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Installation view, Nam June Paik: The Miami Years, Bass Museum of Art, Miami Beach, Florida, October 4, 2023–August 16, 2024 © Nam June Paik Estate. Photo: Zaire Aranguren, courtesy Bass Museum of Art

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Nam June Paik
The Miami Years

Through August 16, 2024
Bass Museum of Art, Miami Beach, Florida
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Nam June Paik: The Miami Years explores the artist’s little-known connection to Miami Beach and the surrounding south Florida community. Organized around the Bass Museum’s recent acquisition of his TV Cello (2003), it examines the innovative ways Paik used communication and media technologies in his work. The exhibition also includes Notations, a series of installations and performances by three contemporary artists whose practices engage with and further Paik’s experimentations with technology.

Installation view, Nam June Paik: The Miami Years, Bass Museum of Art, Miami Beach, Florida, October 4, 2023–August 16, 2024 © Nam June Paik Estate. Photo: Zaire Aranguren, courtesy Bass Museum of Art

Hao Liang, Eight Views of Xiaoxiang—Dazzle, 2015 © Hao Liang. Photo: courtesy UCCA Center for Contemporary Art, Beijing

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The Dream of the Museum

November 11, 2021–April 23, 2023
M+, Hong Kong
www.mplus.org.hk

The Dream of the Museum examines the concept of found objects to show how artists use cultures as source material to update tradition. Beginning with four pioneers of contemporary art—Marcel Duchamp, John Cage, Yoko Ono, and Nam June Paik—the exhibition brings together work by twenty-seven artists from across geographies and generations, including Hao Liang and Andy Warhol, who explore chance and found objects in their work.

Hao Liang, Eight Views of XiaoxiangDazzle, 2015 © Hao Liang. Photo: courtesy UCCA Center for Contemporary Art, Beijing

Mary Weatherford, Engine, 2014, Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, DC © Mary Weatherford. Photo: Fredrik Nilsen Studio

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America. Entre rêves et réalités
La collection du Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden Collection

June 9–September 11, 2022
Musée national des beaux-arts du Québec, Canada
www.mnbaq.org

Featuring more than a hundred paintings, photographs, sculptures, and video works drawn from the permanent collection of the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden in Washington, DC, this exhibition, whose title translates to America. Between Dreams and Realities, offers a broad overview of modern and contemporary American art. Organized thematically, it looks carefully and critically at the notion of the American dream and uncovers how artists have variously grappled with questions of identity, the challenges of globalization, the realities of everyday life in America, and the complexities of its technological and political revolutions. Work by Alexander Calder, Willem de Kooning, Helen Frankenthaler, Sally Mann, Man Ray, Brice Marden, Nam June Paik, Ed Ruscha, Andy Warhol, and Mary Weatherford is included.

Mary Weatherford, Engine, 2014, Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, DC © Mary Weatherford. Photo: Fredrik Nilsen Studio

Nam June Paik, One Candle, 2004 © Estate of Nam June Paik. Photo: Jon Huffman

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Nam June Paik
The Future Is Now

December 10, 2021–March 27, 2022
National Gallery Singapore
www.nationalgallery.sg

This major exhibition brings together more than two hundred works from throughout Nam June Paik’s five-decade career—from robots made from old TV screens, to his innovative video works, and all-encompassing room-size installations. The exhibition looks at his close collaborations with Joseph Beuys, John Cage, Merce Cunningham, Charlotte Moorman, and others. This exhibition originated at the Tate Modern in London.

Nam June Paik, One Candle, 2004 © Estate of Nam June Paik. Photo: Jon Huffman

Nam June Paik, Sistine Chapel, 1993, installation view, Tate Modern, London © Estate of Nam June Paik. Photo: Andrew Dunkley 

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Nam June Paik

May 8–October 3, 2021
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art
www.sfmoma.org

This major exhibition brings together more than two hundred works from throughout Nam June Paik’s five-decade career—from robots made from old TV screens, to his innovative video works, and all-encompassing room-size installations. The exhibition looks at his close collaborations with Joseph Beuys, John Cage, Merce Cunningham, Charlotte Moorman, and others. This exhibition originated at the Tate Modern in London.

