung, Sunjung Kim, Kimberly Chung and Keith B. Wagner. New York: Phaidon, 2020.

Gormley, Antony and Martin Gayford. Shaping the World: Sculpture from Prehistory to Now. London: Thames & Hudson, 2020: 368–369, illustrated.

STARS: Six Contemporary Artists from Japan to the World (exhibition catalogue). Texts by Kataoka Mami, Kondo Kenichi, Tsubaki Reiko, Alexandra Munroe, et al. Tokyo: Mori Art Museum and Bijutsu Shuppan-Sha Co., Ltd., 2020.

Lee Ufan: Open Dimension (exhibition catalogue). Edited by Ann Reeve; texts by Melissa Chiu, Miwako Tezuka, and Lee Ufan. Washington, D.C.: Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden; Smithsonian Books, 2020.

Maidment, Simon, ed. Triennial 2020. Melbourne, Victoria: National Gallery of Victoria, 2020: 164–167, illustrated.

2019

The Challenging of Infinite - Yves Klein, Lee Ufan, Ding Yi (exhibition catalogue). Shanghai: Power Station of Art; Shanghai Art and Literature Publishing House, 2019.

The Challenging Souls: Yves Klein, Lee Ufan, Ding Yi (exhibition catalogue). Shanghai: Power Station of Art; Shanghai Art and Literature Publishing House, 2019.

Lee Ufan (exhibition catalogue.) Text by Philip Larratt-Smith. New York: Pace Gallery, 2019.

Lee Ufan: Art of Encounter. Edited and interview by Hans Ulrich Obrist; texts by the artist. Rev. ed. London: Lisson Gallery, [2004] 2018.

Lee Ufan: Inhabiting Time (exhibition catalogue). Texts by Jean-Marie Gallais, Tatehata Akira. Interview with Lee Ufan. Metz, France: Centre Pompidou-Metz, 2019.

2018

Lee Ufan: Art Basel Unlimited (exhibition catalogue). New York: Pace Gallery, 2018.

2017

Chae-Duporge, Okyang. Lee Ufan: Untouched Space. Translated by Rachel Zerner. Paris: Éditions Cercle D’Art, 2017.

Chae-Duporge, Okyang. Lee Ufan: Espaces non-agis. Paris: Éditions Cercle D’Art, 2017.

Destination Art: 500 Artworks Worth the Trip. New York: Phaidon, 2018: 64, illustrated.

Lee: The Ha Jung-Woong Museum of Art’s Inaugural Exhibition (exhibition catalogue). Texts by Ha Jung-woong, Kim Hee-rang, Shigeo Chiba, et al. Gwangju, Korea: Gwangju Museum of Art, 2017.

Lee Ufan: Ceramics (digital exhibition catalogue). Text by Valérie Duponchelle. New York: Pace Gallery, 2017.

Lee Ufan chez Le Corbusie (exhibition catalogue). Texts by Marc Chauveau and Lee Ufan. Éveux, Rhone-Alpes, France and Paris: Couvent de la Tourette; Bernard Chauveau Publishing House, 2017.

Lee Ufan: Pressentiment (exhibition catalogue). Beaux Arts & Cie, Paris, 2017.

2016

Lee Ufan & Sėvres. Texts by Valérie Duponchelle. Interview by Yves Mirande. Sėvres, France: Cité de la céramique – Sèvres and Limoges, 2016.

Lee Ufan: Breath of Infinitude. Text by Lee Ufan. Paris: Éditions Dilecta, 2016.

Tate Modern: The Handbook. Edited by Matthew Gale. London: Tate Publishing, 2016: 203, illustrated.

2015

Dansaekhwa (exhibition brochure). Text by Yongwoo Lee. Brussels: Boghossian Foundation, 2015.

Dansaekhwa (exhibition catalogue). Edited by Yongwoo Lee. Seoul and New York: Kukje Gallery; Tina Kim Gallery, 2015.

