The Guggenheim Museum in New York will present the first major museum exhibition in the city dedicated to Korean artist Do Ho Suh, opening in February 2027. Titled “I dream in another language,” the survey will span more than three decades of the Seoul-born artist’s practice and comprise over 50 works—drawings, sculptures, and large-scale installations—that explore how we move through and carry the spaces we inhabit.
The exhibition will mark the world premiere of Rubbing/Loving: Apartment A and B, 348 West 22nd Street, New York, NY 10011, USA (2014–26), a walk-through installation that reconstructs at full scale the two Chelsea apartments Suh occupied for nearly 20 years. Working across multiple years, Suh covered the interiors of both units with paper before rubbing their surfaces with pastel and colored pencil, transferring the texture and memory of the rooms into the work itself. “It is a love letter to New York,” said Kyung An, curator of the Asian Art Initiative at the Guggenheim, who organized the exhibition.
Suh is best known for a body of work that treats architecture as a key element in lived experience, his works referencing memory, longing, and loss. Having moved from South Korea to the United States in his late twenties, he has spent much of his career working through what it means to inhabit multiple places simultaneously, never fully belonging to any one of them. His signature fabric installations, often full-scale reproductions of apartments, corridors, and staircases created from translucent polyester, contain specific details yet give the impression of being weightless. That preoccupation with threshold and transit has made Suh one of the most important artists working today.
Hub-1, Entrance, 260-7, Sungbook-Dong, Sungboo-Ku, Seoul, Korea, 2018
Do Ho Suh
Lehmann Maupin
Other highlights in the Guggenheim include Some/One (2004), an imposing robe constructed from military dog tags; Hubs (2011–), an ongoing series of translucent fabric passageways drawn from the corridors and entrances of the artist’s former homes and studios; and works from Fatherhood (2011–), an ongoing series examining how memory is transmitted across generations. Throughout the four galleries, works on paper will demonstrate Suh’s distinctive technique of embedding stitched lines into wet paper pulp.
Suh studied at Seoul National University before moving to the United States in 1991, earning his BFA at Rhode Island School of Design (RISD) and his MFA at Yale. His work is held by institutions including the Museum of Modern Art, the Whitney Museum of American Art, Tate, and the Los Angeles County Museum of Art. Recent solo exhibitions have been staged at Tate Modern in 2025 and MMCA Seoul in 2026. He is represented by Lehmann Maupin and Victoria Miro.
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