Design
A New York Apartment, Painstakingly Rendered in Ghostly Fabric
Korean artist Do Ho Suh reconsiders the meaning of "home" with incredibly detailed sculptures of mundane yet highly personal household items.
A phalanx manned with dozens of empty uniforms. An armored dress hammered out of hundreds of dog tags. A foundation supported by thousands of toy figurines. The work of Korean artist Do Ho Suh takes the individual and molds it into the collective—and vice versa.
With work in London's Tate, Seoul's Leeum, and Tokyo's Mori Art Museum, Suh is one of the best-known artists working in the world today. His sculpture and installation art appear in virtually every important collection in the U.S., from the Los Angeles County Museum of Art to the Walker Art Center to the Museum of Modern Art. His methods and materials are eminently contemporary, though his themes trend toward the modern and existential.