January 2012
Pouran Jinchi at Asian Art Museum, San Francisco, May 18 - September 2, 2012
Phantoms of Asia: Contemporary Awakens the Past
May 18 - September 2, 2012
Asian Art Museum, San Francisco, CA
Guest curated by Mami Kataoka (Chief Curator, Mori Art Museum, Tokyo)
with Allison Harding (Curator of Contemporary Art, Asian Art Museum, San Francisco)
For more information visit the museum website:
http://www.asianart.org/Phantoms-of-Asia-contemporary-exhibition.htm
January 2012
IL Lee on Cover of “Stolen Air: A Selection of Poems by Osip Mandelstam” Published by HarperCollins
IL Lee's BLW-002 is on the cover of the forthcoming book:
Stolen Air: A Selection of Poems by Osip Mandelstam
by Christian Wiman
with an introduction by Ilya Kaminsky
Published by HarperCollins, New York. Publication Date: March 2012.
November 2011
Gwenn Thomas at Museum of Modern Art, Warsaw
Accomplices. The photographer and the artist around 1970
November 18, 2011 - January 17, 2012
Museum of Modern Art, Warsaw, Poland
Curated by Maria Matuszkiewicz
Participating artists: Hollis Frampton - Carl Andre, Peter Hujar - Paul Thek, Eustachy Kossakowski - Edward Krasiński, János Vető - Tibor Hajas, Žarko Vijatović - Tomislav Gotovac, Gwenn Thomas - Joan Jonas, Gwenn Thomas - Jack Smith, Babette Mangolte - Yvonne Rainer, Shunk-Kender - Pier 18.
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September 2011
API’s New Space
Art Projects International (API) is pleased to announce the inauguration of new ground floor exhibition space at 434 Greenwich Street (at Vestry Street) in the historic district of TriBeCa in New York City. The inaugural show in the new space features IL LEE: Monoprints, Editions and Paintings and is on view through December 22, 2011.
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September 2011
Zheng Xuewu featured in Printmaking: A Complete Guide to Materials & Processes
Printmaking: A Complete Guide to Materials & Processes
by Beth Grabowski and Bill Fick
Published by Prentice Hall
Excerpt–
Zheng Xuewu's works combine the traditional and the modern as they draw on a jumble of symbols that saturate Chinese urban visual vocabulary. Zheng prints Chinese and Arabic numerals and glyphs, newspaper types, stamps, and seal imprints, then paints back into the negative spaces in the images.
September 2011
Richard Tsao at Gyeongnam Art Museum, Korea
Richard Tsao in the following group exhibition:
American Chambers
Post 90s American Art
September 8 - November 27, 2011
Gyeongnam Art Museum
Changwon, Korea
August 2011
Conversation with IL Lee - Asia Art Archive in America
A dialogue about the work and experiences of Il Lee with Jane DeBevoise (Chair, Asia Art Archive), Jung Lee Sanders (Director, Art Projects International) and Ali Van (AAA-A Project Coordinator) on the occasion of the exhibition Representation/Abstraction in Korean Art at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York (Nov. 23, 2010 – Mar. 20, 2011).
ReadMore: http://www.aaa-a.org/2011/08/03/conversation-with-il-lee/
April 2011
Gwenn Thomas in 70 Years of Abstract Painting – Excerpts
70 Years of Abstract Painting – Excerpts
April 6 – May 20, 2011
Jason McCoy Gallery
New York, NY
April 2011
Exploration 11: Gwenn Thomas
We are pleased to announce the publication of the following:
Exploration 11: Gwenn Thomas
Text by Saul Ostrow
Published by Galerie Haffemann, Wiesbaden, Germany, 2011
This publication features Gwenn Thomas' work on canvas.
For more information please contact Art Projects International at or 212.343.2599.
April 2011
IL Lee at the Dallas Art Fair
Dallas Art Fair
April 8 - 10, 2011
Fashion Industry Gallery
1807 Ross Avenue, Dallas, TX
Booths:
Gebert Contemporary, Booth F8
Holly Johnson Gallery
http://www.dallasartfair.com
March 2011
Pouran Jinchi in Shanghai
Pouran Jinchi in the following group exhibition:
Third Eye / I
Iranian Contemporary Art
Curated by Raul Zamudio
March 17 - April 17, 2011
Other Gallery
Shanghai, China
February 2011
The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston Acquires Pouran Jinchi’s Work
Art Projects International is pleased to announce that the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, recently acquired a large-scale work on paper from Pouran Jinchi's Tajvid Red series for the museum's permanent collection.
