Korean Artist Suh Do-ho Returns Home With Career Retrospective

Renowned Korean artist Suh Do-ho, famous for rebuilding his former homes at full scale in colorful translucent polyester, is the subject of a major survey at Seoul's National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art. The exhibition opens with his childhood carvings and explores the lesser-known early work that preceded his international fame at venues like the Whitney and Tate Modern. The show reframes his iconic hanok reconstructions—long seen as nostalgic foreign exotica by Western audiences—as simply the homes of his Korean childhood.