Nam June Paik, Sistine Chapel, 1993, installation view, Tate Modern, London © Estate of Nam June Paik. Photo: Andrew Dunkley 

Chris Burden, The Atomic Alphabet, 1980 © Chris Burden/Licensed by the Chris Burden Estate and Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York

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Disonata
Arte en sonido hasta 1980

September 23, 2020–March 1, 2021
Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, Madrid
www.museoreinasofia.es

This exhibition, whose English title is Disonata: Art in Sound up to 1980, analyzes the development of sound as a creative field of visual arts differentiated from music across the first eighty years of the twentieth century. The show reflects the efforts of artists who resorted to sound beyond its traditional use in such manifestations as mixed-media work, poetry, and theater. Work by  Chris Burden and Nam June Paik is included.

Chris Burden, The Atomic Alphabet, 1980 © Chris Burden/Licensed by the Chris Burden Estate and Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York

Installation view, Untitled, 2020, Punta della Dogana, Venice, March 22–December 13, 2020. Artwork © Thomas Houseago. Photo: Marco Cappelletti/DSL Studio

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Untitled, 2020

March 22–November 4, 2020
Punta della Dogana, Venice
www.palazzograssi.it

Conceived and curated by Thomas Houseago, Muna El Fituri, and Caroline Bourgeois, Untitled, 2020 places into dialogue works in a broad range of media by more than sixty artists held by the Pinault Collection, international museums, and private collections. The exhibition centers around a re-creation of Houseago’s studio in Tadao Ando’s cube room, in the heart of Punta della Dogana. Work by Ellen Gallagher, Duane Hanson, Mike Kelley, Henry Moore, and Nam June Paik is included.

Installation view, Untitled, 2020, Punta della Dogana, Venice, March 22–December 13, 2020. Artwork © Thomas Houseago. Photo: Marco Cappelletti/DSL Studio

Nam June Paik, Internet Dream, 1994, installation view, Tate Modern, London © Estate of Nam June Paik

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Nam June Paik
The Future Is Now

March 14–October 4, 2020
Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam
www.stedelijk.nl

This major exhibition brings together more than two hundred works from throughout Nam June Paik’s five-decade career—from robots made from old TV screens, to his innovative video works, and all-encompassing room-size installations. The exhibition looks at his close collaborations with Joseph Beuys, John Cage, Merce Cunningham, Charlotte Moorman, and others. This exhibition has traveled from the Tate Modern in London.

Nam June Paik, Internet Dream, 1994, installation view, Tate Modern, London © Estate of Nam June Paik

Nam June Paik, TV Garden, 1974–77 © Estate of Nam June Paik

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Nam June Paik

October 17, 2019–February 9, 2020
Tate Modern, London
www.tate.org.uk

This major exhibition brings together more than two hundred works from throughout Nam June Paik’s five-decade career—from robots made from old TV screens, to his innovative video works, and all-encompassing room-size installations. The exhibition looks at his close collaborations with Joseph Beuys, John Cage, Merce Cunningham, Charlotte Moorman, and others.

Nam June Paik, TV Garden, 1974–77 © Estate of Nam June Paik

Nam June Paik, TV Cello, 1971 © Nam June Paik Estate

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The Body Electric

March 30–July 21, 2019
Walker Art Center, Minneapolis
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In an age dominated by digital technology, The Body Electric explores themes of the real and the virtual, the organic and the artificial, moving from world to screen and back again. This exhibition presents work by an international and intergenerational group of artists who examine ways that photographic, televisual, and digital media change our perceptions of the human body and everyday life. Work by Bruce Nauman and Nam June Paik is included.

Nam June Paik, TV Cello, 1971 © Nam June Paik Estate

Nam June Paik, Fin de Siecle II, 1989, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York © Nam June Paik Estate

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Nam June Paik in
Programmed: Rules, Codes, and Choreographies in Art, 1965–2018

September 28, 2018–April 14, 2019
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York
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This exhibition aims to establish connections between works of art based on instructions, spanning more than fifty years of conceptual, video, and computational art. The pieces in the show are all “programmed” using instructions, sets of rules, and code, but they also address the use of programming in their creation. Work by Nam June Paik is included.

