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Suh was born in Seoul, South Korea in 1962. He’s earned a Bachelor of Fine Arts and Master of Fine Arts from Seoul National University in Oriental Painting. Before immigrating to the United States, he briefly served in the South Korean military. He studied at Rhode Island School of Design where he received a Bachelor of Fine Arts in painting in 1994. Then, in 1997, he received a Master of Fine Arts in sculpture from Yale University.  

Suh currently has live-in studios located in London,[5] New York City, and Seoul.

Suh’s father, Suh Se-Ok, led a 1960s art movement to combine traditional ink paintings with new meanings and concepts from the abstract art movement that was happening in the West (Korean Contemporary Artists book).

Exhibitions

Suh has had solo exhibitions at Storefront for Art and Architecture (2010), the Serpentine Gallery, London (2002),[6] Seattle Art Museum,[7] the Whitney Museum of American Art at Philip Morris, the Artsonje Center in Korea, the 21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art, Kanazawa, Japan (2013),[8] and the Smithsonian American Art Museum in Washington, D.C. (2018)[9]. He has also participated in group exhibitions at the Baltimore Museum of Art, Museum of Modern Art, New York, and at the Houston Museum of Fine Arts,[10] among others. Suh has participated in numerous biennials, including the 49th Venice Biennale in 2001.[11] In 2010, he was shown in the Liverpool Biennial,[12] the Venice Biennale Architecture,[13] and Media City Seoul Biennial,[14] and the 9th Gwangju Biennale in 2012.

Public Collections

Suh's work is found in major museum collections worldwide, including the Museum of Modern Art, New York;[15] Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York; Albright–Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, N.Y.; Minneapolis Institute of Art; Walker Art Center, Minneapolis; Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles;[16] Los Angeles County Museum of Art; Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto; Tate Modern, London; the Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo; and the Towada Art Center.

Selected works include:

  • New York City Apartment (2015)[17]
  • Fallen Star (2012)[18]
  • Net-Work (2010)
  • Karma (2010)
  • Home within Home (2009-2011)
  • Fallen Star 1/5 (2008-2011)
  • Cause & Effect (2007)
  • Paratrooper-II (2005)
  • Paratrooper-V (2005)
  • Unsung Founders (2005)
  • Reflection (2004)
  • Karma Juggler (2004)
  • Staircase-IV (2004)
  • Some/One (2005)
  • Doormat: Welcome Back (2003)
  • The Perfect Home (2002)
  • Public Figures (2001)
  • Who Am We? (2000)
  • Floor (1997-2000)
  • High School Uni-form (1997)

SOLO:

ARoS, Aarhus, Denmark (2018)

The Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, NY (2018)

Frist Center for the Visual Arts, Nashville, TN (2018)

Towada Art Center, Towada (2018)

Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington, DC (2018)

Cantor Arts Center, Stanford, CA (2018)

Bildmuseet, Umea, Sweden (2017)

Madison Museum of Contemporary Art, WI (2017)

NC-arte, Bogota, Colombia (2016)

Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego, CA (2016)

Contemporary Arts Center, Cincinnati, OH (2016)

Singapore Tyler Print Institute, Singapore (2015)

Museum of Contemporary Art Cleveland, OH (2015)

Mori Art Museum, Tokyo (2015)

Bristol Museum & Art Gallery, Bristol, United Kingdom (2015)

The Contemporary Austin, TX (2014)

National Museum of Contemporary Art, Seoul (2013)

21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art, Kanazawa, Japan (2012-2013)

Hiroshima City Museum of Contemporary Art, Japan (2012)

Stuart Collection, University of San Diego, California (2012)

Leeum, Samsung Museum of Art, Seoul (2012)

Tate Modern, London (2011)

GROUP:

21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art & Culture City of East Asia, Kanazawa, Japan (2018)

Shelter in the Storm, A Look at the Exile in the MUSAC Collection, Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Castilla y Léon, León, Spain (2018)

16th International Architecture Exhibition, Venice, Italy (2018)

Art of the Senses, Albright- Knox Gallery, Buffalo, NY (2017)

No Place Like Home, The Israel Museum, Jerusalem (2017)

Apparitions: Frottages and Rubbings from 1860 to Now, The Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, traveled to the Menil Collection, Houston, TX (2015)

Beyond and Between, Leeum, Samsung Museum of Art, Seoul (2014)

Shades of Time: An Exhibition from the Archive of Korean American Artists, Part Two 1989 - 2001, Queens Museum, NY (2014)

Homebodies, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago (2013)

Dislocation, Daegu Art Museum, South Korea (2012)

Peppermint Candy: Contemporary Korean Art, The National Museum of Contemporary Art, Gwacheon, South Korea (2009).


BIENNIALS:

Singapore Biennial (2016)

the 9th Gwangju Biennale, South Korea (2012)

the 6th Liverpool Biennial, United Kingdom (2010)

the 12th International Architecture Exhibition, Venice, Italy (2010)

the 8th International Istanbul Biennial (2003)

the 13th Biennial of Sydney (2002)

and represented Korea at the 49th Venice Biennale (2001).

