Atrium Project: Do Ho Suh

The MCA's latest iteration of its Atrium Project series, which will feature Who Am We? (Multicolored) (2000) by internationally renowned artist Do Ho Suh, who is known for his mediations on belonging, identity, and home. The exhibition will run until February 2, 2025.

An early work from Do Ho Suh’s career, Who Am We? (Multicolored) is a floor-to-ceiling work that consists of thousands of 1/8 inch portraits from his high school yearbooks, consolidated and arranged in uniform rows. When viewed from a distance, faces within the composition are almost indistinguishable, appearing as a speckled mass of sepia-toned dots. As guests approach the piece, individual identities begin to emerge from the blur, simultaneously affirming and destabilizing the relationship between the individual and the collective.

This exhibition is organized by René Morales, James W. Alsdorf Chief Curator, with Luke Immins, Curatorial Intern.

Do Ho Suh (b. 1962, Seoul, South Korea; lives in London, United Kingdom) has exhibited at the Museum of Contemporary Art Australia, Sydney; Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles; Leeum, Samsung Museum of Art, Seoul; Mori Art Museum, Tokyo; Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington, DC; and Tate Modern, London. In 2017, Suh was awarded the Ho-Am Prize, considered South Korea’s equivalent to the Nobel Prize. He holds a BFA in Oriental Painting from Seoul National University and an MFA in Sculpture from Yale University School of Art, among other degrees.