Used a wheelchair since 1996 when he suffered a stroke that paralyzed his left side but he remained active creatively until 2005 when his condition worsened.
Nam June Paik was born in Seoul, Korea on July 20, 1932. His father was a newspaper editor and his mother was a housewife. He had two brothers and one sister. He was educated at the University of Tokyo and later at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
He is best known for his work in the field of video art. He is credited with being the first artist to use video in an artistic context. He has exhibited his work all over the world and his work is held in many prestigious collections.
He has been married twice, first to Japanese artist Shigeko Kubota and later to Korean-American artist Charlotte Moorman. He has no children.
His work has been very influential and he is widely considered to be one of the most important artists of the 20th century. He died in 2006, aged 73.
General Info
Full Name
Nam June Paik
Died
January 29, 2006, Miami, Florida, United States
Profession
Actor, Film director, Visual Artist
Education
University of Tokyo, Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich
Family
Spouse
Shigeko Kubota
Parents
Paik Nak-seung, Cho Jong-hee
Accomplishments
Awards
Guggenheim Fellowship for Creative Arts, US & Canada
Movies
Back To Fucking Cambridge, Digital Experiments At Bell Labs, The Misfits - 30 Years of Fluxus
By the 1950's Paik's performances were more likely to involve whistles or egg beaters than conventional instruments.
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In a 1960 piano performance in Cologne he played Chopin, threw himself on the piano and rushed into the audience attacking Composer John Cage and pianist David Tudor by cutting their clothes with scissors and dumping shampoo on their heads.
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Used a wheelchair since 1996 when he suffered a stroke that paralyzed his left side but he remained active creatively until 2005 when his condition worsened.
Movies
Director
Title
Year
Status
Character
Beatles Electroniques
1969
Short
Zen for Film
1964
Short
Bye Bye Kipling
1986
TV Movie
Merce by Merce by Paik
1978
Documentary short
Guadalcanal Requiem
1977
Video short
Suite 212
1975
Short
Global Groove
1973
Video short
Waiting for Commercials
1972
Short
Actor
Title
Year
Status
Character
The Misfits - 30 Years of Fluxus
1993
Back to Fucking Cambridge
1987
Anton Von Webern
Variations V
1966
Soundtrack
Title
Year
Status
Character
Horns
2013
performer: "Hommage á John Cage"
Shutter Island
2010
performer: "HOMMAGE Á JOHN CAGE" 1959 / writer: "HOMMAGE Á JOHN CAGE" 1959
Writer
Title
Year
Status
Character
Suite 212
1975
Short
Beatles Electroniques
1969
Short writer
Cinematographer
Title
Year
Status
Character
Suite 212
1975
Short
Editor
Title
Year
Status
Character
Suite 212
1975
Short
Self
Title
Year
Status
Character
Jonas at the Ocean
2002
Documentary
Himself
Nina Hagen = Punk + Glory
1999
Documentary
Himself
Jonas in the Desert
1994
Documentary
Himself
Nam June Paik
1962
Documentary short
Himself
Archive Footage
Title
Year
Status
Character
Free Radicals: A History of Experimental Film
2011
Documentary
Himself - Artist
Nam June Paik
2010
TV Movie documentary
Himself
As I Was Moving Ahead Occasionally I Saw Brief Glimpses of Beauty
2000
Documentary
Himself
Awards
Won Awards
Year
Award
Ceremony
Nomination
Movie
1986
Maya Deren Independent Film and Video Artists Award
