Do Ho Suh

Do Ho Suh (hangul: 서도호, born 1962) is a Korean sculptor and installation artist. He also works across various media, paintings and film which explores the concept of space and home.[2]

This is a Korean name; the family name is Suh.
Do Ho Suh
Eitaro Ogawa (left) working with sculptor Do Ho Suh (right).
Born1962
Seoul, South Korea
NationalitySouth Korean
EducationSeoul National University
Rhode Island School of Design
Yale University
Known forSculpture, Installation artist
Korean name
Hangul
Hanja
Revised RomanizationSeo Doho
McCune–ReischauerSŏ Toho

Suh was born in Seoul, South Korea in 1962. He 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.[2] Suh currently has live-in studios located in London, New York City, and Seoul. Suh was named the Wall Street Journal's[3] Innovator of the Year in Art in 2013.[4] He represented Korea at the Venice Biennale in 2001.[5]

Early life

His father, Suh Se-Ok, was a famous artist who 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.[6] Suh grew up in Seoul and after failing to get the grades needed to become a marine biologists, he applied for art school. After receiving a master's degree in traditional Korean painting, he moved to the United States to continue his painting education in 1991.[3] 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.[2] This can be seen in his piece, "Home Within Home Within Home Within Home Within Home" which is a silk replica of his childhood home,[7] as well as his piece "Fallen Star" that featured a traditional Korean home crashing into a Los Angeles building.[8] Moving to the US removed the association Suh had to his father, "I felt relieved when I went to the States, I felt much more freedom".[3] It allowed him to make his own work and not be compared to his father.

Influences

Suh's work has a central focus on architecture, space, and identity.[2] His early work blended into the gallery space and was barely discernible to the viewer as art. His most famous works are made of nylon or silk skillfully sewn into forms that represent spaces in Suh's life to scale. 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.[2] This can be seen in his piece, "Home Within Home Within Home Within Home Within Home"[7] which is a silk replica of his childhood home, as well as his piece "Fallen Star" that featured a traditional Korean home crashing into a Los Angeles building.[8] Suh also challenges the uses of varies materials, for instance, "Do Ho Suh: 348 West 22nd Street" is a work created with luminous swaths of translucent polyester, which features his own history of migration from Korea to New York, a replica of the ground-floor residence when he first arrived the United States. Moving to the US removed the association Suh had to his father, "I felt relieved when I went to the states, I felt much more freedom".[3]

Exhibitions

Suh has had solo exhibitions at Storefront for Art and Architecture (2010), the Serpentine Gallery, London (2002),[9] Seattle Art Museum,[10] the Whitney Museum of American Art at Philip Morris, the Artsonje Center in Korea, the 21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art, Kanazawa, Japan (2013),[11] the Smithsonian American Art Museum in Washington, D.C. (2018),[12] the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (2019 - 2020),[13] the ARoS Aarhus Kunstmuseum in Denmark (2018 - 2019)[14] and the Museum Voorlinden in Netherlands (2019).[15] He has also participated in group exhibitions at the Baltimore Museum of Art, Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston, Museum of Modern Art, New York, and at the Houston Museum of Fine Arts,[16] among others. Suh has participated in numerous biennials, including the 49th Venice Biennale in 2001.[17] In 2010, he was shown in the Liverpool Biennial,[18] the Venice Biennale Architecture,[19] and Media City Seoul Biennial,[20] 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;[21] 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;[22] Los Angeles County Museum of Art; Seattle Asian Art Museum, Seattle, WA;[23] Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto; Tate Modern, London; the Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo; and the Towada Art Center.

Do Ho Suh, New York Apartment (2015).
Do Ho Suh, Bridging Home (2010) in Liverpool, England.
Do Ho Suh, Bridging Home (2010) in Liverpool, England.

Selected works include:

  • Hub-2, Breakfast Corner, 260-7 (2018)
  • Hub-1, Entrace, 260-7 (2018)
  • New York City Apartment (2015)[24]
  • Fallen Star (2012)[25]
  • 348 West 22nd Street (2011-2015)
  • Net-Work (2010)
  • Karma (2010)
  • Home within Home (2009-2011)
  • Fallen Star 1/5 (2008-2011)
  • Cause & Effect (2012)
  • Paratrooper-II (2005)
  • Paratrooper-V (2005)
  • Unsung Founders (2005)
  • Some/One (2005)
  • Reflection (2004)
  • Karma Juggler (2004)
  • Staircase-IV (2004)
  • Doormat: Welcome Back (2003)
  • The Perfect Home (2002)
  • Public Figures (2001)
  • Who Am We? (2000)
  • Floor (1997-2000)
  • High School Uni-form (1997)

References
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  2. "Do Ho Suh - Artists - Lehmann Maupin". www.lehmannmaupin.com. Retrieved 2019-03-21.
  3. "The Wall Street Journal - Press - Lehmann Maupin". www.lehmannmaupin.com. Retrieved 2019-03-21.
  4. Belcove, Julie L. (2013-11-07). "Artist Do Ho Suh Explores the Meaning of Home". Wall Street Journal. ISSN 0099-9660. Retrieved 2019-03-21.
  5. "Do Ho Suh". Art21. Retrieved 2019-03-21.
  6. Wick., Kim, Miki (2012). Korean contemporary art. Munich: Prestel. ISBN 978-3791351575. OCLC 756180942.
  7. Interesting, All That's (2014-03-26). "Do Ho Suh's Fabric Installations Show That Home Is Wherever You Sew It". All That's Interesting. Retrieved 2019-03-21.
  8. "The Los Angeles Times - Press - Lehmann Maupin". www.lehmannmaupin.com. Retrieved 2019-03-21.
  9. "Do-Ho Suh's fabulous fabric flats". The Guardian. London.
  10. "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2011-06-15. Retrieved 2009-04-06.CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
  11. "21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art, Kanazawa. | Do Ho Suh －Perfect Home". 21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art, Kanazawa. Retrieved 2018-01-25.
  12. "Do Ho Suh: Almost Home". Smithsonian American Art Museum. Retrieved 2018-01-25.
  13. "Do Ho Suh: 348 West 22nd Street | LACMA". www.lacma.org. Retrieved 19 June 2020.
  14. "Do Ho Suh - Korridor". ARoS. Retrieved 19 June 2020.
  15. "Do Ho Suh". Voorlinden. Retrieved 19 June 2020.
  16. Your Bright Future: 12 Contemporary Artists from Korea Archived 2009-12-31 at the Wayback Machine Museum of Fine Arts, Houston. 2010.
  17. Haupt, Universes in Universe - Pat Binder, Gerhard. "Do Ho Suh, 49th Venice Biennial: Plateau of Humankind".
  18. Searle, Adrian. The Guardian. Back in Business at the Liverpool Biennial. September 20, 2010.
  19. Designboom Archived August 21, 2010, at the Wayback Machine Venice Architecture Biennale 2010 preview: Suh Architects + Do Ho Suh. August 8, 2010.
  20. "Media City Seoul 2010". Archived from the original on 2010-09-12. Retrieved 2010-10-01.
  21. "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2011-07-27. Retrieved 2009-04-06.CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
  22. "Exhibitions • MOCA".
  23. Sillman, Marcie (2020-02-07). "Seattle's Asian Art Museum reopens, but not quite the same as it ever was". KUOW. Retrieved 2020-06-22.
  24. "New York City Apartment/Bristol". Retrieved 31 October 2015.
  25. "The Stuart Collection".
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