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Do Ho Suh (hangul:서도호, born 1962) is a Korean sculptor and installation artist. His works often explore the concept of space and home.

Suh was born in Seoul, South Korea in 1962. He earned a Bachelor of Fine Arts and Master of Fine Arts from Seoul National University in Oriental Painting. He also studied at Rhode Island School of Design where he received a Bachelor of Fine Arts in painting in 1994. Then, in 1997, he received a Master of Fine Arts in sculpture from Yale University. Suh currently has live-in studios located in London, New York City, and Seoul. Suh was named the Wall Street Journal's Innovator of the Year in Art in 2013. He represented Korea at the 49th Venice Beinnale in 2001.

Early Life
His father, Suh Se-Ok, was a famous artist who led a 1960s art movement to combine traditional ink paintings with new meanings and concepts from the abstract art movement that was happening in the West. Suh grew up in Seoul and after failing to get the grades needed to become a marine biologists, he applied for art school. After receiving a masters degree in traditional Korean painting, he moved to the United States to continue his painting education.

Influences
Suh's work has a central focus on architecture, space, and identity. His early work blended into the gallery space and was barely discernible to the viewer as art. His most famous works are made of nylon or silk skillfully sewn into forms that represent spaces in Suh's life to scale. Immigrating to the United States affected how Suh interpreted home and created an overarching theme in his works where he explores space and how we interact with it. This can be seen in his piece, "Home Within Home Within Home Within Home Within Home" which is a silk replica of his childhood home, as well as his piece "Fallen Star" that featured a traditional Korean home crashing into a Las Angeles building. Moving to the US removed the association Suh had to his father, "I felt relieved when I went to the states, I felt much more freedom". It allowed him to make his own work and not be compared to his father.

Exhibitions
Suh has participated in or hosted many exhibitions around the world. His solo exhibitions were held at Tate Modern, London (2011), Leeum, Samsung Museum of Art, Seoul (2012), Stuart Collection, University of San Diego, California (2012), Hiroshima City Museum of Contemporary Art (2012), 21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art, Kanazawa, Japan (2012-2013), National Museum of Contemporary Art, Seoul (2013), The Contemporary Austin, TX (2014), Bristol Museum & Art Gallery (2015), Mori Art Museum, Tokyo (2015), Museum of Contemporary Art Cleveland, OH (2015), Singapore Tyler Print Institute (2015), Contemporary Arts Center, Cincinnati, OH (2016), Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego, CA (2016), NC-arte, Bogota, Colombia (2016), Madison Museum of Contemporary Art, WI (2017), Bildmuseet, Umea, Sweden (2017), Cantor Arts Center, Stanford, CA (2018), Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington, DC (2018), Towada Art Center (2018), Frist Center for the Visual Arts, Nashville, TN (2018), The Brooklyn Museum, NY (2018), and ARoS, Aarhus, Denmark (2018).

His work has been featured at the 49th Venice Biennale (2001), the 13th Biennial of Sydney (2002), the 8th International Istanbul Biennial (2003), the 12th International Architecture Exhibition (2010), the 6th Liverpool Biennial (2010), the 9th Gwangju Biennale (2012) and the Singapore Biennial (2016).