Dansaekhwa with Lee Ufan (exhibition catalogue). Edited by Yongwoo Lee. Seoul and New York: Kukje Gallery; Tina Kim Gallery, 2015.

From All Sides: Tansaekhwa on Abstraction (exhibition catalogue). Text by Joan Kee. Los Angeles: Blum and Poe, 2015: plates 84–91, illustrated.

Korean Abstract Painting – 45th Anniversary of Gallery Hyundai (exhibition catalogue). Texts by Kwangsu Oh and Misook Song. Seoul: Gallery Hyundai, 2015.

Lee Ufan Museum. Texts by Soichiro Fukutake and Lee Ufan. Kagawa, Japan Fukutake Foundation, 2015.

Lee Ufan: One Man Show (exhibition catalogue). Text by Olga Bakeeva. Moscow: Gary Tatintsian Gallery, 2015.

Lee Ufan (exhibition catalogue). Text by Barbara Rose. New York: Pace Gallery, 2015.

Lee Ufan (exhibition catalogue). Texts by Nicholas Logsdail and Simon Morley. London: Lisson Gallery, 2015.

Lee Ufan (exhibition catalogue). Text by Lee Ufan. Tokyo: Kaikai Kiki Gallery, 2015.

Lee Ufan: From Point, From Line, From Wind (exhibition catalogue). Interview by Alfred Pacquement. London: Pace London: 2015.

Mono-ha (exhibition catalogue). Texts by Achille Bonito Oliva et al. Milan: Fondazione Mudima, 2015.

2014

Formes Simples (exhibition catalogue). Metz and Paris: Éditions du Centre Pompidou-Metz; Fondation d’entreprise Hermès, 2014: 70, 206, illustrated.

Ilgen, Fré. Artist? The Hypothesis of Bodiness: A New Approach to Understanding the Artist and Art. Tübingen, Germany: Ernst Wasmuth Verlag GmbH & Co, 2014: 158, 162, 199, illustrated.

Lee Ufan, Versailles (exhibition catalogue). Texts by Alfred Pacquement and Tatehata Akira. Paris: Publication de la Réunion des Musées Natioinaux – Grand Palais, 2014.

Lee Ufan: The Stone Hunter. Photographs by Fayçal Zaouali. Text by Gino Di Maggio. Milan: Foundazione Mudima, 2014.

Unlimited (exhibition catalogue). Text by Marc Spiegler. Ostfildern, Germany: Hatje Cantz Verlag, 2014: 84–5, illustrated.

2013

Kee, Joan. Contemporary Korean Art: Tansaekhwa and the Urgency of Method. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2013: illustrated.

Lee Ufan. Texts by Michel Enrici and Ukai Satoshi. Paris: Actes Sud, 2013.

Lee, Ufan. L’art de la résonance. Paris: Beaux-Arts de Paris édeitions, Ministère de la Culture et de la Communication, 2013.

Mingei: Are You Here? (exhibition catalogue). Texts by Nicolas Trembley and Yuko Kikuchi. London: Pace London, 2013: illustrated.

Parallel Views: Italian and Japanese Art from the 1950s, 60s, and 70s (exhibition catalogue). Edited by Allan Schwartzman. Dallas: Damiani and The Warehouse, 2014: 322–9, illustrated.

Personal Structures: Time, Space, Existence (exhibition catalogue). Texts by Karlyn De Jongh and Sarah Gold. Leiden: Global Art Affairs Foundation, [2013]: 191, 192–193, illustrated.

Prima Materia (exhibition catalogue). Milan: Electa, 2013.

2012

Art as Magic: Visionary Artists and Their Inner Supernatural World (exhibition catalogue), Nagoya, Japan: Aichi Prefectural Museum of Art, 2012: 81, illustrated.

Chong, Doryun. Tokyo 1955–1970: A New Avant-Garde (exhibition catalogue). Texts by Michio Hayashi, Mika Yoshitake, Miryam Sas et al. New York: The Museum of Modern Art, 2012: 120, plate 111, illustrated.

