High School Uni-Face: Girl

Object Details

• Artist

  Do-Ho Suh (Korea, born 1962; active United States)

• Edition/State

  Artist's proof from an edition of 6 + artists's proofs

• Label

  In this work, artist Do-ho Suh explicitly addresses the concept of identity from a transnational and a Korean perspective by creating a visual oscillation between the individual and the larger social collective, represented by his high-school class. Suh is interested in exploring the tension "between the singular and the plural. In the Korean language there is no such distinction."

• Collection

  National Museum of Asian Art Collection

• Exhibition History

  Likeness and Legacy in Korean Portraiture (August 27, 2021 - November 29, 2021)

  Facing East: Portraits from Asia (July 1 to September 4, 2006)

• Origin

  Seoul, South Korea

• Credit Line

  Purchase — funds provided by the Friends of the National Museum of Asian Art

• Type

  Photograph

• Restrictions and Rights

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• Related Resources

  collections.si.edu

• Date

  1990s

• Name

  Suh, Do-Ho

• Place

  Seoul, Korea

• Topic

  Contemporary Art, Art, Korean Art, Portraits, Woman

• Culture

  Koreans

• Object Type

  Photographs