Guggenheim Museum to Show Do Ho Suh
Major Exhibition for Korean Born Long Term New York Artist
By: Guggenheim - Nov 09, 2026
In February 2027, the Guggenheim Museum in New York will present the first major museum exhibition in New York dedicated to Korean artist Do Ho Suh (b. 1962, Seoul). Spanning more than three decades of his practice, the presentation will feature drawings, sculptures, and large-scale installations that intimately explore how we move through different places, carry memories, and build communities.
It will also 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 re-creates the artist’s former New York apartments at full scale.
“Twenty years ago, the Guggenheim launched its Asian Art Initiative, establishing a long-term institutional commitment to the study, research, acquisition, and presentation of Asian art in a global context,” says Melissa Chiu, Director of the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum. “That commitment has expanded through the growth of Asian art curatorial fellowships, global partnerships, and now through this major presentation of the singular artist Do Ho Suh. His distinctive exploration of memory, identity, and belonging exemplifies the globally engaged and innovative artists at the heart of the Guggenheim’s collection and exhibition program.”
I dream in another language will comprise more than 50 existing and new works, drawn from loans and the Guggenheim New York collection. The exhibition will trace Suh’s sustained investigation of the body and, by extension, of architecture as both a physical structure and a psychological space that holds individual experiences and collective imagination. Highlights include Some/One (2004), an imposing robe made from military dog tags; Hubs (2011– ), a series of translucent fabric passageways connecting corridors and entrances from the artist’s former homes and studios; and recent works from Fatherhood (2011– ), a series considering how memory is tended and transmitted across generations. Drawings and works on paper will appear throughout the four galleries, including examples of Suh’s distinctive technique of transferring stitched lines on water-soluble sheets into wet paper pulp, where the threads become embedded in the paper itself.
“Suh’s work possesses a poetic capacity to move beyond the particularities and limitations of any specific language, culture, or knowledge, speaking to a human condition that anyone who encounters it can recognize. It offers a picture of what it means to course through this world as one, as other, and as us,” says Kyung An, Curator, Asian Art Initiative, and Head, Global Exhibitions Initiative. “It feels particularly apt that the New York Rubbing/Loving installation will have its world premiere at the Guggenheim. Rubbing/Loving is a work about arriving and leaving, loving and mourning. It is a love letter to New York.”
The exhibition will debut Rubbing/Loving: Apartment A and B, 348 West 22nd Street, New York, NY 10011, USA (2014–26), which will invite visitors to enter a full-scale reproduction of the artist’s former home in New York’s Chelsea neighborhood, which he occupied for nearly 20 years. Over multiple years, Suh covered the interiors of the two units, where he lived and worked, with paper, then rubbed their surfaces with pastel and colored pencil.
The exhibition’s title points to multiple ways of being and of understanding as we live across geographies, histories, and systems. Suh has stated, “As someone who has had to wrestle with language, I do not take meaning for granted. In the same way, I do not take what we see for granted.”
“In 1997 I began renting a half-basement studio apartment in Chelsea. That space remains the home I have lived in the longest throughout my life. To debut the rubbings I made of that building’s interiors at the Guggenheim, in the city I called home for so long, is poignant, as well as conceptually interesting for me. My work is as concerned with space and movement as it is [with] roots or home. New York brought so many of my ideas into focus and I remain indebted to the city always,” says artist Do Ho Suh.
The exhibition will be accompanied by a catalogue published by the Guggenheim, featuring scholarly essays, a short story, and writings by the artist.
I dream in another language | Do Ho Suh is organized by Kyung An, Curator, Asian Art Initiative, and Head, Global Exhibitions Initiative, with support from Faith Hunter, Curatorial Assistant.
About the Artist
Do Ho Suh was born in Seoul in 1962 and works across diverse media, including drawing, film, and sculpture. He studied at Seoul National University before moving to the United States in 1991 to earn his BFA at the Rhode Island School of Design and then his MFA at the Yale School of Fine Arts (now Yale School of Art).
Suh has held solo exhibitions at the National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Seoul (2026–27); Tate Modern, London (2025); National Galleries Scotland, Edinburgh (2024); Art Sonje Center, Seoul (2024); the Brooklyn Museum (2024 and 2018); the Museum of Contemporary Art Australia, Sydney (2022); the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (2019); Museum Voorlinden, Wassenaar, Netherlands (2019); the Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington, D.C. (2018); Bildmuseet, Umeå, Sweden (2017–18); The Contemporary Austin (2014–15; traveled to the Museum of Contemporary Art Cleveland, the Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego, and the Madison Museum of Contemporary Art); Leeum Museum of Art, Seoul (2012); the 21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art, Kanazawa, Japan (2012–13); the Seattle Art Museum (2011 and 2003); and Serpentine Gallery, London (2002). Suh represented South Korea at the Venice Biennale in 2001. He has exhibited in numerous international group exhibitions, including the International Architecture Exhibition in Venice (2018 and 2010); Singapore Biennial (2016); Gwangju Biennial (2012); and Liverpool Biennial (2010).
Suh was awarded the Ho-Am Prize for the Arts in 2017. His work is in the collections of the Los Angeles County Museum of Art; the Museum of Modern Art, New York; the National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Seoul; Tate, London; and the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, among others. The Guggenheim New York holds two of his works in its collection. Suh lives and works in London.
Support
Lead support for I dream in another language | Do Ho Suh is provided by the Samsung Foundation of Culture.
Major support is provided by Jae Won Chey, Peter H. Kahng, and Hiroyuki Maki.
Generous support is provided by The E. Rhodes and Leona B. Carpenter Foundation; the Coby Foundation Ltd.; Jung and Nelson Chai; and The W.L.S. Spencer Foundation; with additional funding from Scott Alter and Janine Katzen; Elli and John Bai; CANAL PROJECTS; Gay-Young Cho and Christopher Chiu; The Davidson Williams Foundation; Gregory and Erica Kinzelman; Esther and Thomas “Tom” Lee; Miyoung Lee and Neil Simpkins; The Robert Lehman Foundation; Lehmann Maupin, New York, Seoul, and London; Hee-Jung and John Moon; Erica Gervais Pappendick and Ted Pappendick; Porté Family; Dina Shin; Gina H. Sohn and Gregory P. Lee; Victoria Miro Gallery; Salle Yoo and Jeff Gray; Alyssa Yoon in memory of Ambassador and Mrs. BY Kim; the Guggenheim’s Asian Art Circle; and an anonymous donor.
Additional funding for the exhibition publication is provided by The Kate Cassidy Foundation.