Artworks · Nam June Paik

Chinese Memory

2005 · Single-channel video, color, silent, 21 min., 12 sec.; vintage television cabinet with permanent oil marker, glass, acrylic, record cover, scroll, antennae, and books

2024.302a-p: 81 × 55 × 44 in. (205.7 × 139.7 × 111.8 cm)

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Untitled

1993 · Player piano, fifteen televisions, two cameras, two laser disc players, one electric light and light bulb, and wires

Overall approximately 8' 4" x 8' 9" x 48" (254 x 266.7 x 121.9 cm), including laser disc player and lamp

Museum of Modern Art

Untitled

1991 · Two–channel video sculpture with color televisions and vintage cameras; color, silent; 30 min. 12 sec., continuous loop

68.6 × 33.1 × 28 cm (27 × 13 × 11 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

Untitled (Green Ginsburg)

1990 · Silver dye bleach print

30 1/4 × 42 1/2" (76.8 × 107.9 cm)

Museum of Modern Art

Family of Robot: Baby

1986 · Single-channel video sculpture: thirteen television monitors and aluminum armature; color, silent. Number nine of nine unique sculptures in series.

133.3 × 96.2 × 20.4 cm (52 1/2 × 37 7/8 × 8 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

Flux Jets

1985 · Pencil and felt-tip pen on paper (recto); felt-tip pen on paper (taped to verso)

10 7/8 × 15 5/8" (27.6 × 39.7 cm)

Museum of Modern Art

Flux Jets

1985 · Pencil and felt-tip pen on paper

10 7/8 × 15 5/8" (27.6 × 39.7 cm)

Museum of Modern Art

Flux Jets

1985 · Pencil and felt-tip pen on paper

10 7/8 × 15 5/8" (27.6 × 39.7 cm)

Museum of Modern Art

Flux Jets

1985 · Pencil and felt-tip pen with printed paper pasted on paper

10 7/8 × 15 5/8" (27.6 × 39.7 cm)

Museum of Modern Art

Notation for Braun Jet

1985 · Cut-and-taped printed paper with felt-tip pen

sheet (irreg.): 15 1/2 x 11 13/16" (39.3 x 30 cm)

Museum of Modern Art

Braun Jet

1985 · Airplane clock with paint additions

overall: 3 15/16 × 13 3/8 × 3 1/8" (10 × 34 × 8 cm)

Museum of Modern Art

Kricke Jet

1985 · Airplane clock with paint additions

overall: 3 15/16 × 13 3/8 × 3 1/8" (10 × 34 × 8 cm)

Museum of Modern Art

Hoehme Jet

1985 · Airplane clock with paint additions

overall: 3 15/16 × 13 3/8 × 3 1/8" (10 × 34 × 8 cm)

Museum of Modern Art

Beüys Jet

1985 · Airplane clock with paint additions

overall: 3 15/16 × 13 3/8 × 3 1/8" (10 × 34 × 8 cm)

Museum of Modern Art

I-Ching / Et Ching, from V-IDEA a priori

1984 · Etching in black on ivory wove paper

Plate: 37.5 × 47.3 cm (14 13/16 × 18 5/8 in.); Sheet: 59 × 69.2 cm (23 1/4 × 27 1/4 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

TV Story Board, from V-IDEA a priori

1984 · Color etching on ivory wove paper

Plate: 37.5 × 47.3 cm (14 13/16 × 18 5/8 in.); Sheet: 59 × 69.2 cm (23 1/4 × 27 1/4 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

Time Runs / Tape Runs, from V-IDEA a priori

1984 · Color etching on ivory wove paper

Plate: 37.5 × 47.3 cm (14 13/16 × 18 5/8 in.); Sheet: 59 × 69.2 cm (23 1/4 × 27 1/4 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

Etching on Etching, from V-IDEA a priori

1984 · Color aquatint and etching on ivory wove paper

Plate: 37.5 × 47.3 cm (14 13/16 × 18 5/8 in.); Sheet: 59 × 69.2 cm (23 1/4 × 27 1/4 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

Zenith, from V-IDEA a priori

1984 · Color etching on ivory wove paper

Plate: 37.5 × 47.3 cm (14 13/16 × 18 5/8 in.); Sheet: 59 × 69.2 cm (23 1/4 × 27 1/4 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

1984 Invaders, from V-IDEA a priori

1984 · Color etching on ivory wove paper

Plate: 37.5 × 47.3 cm (14 13/16 × 18 5/8 in.); Sheet: 59 × 69.2 cm (23 1/4 × 27 1/4 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

Rosetta Stone, from V-IDEA a priori

1984 · Color aquatint and etching on ivory wove paper

Plate: 37.5 × 47.3 cm (14 13/16 × 18 5/8 in.); Sheet: 59 × 69.2 cm (23 1/4 × 27 1/4 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

