Insu Choi was born in Korea in 1946 and graduated from the Seoul National University College of Fine Arts (M.F.A.), before studying at the Akademie der Bildenden Künste in Karlsruhe. Inse Choi lives and works in Seoul.

Solo Exhibitions

• 1982 Space Gallery, Seoul
• 1985 Hankook Gallery, Seoul
• 1991 Seomi Gallery, Seoul
• 1993 Total Art Museum, Seoul
• 1995 Nicaf 1995, Yokohama
• 1995 Seomi Gallery, Seoul
• 2004 Keumsan Gallery, Seoul

Group Exhibitions (selection)

• 1987 “Artists in the 80s”, Hyundai Gallery, Seoul
• 1987 “Harmony in East and West”, East West Center, U.S.A.
• 1988 “Contemporary Korean Art Exhibition”, National Museum of Contemporary Art, Kwachon
• 1989 “Small Sculpture Exhibition”, Seomi Gallery, Seoul
• 1989 “Artist Today”, Seomi Gallery, Seoul
• 1990 “1945-1990 Panmunjom & Brandenburg”, Sigong Gallery
• 1990 “New Spiritual”, Kum Ho Gallery, Seoul
• 1992 “Searching for Spirit”, Kukje Gallery, Seoul
• 1992 “Total Art Grand Prize Exhibition”, Total Art Museum, Seoul
• 1993 “Small Sculpture Triennale”, Walker Hill Art Centre, Seoul
• 1994 “Tendency in Contemporary Korean Arts”, Insa Gallery, Seoul
• 1995 “Sculpture Today”, Chongro Gallery, Seoul
• 1995 “Circulating Currents-Korean and Japanese contemporary Art”, Nagoya City Art Museum
• 1996 “Contemporary Art in Seoul '96”, Seoul City Art Museum, Seoul
• 1997 “The Voices of Zero”, Seong Gok Art Museum, Seoul
• 1997 “International Sculpture Symposium”, Il San Lake Park, Korea
• 1998 “Material and Vestiges”, Moran Gallery, Seoul
• 1998 “Olympic Park Sculpture Symposium”, Seoul
• 1999 “Space and Object”, Pusan Metropolitan Museum, Pusan
• 1999 “Contemporary Korean Sculpture to 1999”, Wooduk Gallery, Seoul
• 2000 “Mix-up”, Total Contemporary Art Museum, Seoul
• 2000 “Beyond the Circle” (C. Herdeg, Nigel Hall, P. Isenrath, Insu Choi), Moran Museum
• 2001 “International Sculpture Symposium”, Yongsan Family Park Sculpture Garden, Seoul
• 2002 “Inter - images Void”, Total Art Museum, Seoul
• 2003 A Korean-Swiss cultural project, Seoul
• 2003 Seoul Art Grand exhibition, Seoul Municipal Museum
• 2004 “Spirit, art and calligraphy”, Kim Jong Young Museum
• 2004 “Stillness and Movement”, Seoul Olympic Art Museum
• 2004 “Looking Back to the Current of Contemporary Korean Sculpture”, Moran Museum of Art
• 2005 Seoul Sculpture Society Exhibition, Insa Gallery
• 2006 “Simply Beautiful”, Biel Artcenter, Switzerland, Artcanal International 06/07 Swiss Zihlcanal; Invitation to Contemporary (MoA SNU); “Silent Forest”, Seoul Metropolitan Museum of Art
• 2007 “Lines in Space” Gyeonggido Museum of Art; “Contemporary Korean Spirit”, Manas Art Centre

Prizes:

• 1992 Total Art Grand Prize, Total Contemporary Art Museum, Seoul
• 2001 Awarded Kim Sejung Sculpture Grand Prize, Seoul

Public Collections:

National Museum of Contemporary Art Kwachon (1990), Total Contemporary Art Museum (1993), Hansol Art Museum (1994), Seoul Olympic Sculpture Park (1998), Pohag Art & Culture Centre (1995), Kuk Min Life Insurance Centre Building (1995), Korea Telecom (1996), Government Building Daejeon (1996), Dentistry Hospital SNU (1996), Commercial Bank Headquarters (1996), Ilsan Sculpture Park (1996), Korean Bank Centre Building (1997), Asem Building (1999), Yongsan Park Seoul (2001), South-West Agricultural Product Centre (2001), Rodamco Bucheon (2004), Cheong pung Lakeshore (2004).
Pace Gallery, USA (1995), Richard Gray Gallery, USA (1995)

Bibliography

• Yi il, Sculptures with human being, SPACE, 1985, pp. 72-75
• Lee Ufan, Total Art Grand Prix, Total Art Museum, 1992
• Chung Young Mok, On meditative space, Total Art Museum catalogue, 1993
• Lee Jong Soong, Dreaming Material, Possibility of another perception and breathing Sculpture, Space, 1993
• Kazuo Yamawaki, Circulating Current-Japanese and Korean Contemporary Art, Nagoya City Museum, 1995, p. 32
• Choeng Hoen Yi, Receptive eyes, Gana Art, 1995, pp. 155-156
• Kim Yong Dae, The Depth of Contemplation, Moran Gallery, 1997, p. 9
• Kim Jeong Hee, Vestiges, Moran Gallery, 1998, pp. 10-11
• Cho Kwang Ho, Towards Path, Deulsum Nalsum, 1995, p. 65
• Ko Chung Whan, Symbolic Circle of Contemplation, SPACE, 2002, pp. 232-233
• Choi Tae Man, Choi Insu Sculpture Exhibition, Kumsan Art Gallery, Review, Wolgan Misul, Nov. 2004