Solo
Exhibitions
Solo Exhibtions
Song Burnsoo's solo exhibitions trace six decades of artistic evolution, from his first presentation at Daejeon Cultural Center in 1960 to his 2024 show at SongArt Gallery in Seoul. Landmark solo presentations include Pantomime of 50 Years at the National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art (MMCA) in Gwacheon, 40 Years of Burnsoo Song at Youngeun Museum of Contemporary Art, and exhibitions at Gallery Hyundai, Gana Gallery, Total Museum of Contemporary Art, and Garboushian Gallery in Los Angeles.
2020 – Present
2024 — Epic of the Night Sky, SongArt Gallery, Seoul, Korea
2022 — Know Yourself, Gallery Baton, Seoul, Korea
2021 — Song Burnsoo Special Exhibition: A Compass, Daedam Museum, Damyang, Korea
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Possibility 024-EI, EII, EVI, EX, 2024
Object painting, mulberry paper relief on canvas with thorn elements
Presented in Possibility Series: Special Survey Exhibition at Blue Baton, Gallery Baton, Seoul, from April 25 to May 25, 2024. The exhibition extended Song's lifelong meditation on the thorn, reframing it as a unit of cosmos, individual stars, constellations, and clusters drawn from the night sky above his studio in the forest at Yongin.
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Possibility 022 series, 2022
Object painting, mulberry paper relief with thorn elements on canvas
Presented in Know Yourself, Song Burnsoo's first solo exhibition with Gallery Baton, Seoul, from August 23 to September 24, 2022. The exhibition introduced a body of new work centered on the thorn, Song's persona over half a century. Here the symbolism extends beyond suffering and atonement into a meditation on cosmos, where each thorn becomes a star, a constellation, a unit of the infinite.
2010 – 2019
2017 — Song Burnsoo: Pantomime of 50 Years, National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Gwacheon, Korea
2013 — Song Burnsoo, Garboushian Gallery, Los Angeles, USA
2000 – 2009
2007 — 40 Years of Burnsoo Song, Youngeun Museum of Contemporary Art, Gwangju, Gyeonggi-do, Korea
2006 — Song Burnsoo, Seo Gallery, Seoul, Korea
2004 — Song Burnsoo, Baiksang Memorial Hall, Seoul, Korea
2003 — Song Burnsoo, Museum of Sukdam, Yongin, Korea
2001 — Song Burnsoo, Museum of Maga (now Moon Art Grounds), Yongin, Korea
1990 – 1999
1994 — Song Burnsoo, Total Museum of Contemporary Art, Seoul, Korea
1992 — Song Burnsoo, Gana Gallery, Seoul, Korea
1991 — Song Burnsoo, Choi Gallery, Seoul, Korea
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Black Thorn with Green Leafs, 1990
Acrylic on handmade mulberry paper relief
Presented at Garboushian Gallery, Beverly Hills, Los Angeles, from March 16 to April 20, 2013. One of Song's earliest works in mulberry paper relief, Black Thorn with Green Leafs marks the moment the thorn fully became his singular language. The work stands at the threshold between natural observation and spiritual allegory, where the organic form of the thorn begins its long journey from botanical fact to existential symbol.
1980 – 1989
1989 — Song Burnsoo, Chosun Ilbo Gallery, Seoul, Korea
1985 — Song Burnsoo, Seoul Gallery, Seoul, Korea
1983 — Song Burnsoo, Yeh Gallery, Seoul, Korea
1982 — Song Burnsoo, Kwanhoon Gallery, Seoul, Korea
1979 — Song Burnsoo, The Korean Culture & Arts Foundation Fine Art Center, Seoul, Korea
1978 — Song Burnsoo, Gallery Hyundai, Seoul, Korea
1977 — Song Burnsoo, Stockholm Cultural Center, Stockholm, Sweden
1975 — Song Burnsoo, Gallery Hyundai, Seoul, Korea
1974 — Song Burnsoo, Myungdong Gallery, Seoul, Korea
1972 — Song Burnsoo, Goethe Institute, Seoul, Korea
1960 — Song Burnsoo, Daejeon Cultural Center, Daejeon, Korea
1960 – 1979
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Pantomime I, II, III, 1971
Serigraph on paper
Presented at the First Contemporary Prints Grand Prix Exhibition, Myeong-dong Gallery, Seoul, October 14 to 20, 1971, organized under the sponsorship of the Asia Foundation and Kyunghyang Shinmun. Among Song's landmark early prints, the Pantomime series established his reputation as a leading voice in Korean experimental printmaking at the start of his career.
Group
Exhibitions
Song Burnsoo's work has been presented alongside leading figures in Korean and international contemporary art at institutions worldwide. Selected exhibitions include Only the Young: Experimental Art in Korea, 1960s–1970s at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum in New York and the Hammer Museum in Los Angeles (2023), Metamorphoses: The Art of Woven Tapestry at the Museum of Fine Arts Budapest, 98 Comparaison L'Art Actuel in Paris, and presentations at the Tokyo Metropolitan Art Museum and Museum Alexander Koenig in Bonn.
2020 – Present
2024 — 45cm, Chapter II, Seoul, Korea
2023 — Only the Young: Experimental Art in Korea, 1960s–1970s, National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Seoul, Korea; Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, USA; Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, USA
2022 — Indexing the Nature: From Near and Far Away, Gallery Baton at No.9 Cork Street, London, UK
2020 — In Lieu of Higher Ground, Gallery Baton, Seoul, Korea
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Take Cover I, II, III, IV, V, 1974
Serigraph on paper, five sheets 103 × 103 cm each. Collection of the National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Korea
Exhibited in Only the Young: Experimental Art in Korea, 1960s–1970s, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, 2023
2010 – 2019
2016 — Story Blossoms in Art, Gyeonggi Museum of Modern Art, Ansan, Korea
2016 — The 130th Anniversary of Korea-France Diplomatic Relations, Youngeun Museum of Contemporary Art, Seoul, Korea
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In Lieu of Higher Ground, 2020 Gallery Baton, Seoul
Works by Song Burnsoo, Park Suk Won, and Park Jang Nyun
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2000 – 2009
2005 — Metamorphoses: The Art of Woven Tapestry, Past and Present, Museum of Fine Arts, Budapest, Hungary
2005 — Textile in Future Expression, Contemporary Art Space Osaka, Osaka, Japan
2003 — Leading Artist, National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Seoul, Korea
2001 — International Tapestry Exhibition, Museum of Fine Arts, Budapest, Hungary
2000 — Transformation and Development of Modern Printing Arts, Daejeon Museum of Art, Daejeon, Korea
1990 – 1999
1999 — Beyond the Sea: Song Burnsoo and Fukumoto Shigeki, Ilmin Museum of Art, Seoul, Korea; Itami Craft Center, Osaka, Japan
1999 — Flight through Trace and Touch, Busan Museum of Art, Busan, Korea
1998 — 98 Comparaison L'Art Actuel, Eiffel-Brandly, Paris, France
1996 — Development of Korean Modernism, Kumho Museum of Art, Seoul, Korea
1994 — Intellectual Presentation, Hangaram Art Museum, Seoul Arts Center, Seoul, Korea
1980 – 1989
1988 — Korean Contemporary Arts, National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Seoul, Korea
1987 — International Impact, Tokyo Metropolitan Art Museum, Tokyo, Japan
1980 — Korean & German Artists, Museum Alexander Koenig, Bonn, Germany
1960 – 1979
1975 — The 3rd Indépendants, National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Seoul, Korea
1975 — The 1st Ecole de Séoul, National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Seoul, Korea