Works by Pouran Jinchi were exhibited at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, as part of the exhibition Light of the Sufis: The Mystical Arts of Islam in 2010.
February 2011
Art Projects International receives Award of Excellence
On January 26, 2011, at its 40th Annual Award Celebration held in San Francisco, Bookbuilders West honored Art Projects International with an Award of Excellence in design and production for the publication IL LEE – New Vision: Ballpoint Drawings. The catalogue features color reproductions of works by IL LEE with an essay by Edward Leffingwell. Published on the occasion of IL LEE's critically acclaimed exhibition at the Crow Collection of Asian Art in 2010, the catalogue was published by Art Projects International (New York) and produced by Wilsted & Taylor (Oakland, CA).
Bookbuilders West, a nonprofit association founded in San Francisco in 1969, is an educational and professional resource for publishing professionals.
January 2011
Gallery Talk with IL Lee at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
Gallery Talk
February 4, 2011, 6:00 p.m.
The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Arts of Korea Gallery, 2nd floor
This Gallery Talk is presented in conjunction with the special installation of lL Lee's works in Representation/Abstraction in Korean Art at The Metropolitan Museum of Art. IL Lee will join the Met curator Soyoung Lee for a lively conversation in the Arts of Korea Gallery, 2nd floor.
Free with Museum admission.
For more information visit http://www.metmuseum.org/exhibitions/listings/2010/representation-abstraction
January 2011
Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art Acquires Pouran Jinchi’s Work
Art Projects International is pleased to announce that the Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art, Cornell University, recently acquired Pouran Jinchi's work from her Tajvid Series for the museum's permanent collection.
The work was exhibited at the Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art at Cornell University as part of the exhibition Tarjama/Translation: Contemporary Art from the Middle East, Central Asia, and Its Diasporas.
November 2010
IL Lee at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
Representation/Abstraction in Korean Art
November 23, 2010 - March 20, 2011
The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Arts of Korea Gallery, 2nd Floor
A special installation of Il Lee's new large-scale work on canvas accompanied by a ballpoint pen work on paper is on view in the Arts of Korea Gallery at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, November 23, 2010 through March 20, 2011.
For more information about this show click here for a direct link to the museum website.
November 2010
Jian-Jun Zhang at the Kunstmuseum Bern, Switzerland
Chinese Window: Big Draft Shanghai - Contemporary Art from the Sigg Collection
November 19, 2010 - February 6, 2011
Kunstmuseum Bern
Bern, Switzerland
For more information about this show click here for a direct link to the museum website.
August 2010
Pouran Jinchi at Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art
Tarjama/Translation
Contemporary Art from the Middle East, Central Asia, and Its Diasporas
August 14 - October 3, 2010
Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art
Cornell University, Ithaca, NY
http://museum.cornell.edu/exhibitions/tarjama-translation.html
June 2010
IL Lee at Holly Johnson Gallery, Dallas
INK, Inc.
June 19 - August 14, 2010
Holly Johnson Gallery
Dallas, TX
Also featuring John Adelman, Isabel Albrecht, Astrid Bowlby, Ernesto Caivano, Todd Camplin, Jacob El Hanani, and Linn Meyers.
May 2010
IL Lee Solo Exhibition at the Crow Collection of Asian Art, Dallas
New Vision: Ballpoint Drawings by IL LEE
May 22 - September 26, 2010
Crow Collection of Asian Art
Dallas, Texas
The exhibition marks the first Dallas museum exhibition for IL Lee, a Korean-born New York artist. Presented in LinkAsia—the newly dedicated gallery for contemporary work—the exhibition will include 8 large-scale works and 50 small works on paper created from 1997-2010. The largest of the works is a monumental and visually arresting work entitled BL-095 (2008), created exclusively with ballpoint pen on a 7-foot by 12-foot canvas.
The exhibition is accompanied by a catalogue with an essay by Edward Leffingwell.
For exhibition information contact:
Carrie Ford at T: 214-271-4485, C: 512-663-6798, or
For further materials on IL LEE contact:
Art Projects International at 212-343-2599 or
May 2010
Pouran Jinchi at Museum of Fine Arts, Houston
Light of the Sufis: The Mystical Arts of Islam
May 16 - August 8, 2010
Museum of Fine Arts, Houston
Houston, TX
Art Projects International is pleased to announce that works by Pouran Jinchi will be in Light of the Sufis: The Mystical Arts of Islam at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston from May 16 to August 8, 2010. The exhibition was organized by Ladan Akbarnia, Curator of Islamic Art of the Brooklyn Museum where it was originally exhibited in 2009. The expanded Houston presentation is coordinated by Francesca Leoni.
