Korean Sculpture and Installation Art: Do Ho Suh (서도호)



Do Ho Suh (서도호) is a contemporary Korean sculptor and installation artist born in Seoul in 1962, the son of famous traditional Korean Painter Sae Ok Suh (서세옥). He is one of the top selling contemporary artists both in Korea and worldwide with his work typically fetching hammer prices above $50,000. He now lives and works between the States and Korea.

His work has been strongly influenced by architecture and shows a strong reflection on the notions of space, perspective and their relationship to human life. Other strong themes apparent in his work are those of collectivity and individuality. Several of his sculptures hence depict an individual or formal unity that is itself made up of a multiplicity of smaller individual units, which can themselves be understood as being a formal unity of a smaller multiplicity, thereby questioning our notions of what if shapeless and what is not, what is and individual and how it relates to the collectivity and the otherness without which it could not exist.










 





 Some of his work on uniforms:




The artist at work: