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Looking East: Rubens’s Encounter with Asia, March 5–June 9, 2013 at the Getty Center.
This exhibition was not a fashion exhibition, but featured items of historical Korean dress retrieved from a tomb excavation for the first time outside of South Korea.
The accompanied publication:
Looking East: Rubens's Encounter with Asia
Edited by Stephanie Schrader, with contributions by Burglind Jungmann, Kim Young-Jae, and Christine Göttler
Treasures from Korea: Arts and Culture of the Joseon Dynasty, 1392-1910
Held in the Philadelphia Museum of Art during March 2 – May 26, 2014, this exhibition traveled to the Los Angeles County Museum of Art Jun 29–Sep 28, 2014, and the Museum of Fine Arts in Houston October 30, 2014–January 11, 2015.
Image credit © Philadelphia Museum of Art.
The exhibition catalog is available here.
Korea Now! Musée des Arts Décoratifs in Paris, September 19, 2015–January 3, 2016.
Curated by the South Korean government institution Hanbok Advancement Center, this exhibition commemorated the 130th anniversary of diplomatic ties between France and South Korea. It was the first Korean fashion exhibition held at a major museum outside of Korea, also marking the largest scale with over 270 works of traditional and contemporary fashion and for the longest duration at that time. The central theme was obangsaek, or five-directional color symbolism, with each of the five directions symbolizing a corresponding color and element: east- blue- tree, west- white- gold, south- red- fire, north- black- water, and center- yellow- earth.
This exhibition was brought back to South Korea: Made 人 Korea - 문화로 산업을 창조하다. DDP (Dongdaemun Design Plaza), Seoul. 2016. 03. 03 ~ 2016. 03. 07; 광주국립아시아문화전당, 3.18~3.23, 2016; 부산 벡스코, 4.1~10, 2016.
Many of the selected works were re-featured in the later exhibitions held in the US.
Two exhibition catalogs:
Couture Korea [우리의 옷, 한복], The Asian Art Museum, San Francisco,
November 3, 2017–February 4, 2018
Photo © Asian Art Museum
Exhibition review by Minjee Kim; Suzy Menkes
Korea: A Land of Hats, Charles B. Wang Center at Stony Brook University in New York. September 10 – December 15, 2019
Photo © Charles B. Wang Center
Related video: Hats Make the Korean Man
Gold Needles: Embroidery Arts from Korea
@ The Cleveland Museum of Art. March 8-October 25, 2020.
photo © The Cleveland Museum of Art
Korean Fashion: From Royal Court to Runway The George Washington University Museum and the Textile Museum. August 19–December 22, 2022. (Curator: Lee Talbot)
Exhibition review by Minjee Kim
Hallyu! The Korean Wave.
V&A. September 24, 2022 – June 25, 2023;
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. March 24–July 28, 2024;
Asian Art Museum of San Francisco, September 27, 2024 – January 6, 2025.
Virtual tour of the fashion and beauty sections by Minjee Kim
Blurring Boundaries: Hanbok, Revisited (한복을 꺼내다).
Areumjigi Foundation. 2023.9.2.- 11.15.
LA-based designer Christina Kim's (Dosa) homecoming show in collaboration with Areumjigi Foundation.
Exhibition review by Andrew Russeth (Art critic currently based in Seoul) in New York Times.
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