PRIVATE COLLECTIONS:

The Museum of Modern Art, New York

Whitney Museum of American Art, New York

the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York

Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, New York

Los Angeles County Museum of Art; Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN

Tate Modern, London; Thyssen-Bornemisza Art Contemporary Collection, Vienna

Museum Voorlinden, Netherlands; Leeum, Samsung Museum of Art, Seoul

Art Sonje Center, Seoul; Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo

Mori Art Museum, Tokyo

21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art, Kanazawa, Japan

the Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington, DC.

Do Ho Suh (hangul:서도호, born 1962) is a Korean sculptor and installation artist. His works often explore the concept of space and home.[1]

Suh was born in Seoul, South Korea in 1962. He’s earned a Bachelor of Fine Arts and Master of Fine Arts from Seoul National University in Oriental Painting. He also studied at Rhode Island School of Design where he received a Bachelor of Fine Arts in painting in 1994. Then, in 1997, he received a Master of Fine Arts in sculpture from Yale University. Suh currently has live-in studios located in London, New York City, and Seoul.[1] Suh was named the Wall Street Journal's Innovator of the Year in Art in 2013.[2] He represented Korea at the 49th Venice Beinnale in 2001.[3]

Early Life[edit][edit]

Suh grew up in Seoul and served in the Korean military before immigrating to the United States. Suh’s father, Suh Se-Ok, led a 1960s art movement to combine traditional ink paintings with new meanings and concepts from the abstract art movement that was happening in the West.[4] Immigrating to the United States affected how Suh interpreted home and created an overarching theme in his works where he explores space and how we interact with it.[1]

Exhibitions[edit][edit]

Suh has participated in or hosted many exhibitions around the world. His solo exhibitions were held at Tate Modern, London (2011), Leeum, Samsung Museum of Art, Seoul (2012), Stuart Collection, University of San Diego, California (2012), Hiroshima City Museum of Contemporary Art (2012), 21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art, Kanazawa, Japan (2012-2013), National Museum of Contemporary Art, Seoul (2013), The Contemporary Austin, TX (2014), Bristol Museum & Art Gallery (2015), Mori Art Museum, Tokyo (2015), Museum of Contemporary Art Cleveland, OH (2015), Singapore Tyler Print Institute (2015), Contemporary Arts Center, Cincinnati, OH (2016), Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego, CA (2016), NC-arte, Bogota, Colombia (2016), Madison Museum of Contemporary Art, WI (2017), Bildmuseet, Umea, Sweden (2017), Cantor Arts Center, Stanford, CA (2018), Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington, DC (2018), Towada Art Center (2018), Frist Center for the Visual Arts, Nashville, TN (2018), The Brooklyn Museum, NY (2018), and ARoS, Aarhus, Denmark (2018).[1]

His work has been featured at the 49th Venice Biennale (2001), the 13th Biennial of Sydney (2002), the 8th International Istanbul Biennial (2003), the 12th International Architecture Exhibition (2010), the 6th Liverpool Biennial (2010), the 9th Gwangju Biennale (2012) and the Singapore Biennial (2016).[1]

Public Collections

Suh's work is found in major museum collections worldwide, including the Museum of Modern Art, New York;[15] Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York; Albright–Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, N.Y.; Minneapolis Institute of Art; Walker Art Center, Minneapolis; Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles;[16] Los Angeles County Museum of Art; Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto; Tate Modern, London; the Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo; and the Towada Art Center.

Selected works include:

  • New York City Apartment (2015)[17]
  • Fallen Star (2012)[18]
  • Net-Work (2010)
  • Karma (2010)
  • Home within Home (2009-2011)
  • Fallen Star 1/5 (2008-2011)
  • Cause & Effect (2007)
  • Paratrooper-II (2005)
  • Paratrooper-V (2005)
  • Unsung Founders (2005)
  • Reflection (2004)
  • Karma Juggler (2004)
  • Staircase-IV (2004)
  • Some/One (2005)
  • Doormat: Welcome Back (2003)
  • The Perfect Home (2002)
  • Public Figures (2001)
  • Who Am We? (2000)
  • Floor (1997-2000)
  • High School Uni-form (1997)

References[edit][edit]

  • ^ Jump up to:a b c d e "Do Ho Suh - Artists - Lehmann Maupin". www.lehmannmaupin.com. Retrieved 2019-03-05.
  • ^ Belcove, Julie L. (2013-11-07). "Artist Do Ho Suh Explores the Meaning of Home". Wall Street Journal. ISSN 0099-9660. Retrieved 2019-03-05.
  • ^ "Do Ho Suh". Art21. Retrieved 2019-03-05.
  • ^ Wick., Kim, Miki (2012). Korean contemporary art. Munich: Prestel. ISBN 3791351575. OCLC 756180942.
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