Do Ho Suh

Born in 1962 in South Korea, Do Ho Suh received a BFA in painting from the Rhode Island School of Design and a MFA in sculpture from Yale University. He currently lives and works in London.

Suh was named the Wall Street Journal Magazine’s 2013 Innovator of the Year in Art and was awarded the 2017 Ho-Am Prize, which is regarded as Korea’s equivalent to the Nobel Prize. He represented Korea at the 49th Venice Biennale in 2001.

The artist has staged numerous international solo exhibitions and site-specific projects at institutional venues including Tate Modern, London, UK (2025); Moody Center for the Arts, Houston, Texas, USA (2024); Art Sonje Center, Seoul, South Korea (2024); the Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art, Edinburgh, Scotland (2024); Museum of Contemporary Art Australia, Sydney, Australia (2022); Buk-Seoul Museum of Art, Seoul, South Korea (2022); Bloomberg SPACE, London, UK (2021); Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA), Los Angeles, USA (2019);  Victoria & Albert Museum, London, UK (2019); Museum Voorlinden, The Netherlands (2019); ARoS, Aarhus, Denmark (2018); The Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, NY, USA (2018); Frist Center for the Visual Arts, Nashville, TN (2018); Towada Art Center, Towada, Japan (2018); Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington, D.C. (2018); Cantor Arts Center, Stanford, CA, USA (2018); Bildmuseet, Sweden (2018); Madison Museum of Contemporary Art, Madison,USA (2017);Contemporary Arts Centre, Cincinnati (2016); MOCA Cleveland (2015–16), travelling to MCA San Diego (2016); The Contemporary Austin, Texas (2014); National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Seoul, Korea (2013); 21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art, Kanazawa, Japan (2012 - 2013 and 2005); Hiroshima City Museum of Contemporary Art, Hiroshima, Japan (2012); University of San Diego, California (2012); Samsung Museum of Art, Seoul, Korea (2012); Seattle Art Museum, Washington (2011 and 2003) and Tate Modern, London (2011). The artist has participated in the Singapore Biennale (2016), 8th Gwangju Biennale (2012), 12th Venice Architecture Biennale (2010), and 6th Liverpool Biennial (2010). The first survey exhibition of Do Ho Suh's work in Europe was presented at the Serpentine Gallery, London in 2002. 

Suh's work is included in numerous museum collections worldwide including the Museum of Modern Art, New York; Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York; Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles; Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles; Walker Art Center, Minneapolis; Tate, London; Leeum, Seoul; Artsonje Center, Seoul; National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Seoul; Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo; Mori Art Museum, Tokyo; and 21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art, Kanazawa, among many others.

A film by Do Ho Suh was commissioned by the Victoria & Albert Museum (V&A) as part of its presentation Robin Hood Gardens: A Ruin in Reverse at the 16th International Architecture Exhibition, in collaboration with La Biennale di Venezia, 2018. The film was featured in Chicago Architecture Biennial, Chicago, USA (19 September 2019–5 January 2020).