Michael Joo

Born:
1966
Residence:
Brooklyn, New York, USA
Nationality:
American
Trust:
APT New York
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PRESS & PUBLICATIONS

  • Galeria Michael Schutz, Berlin, presents Angelika Platen’s collection “Dialog.Digital.Analog.” on view through March 18, 2017.

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  • “I’m trying to work in concert with nature’s design,” says APT Artist Michael Joo of his sculptures made with antlers and stainless steel. Joo introduces modifications to the natural object as an artistic gesture and “a way of recreating balance.” One of these sculptures, SRS #8, is on offer in the Contemporary Curated sale at Sotheby’s New York, on March 2.

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  • On March 2, 2017, as part of its Contemporary Curated sale in New York, during Armory Week, Sotheby’s will be offering the very first public sale of works from the Artist Pension Trust® (APT) Collection. APT was founded in 2004 as a mutual assurance program providing long-term financial security for its member artists who deposit artworks with the trust over a 20-year period, and share the net proceeds from the sales. With 13,000 works, by 2,000 member artists, it is the largest private collection of global contemporary art in the world.

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  • Looking much like a re-created ruin, Michael Joo’s pensive and beautiful exhibition “Barrier Island” (2016), at the SCAD Museum of Art at the Savannah College of Art and Design, is, in some ways, just that.

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  • With Anselm Kiefer's ambitious new exhibition, Paul Nash At Tate Britain, Picasso at the NPG, and Georgia O’Keeffe, and Mona Hatoum at Tate Modern...

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  • The works featured in 'Radiohalo' – a new show by the lauded New York-based artist Michael Joo, open now at London's Blain|Southern – are concerned with process and intersection.

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  • Artlyst has attended the new exhibition by New York-based artist Michael Joo, Radiohalo is a major solo exhibition of new artworks by the acclaimed conceptual artist.

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  • At the center of debate between creationists and the scientific community over the origin of Earth are microscopic areas of discoloration found within certain rocks: radiohalos.

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  • Three art and culture experts, including the New Museum’s tech-savvy curator Lauren Cornell, talk about the complex research, storytelling, and economic issues related to Michael Stevenson’s sculpture “The Fountain of Prosperity,” which is currently on view.

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  • To fully appreciate the works of 92 artists from 40 countries at the 2012 Gwangju Biennale, art fans will need stamina.

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  • For his inaugural exhibition with Blain|Southern, Exit from the House of Being, Michael Joo has created a series of new sculptural works which aim

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  • For his inaugural exhibition with Blain|Southern, Exit from the House of Being, Michael Joo has created a series of new sculptural works which aim

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  • In the Red Hook neighborhood of Brooklyn, within walking distance of New York City’s only Ikea, there is an area of nondescript buildings near

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  • Artist Mark Bradford still talks about his fifth-grade teacher from Crescent Heights Elementary, Wilma Chappelle.

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  • With Brooklyn a byword for artist studios and emerging artists, the Brooklyn Museum is uniquely positioned to introduce visitors to the latest work

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  • Michael Joo is an artist devoted to the intangibles. His sculptures, installations, video and performances investigate the evolution of cultural value

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  • In Hong Kong, my Chinese friends joke, is dollars per square foot. Not so funny if you’re an artist trying to find adequate space to live and work—or wanting to address something other than a collector’s likely financial return on your work.

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  • The largest contemporary art exposition in Asia opened Friday at various venues with an extensive amount of pieces to see, hear, touch and experience.

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BIOGRAPHY
Michael Joo’s work investigates the concepts of identity and knowledge in a hybrid contemporary world. He creates narratives that explore places, people and objects through reinterpreting perception: why do we perceive as we perceive. Joo’s non-linear, almost cyclical approach to his practice together with his combination of scientific language and research, results in work that is a documentation of process. Whether chemically treated, silver-coated or photo-based, Joo’s artwork combines a range of techniques associated with sculpture, painting, photography and print-making. He continues to blur the boundaries between art and science through his investigation into ontology, epistemology and entropy; creating a cross-disciplinary and multi-dimensional dialogue to engage, question, meditate and explore.
 
By juxtaposing humanity’s various pools of knowledge and culture Joo addresses the fluid nature of identity itself. He does this in a variety of mediums including film, sculpture, performance, and installation, with material ranging from bamboo to human sweat and silver nitrate. It seems as if the artist’s intention is to achieve the unachievable: to make us see an object in real life that is barely conceivable as thought alone.
 
Michael Joo received his MFA from the Yale School of Art, Yale University, New Haven, in 1991, after graduating with a BFA from Washington University, St Louis, 1989.
 
Solo exhibitions of his include: Radiohalo, Blain|Southern, London (2016); Drift (Bronx), The Bronx Museum of Arts, New York (2014); Transparency Engine, SCAD Moot Gallery, Sham Shui Po (2014); Solo presentation of Doppelganger, Cass Sculpture Foundation, Goodwood (2014); Michael Joo: Drift, The Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum, Connecticut (2014); Michael Joo, M Building, Art Basel Miami Beach 2013, Miami (2013); Exit from the House of Being, Blain|Southern, London (2012); Galerie Marabini, Bologna, (2010); Anton Kern Gallery, New York, NY (2009); Michael Joo, Palm Beach Institute for Contemporary Art, Florida (2004); the South Korean Pavilion at the 49th Venice Biennale together with Do-Ho-Suh (2001); White Cube, London (1998); and Crash, Anthony D'Offay Gallery, London, (1995).

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