The exhibition is accompanied by an exhibition catalogue by Ladan Akbarnia with Francesca Leoni, published by MFAH and distributed by Yale Press.
For more information on Pouran Jinchi, please contact 212-343-2599 or .
March 2010
IL Lee in Architecture and Abstraction at Gensler, New York
Architecture and Abstraction: Building Images Real and Imagined
Through June 4, 2010
Gensler, Rockefeller Center
New York, NY
March 2010
Pouran Jinchi featured in the book Art of the Middle East
Art of the Middle East:
Modern and Contemporary Art of the Arab World and Iran
By Saeb Eigner, foreword by Zaha Hadid
Merrell Publishers, London, 2010
Pouran Jinchi is featured in the book along with an image of work from her Tajvid Series.
For more information please contact Art Projects International at or 212.343.2599.
February 2010
IL Lee at Dallas Art Fair
Dallas Art Fair
February 5-7, 2010
Fashion Industry Gallery
1807 Ross Avenue, Dallas, TX
Booth: F10 / Gebert Contemporary
http://www.dallasartfair.com
January 2010
Pouran Jinchi Solo Exhibition in Dubai, UAE
Pouran Jinchi solo exhibition:
Pouran Jinchi: Ritual Imprint
January 21 - February 25, 2010
The Third Line
Dubai, UAE
December 2009
Contemporary Korean Art in New York
Faces & Facts: Contemporary Korean Art in New York
December 3 - February 19, 2010
Organized by Korean Culture Service NY
Various opening dates and venues
For detailed information: http://www.koreanculture.org
Works by IL Lee and Tchah-Sup Kim will be on view in the Abstraction Now section of the exhibition at Gallery Korea at the Korean Culture Service NY, 460 Park Avenue, 6th Fl, New York, NY.
Opening reception December 3, 6-8pm.
Works by Myong Hi Kim and Jean Shin will be on view in the Into the Life section of the exhibition at the Sylvia Wald and Po Kim Art Gallery, 417 Lafayette Street, 4th Fl, New York, NY.
Opening reception December 10, 6-8pm.
In addition, works by IL Lee, Tchah-Sup Kim and Jean Shin are currently on view in
Paper and Process 2 at Art Projects International, New York.
December 2009
Brooklyn Museum Acquires Pouran Jinchi’s Prayer Stone 5
Art Projects International is pleased to announce that the Brooklyn Museum recently acquired Pouran Jinchi's Prayer Stone 5 for the museum's permanent collection. Prayer Stone 5 was first exhibited at the Brooklyn Museum early this year as part of the exhibition Light of the Sufis: The Mystical Arts of Islam, and will travel to the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston in May 2010.
November 2009
Tchah-Sup Kim: Lee In-Sung Artist Award Exhibition
Tchah-Sup Kim: Lee In-Sung Artist Award Exhibition
November 2009
Mesena Hall
Daegu, Korea
October 2009
Gwenn Thomas in Berlin
Jack Smith: Cologne, 1974. Photographs by Gwenn Thomas
October 10 - November 1, 2009
Exile
Berlin, Germany
http://thisisexile.com/project_smith.html
September 2009
Jian-Jun Zhang in Shanghai
History in the Making: Shanghai 1979-2009
September 10 - October 10, 2009
No. 436 Jumen Rd
Shanghai, China
September 2009
IL Lee at Texas State University
IL Lee in the following group exhibition:
On, Of or About: 50 paper works
Curated by Timothy Woolsey and Mary Mikel Stump
September 22 - October 22, 2009
Texas State University
San Marcos, Texas
Participating artists: DL Alvarez, Jaq Belcher, Joe Biel, Astrid Bowlby, Val Britton, Lynne Clibanoff, Annabel Daou, Louise Despont, Brian Dettmer, Leonardo Drew, Will Duty, Adam Fowler, Jacob El Hanani, Roland Flexner, Sabine Friesicke, Alexander Gorlizki, Victoria Haven, Gloria Ortiz-Hernandez, Christine Hiebert, Kristiina Lahde, Jayne Lawrence, IL Lee, Mona Marshall, Christopher McNulty, Jill Moser, Renato Orara, Gloria Ortiz-Hernandez, Justin Quinn, Laurie Reid, Charles Ritchie, Viviane Rombaldi-Seppey, Sebastian Rug, Eduardo Santiere, Mark Sheinkman, Jeffrey Simmons, Brent Sommerhauser, Stephanie Strange, Randy Twaddle, Liz Ward, Lynn Woods Turner, Will Yackulic, Daniel Zeller, Eric Zimmerman
August 2009
IL Lee Solo Exhibition in Santa Fe
IL LEE: Ballpoint Drawings
August 7 - September 26, 2009
Gebert Contemporary - Railyard
544 South Guadalupe Street
Santa Fe, New Mexico
Art Projects International is pleased to announce that IL LEE: Ballpoint Abstractions will be on view at Gebert Contemporary in Santa Fe, NM, from August 7 to September 26, 2009. This major solo exhibition will feature several new ballpoint works including two very large-scale works on canvas and will be presented at the gallery's monumental project space in the Railyard District across from SITE Santa Fe.
