Do-Ho Suh

BIOGRAPHY
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DO-HO SUH
1962 Born in Seoul, Korea
  Lives and works in New York and London 
   
Training  
1997 Yale University School of Art, MFA Sculpture, New Haven, Connecticut
1994 Rhode Island School of Design, BFA Painting, Providence, Rhode Island
1987 Seoul National University, MFA Oriental Painting, Seoul, Korea
1985 Seoul National University, BFA Oriental Painting, Seoul, Korea
   
Solo Exhibitions
2012 Do Ho Suh, 21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art, Kanazawa, Japan 
  Do Ho Suh, Hiroshima City Museum of Contemporary Art, Hiroshima. Japan 
  The Perfect Home, Leeum, Seoul, Korea 
2011 Asian Art and Do Ho Suh, Seattle Art Museum, Seattle, Washington
  The Perfect Home: Bridge Project, DAAD Galerie, Berlin, Germany 
  The Perfect Home: Bridge Project, Slade School of Fine Art, University College London
  Home within Home, Lehmann Maupin, New York 
  Do Ho Suh, Singapore Tyler Print Institute, Singapore
2010 Cause and Effect, The Hite Cultural Foundation, Seoul, Korea
  The Perfect Home: Bridge Project, Storefront for Art and Architecture, New York
2007 Reflection, Lehmann Maupin, New York
  Cause and Effect, Lehmann Maupin, New York
2006 The Speculation Project, Sun Contemporary, Seoul, Korea
2005 The Fabric Workshop and Museum, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
  Reflection, Hermes, Tokyo, Japan
2004 Galeria Soledad Lorenzo, Madrid
  Sackler Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
  Lehmann Maupin, New York
2003 Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island
  Lehmann Maupin, New York
  ArtSonje Center, Seoul, Korea
  The Perfect Home, Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art, Kansas City, Missouri
  Seattle Art Museum, Seattle, Washington
2002 Serpentine Gallery, London
2001 Some/One, Whitney Museum of American Art at Philip Morris, New York
2000 Lehmann Maupin, New York
1999 Seoul Home/L.A. Home, Korean Cultural Center, Los Angeles, California
1999 Sight-Seeing, NTT InterCommunication Center, Tokyo, Japan
   