Nam June Paik, Fin de Siecle II, 1989, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York © Nam June Paik Estate

Nam June Paik, TV Clock, 1963/89 © Nam June Paik Estate

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Nam June Paik
TV Clock

May 20–October 14, 2018
Santa Barbara Museum of Art, California
www.sbma.net

Nam June Paik’s TV Clock (1963/89) is on view for the first time in nearly a decade. The work consists of twenty-four color televisions mounted upright on pedestals that are arranged in a gentle arc and displayed in a darkened space. Paik created each electronic image by manipulating the television to compress its red, green, and blue colors into a single line against a black background.

Nam June Paik, TV Clock, 1963/89 © Nam June Paik Estate

Robert Therrien, No title (table leg), 2010 © Robert Therrien/Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York. Photo: Peter Cox

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No Place Like Home

March 1–June 3, 2018
Museu Coleção Berardo, Lisbon, Portugal
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In celebration of Dada’s one hundredth anniversary in 2016 and the centennial of Marcel Duchamp’s Fountain in 2017, this exhibition examines how artists have incorporated commonplace household items into their work, removing these objects from the context of the home in ways that subvert the experiences of daily life. This exhibit has traveled from the Israel Museum in Jerusalem. Work by Duchamp, Duane Hanson, Damien Hirst, Man Ray, Takashi Murakami, Nam June Paik, Robert Therrien, and Andy Warhol is included.

Robert Therrien, No title (table leg), 2010 © Robert Therrien/Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York. Photo: Peter Cox

Nam June Paik, Internet Dream, 1994 © Nam June Paik Estate. Photo: Steffan Harms

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Art in the Age of the Internet, 1989 to Today

February 6–May 20, 2018
Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston
www.icaboston.org

This exhibition examines how the Internet has radically changed the field of art, especially its production, distribution, and reception. The show comprises a broad range of works across a variety of mediums that all investigate the extensive effects of the Internet on artistic practice and contemporary culture. Work by Nam June Paik and Taryn Simon is included.

Nam June Paik, Internet Dream, 1994 © Nam June Paik Estate. Photo: Steffan Harms

Robert Therrien, No title (folding table and chairs, beige), 2006, Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, New York © Robert Therrien/Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York

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Out of Sight! Art of the Senses

November 4, 2017–February 4, 2018
Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, New York
www.albrightknox.org

Out of Sight! Art of the Senses brings together contemporary works of art that actively engage with how our bodies meet the wider world through the
five basic senses. The artists in this exhibition have created experiences that incorporate viewers into the creative process, inviting them to become fully immersed in art that must be smelled, tasted, heard, and felt. Work by Nam June Paik and Robert Therrien is included.

Robert Therrien, No title (folding table and chairs, beige), 2006, Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, New York © Robert Therrien/Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York

Nam June Paik, Self-Portrait, 2005, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art © Nam June Paik Estate

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Nam June Paik
In Character

June 3, 2017–January 1, 2018
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art
www.sfmoma.org

This exhibition explores Nam June Paik’s pioneering career through the prism of his close friendships with artists, including Joseph Beuys, John Cage, and Charlotte Moorman. It spans Paik’s early Fluxus activity to his final autobiographical works and showcases the late artist’s video and sculpture work, alongside an array of ephemera, drawings, and other works on paper that have rarely or never been shown.

Nam June Paik, Self-Portrait, 2005, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art © Nam June Paik Estate

Nam June Paik, Sonata I, 1996 © Nam June Paik Estate

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Sonata
Print Series by Nam June Paik

January 9–July 2, 2017
Joel and Lila Harnett Museum of Art, University of Richmond Museums, Virginia
museums.richmond.edu

This print series by Nam June Paik includes images that span his historical Fluxus performances, events, video sculptures, musical compositions, texts, and drawings, as well as photographs of the artist, his family, and artists associated with his work. Each sheet was screen-printed by the artist with silver ink to create the illusion of a grid of sixteen television screens that frame the images.

Nam June Paik, Sonata I, 1996 © Nam June Paik Estate