Featured Artist: Do-Ho Suh

Born in Seoul, Korea in 1962, Do-Ho Suh earned his BFA and MFA in Oriental Painting from Seoul National University and served in the South Korean military before relocating to the United States to continue his studies at the Rhode Island School of Design and Yale University.



Interested in both the physical and metaphorical implications of space, Suh constructs intricate sculptures that do not follow conventional ideas of scale and site-specificity in order to explore the relationships between individuality, collectivity, and anonymity in today’s increasingly global society.


Screen, 2004


Screen, 2004

Much of his work communicates its ideas through forcing the viewers to think about the way they occupy and interact with public space. For example, in his work, Floor, Suh invites his audience to walk across a thick glass floor which is supported by more than 180,000 small PVC plastic figures. A little over two inches high and cast from six-different molds, the figures were differentiated by reductive characteristics of gender and race, their legs bowed with the effort of supporting the glass plates raised above their heads. This idea of "the many" supporting the weight of "the few" easily lends itself to interpretations of class and social hierarchy. Additionally, it could also speak to the nature of what we are capable of doing collectively that would be impossible on our own.


Floor, 1997-2000


Floor, 1997-2000

In “Some/One,” the floor of the gallery is coated with a blanket of polished military dog tags that join together to construct a  traditional Korean jacket in the center of the room. The work speaks to the way an individual soldier is part of a larger, collective identity (his troop).


Some/One, 2001


Some/One, 2001

More Works:


Reflection, 2005


Cause and Effect, 2007


Staircase-V, fabric, 2008