Selected Group Exhibitions 
2011 East Ex East, Brand New Gallery Milan, Italy
  Luminous: The Art of Asia, Seattle Art Museum, Seattle, Washington
  2011 Haein Art Project, Haeinsa, Hapcheon, Korea
  Against All Odds Project, Banaki Museum, Athens, Greece
  Korean Rhapsody, Leeum, Seoul, Korea
  Dreamscapes, The Pulitzer Foundation for the Arts, St. Louis, Missouri
  The Spirituality of Place, Gutstein Gallery, Savannah College of Art and Design, Savannah, Georgia
2010 Mapping Identity, Cantor Fitzerald Gallery, Haverford College, Haverford, Pennsylvania
  The Hidden City: Selections from Martin Z. Margulies Foundation, Tampa Art Museum, Tampa, Florida
  Beyond/In Western New York 2010: Alternating Currents, Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, New York
  Liverpool Biennial, Liverpool, Great Britain
  Trust, Media City Seoul, Seoul, Korea
  Venice Architecture Biennale, Venice, Italy
  Setouchi International Art Festival, Shodojima, Japan
  Palais Des Arts et du festival, Dinard, France
2009 Peppermint Candy: Contemporary Korean Art, The National Museum of Contemporary Art, Kwacheon, Korea
  KAFA Awards Exhibition, Seoul National University Museum, Seoul, Korea
  Papertrail v. 5: Intimate Gestures, Judi Rotenberg Gallery, Boston, Massachusetts
  The Kaleidoscopic Eye: Thyssen-Bornemisza Art Contemporary Collection, Mori Art Museum, Tokyo, Japan
  Your Bright Future, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angles, California [traveling to Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, 2009]
2008 Bizarre Perfection, curated by Susan Landau, The Israel Museum, Jerusalem
  METAMORPHOSES, Espace Louis Vuitton, Paris, France
  Drawn in the Clouds, KIASMA, Museum of Contemporary Art, Helsinki, Finland
  Transcendence: Modernity and Beyond in Korean Art, Singapore Art Museum
  On the Margins, Mildred Lane Kempner Art Museum, St. Louis, Missouri
  Thyssen-Bornemisza Art Contemporary Collection as Aleph, KunsthausGraz, Graz, Austria
  Psycho Buildings, Hayward Gallery, London, England
  Second Lives, Museum of Arts & Design, New York
2007 Red Hot: Asian Art Today from the Chaney Collection, Museum of Fine Arts Houston, Texas
  Peppermint Candy: Contemporary Korean Art, Museo de Arte Contemporaeneo, Santiago, Chile
  System Error, Palazzo delle Papesse, Siena, Italy
  All the More Real, The Parrish Art Museum, Southampton, New York
  Façades, Krannert Art Museum, University of Illinois, Champaign, Illinois
  Downtown Expansion, Seattle Art Museum, Seattle, WA
2006 This Is Not For You, Thyssen-Bornemisza Art Contemporary, Vienna, Austria
  New Works: 06.2, Artpace, San Antonio, Texas
  Facing East: Portraits from Asia, Freer + Sackler Galleries, Washington, DC
  Other Than Art, G Fine Art, Washington, DC
  To the Human Future: Flight From The Dark Side, Contemporary Art Gallery, Art Tower Mito, Mito, Japan
  A Step in the Right Direction, Gl. Holtegaard Breda-Fonden, Holte, Denmark
2005 Monuments for the USA, White Columns, New York
  St. Gauden’s Memorial Award Exhibition, UBS Art Gallery, New York
  ShowCASe: Contemporary Art for the UK, Contemporary Art Society, Edinburgh, Great Britain
  Identity and Nomadism, Palazzo delle Papesse-Centro Arte Contemporanea, Siena, Italy
  Sujeto, MUSAC, Leon, Spain
  Staircase, 21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art, Kanazawa, Japan
  The Elegance of Silence: Contemporary Art from East Asia, Mori Art Museum, Tokyo, Japan
2004 The Print Show, Exit Art, New York
  Contemplating War, JCCC, Overland Park, Kansas
  Transcultures, National Museum of Contemporary Art, Athens, Greece
  Lustwarande 04: Disorientation of Beauty, Tilburg, The Netherlands
  Siting: Installation Art 1969 – 2002, MoCA Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California
  Undomesticated, Smith College Museum of Art, Massachusetts
  Home and Away, Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver, Canada
  Living inside the Grid, The New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York
  Formed to Function, John Michael Kohler Arts Center, Sheboygan, Wisconsin
2003 On the Wall: Wallpaper by Contemporary Artists, RISD Museum, Providence, Rhode Island
  Istanbul Biennial, Istanbul, Turkey
  On the Wall: Wallpaper and Tableau, The Fabric Workshop and Museum, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
  Multiple/Multiples, curated by Dan Cameron, Nassau Country Museum of Art, New York
2002 Constructed Fabric, Kobe Fashion Museum, Kobe, Japan
  Mask or Mirror: A play of Portraits, Worcester Art Museum
  Multitude, Artist Space, New York
  Asia Pacific Triennial of Contemporary Art, Queensland Art Gallery, Brisbane, Australia
  Biennale of Sydney, Sydney, Australia
  Sculptura 02, Falkenberg, Sweden
  Collecting Contemporary Art: A Community Dialogue, Ackland Art Museum, Chapel Hill, North Carolina
  International Contemporary Art, Museum of Modern Art, Mexico City, Mexico
2001 Lunapark: Contemporary Art from Korea, Württembergischer Kunstverein Stuttgart, Stuttgart, Germany
  Everybody Now, Bertha and Karl Leubsdorf Art Gallery, Hunter College, New York
  My Home is Yours. Your Home is Mine, Tokyo Opera City Art Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
  Korean Pavilion, Venice Biennale, Venice, Italy
  International Pavilion, Venice Biennale, Venice, Italy
  Uniform, Order and Disorder, P.S. 1, Long Island City, New York
  Made in Asia, Duke University Art Museum, Durham, North Carolina
  About Face, The Museum of Modern Art, New York
  Subject Plural: Crowds in Contemporary Art, Houston Contemporary Art Museum, Houston, Texas
  Currents in Korean Contemporary Art II, Hong Kong Art Centre, Hong Kong
  BodySpace, The Baltimore Museum of Art, Baltimore, Maryland
  Uniforme, Ordine e Disordine, Stazione Leopolda, Florence, Italy
2000 Greater New York, P.S. 1, Long Island City, New York
  Koreamericakorea, Art Sonje Center, Seoul, Korea; Sonje Art Museum, Kyungjoo, Korea
  Open Ends, The Museum of Modern Art, New York
  My Home is Yours. Your Home is Mine, Rodin Gallery, Seoul, Korea
  Currents in Korean Contemporary Art I, Taipei Fine Arts Museum, Taipei, Taiwan
1999 Trippy World, Baron/Boisante, New York
  The Self, Absorbed, Bellevue Art Museum, Bellevue, Washington
  Uniform, Center for Curatorial Studies, Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, New York
1998 Cross-Cultural Voices: Asian American Artists, University Art Gallery, Staller Center for the Arts, SUNY Stony Brook, Stony Brook, New York
  Editions ’98, Brooke Alexander Editions, New York
  Beyond the Monument, MetroTech Center Commons, Brooklyn, New York
1997 Do Ho Suh / Royce Weatherly, Gavin Brown’s Enterprise, New York
  Promenade in Asia 1997, Shiseido Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
  Techno / Seduction, The Cooper Union, New York
1996 Arcos da Lapa Project, Arcos da Lapa, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
  Window Show, Gallery Hyundai, Seoul, Korea
  Art at Home, Seomi Gallery, Seoul, Korea
1995 6 Artists Now, Gallery Hyundai, Seoul, Korea
1994 Picture Him, Picture Her, 105 Dyer Gallery, Providence, Rhode Island
  Invitational Exhibition, Woods-Gerry Gallery, Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, Rhode Island
1993 Open Door, Sol Koffler Gallery, Providence, Rhode Island
1990 Light from the East II, Kiev City Museum, Kiev, U.S.S.R.
  Korean Contemporary Painting Exhibition, Hoam Gallery, Seoul, Korea
  Logos and Pathos, Kwanhoon Gallery, Seoul, Korea
  The Groping Youth 1990, The National Museum of Contemporary Art, Kwachon, Korea
1989 Korean Contemporary Painting Exhibition, Hoam Gallery, Seoul, Korea 20th São Paulo International Biennial, São Paulo, Brazil
   
