MMoCA Newsletter - Winter 2017

22nd Street apartment and studio in New York City.
Flanking the installation on adjacent walls are two giant
rubbings Suh made of the inside of this same apartment.
Where the fabric sculpture offers a spatial experience
that closely approximates Suh’s residence and studio,
the rubbings provide exact details of the apartment’s
surfaces and fixtures.
Also on view are works from Suh’s Specimen Series, a
selection of sculptures made with fabric on steel frames
and contained in light-filled Plexiglas boxes. For this
body of work, Suh uses translucent colored fabric to
replicate appliances and fixtures from his NYC apartment,
including a refrigerator, stove, bathtub, and toilet.
Installed in illuminated vitrines, these ordinary objects
glow from within, appearing both luminous and alien.
In addition to the Specimen Series is a piece titled Secret
Garden – 1 (2012), a 1:16 scale model and related animation
of Suh’s Korean house and garden mounted on
the back of a flatbed semi-trailer truck. The sculpture
and animation represent a proposal by Suh for Madison
Square Park that would replicate this private residence
in a public environment for all to experience.
Suh’s poetic works ask viewers to consider the definition
of home: what it means, how it feels to have a
home or be without, and the way in which we carry our
past, present, and future dwellings around with us for
the entirety of our lives.
Contemporary Art, Kanazawa, Japan
(2012–2013); In Between, Hiroshima
City Museum of Contemporary
Art (2012); Fallen Star, the Stuart
Collection, University of California,
San Diego (2012); Home within Home,
the Leeum, Samsung Museum of
Art, Seoul (2012); and Wielandstr.18,
12159, DAAD Galerie, Berlin
(2011). In 2001, Suh represented
Korea at the Venice Biennale and
subsequently participated in the 2010
Venice Architecture Biennale, the
2010 Liverpool Biennial, and the
2012 Gwangju Biennale. His work is
included in numerous museum collections
world-wide, including the Museum of Modern
Art, New York; Whitney Museum of American Art,
New York; Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New
York; Los Angeles County Museum of Art; Walker Art
Center, Minneapolis; Tate Modern, London; Leeum,
Samsung Museum of Art, Seoul; Artsonje Center,
Seoul; Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo; and Mori
Art Museum, Tokyo, among many others.
Do Ho Suh is organized by The Contemporary
Austin with additional support by Lehmann Maupin,
New York and Hong Kong.
Generous funding for the Wisconsin presentation
of Do Ho Suh has been provided by Ellen Rosner and
Paul J. Reckwerdt; Sylvia Vaccaro; Peggy and Tom
Pyle; Sara Guyer and Scott Straus; Mary Ellyn and Joe
Sensenbrenner; Nancy Doll and Michael Bernhard;
Kit and Phil Blake; Gabriele Haberland and Willy
Haeberli; Hooper Corporation and General Heating
& Air Conditioning; J.H. Findorff & Son Inc.; JoAnne
Robbins and David Falk; Deirdre Garton; Perkins Coie
LLP; Qual Line Fence Corp.; RSM; a grant from the
Wisconsin Arts Board with funds from the State of
Wisconsin and the National Endowment for the Arts;
and MMoCA Volunteers.
EXHIBITIONS
ABOUT THE ARTIST
Do Ho Suh lives and works in New York,
London, and Seoul. He received a BFA in painting
from the Rhode Island School of Design
and an MFA in sculpture from Yale University.
His recent solo exhibitions and projects include
Home within Home within Home within Home
within Home, the National Museum of Modern
and Contemporary Art, Seoul (2013–2014); Do
Ho Suh: Perfect Home, 21st Century Museum of
COVER: Do Ho Suh, Apartment A, Unit 2, Corridor and Staircase, 348 West 22nd Street, New York, NY 10011, USA (detail), 2011–2014. Polyester fabric
and stainless steel tubes. Installation view, MOCA Cleveland, 2015. ©Do Ho Suh, Courtesy of the artist and Lehmann Maupin, New York and Hong
Kong. Photo: Jerry Birchfield. © MOCA Cleveland. OPPOSITE: Do Ho Suh, Apartment A, Unit 2, Corridor and Staircase, 348 West 22nd Street, New
York, NY 10011, USA (detail), 2011–2014. Polyester fabric and stainless steel tubes. Installation view, The Contemporary Austin—Jones Center, 2014.
©Do Ho Suh, Courtesy of the artist and Lehmann Maupin, New York and Hong Kong. Photograph: Brian Fitzsimmons. THIS PAGE, TOP: Do Ho Suh,
Apartment A, Unit 2, Corridor and Staircase, 348 West 22nd Street, New York, NY 10011, USA (detail), 2011–2014. Polyester fabric and stainless steel tubes.
Installation view, The Contemporary Austin—Jones Center, 2014. ©Do Ho Suh, Courtesy of the artist and Lehmann Maupin, New York and Hong Kong.
Photograph: Brian Fitzsimmons.THIS PAGE, BOTTOM: Installation view, Do Ho Suh, MOCA Cleveland, 2015. ©Do Ho Suh, Courtesy of the artist
and Lehmann Maupin, New York and Hong Kong. Photo: Jerry Birchfield. © MOCA Cleveland.
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