Born in 1964 in Seoul, Korea, and currently lives and works there. Solo exhibitions include REDCAT (Los Angeles); Artsonje Center (Seoul); and Plateau, Samsung Museum (Seoul). He has participated in group exhibitions such as the 50th and 51st Venice Biennales (2003 and 2005); the 10th Istanbul Biennale (2007); the 4th, 6th and 9th Gwangju Biennale (2002, 2006 and 2012); the 10th Lyon Biennale (2009); the 7th Asia Pacific Triennale of Contemporary Art (2012); Yokohama Triennale 2014; “Brave New Worlds,” Walker Art Center (Minneapolis, 2007); “Laughing in a Foreign Language,” Hayward gallery (London, 2008); “Your Bright Future,” Los Angeles County Museum of Art and Museum of Fine Art, Houston (2009); “All About Laughter,” “All You Need Is Love,” Mori Art Museum (2007, 2013); “Xijing Is Not Xijing, Therefore Xijing Is Xijing,” 21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art, Kanazawa (2016); and “Theater of the World,” Guggenheim Museum, New York (2017).