Mono-Ha (exhibition catalogue). Text by Mika Yoshitake. Los Angeles: Blum & Poe, 2012: plate 19, 20, 30-35, illustrated.

Requiem for the Sun: The Art of Mono-Ha (exhibition catalogue). Text by Mika Yoshitake. Los Angeles: Blum & Poe, 2012.

2011

Chikako, Takaoka. The Complete Catalogue of Ohara Museum of Art (I): Foreign Artists. Okayama, Japan: Ohara Museum of Art, 2011: 53, illustrated.

Lee, Ufan. “Robots and Painters.” In Painting. London: Whitechapel Ventures Limited, 2011: 63–65.

Lee Ufan: Marking Infinity (exhibition catalogue). Texts by Alexandra Munroe, Tatehata Akira, Mika Yoshitake and the artist. New York: Guggenheim Museum Publications, 2011.

Okyang, Chae-Duporge. Dialogue: Lee Ufan. Seoul: Gallery Hyundai, 2011.

Tricks & Humor (exhibition catalogue). Japan: Yokosuka Museum of Art, 2011: 83, illustrated.

2010

50 Years at Pace (exhibition catalogue). Texts by Arne Glimcher et al. New York: The Pace Gallery, 2010: illustrated.

Gold, Sarah, Karlyn De Jongh and Peter Lodermeyer. Personal Structures: Time-Space-Existence. Cologne: DuMont Buchverlag, 2010: 222–225, illustrated.

Lee, Ufan. L’Atelier de Lee Ufan. Interview with Renaud.Siegmann. Paris: Thalia Édition, 2010.

Lee Ufan Museum. Texts by Silke von Berswordt-Wallrabe, Tadao Ando and the artist. Kagawa, Japan: Naoshima Fukutake Art Museum Foundation, 2010.

Painting: Process and Expansion. From the 1950s to the Present Day (exhibition catalogue). Text by Edelbert Köb. Cologne: Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther König, 2010: 304, illustrated.

Tokyo Gallery + BTAP: 1950–2010. Tokyo and Beijing: Tokyo Gallery+BTAP, 2010.

2009

Art of Our Time. Vol. 2, 1999–2008. Tokyo: The Japan Art Association, 2009.

Godfrey, Tony. Painting Today. London: Phaidon Press Limited, 2009: illustrated.

Lee Ufan: Peintures et Sculptures (exhibition catalogue). Paris: Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac, 2009: illustrated.

Lee Ufan: Sculpture (exhibition catalogue). Texts by Henri-Francois Debailleux and Lee Ufan. Seoul: Kukje Galley, 2009.

Personal Structures in New York (exhibition catalogue). New York: Bertha and Karl Leubsdorf Art Gallery, Hunter College, 2009.

Vervoordt, Axel, ed. In-Finitum (exhibition catalogue). Ghent: MER Paper Kunsthalle, 2009.

2008

Dictionnaire International de la Sculpture Moderne & Contemporaine. Paris: Éditions du Regard, 2008: 318–19, illustrated.

Kawamura Memorial Museum of Art: Volume I. Tokyo: DIC Corporation, 2008: 198–99, illustrated.

Lee Ufan (exhibition catalogue). Texts by Philippe Dagen and Pierre-Yves Desaive. Ghent, Belgium: Snoeck Publishers, 2008.

Lee Ufan (exhibition catalogue). Text by Silke von Berswordt-Wallrabe. New York: PaceWildenstein, 2008.

Lee Ufan: The Art of Encounter (exhibition catalogue). Translated by Stanley N. Anderson. Revised edition of the 2004 book edited by Jean Fisher with additional texts. London: Lisson Gallery, 2008.

2007

Berswordt-Wallrabe, Siolke von. Lee Ufan: Encounters with the Other. Göttingen, Germany: Steidl, 2007.

Gautherot, Franck and Kim Seung-Duk. Elastic Taboos: Within the Korean World of Contemporary Art (exhibition catalogue). Vienna: Kunsthalle Wien, 2007.