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June 2009
Pouran Jinchi at Queens Museum of Art and Chelsea Art Museum
Tarjama/Translation
Queens Museum of Art, New York
May 10 - September 27, 2009
Curated by Leeza Ahmady and Iftikhar Dadi with assistant curator Reem Fadda
Pouran Jinchi’s Tajvid Red - a large-scale red ink on paper scroll that unfurls from the ceiling to floor - and 16 paintings from the Alef Series will be on view.
Tarjama/Translation will travel to the Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art Cornell University, Ithaca, New York in 2010.
Iran Inside Out
Chelsea Art Museum, New York
June 26 - September 5, 2009
Curated by Sam Bardaouil and Till Fellrath
In addition, new work by Pouran Jinchi can be seen in Unknown Territory - New Work: IL Lee · Pouran Jinchi · Filipe Rocha da Silva at Art Projects International, New York, through June 30, 2009.
For more information on Pouran Jinchi, please contact 212-343-2599 or .
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June 2009
Pouran Jinchi at Brooklyn Museum
POURAN JINCHI in Light of the Sufis: The Mystical Arts of Islam
opening at Brooklyn Museum on June 5, 2009
Exhibition dates: June 5 – September 6, 2009
Location: Arts of the Islamic World Galleries, second floor, Brooklyn Museum
Art Projects International is pleased to announce that Pouran Jinchi’s Prayer Stone 5, a composition of charcoal prayer-stone rubbings, will be on view in Light of the Sufis: The Mystical Arts of Islam at the Brooklyn Museum from June 5 to September 6, 2009. Curated by Dr. Ladan Akbarnia, Hagop Kevorkian Associate Curator of Islamic Art, Brooklyn Museum, this special exhibition coincides with the opening of the new installation of the Arts of the Islamic World galleries at the Brooklyn Museum. Pouran Jinchi’s Prayer Stone 5 is one of two contemporary works in the exhibition featuring objects from the collections of the Brooklyn Museum, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, and private collections.
Light of the Sufis: The Mystical Arts of Islam will travel to the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Texas in 2010.
In addition, new work by Pouran Jinchi can be seen in Unknown Territory - New Work: IL Lee · Pouran Jinchi · Filipe Rocha da Silva at Art Projects International, New York, through June 30, 2009.
For more information on Pouran Jinchi, please contact 212-343-2599 or .
© Art Projects International
May 2009
IL Lee at ART HK 09
ART HK 09
May 14-17, 2009
Hong Kong Convention and Exhibition Centre
Booth: F 06 in Hall 1A-1C/Gebert Contemporary
May 2009
API at Asian Contemporary Art Week 2009
Art Projects International (API) is pleased to announce its participation of Asian Contemporary Art Week (ACAW), May 10-18, 2009, with its current exhibition Unknown Territory - New Work: IL Lee · Pouran Jinchi · Filipe Rocha da Silva on view at API through May 30, 2009.
API is also pleased to announce the participation of Jian-Jun Zhang in Artists Interviews Online, a special ACAW highlight. For complete schedule of events: http://www.acaw.net.
February 2009
Filipe Rocha da Silva at Centro Cultural de Cascais, Portugal
Filipe Rocha da Silva in the following solo exhibition:
Self
February 6 - April 5, 2009
Centro Cultural de Cascais
Cascais, Portugal
February 2009
Gwenn Thomas in Transartlantik at Kunst in der Sparkasse, Germany
Gwenn Thomas's artworks in the following group exhibition:
Transartlantik
February 4 - March 27, 2009
Kunst in der Sparkasse
Wuppertal, Germany
October 2008
Pouran Jinchi featured in l’Art par 1001 mains
l’Art par 1001 mains
By Sophie Curtil and Miloš Cvach
Published by Éditions Milan, France, 2008
Pouran Jinchi is featured in the book along with an image of her work from the Permanent Collection of the Arthur M. Sackler Gallery, Smithsonian Institution, Washington DC.
