Youngsuk Suh
Born: 1970
Hometown: Seoul, South Korea
Lives and Works: Davis, CA
Website: http://www.youngsuksuh.com
Education:
MFA, Studio Art, School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA, 2001
BFA, Photography, Pratt Institute, New York, NY, 1998
Biology, Sogang University, Seoul, South Korea, 1991
About The Artist
Korean photographer Youngsuk Suh moved to the United States to study photography in 1994. Whether he is photographing interiors, landscapes, soccer players, or gas stations, Suh’s luminous photographs show a unique approach to lighting and the treatment of space. Suh maintains an objective distance from his subjects, witnessing rather than intervening.
Suh’s latest projects, Instant Traveler and Wildfires, explore the complex relationships between humans and nature. Though these photographs seem to present a Romantic view of nature with their soft colors and sweeping views of landscapes, Suh’s imitation of the Romantic tradition is actually ironic. He does not view nature as an untamed wilderness in which man is small and insignificant; instead, he points out man’s sophisticated engineering and maintenance of nature.
Galleries
Jane Deering Gallery, Gloucester, MA
Select Permanent Collections
Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo, Japan
Hiroshima City Museum of Contemporary Art, Hiroshima, Japan
Asia Society and Museum, New York, NY
Works by the Artist