Lee Ufan (exhibition catalogue). Texts by Henri-François, Lóránd Hegyi, and Lee Ufan. Milan: Fondazione Mudima, 2007.

Lee Ufan: Resonance (exhibition catalogue). Text by Achille Bonito Oliva. Milan: Fondazione Mudima, 2007.

What is Mono-ha? (exhibition catalogue). Tokyo: Tokyo Gallery and Beijing Tokyo Art Projects, 2007.

2006

The Gwangju Biennale 2006: Fever Variations (exhibition catalogue). Jung-gu, Korea: Designhouse Co., 2006.

2005

Lee Ufan (exhibition catalogue). Text by Lorand Hegyi and Okyang Chae-Duporge. Paris: Communic’art, 2005.

Lee Ufan: The Art of Margins (exhibition catalogue). Texts by Lee Ufan, Kasiwagi Tomoh, Kuraishi Shino and Okyang Chae-Duporge. Tokyo: Yokohama Museum of Art, 2005.

Reconsidering Mono-ha (exhibition catalogue). Text by Nakai Yasuyuki and Minemura Toshiaki. Osaka: The National Museum of Art, 2005.

2004

Fisher, Jean, ed. Lee Ufan: The Art of Encounter (exhibition catalogue). London: Lisson Gallery, 2004.

Lee Ufan: Peinture, Sculpture (exhibition catalogue). Texts by Daniel Reibel, Lee Ufan and Roselyne Marsaud Perrodin. Alsace, France: Espace d'Art Contemporation Fernet Branca, 2004.

Rimpa (exhibition catalogue). Tokyo: National Museum of Modern Art, 2004.

Tosatto, Guy and Cécile Brilloit. L’art au future antérieur: Liliane et Michel Durand-Dessert, l’engagement d’une galerie 1975–2004 (exhibition catalogue). France: Musée du Grenoble, 2004.

2003

Happiness: A Survival Guide for Art + Life (exhibition catalogue). Tokyo: Mori Art Museum, 2003.

Lee Ufan: The Search for Encounter (exhibition catalogue). Texts by Lee Joon, Sakai Tadayasu, and Roselyne Marsaud Perrodin. Seoul: Samsung Museum of Modern Art, 2003.

2002

Fréchuret, Maurice. Les années 70: l’art en cause (exhibition catalogue). Paris: Réunion des musées nationaux, 2002.

Seear, Lynne. APT 2002: Asia-Pacific Triennial of Contemporary Art (exhibition catalogue). Brisbane, Australia: Queensland Art Gallery, 2002.

Lee Ufan: Un Art de la Rencontre. Arles, France: Actes Sud, 2002.

2001

Century City: Art and Culture in the Modern Metropolis (exhibition catalogue). Texts by Reiko Tomii, Donna de Salvo, Lutz Becker et al. London: Tate Publications, 2001.

Hedendaagse kunst uit Japan: 1980 tot heden (exhibition catalogue). Text by Jaap Bremer. Otterlo, The Netherlands: Kröller-Müller Museum, 2001.

Lee Ufan: Gemälde 1973 bis 2001 (exhibition catalogue). Texts by Dieter Ronte, Christoph Schreier, Tsutomu Mizusawa, Yusuke Nakahara and Irmtraud Schaarschmidt-Richter. Germany: Kunstmuseum Bonn, 2001.

Monoha: School of Things (exhibition catalogue). Text by Simon Groom, Lee Ufan, and Tatehata Akira. Cambridge: Kettle’s Yard, 2001.

Oliva, Achille Bonito. Le Tribú dell’Arte (exhibition catalogue). Text by Yasuyki Nakai. Milan: Skira, 2001.

Stopped on the Way. Tokyo: Syoshi Yamada, 2001.

2000

The Art of Yohaku. Tokyo: Misuzu Shobo, 2000.

The Works of Kenji Miyazawa: Acorns and Wildcat. Tokyo: Monogatari Bunka no Kai, 2000 (1983): illustrated.

