Public Lecture by Paul Laster
New York Desk Editor at ArtAsiaPacific and a Contributing Editor at Whitehot Magazine of Contemporary Art and artBahrain
Wednesday, November 13th, 2019
6:30 PM – 8:00 PM
Korean Cultural Center(460 Park Avenue, 6th Floor, NYC)
*Free admission
Video still from Do Ho Suh’s Robin Hood Gardens, Woolmore Street, London E14 0HG, 2018 © the artist, courtesy Lehmann Maupin New York, Hong Kong and Seoul, and Victoria Miro, London / Venice
Celebrated Korean artist Do Ho Suh has followed his own path from the very beginning. After receiving a BFA and two MFAs in painting from Seoul National University and the Rhode Island School of Design, Suh jumped forms, studying at Yale’s sculpture department. Best known for his drawings, sculptures and installations dealing with identity, home, displacement and memory, Suh recently started making films, which he began showing at NC-arte in Bogota in 2015 and Lehmann Maupin Hong Kong in 2017 and is currently exhibiting in the Applied Arts Pavilion of the 16th Venice Biennale of Architecture. Internationally exhibited and collected, Suh splits his time between Seoul, New York and London.
Paul Laster has reviewed Suh’s engaging exhibitions for Artnet, Tema Celeste and ArtAsiaPacific and interviewed him about his work for Artkrush. In this talk, he’ll address the influence of Suh’s famous artist father Suh Se Ok and early life in Korea; his nomadic existence since leaving his homeland in the 1990s; his important works about identity, memory and biography; his development from sculptor and draughtsman to installation artist and filmmaker; and his bridging of ideas between the East and the West.
AHL Foundation Public Lecture Series 2019 In Collaboration with Korean Cultural Center New York
Paul Laster is an editor, critic, independent curator, artist and lecturer. He’s New York Desk Editor at ArtAsiaPacific and a Contributing Editor at Whitehot Magazine of Contemporary Art and artBahrain. He was the Founding Editor of Artkrush and Artspace, started The Daily Beast’s art section and was Art Editor of Flavorpill and Oneworld Magazine and a Contributing Editor at Flatt Magazine.
He’s a contributing writer to Time Out New York, Harper’s Bazaar Arabia, Galerie Magazine, Surface, Sculpture Magazine, Cultured, Garage Magazine, Art Review Asia, Ocula Magazine, Observer, ArtPulse, Conceptual Fine Arts and Glasstire. He has also written for Art in America, Interview, Modern Painters, Paper, Flash Art, Newsweek, Bomb Magazine, Avenue, Tema Celeste, amNew York, The Daily Beast, Artnet Magazine and ArtInfo.
AHL Foundation and Korean Cultural Center New York’s collaborative Public Lecture Series aims to provide the general public, as well as the Korean American community, with the opportunity to learn diverse theoretical perspectives on issues related to Korean art and culture and to reflect further on future interactions between Korean art and various worldwide global communities.
Organized by the AHL Foundation in collaboration with the Korean Cultural Center New York
