Tate Modern Announces Do Ho Suh Survey

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Born in 1962 in Seoul, London-based artist Do Ho Suh is internationally known for works that ask ‘timely questions about the enigma of home, identity, and how we move through and inhabit the world around us,’ as Victoria Miro, who first showed his works in 2017, shared.

Suh is best known for his ethereal fabric replicas of residential and domestic settings, which draw from his experiences of moving from Korea to the U.S. in 1991. His work with notions of transportation and site-specificity, however, began while he was studying traditional Korean painting in Seoul as the artist told Ocula in 2013.

‘The main difference between scroll painting versus canvas painting in the western tradition is that the scroll painting is meant to be transported,’ he said. ‘What was significant for me when I look back at this period was the realisation that the painting didn’t have to be on the wall, and that it could be moved.’

Suh’s upcoming survey exhibition at Tate Modern, The Genesis Exhibition: Do Ho Suh (1 May–26 October 2025), is co-curated by Nabila Abdel Nabi, senior curator of International Art at Hyundai Tate Research Centre, and Dina Akhmadeeva, assistant curator of International Art at Tate Modern. Tate’s 2025 programme also includes solo presentations of works by Leigh Bowery, Ed Atkins, and Ithell Colquhoun, and a major group exhibition on Nigerian Modernism.

Suh’s work is currently on view at National Galleries of Scotland in Edinburgh and the Smithsonian’s National Museum of Asian Art in Washington D.C. A solo exhibition of his works is scheduled to open at Art Sonje Center in Seoul in August 2024. —[O]

Main image: Exhibition view: Do Ho Suh, Passage/s, Victoria Miro, Wharf Road, London (1 February–18 March 2017). Courtesy the artist, Lehmann Maupin, New York and Hong Kong, and Victoria Miro. © Do Ho Suh. Photo: Thierry Ball.