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Do Ho Suh

Fiber and Textile Artists

Do Ho Suh, born in 1962, is a South Korean artist who works primarily in sculpture, installation and drawing, well known for recreating architectural structures and objects in fabric as what he calls an act of memorialization. Trained in Korean painting at Seoul National University before earning further degrees in painting and sculpture at the Rhode Island School of Design and Yale, he represented Korea at the 2001 Venice Biennale and received the Ho-Am Prize in the Arts in 2017; his best-known work, Seoul Home... (1999), recreates his childhood home in polyester and silk so it can be folded and transported. This description is adapted from Wikipedia contributors under CC BY-SA 4.0; changes were made. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/

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South Korea

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Seoul

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  • Introduction
    well known for re-creating architectural structures and objects using fabric in what the artist describes as an "act of memorialization."
  • Lead section
    He graduated with a Bachelor of Fine Arts in painting from RISD in 1994, and went on to Yale where he graduated with a Master of Fine Arts in sculpture in 1997.
  • In Group: Contemporary and Conceptual Fiber Artists, Lead
    Do Ho Suh (Korean: 서도호; Hanja: 徐道濩; born 1962) is a South Korean artist who works primarily in sculpture, installation, and drawing.
  • Practices: Sculpture, lead paragraph
    Do Ho Suh (Korean: 서도호; Hanja: 徐道濩; born 1962) is a South Korean artist who works primarily in sculpture, installation, and drawing. Suh is well known for re-creating architectural structures and objects using fabric in what the a
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