Ik-Joong Kang lives and works in New York City. Born in Cheong Ju, Korea in 1960, he received his B.F.A. in 1984 from Hong-Ik University in Seoul and his M.F.A. in 1987 from Pratt Institute in Brooklyn. His exhibitions include Throw Everything Together and Add at Capp Street Project, and 8490 Days of Memory at Whitney Museum of American Art at Phillip Morris. His work is included in the collections of the Whitney Museum of American Art and the Museum of Contemporary Art in Los Angeles. His awards include fellowships from the New York Foundation for the Arts, the Joan Mitchell Foundation, and the Prize of Special Merit in the 1997 Venice Biennale.