Awards  
2010 Graham Foundation for Advanced Studies in the Fine Arts Grant
  Winner, Regjeringskvartalet R6 Competition, Oslo, Norway
2009 DAAD Artist Residency Fellowship, Berlin, Germany
  Singapore Tyler Print Institute Artist Residency Fellowship, Singapore
2007 Yoon Young Ja Award, Seoul, Korea
2006 Sun Art Award, Seoul, Korea
2003 Hermes Korea Missulsang, Seoul, Korea
2001 The Augustus Saint-Gaudens Memorial Award, Augustus Saint-Gaudens Memorial, New York
  Chanil Foundation Fellowship, Chanil Foundation, Los Angeles, California
2000 The Joan Mitchell Foundation Painting and Sculpture Award, Joan Mitchell Foundation, New York
  Chanil Foundation Fellowship, Chanil Foundation, Los Angeles, California
  Finalist, Seattle-Tacoma International Airport Art Commission, Seattle-Tacoma International
  Airport / King County Art Council, Seattle, Washington
  Finalist, Seattle Central Library Art Planner, Seattle Central Library / Seattle Public Art Commission, Seattle, Washington
1999 Chanil Foundation Fellowship, Chanil Foundation, Los Angeles, California
1998 Finalist, In the Public Realm, Public Art Fund, New York
  Korea Arts Foundation of America Award, Korea Arts Foundation of America, Los Angeles, California
1997 Rebecca Taylor Porter Award, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut
1996 Teaching Assistant Fellowship, Yale University, New Haven
1993 Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture Fellowship, Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, Skowhegan, Maine
1985 The President of National Assembly Award, Seoul National University, Seoul, Korea