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Do Ho Suh

New York

Sep 7–Oct 7, 2000

Photograph by Do Ho Suh

39 Greene St

New York, NY 10013

Lehmann Maupin is pleased to announce an exhibition by artist Do-Ho Suh. This will be Suh’s first solo show in the United States.

Do-Ho Suh was born in Seoul, Korea in 1962. He received a BFA in painting from Rhode Island School of Design and an MFA in sculpture from Yale University. For over a decade, Suh has exhibited work at group exhibitions in both the United States and Korea and could recently be seen in PS1’s “Greater New York” show and “Koreamericakorea” at the Artsonje Center, Korea. Earlier group exhibitions include “Techno/ Seduction” at The Cooper Union, “Do-Ho Suh/ Royce Weatherly” at Gavin Brown, and the 20th São Paulo Biennale. His honors and awards include a Skowhegan Fellowship, Korean Arts Foundation of America Award, and a Chanil Foundation Fellowship. Do-Ho Suh currently lives and works in New York.

Installation view of Do Ho Suh at Lehmann Maupin New York
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Portrait of Do Ho Suh

Do Ho Suh (b. 1962, Seoul, Korea; lives and works in London, United Kingdom) works across various media, creating drawings, film, and sculptural works that confront questions of home, physical space, displacement, memory, individuality, and collectivity. Suh is best known for his fabric sculptures that reconstruct to scale his past and present homes and studios in Korea, Rhode Island, Berlin, London, and New York.

Suh is interested in the malleability of space in both its physical and metaphorical forms, and examines how the body relates to, inhabits, and interacts with that space. He is particularly interested in domestic space and the way the concept of home can be articulated through architecture that has a specific location, form, and history. For Suh, the spaces we inhabit also contain psychological energy, and in his work he makes visible those markers of memories, personal experiences, and a sense of security, regardless of geographic location.

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