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Nam June Paik
American video art pioneer (1932–2006)
Details
- Instance of
- human
- Born
- 20 July 1932
- Died
- 29 January 2006
- Place of birth
- Seoul
- Place of death
- Miami
- Sex or gender
- male
- Family name
- Paik
- Father
- Paik Nak-seung
- Spouse
- Shigeko Kubota
- Genre
- installation art
- Field of work
- video art
- Occupation
- video artist, university teacher, composer, painter, photographer, television producer, installation artist, multimedia artist, pioneer, visual artist, performance artist
- Citizenship
- United States, Germany, South Korea
- Awards
- Guggenheim Fellowship, Maya Deren Award, Goslarer Kaiserring, Ho-Am Prize in the Arts, Fukuoka Asian Culture Prize, Goethe Medal, Kyoto Prize in Arts and Philosophy, Wilhelm Lehmbruck Award, Will Grohmann Award, Worthy of the City, Order of Cultural Merit, 1st class
- archives at
- Smithsonian American Art Museum
- artist files at
- Musée national des beaux-arts du Québec, Smithsonian American Art and Portrait Gallery Library, National Gallery of Art Library
- copyright representative
- reproduction right not represented by CISAC member, Estate of Nam June Paik, Nam June Paik
- described by source
- UbuWeb, mediakunst.net, V2 archive
- documentation files at
- SAPA Foundation, Swiss Archive of the Performing Arts
- educated at
- University of Tokyo, Kyunggi High School
- employer
- Kunstakademie Düsseldorf
- ethnic group
- Koreans
- has works in the collection
- Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, Minneapolis Institute of Art, Art Institute of Chicago, The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Finnish National Gallery, Museum of Modern Art, National Gallery of Victoria, Tate, National Gallery of Art, Philippe Méaille Collection, National Gallery of Canada
- McCune–Reischauer romanization
- Paek Namjun
- name in native language
- Baek Namjun
- notable work
- Internet Dream
- participant in
- documenta 8
- partner in business or sport
- Marco Giusti
- relative
- Jinu
- represented by
- Electronic Arts Intermix, Video Data Bank, Light Cone, LIMA
- residence
- Westbeth Artists Community
- Revised Romanization
- Baek Namjoon
- work location
- United States, Germany, New York City
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