was created to commission paintings depicting famous historical moments. With generous state-backed funds, artists such as Chung Chang-sup were hired and their works were bough by the state. Chung was well connected to the Yushin elite. Awards Chung received numerous awards including The 2nd Korean National Art Exhibition Special Prize (1953 and 1955), Bronze Prize at The 1st Saigon International Biennale (1962), 13th Joong Ang Cultural Grand Prize (1987) and the Order of Korean National Art Merit (1993). Exhibitions Chung had had major solo exhibitions at LA Art Core Center(1984), Ueda Gallery (1985), Tokyo Gallery (1994), Mark Moore Galery (1995), Hyundai Gallery (1996), and a major retrospective at the Korean National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art (2010). He also participated in several group exhibitions including the 2nd Paris Youth Biennale (1961), São Paulo Art Biennial (1965), Modernism in Korean Contemporary Art Scene: 1970- 1979 at the Hyundai Department Store Gallery (1988), Working with Nature: Traditional Thought in Contemporary Art from Korea at Tate Liverpool (1992), Age of Philosophy and Aesthetics at the National Museum of Contemporary Art (2002). Monochrome Painting of Korea, Past and Present at the Seoul Museum of Art (2004), Masters of Korean Contemporary Art at Leehwaik Gallery (2006), Dansaekhwa: Korean Monochrome Painting at the Korean National Museum of Contemporary Art (2012), and the 12th Sharjah Biennial (2015), When Process Becomes Form: Dansaekhwa and Korean Abstraction at the Boghossian Foundation. Public collections National Museum of Contemporary Art, Gwacheon; Seoul Museum of Art, Seoul; Busan Museum of Modern Art, Busan; Daejeon Museum of Art, Daejeon; Samsung Museum of Art, Leeum, Seoul; Walkerhill Art Center, Seoul; Sonje Museum of Contemporary Art, Gyeongju; Youngeun Museum, Gwangju; HanLim Museum, Daejeon; Seoul National University Museum, Seoul; Korea University Museum, Seoul; Ewha Womans University Museum, Seoul; 63 Museum, Seoul; Royal Nepal Museum, Nepal; Tokyo Metropolitan Art Museum, Tokyo; Mie Prefectural Art Museum, Mie, Japan; Shimonoseki City Art Museum, Shimonoseki; Hiroshima City Museum of Contemporary Art, Hiroshima, Japan References 1927 births 2010 deaths 20th-century South Korean painters