For more information on this text and Pouran Jinchi please contact Art Projects International at or 212.343.2599.
July 2008
API at Art Hamptons
July 11 - 13, 2008
Opening Gala - Thursday, July 10, 6-9pm
Join us at Booth B5.
Artists shown: IL Lee, Pouran Jinchi, Jian-Jun Zhang, Zheng Xuewu, Gwenn Thomas, In-Hyung Kim, Myong Hi Kim, Richard Tsao, Jean Shin, Tchah-Sup Kim, Theresa Chong and Alexander Gorlizki.
Bridgehampton Historical Society Grounds
2368 Montauk Highway
Bridgehampton, NY 11932
June 2008
Pouran Jinchi at the Vilcek Foundation
Art Projects International is pleased to announce that the Vilcek Foundation (http://www.vilcek.org) will present an exhibition of paintings by POURAN JINCHI. The exhibition celebrates the inaugural opening of the Vilcek Foundation's new headquarters and cultural center located at 167 East 73rd Street in New York City and will be on view from June 2 to August 22, 2008. The Vilcek Foundation honors foreign-born scholars and artists living in the United States who have made outstanding contributions to society.
Press Release: http://www.vilcek.org/news/press-release/the-foundation.html
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June 2008
IL Lee at the Vilcek Foundation
Art Projects International is pleased to announce that the Vilcek Foundation (http://www.vilcek.org) will present an exhibition of recent works by IL LEE. The exhibition celebrates the inaugural opening of the Vilcek Foundation's new headquarters and cultural center located at 167 East 73rd Street in New York City and will be on view from June 2 to August 22, 2008. The Vilcek Foundation honors foreign-born scholars and artists living in the United States who have made outstanding contributions to society.
Press Release: http://www.vilcek.org/news/press-release/the-foundation.html
© Art Projects International
June 2008
Pouran Jinchi featured in the Vilcek Foundation’s Inaugural Newsletter
The publication coincides with an exhibition of paintings by POURAN JINCHI. The exhibition celebrates the inaugural opening of the Vilcek Foundation's new headquarters and cultural center located in New York City.
For a complete copy of this article please contact Art Projects International at or 212-343-2599.
April 2008
Gwenn Thomas featured in The Art of Seeing
The Art of Seeing, Seventh Edition, 2008
By Paul Zelanski and Mary Pat Fisher
Published by Pearson Prentice Hall
The newly released edition of The Art of Seeing, a widely used textbook, includes a discussion of Gwenn Thomas's work in the chapter Digital Art and features Gwenn Thomas's triptych AB:47/Untitled.
Excerpt--
However, as the fast-changing world of digital art evolves, artists are taking it into realms that transcend anything previously conceived through traditional painting methods. Images can be projected onto nontraditional "surfaces," such as a fog screen that allows viewers to walk through the image. And once images are scanned into computer memory, they can be overlaid and combined and altered in endless ways. Gwenn Thomas first makes collages by assembling cloth scraps, strips of paper or tape, and bits of old paintings, and then digitizes them via scanning or digital photographs. Then she prints the digitalized collages in a larger format on canvas, unifying their diverse surfaces but retaining some impression of the shadows and textures from the original collages, as in her triptych AB:47/Untitled.
March 2008
API at Asian Contemporary Art Week 2008
Art Projects International (API) is pleased to announce its participation of Asian Contemporary Art Week (ACAW), March 15-24, 2008, with its current exhibition of POURAN JINCHI: A Survey on view at API through April 5, 2008. API is also pleased to announce the participation of POURAN JINCHI, JEAN SHIN and IL LEE in Artists in Conversation, a special ACAW highlight. For complete schedule of events: http://www.acaw.net.
January 2008
Pouran Jinchi: Fabricated in Dubai, UAE
Pouran Jinchi solo exhibition:
Pouran Jinchi: Fabricated
January 19 - February 14, 2008
The Third Line
Dubai, UAE
January 2008
IL Lee in Infinite Line: Contemporary Drawing in Time and Space at BRIC Rotunda Gallery
IL LEE's works featured in the exhibition:
Infinite Line: Contemporary Drawing in Time and Space
Also featuring Yvonne Estrada, Anita Pantin, Claudia Vieira, Julia von Eichel and Hong Zhang
January 16 - March 1, 2008
BRIC Rotunda Gallery
Brooklyn, New York
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