1999

Lee Ufan (exhibition catalogue). Text by Lee Ufan. Tokyo: Tokyo Gallery, 1999.

Scheps, Marc, Yilmaz Dziewior and Barbara M. Thiemann. Kunst-Welten im Dialog: von Gauguin zur globalen Gegenwart (exhibition catalogue). Cologne: DuMont, 1999.

1998

Korean Monochromism: Methods, Ideas and Spirits (exhibition catalogue). Text by Lee Dong-suk. Busan, Korea: Busan Metropolitan Art Museum, 1998.

Koreanische Positionen der Gegenwart (exhibition catalogue). Munich: Chorus, 1998.

Lee Ufan: Bilder und Skulpturen (exhibition catalogue). Texts by Ursula Grzechca-Mohr and Irmtraud Schaarschmidt-Richter. Frankfurt: Städtische Galerie STÄDEL, 1998.

Lee Ufan: Printworks 1970–1998 (exhibition catalogue). Texts by Yusuke Nakahara, Yuichiro Asakura, Masakai Ono et al. Tokyo: Mitaka City Gallery of Art, 1998.

Sarajevo 2000 (exhibition catalogue). Text by Sung-dug Kim. Vienna: Museum Moderner Kunst Stiftung Ludwig, 1998.

1997

Made in France 1947–1997 (exhibition catalogue). Paris: Musée Nationale d’Art Moderne, Centre Georges Pompidou, 1997.

Lee Ufan (exhibition catalogue). Texts by Michel Deguy, Roland Rocht, Daniel Abadie, Michel Nuridsany, and Henri-François, Debailleux. Paris: Galerie Nationale du Jeu de Paume, 1997.

Trini, Tommaso. Lee Ufan: Anche il vuoto lavora (exhibition catalogue). Milan: Lorenzelli Arte, 1997.

1996

Carrein, Catherine. Japon 1970: Matière et Perception, Le Mono-Ha et la Recherche des Fondements de l’Art (exhibition catalogue). Saint-Etienne, France: Musée d’Art Moderne, 1996.

Fisher, Jean, ed. Selected Writings by Lee U-fan 1970–96 (exhibition catalogue). London: Lisson Gallery, 1996.

Poitevin, J-C. Lee Ufan (exhibition catalogue). Busan, Korea: Kong Gan Gallery, 1996.

1995

Lee Ufan (exhibition catalogue). Text by Irmtraud Schaarschmidt-Richter and Rolf Wedewer. Cologne: Wienand, 1995.

Lee Ufan (exhibition catalogue). Tokyo: Tokyo Art Gallery, 1995.

Matter and Perception 1970: Mono-Ha and the Search for Fundamentals (exhibition catalogue). Japan: Yomiuri Shimbun, Japan Association of Art Museums, 1995.

Movement of a Line—II (exhibition catalogue). Tokyo: Base Gallery, 1995: 25, illustrated.

Selected Works from Kawamura Memorial Museum of Art. Sakura, Japan: Kawamura Memorial Museum of Art, 1995: 150, illustrated.

1994

Bang, LimYoung and Uryung Lee. Lee Ufan (exhibition catalogue). Seoul: National Museum of Contemporary Art, 1994.

Lee Ufan (exhibition catalogue). Text by Gino Di Maggio, Achille Bonito Olivia, and Lee Ufan. Milan: Fundazione Mudima, 1994.

Minemura, Toshiaki. Lee Ufan. Seoul: Gallery Hyundai, 1994.

1993

Nuridsany, Michel and Arata Tani. Lee Ufan. Tokyo: Toshi Shuppan, 1993.

Sakai, Tadayasu and Tsutomu Mizusawa. Lee Ufan (exhibition catalogue). Kamakura, Japan: Kanagawa Prefectural Museum of Modern Art, 1993.

1992

Ansichtssachen (exhibition catalogue). Bochum, Germany: Galerie M, 1992.

