Do Ho Suh has spent decades exploring the emotional architecture of memory, migration, and identity with and through sculpture, installation, drawing, and film. Born in Seoul in 1962 and later based in New York and London, Suh is internationally recognized for his translucent fabric recreations of homes, apartments, hallways, and everyday spaces — fragile, ghostlike structures that examine what it means to carry the idea of “home” across borders and through time.

In this Art21 video, Suh moves between Seoul and New York while reflecting on his homesickness, family, military culture, individuality, and a quiet psychological weight of architecture. Whether working with stitched fabric, paper rubbings, or direct interventions into lived spaces, his methods often focus on careful observation and reconstruction rather than spectacle.

“I just want to recognize anonymous everyday life people,” Suh says — a statement that helps explain why even his most ambitious installations remain rooted in ordinary human experience instead of monumental ego.

His work shares important concerns with artists working in public space: the meaning of place, the politics of visibility, and the emotional imprint left on walls, streets, and buildings by human lives. Like many street artists, he treats the city not simply as background, but as a living container of memory, conflict, movement, and personal history.