Min Ja Ryu

Ryu Min Ja was born in 1942 in South Korea. Painter with a strong international aura, her art between abstract and figurative art is mainly devoted to Buddhist spiritual repetitive motives invoked like a prayer on paper or on canvas. After her diploma from Hong-Ik University in 1965, in 1979 she travels to France, with a Solo Show in an Art gallery in Paris Latin district and her art paintings are on the cover of Louis Pauwels magazine "Questions de spiritualité" and the cover of Paris Salon d'Art Sacré Catalogues, 1979 to 1981. 

This fair was organized by the Culture Minister Lecat, Paris Mayor Jacques Chirac, René Huygues, Louvre Museum Curator and Collège de France Professor, M.M. Pezeril Paris Catholic Archbishop, Maury Pt Protestant Federation, A. Goldman Paris Great Rabbi de Paris, SH Boubakeur, Recteur Mosquée de Paris, Claude Bouret, Curator in National Library. 

Amongst Ryu Min Ja Solo Shows and Collections , Couple Show, 1970 Myong Dong Gallery, 1973, Yang-Ji Gallery, 1975, Hyun Dae Gallery, Pusan, 1976, Sun Gallery, 1978, Whany Gallery, 1979, Dongsanbang Gallery, 1980, Lotte Gallery, 1982, Cho Sun Gallery, Séoul 1984, Arts Olympiads organized by Lise Cormery Gallery for the French Olympic Committee in 1991 and 1992 in Paris. October 2019, Ryu Min Ja 30th Anniversary Retrospective, Gana Art Center Gallery, Seoul.