Li Tai Po Color Barred, from V-IDEA a priori

1984 · Color aquatint and etching on ivory wove paper

Plate: 37.5 × 47.3 cm (14 13/16 × 18 5/8 in.); Sheet: 59 × 69.2 cm (23 1/4 × 27 1/4 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

Family Photo Declassified, from V-IDEA a priori

1984 · Color etching on ivory wove paper

Plate: 37.5 × 47.3 cm (14 13/16 × 18 5/8 in.); Sheet: 59 × 69.2 cm (23 1/4 × 27 1/4 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

Title page, from V-IDEA a priori

1984 · Etching on ivory wove paper

Plate: 37.5 × 47.3 cm (14 13/16 × 18 5/8 in.); Sheet: 59 × 69.2 cm (23 1/4 × 27 1/4 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

Colophon, from V-IDEA a priori

1984 · Etching on ivory wove paper

Plate: 37.5 × 47.3 cm (14 13/16 × 18 5/8 in.); Sheet: 59 × 69.2 cm (23 1/4 × 27 1/4 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

Life Has No Rewind Button, from V-IDEA a priori

1984 · Color aquatint and etching on ivory wove paper

Plate: 37.5 × 47.3 cm (14 13/16 × 18 5/8 in.); Sheet: 59 × 69.2 cm (23 1/4 × 27 1/4 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

Portfolio box, from V-IDEA a priori

1984 · Portfolio box

Art Institute of Chicago

Good Morning, Mr. Orwell

1984 · Standard-definition video (color, sound)

38 min.

Museum of Modern Art

All Star Video (with Ryuichi Sakamoto)

1984 · Video (color, sound)

32 min.

Museum of Modern Art

V-Idea, a priori

1984 · Etching and aquatint

Sheet: 11 7/8 × 14 7/8 in. (30.2 × 37.8 cm)

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Drawing for T.V. Camera Sculpture

1983 · Pencil on paper

29 1/2 × 21 3/4" (74.9 × 55.2 cm)

Museum of Modern Art

Lake Placid '80

1980 · Video (color, sound)

3:49 min.

Museum of Modern Art

Postcard from Nam June Paik to Jan van der Marck

1977 · Torn and mailed postcard with ballpoint pen

sheet (irreg.): 5 7/8 × 5 7/8" (15 × 15 cm)

Museum of Modern Art

My Jubilee ist Unverhemmet

1977 · 12-inch vinyl record

cover: 12 1/4 × 12 3/8" (31.1 × 31.4 cm)

Museum of Modern Art

3 F Truck

1977 · Toy truck with paint additions

12 3/8 x 24 x 8 7/16" (31.5 x 61 x 21.5 cm)

Museum of Modern Art

Guadalcanal Requiem

1977 · Video (color, sound)

28:33 min.

Museum of Modern Art

Fluxus is always 6 a.m.

1976 · Typewriting on paper

sheet: 2 1/2 x 3 1/2" (6.3 x 8.9 cm)

Museum of Modern Art

Postcard from Nam June Paik to Jan van der Marck

1975 · Torn and mailed postcard with ballpoint pen

sheet: 4 1/8 × 5 13/16" (10.5 × 14.7 cm)

Museum of Modern Art

Postcard from Nam June Paik to Jan van der Marck

1975 · Torn and mailed postcard with ballpoint pen

sheet: 4 × 5 7/8" (10.2 × 15 cm)

Museum of Modern Art

Young Penis Symphony

1975 · Torn paper

sheet (irreg.): 24 × 56 1/8" (61 × 142.5 cm)

Museum of Modern Art

Fluxus Typewriter

1975 · Altered typewriter

overall: 9 13/16 x 18 11/16 x 14 3/8" (25 x 47.5 x 36.5 cm)

Museum of Modern Art

Untitled

1974 · Acrylic on canvas

13 3/4 x 17 11/16" (35 x 45 cm)

Museum of Modern Art

Untitled

1974 · Acrylic and tape on canvas

13 9/16 x 17 11/16" (34.5 x 45 cm)

Museum of Modern Art

Untitled, from The New York Collection for Stockholm

1973 · Three-color silkscreen on paper

30.5 × 22.9 cm (12 1/16 × 9 1/16 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

Flyer for the 10th Annual Avant Garde Festival, Grand Central Station, New York City, December 9, 1973

1973 · Offset lithograph

Museum of Modern Art

Portrait of Geoge Brecht

1973 · Wood ladder with paint additions

20 15/16 × 5 7/8 × 1" (53.2 × 15 × 2.5 cm)

Museum of Modern Art

A Tribute to John Cage

1973 · Video (color, sound)

29:02 min.

Museum of Modern Art

Global Groove

1973 · Video (color, sound)

28:30 min.

Museum of Modern Art