Michael Joo is a New York based artist. He uses sculpture, performance and installation in his work, as well as a combination of scientific language and complex structures that exemplify and parody the potential of form. Joo received his BFA from Washington University in 1989, followed by an MFA in Sculpture from Yale University in 1991. His artwork is included in the collections of the Guggenheim Museum, New York; the Museum of Modern Art, New York; the Whitney Museum of American Art; Walker Art Centre, Minneapolis; Denver Art Museum; Israel Museum, Jerusalem; UCLA Hammer Museum, Los Angeles and the Moderna Museet, Stockholm. Joo has shown extensively in exhibitions worldwide, including the Venice Biennale, 1993 and 2001; Serpentine Gallery, London, 1994 and 2006; Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago; Johannesburg Biennial, 1995; Whitney Biennial, New York, 2000; Walker Art Center, Minneapolis; the Bohen Foundation New York, 2005; Rodin Gallery, Seoul, 2006; Denver Art Museum, 2006 and the Gwangju Biennale, South Korea, 2006, where he was co-recipient of the Grand Prize for his installation, “Bodhi Obfuscatus.” Joo represented South Korea (along with Doho Suh) in the Venice Biennale in 2001. In 2003, Joo had a survey exhibition at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology with accompanying catalog. A monograph of his work was published by Other Criteria in 2007. Joo recently opened a two person exhibition at Haunch of Venison Gallery in Berlin, and installed a new sculpture in the Palazzo Franchetti for the Venice Biennale, 2011. Upcoming exhibitions include the IVAM, Spain, and the new Asia Society building in Hong Kong. He teaches at Columbia University and Bard College MFA programs, and lives and works in Red Hook, Brooklyn.
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EventsAlchemical Reaction: The Making of Michael Joo's '7 Sins'
The LeRoy Neiman Gallery’s current online exhibition showcases the 2016 collaboration between Visual Arts mentor Michael Joo Professor Nathan Catlin ’12 and students at the Neiman Center to realize his groundbreaking series of silvered printscreens, entitled 7 Sins.
Sound Art
Sound Art Students Collaborate in ‘Sensory Meridian’ Exhibit by Mentor Michael Joo
Sounds Art students Yixuan Shao and Avishag Cohen Rodrigues collaborate on Visual Arts Mentor Michael Joo’s a Sensory Meridian in Chicago, Illinois.
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'Battleship Potemkin' Exhibition Features Art by Columbia Faculty and Alumni
Battleship Potemkin, an exhibit curated by alumnus?Rafael Domenech?'19, runs June 28 – August 24, 2019 at the Fredric Snitzer Gallery in Miami, Florida.
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