Bertozzi, Barbara. Avanguardie Giapponesi degli anni 70 (exhibition catalogue). Bologna: Carte Segrete, 1992.

Biggs, Lewis. Working with Nature: Traditional Thought in Contemporary Art from Korea (exhibition catalogue). Liverpool: Tate Gallery, 1992.

1991

Koplos, Janet. Contemporary Japanese Sculpture. New York: Abbeville Press, 1991.

Lee Ufan (exhibition catalogue). Seoul: Inkong Gallery, 1991.

Lee Ufan (exhibition catalogue). Tokyo: Gallery Ueda, 1991.

Lee Ufan (exhibition catalogue). Text by Arata Tani. Tokyo: Hara Museum of Contemporary Art, 1991.

Lee Ufan: With Winds ’91 at Milano (exhibition catalogue). Text by Flaminio Gualdoni. Milan: Lorenzelli Arte, 1991.

Yamawaki, Kazuo. Seven Artists: Aspects of Contemporary Japanese Art (exhibition catalogue). California: Los Angeles-Nagoya Sister City Affiliation, 1991.

Lee Ufan (exhibition catalogue). Busan, Korea: Space Gallery, 1991.

1990

Gercke, Hans and Sigrid Niederhausen. Blau: Farbe der Ferne (exhibition catalogue). Heidelberg, Germany: Wunderhorn, 1990.

Kenji Miyazawa 50th Anniversary. Tokyo: Tēpu Publication, 1990: illustrated.

Lee Ufan (exhibition catalogue). Seoul: Gallery Hyundai, 1990.

Tatehata, Akira. Lee Ufan (exhibition catalogue). Tokyo: Kamakura Gallery, 1990.

1989

Effets de Miroir (exhibition catalogue). Ivry-sur-Seine : Information arts plastiques Ile-de-France (IAPIF),, 1989.

Lee Ufan, With Winds: Paintings 1986/88 (exhibition catalogue). Bochum, Germany: Galerie M, 1989.

Restany, Pierre. Croisement de Signes (exhibition catalogue). Paris: Institut du Monde Arabe, 1989.

Silva, Arturo. Lee Ufan: With Winds (exhibition catalogue). Japan: Tokyo Gallery and Gallery Ueda, 1989.

20th Biennale Middelheim-Japan (exhibition catalogue). Text by Freddy de Vree and Toshiaki Minemura. Antwerp, Belgium: Europalia, 1989.

1988

Glibota, Ante. Olympiad of Art (exhibition catalogue). Korea: Seoul Olympic Organizing Committee, 1988.

Kenji Miyazawa Fairytales 10. Tokyo: The Culture Association of Storytellers, 1988: illustrated.

Lee Ufan: Ex Oriente (exhibition catalogue). Texts by Pierre Restany, Elena Pontiggia, and the artist. Milan: Padiglione d’ Arte Contemporanea, 1988.

Lee Ufan: Traces of Sensibility and Logic (exhibition catalogue). Texts by Toshiaki Mineumura, Masahiro Aoki and Kiyoshi Okada. Japan: Museum of Fine Arts, Gifu, 1988.

Time Flicker (exhibition catalogue). Tokyo: Ozawa Shoten, 1988.

1987

Lee Ufan (exhibition catalogue). Seoul: Gallery Hyundai, 1987.

1986

Contemporary Japanese Calligraphy and Painting (exhibition catalogue). Prague: Galerie Nationale, 1986.

Japon des Avants-Gardes 1910–1970 (exhibition catalogue). Paris: Editions du Centre Pompidou, 1986.

Lee Ufan (exhibition catalogue). Tokyo: Tokyo Gallery, 1986.

The Printworks of Lee Ufan 1970–1986. Tokyo: Shirota Gallery, 1986.

Seoul-Paris (exhibition catalogue). Seoul: Fondation culturelle franco-coréenne-Alliance française, 1986.

Lee Ufan. Texts by Lee Ufan. Tokyo: Bijutsu Shuppansha, 1986.

