Nam June Paik

(Seoul, 1932-Miami, 2006)

He studied music and art history at the University of Tokyo. His thesis was on Arnold Schönberg. She graduated in 1956 with a degree in Aesthetics. From 1958 to 1963, Paik worked with Karlheinz Stockhausen at the WDR Studio für Elektronische Musik in Cologne. After his meeting with George Maciunas, founder of Fluxus, in 1961, he participated in countless performances, actions and events of European Fluxus. In recent years, his installations have been presented in various countries, including one-man shows at institutions such as the Metropolitan Museum of Art in Tokyo, the Center Georges Pompidou in Paris, and the Holly Solomon Gallery in New York, among many others. Some festivals and institutions, including the Whitney Museum of American Art Biennial in New York, documentas 6 and 8 in Kassel, Germany, the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, and Video Sculpture at DuMont Kunsthalle in Cologne, also They exhibited their works in group exhibitions. The Worlds of Nam June Paik, a major retrospective exhibition at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum in New York, opened in 2000 and later traveled to Bilbao, Spain, and Seoul, South Korea.
Together with Charlotte Moorman, she created TV Bra for Living Sculpture, a piece where two tiny video screens covered Moorman's breasts and her cello overshadowed her nudity. In an irreverent way they explored the connections between art and popular culture and ironicized about the omnipresence of television, its language and content.