Michael Joo

©Chris Baker

Pipeline Walk (.0237 calories per inch), 2003-2004
A photograph of the Alaskan Pipeline framed by snow capped mountains translated to a 10 by 28 foot billboard spanning the main entrance to the Park. The image is captioned with a per inch rate of caloric consumption expended by the artist while walking a 400 mile section of the pipeline to its source in Prudhoe Bay.

Born 1966
Lives and works in New York, NY

Education
1991 M.F.A., Yale School of Art, New Haven, CT
1989 B.F.A., Washington University, St. Louis, MO
          Wesleyan University, Middletown, CT

Selected solo exhibitions include: List Art Center, Boston, MA (2003); Paolo Curti, Milano, Italy (2002); Anton Kern Gallery, New York, NY (2002, 1999 & 1997); Venice Biennale, Korean Pavilion, with Do-Ho Suh, Venice, Italy (2001); White Cube, London, UK (1998); Crash, Anthony D'Offay Gallery, London, UK (1995); Galerie Anne de Villepoix, Paris, France (1995); Nature vs. Nature at the Glass Ceiling, Bureau Amsterdam, Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam (1995).

Selected group exhibitions include: Short Cuts: Video Art and Photography, The Israel Museum, Jerusalem (2003); The Mind is a Horse, Bloomberg Space, London,UK (2002); Manifeste, oder: Ergiffenheit was ist das?, Galerie Daniel Blau, Munich (2002); Translated Acts, Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin, Germany & Queens Museum, NY (2001); Whitney Biennial, Whitney Museum, New York, NY (2000); Koreamericakorea, Artsonje Center, Seoul; Sonje Museum, Kyung-ju, Korea (2000); Psycho, Art and Anatomy, Anne Faggionato, London, UK (2000); Drawings 2000, Barbara Gladstone Gallery, New York, UK (2000); Media_City Seoul 2000, National Historical Museum, Seoul, Korea (2000); Juvenilia, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco, CA (2000); Matthew McCaslin, Susan Etkin, Michael Joo, P.S. 1, Long Island City, NY (1998); Art Club Berlin, Messe Berlin, Germany (1997); Johannesburg Biennial 1997, Museum of Africa, Johannesburg, South Africa (1997); Techno-Seduction, The Cooper Union, School of Art, New York, NY (1997); The Damien Hirst Collection, Quo Vadis, London, UK (1996); Against, Anthony D'Offay Gallery, London, UK (1996); Urban Structures, Kunsthalle, Munich, Germany (1996); La Belle et la Bête, (Beauty and the Beast), Musée d'Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris (ARC), Paris, France (1995); Kwangju Biennale, Kwangju Contemporary Museum, South Korea (1995); Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, IL (1995); Configura 2, Erfurt, Germany (1995); Better Living Through Chemistry, Randolph Street Gallery, Chicago, IL (1995); Institute of Cultural Anxiety, Institute of Contemporary Art, London, UK (1995); Some Went Mad, Some Ran Away, Serpentine Gallery, London, UK (1994); Nordic Art Center, Helsinkinki (1994); Kunstverein Hannover, Hannover (1994); Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, IL (1994); Portalen, Copenhagen (1994); Sandra Gering Gallery, New York, NY (1994); Crash, Thread Waxing Space, New York, NY (1994); What is in your mind?, Tekniska Museet, Stockholm, Sweden (1994); Kumho Museum, Seoul, Korea (1994); Aperto - 93, Venice Biennale, Venice, Italy (1993); Changing I: Dense Cities, Shedhalle, Zurich (1993); The Final Frontier, New Museum for Contemporary Art, New York, NY (1993); Across the Pacific, Queens Museum of Art, Queens, NY (1993); In Out of the Cold, Center for the Arts at Yerba Buena, San Francisco, CA (1993); Galerie Metropol, Vienna, Austria (1992).

Michael Joo was the recipient of the American Center Foundation Grant in 2003; a LEF Foundation Grant in 2002; the Andy Warhol Foundation Prize in 2001; a Joan Mitchell Foundation Painters’ and Sculptors’ Grant in 2000; and a John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowship in 1998.

Publications include: Michael Joo, MIT List Visual Art Center, Cambridge, MA (2004) Whitney Biennial 2000, Whitney Museum of American Art, Harry N. Abrams, New York (2000); Koreamericakorea, Seoul, Artsonje Center, South Korea (2000); Media_City Seoul 2000, National Historical Museum, Seoul, South Korea (2000); La Belle et la Bête (Beauty and the Beast), Musée d’Ary Moderne de la Ville de Paris, France (1995).