1985

Otoba, Satoshi. 40 Years of Japanese Contemporary Art: 10th Anniversary New Building (exhibition catalogue). Japan: Tokyo Metropolitan Art Museum, 1985.

Tōno, Yoshiaki. Artist’s Books: Japan (exhibition catalogue). New York and Tokyo: Franklin Furnace Gallery and Fuji Television Gallery, 1985.

1984

Lee Ufan (exhibition catalogue). Seoul: Gallery Hyondai, 1984.

Wiesbadener Skulpturentage (exhibition catalogue). Wiesbaden, Germany: Stadtpark, 1984.

1983

Lee Ufan (exhibition catalogue). Tokyo: Tokyo Gallery, 1983.

Tokyo Gallery in London: Minoru Kawabata, Lee U-Fan and Yoshishige Saito (exhibition catalogue). London: Juda Rowan Gallery, 1983.

1982

Honisch, Dieter. Kunst wird Material (exhibition catalogue). Berlin: Nationalgalerie, Staatliche Museen, 1982.

Japanese Contemporary Art Exhibition (exhibition catalogue). Tokyo: Japan Art & Cultural Association, 1982.

Minemura, Toshiaki. Zeichnung heute : 2. Internationale Jugendtriennale + Meister der Zeichnung (exhibition catalogue). Germany: Kunsthalle Nürnberg, 1982.

1980

Hohl, Reinhold. Skulptur im 20 Jahrhundert (exhibition catalogue). Basel: Werner Druck, 1980.

Lee Ufan (exhibition catalogue). Tokyo: Tokyo Gallery, 1980.

Nordgren, Sune and Toshiaki Minemura. Japanskt Kalejdoskop (exhibition catalogue). Åhus, Sweden: Kalejdoskop, 1980.

1979

Lee Ufan: Relatum Series 1969–79. Nagoya, Japan: Gallery Takagi, 1979.

1978

Focus 78 (exhibition catalogue). Paris: Centre Culturel du Marais, 1978.

Lee Ufan (exhibition catalogue). Seoul: Gallery Hyundai, 1978.

Love, Joseph. The World of Lee Ufan (exhibition catalogue). Germany: Kunsthalle Düsseldorf, 1978.

z.B. Sculpture (exhibition catalogue). Texts by Alexander v. Berswordt-Wallrabe, Max Imdahl, Margit Petzold, and Clara Weyergraf. Frankfurt: Städtische Galerie im Städelsches Kunstinstitut, 1978.

1977

Schneckenburger, Manfred. Documenta VI: Kassel 1977 (exhibition catalogue). Kassel, Germany: P. Dierichs, 1977.

Lee Ufan (exhibition catalogue). Text by Yusuke Nakahara. Nagoya: Sakura Gallery, 1977.

Lee Ufan (exhibition catalogue). Tokyo: Tokyo Gallery, 1977.

1976

Love, Joseph. Lee Ufan (exhibition catalogue). Antwerp, Belgium: Galerie Spectrum, 1976.

1975

3rd Triennale India (exhibition catalogue). New Delhi: Lalit Kala Akademi Rabindra Bhavan, 1975.

White (exhibition catalogue). Texts by Lee Ufan and Yusuke Nakahara. Tokyo: Tokyo Gallery, 1976.

1974

Lee Ufan. Humleaek: Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, 1974.

1973

The Contemporary Art Exhibition of Japan: 20 Years of Contemporary in Retrospective (exhibition catalogue). Tokyo: Mainichi Shimbun sha, 1973.

XII Biennale de São Paulo (exhibition catalogue). Brazil: São Paulo Biennale, 1973.

Lee Ufan (exhibition catalogue). Text by Nakahara Yusuke. Japan: Tokyo Gallery, 1973.

1971

The Search for Encounter. Tokyo: Tabata Shoten, 1971.

7th Biennale de Paris (exhibition catalogue). Florence: Centro Di, 1971.

1969

X Biennale de São Paulo 1969 (exhibition catalogue). Brazil: São Paulo Biennale, 1969.

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