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ID: 500118744 Page Link: http://vocab.getty.edu/page/ulan/500118744			Record Type: Person

Paik, Nam June (South Korean sculptor, video artist, and performance artist, 1932-2006, active in the United States)

Note: Paik is known for his sculpture and installations employing television sets, video screens and junk assemblage, and is considered the inventor of video art. He began his career as a musician and wrote his thesis at Tokyo University on Arnold Shoenberg. He continued his studies in Munich and Freiburg, and gravitated to the avant-garde music scene in Cologne and Darmstadt, where he worked with Karlheinz Stockhausen. He met John Cage and began incorporating elements of what would become performance art into musical events, which led to an involvement with the Fluxus group. He exhibited the first known art work to incorporate television sets in 1963, and is perhaps most widely known for his collaborations with Charlotte Moorman, beginning in 1965, which resulted in the creation of his "TV Bra for Living Sculpture." He is credited with coining the phrase "electronic superhighway." Major retrospectives of his work were held at the Whitney Museum of American Art in 1982, and the Guggenheim Museum in 2000.

Names:
	Paik, Nam June (preferred,V,index,LC,English-P,NA,U)
	Paik, Nam June (Dutch-P,NA)
	Nam June Paik (V,display)
	Paik, Naum June (V)
	פייק, נאם ג'ון (U,Hebrew-P,NA,U)

Nationalities:
	South Korean (preferred)
	American
	Korean
	German

Roles:
	artist (preferred)
	performance artist
	sculptor
	video artist
	musician
	writer
	filmmaker
	teacher
	miscellaneous
	installation artist

Gender: male


Birth and Death Places:
	Born: Seoul (Seoul, South Korea) (inhabited place) Died: Miami Beach (Miami-Dade county, Florida, United States) (inhabited place)

Related People or Corporate Bodies:

collaborated with ....	Davis, Douglas
................................	(American video artist and critic, 1933-2014) [500116219]

collaborated with ....	Etra, Bill
................................	(American video artist and electronic designer, 1947-2016) [500062305]

influenced by ....	Cage, John
........................	(American composer and writer, 1912-1992) [500092036]

member of ....	Fluxus
................	(International group of artists, active 1960s-late 1970s) [500125040]

spouse of ....	Kubota, Shigeko
................	(Japanese video artist, 1937-2015, active in New York City) [500104766]

student of ....	Bernhard, Christine
..................	(German photographer, born 1962) [500387888]

teacher of ....	Cortez, Diego
..................	(American curator and filmmaker, 1946-2021) [500523467]

teacher of ....	Janssen, Ute
..................	(German sculptor and video artist, born 1957) [500381772]

teacher of ....	Lanz, Eric
..................	(Swiss video artist and photographer, born 1962) [500378691]

worked with ....	Moorman, Charlotte from 1964 Paik and Moorman have had a performing partnership
....................	(American musician and performance artist, 1933-1991) [500076417]

List/Hierarchical Position:

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Persons, Artists

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Paik, Nam June (I)

Biographies:

(South Korean sculptor, video artist, and performance artist, 1932-2006, active in the United States) ..... [VP Preferred]
(American artist, b.1932) ..... [BHA]
(Korean video artist b.1932) ..... [GRLPA]
(American artist, born 1932) ..... [WL-Courtauld]
(American sculptor, born 1932) ..... [CL-Courtauld]
(Korean video artist, 1932-2006) ..... [AVERY]
(Korean video artist, 1932-2006) ..... [Grove Art]
(artist) ..... [GRI Special Collections]
(artist, active 20th century) ..... [GRISC]
(American artist, born Korea. 1932-2006) ..... [MoMA]
(Korean video artist, 1932-2006) ..... [IMJ]
(German video artist, 1932-2006) ..... [RKD]

Additional Names:

Sources and Contributors:

פייק, נאם ג'ון ........	[IMJ]
..........................	Israel Museum Jerusalem database

Nam June Paik ........	[GRISC, MoMA, RKD, VP]
...........................	Artists, Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) New York (2000-)
...........................	Getty Vocabulary Program rules
...........................	Harald Szeemann papers, Finding Aid, GRI Special Collections (2011-)
...........................	RKD Artists database (2000-) 207453
...........................	Whitney Biennial Exhibition (1987) 191

Paik, Nam June ........	[AVERY Preferred, BHA Preferred, CL-Courtauld Preferred, GRISC Preferred, GRLPA, Grove Art Preferred, IMJ Preferred, MoMA Preferred, RKD Preferred, VP Preferred, WL-Courtauld Preferred]
.............................	Artists, Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) New York (2000-)
.............................	Avery Authority files (1963-)
.............................	Getty Research Library Photo Archive database
.............................	GRI Special Collections Finding Aids databases (1980-) 2006M8; 890164; 980063
.............................	Grove Art artist database (1989-)
.............................	Harald Szeemann papers, Finding Aid, GRI Special Collections (2011-)
.............................	Israel Museum Jerusalem database
.............................	RKD Artists database (2000-) 207453
.............................	Whitney Biennial Exhibition (1987) 191
.............................	Witt Library, Authority files

Paik, Naum June ........	[GRLPA Preferred]
...............................	Matzner, Künstlerlexikon mit Registern zur Documenta 1-8 (1987)


Note:
English	..........	[AVERY, CL-Courtauld, VP, WL-Courtauld]
	..........	Grove Dictionary of Art online (1999-2002) "Paik, Nam June " Accessed 5/01
	..........	LCNAF Library of Congress Name Authority File [n.d.]
	..........	Smith, Nam June Paik, New York Times (2006)

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