Do Ho Suh

Born in Seoul in 1962, Do Ho Suh trained at Seoul National University before moving to the United States and later settling between London and Seoul, where he continues to live and work. He is celebrated for ethereal, full-scale reconstructions of the rooms, corridors and staircases he has inhabited, sewn from translucent polyester or nylon and sometimes cast in resin; these ghost-architecture installations probe ideas of home, displacement and cultural memory. Suh also produces delicate thread drawings, rubbings and animated films that extend the same enquiry. His work is held by major institutions including Tate, MoMA, the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, the Whitney, the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago and the Leeum Samsung Museum of Art, and he represented Korea at the 2001 Venice Biennale. Honors such as the Ho-Am Prize for the Arts (2017) underpin his critical standing, and consistent six- and seven-figure results at Sotheby’s and Christie’s indicate a liquid, globally traded market for both large installations and more modest works on paper.