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EDUCATION
2001 MFA in Studio Art, School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA
1998 BFA in Photography, Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, NY
1991 Sogang University, Biology, Seoul, South Korea
SOLO EXHIBTIONS
2011
“Calm in the Landscape: Wildfires and Wildnerness,” Jane Deering Gallery, Santa Barbara, CA
2010
“Wildfires," Haines Gallery, San Francisco, CA
“Wildfires by Youngsuk Suh,” Center for Contemporary Art, Sacramento, CA
2009
“Wildfires” Angie Newman Johnson Gallery, Ainslie Arts Center, Episcopal High School, Alexandria, VA
“Calm in the Landscape: American Wildfires and Wilderness,” Jane Deering Gallery, Gloucester, MA
“Wanderers,” Gallery 64, Chung-Ang University, Ansung, Korea
“Wanderers,” Gallery ON, Seoul, Korea
2006
“Instant Traveler, ”Wallace L. Anderson Gallery, Bridgewater State College, Bridgewater, MA
2004
“Instant Traveler: New Work”, Clifford•Smith Gallery, Boston, MA
2002
“Instant Traveler”, Clifford•Smith Gallery, Boston, MA
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2011
“Breaking Ranks: Human/Nature,” Headlands Center for the Arts, Sausalito, CA
“American Gothic: Regionalist Portraiture from the Collection,” Richard L. Nelson Gallery, UC Davis, CA
2010
“Fresh Work: Kala Artists’ Annual Exhibition,” Kala Art Institute Gallery, Berkeley, CA
“Verge @ Axis,” Axis Gallery, Sacramento, CA
“Eco-Logic: Environmental Art Exhibition,” Community Artists’ Collective, Houston, TX
“Taschen,” Taschen Store, New York, NY
"Everyday Realities," Santa Barbara Museum of Art, Santa Barbara, CA
"An Autobiography of The San Francisco Bay Area, Part 2: The Future Lasts Forever,"
SF Camerawork, San Francisco, CA
2008
Seoul International Photography Festival, Seoul, Korea
“Flatlanders,” Nelson Gallery, Davis, CA
2007
“Currents in Photography”, Center for Contemporary Art, Sacramento, CA
“Formalism”, Jane Deering Gallery, Boston, MA
2006
“Chicken: a Dance in Photography,” Collaboration with Ann Carlson, Radcliffe Institute for
Advanced Study, Cambridge, MA
“In a Certain Place,” Nicole Klagsbrun Gallery, New York, NY
2005
“Wish: Mediated Desire”, BAG Gallery, School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA
“Fresh Fiction”, The Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA
“Photographers 7”, Jane Deering Gallery, Gloucester, MA
2004
“Leisure”, North Haven Gallery, North Haven, ME
2003
“Construction-Coincidence?!”, Momentum Gallery, Berlin, Germany
2002
Two-person exhibition with Joy Episala, “Surroundings”, Clifford Smith Gallery, Boston, MA
“Altered Landscape”, LFL Gallery, New York, NY
“Instant Traveler”, Aidekman Arts Center, Medford, MA
2000
“Open”, LFL Gallery, New York, NY
PUBLIC & CORPORATE COLLECTIONS
Santa Barbara Museum of Art
Fidelity Investment Collection
Wellington Management Collection
TEACHING
2006 - Present Assistant Professor of Photography, Department of Art and Art History,
University of California Davis, Davis, CA
2003 - 2005 Full-Time Visiting Faculty, School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA
2001 - 2003 Adjunct Faculty, School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA
2001 - 2003 Adjunct Faculty, Tufts University, Medford, MA
2001 - 2003 Adjunct Faculty, Art Institute of Boston at Leslie University, Boston, MA
AWARDS AND RESIDENCIES
2011 Ucross Foundation Residency, Clearmont, WY
2010 The MacDowell Colony, St. Peterborough, NH
2001-2002 Post-Graduate Teaching Fellowship, School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA
2001 Graduate Teaching Fellowship, School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA
2000-2001 Yusef Karsh Award in Photography, Honorable Mention, The School of the Museum
of Fine Arts, Boston, MA
LECTURES AND ARTIST TALKS
2010 Artist Lecture, Center for Contemporary Art, Sacramento, CA
2007 Visiting Artist Lecture Series, Southern Utah University, Cedar City, UT
2006 Artist Lecture Series, Department of Photography, California College of Art, Oakland, CA
2004 Public Lecture on Contemporary Landscape Photography, Clifford Smith Gallery, Boston, MA
PRESS AND REVIEWS
David Roth, "Youngsuk Suh @ Center for Contemporary Art, Sacramento," SquareCylinder.com
(June 22, 2010)
Diane Chin Lui, "Smoke Gets in Their Eyes," The Davis Enterprise (June 16, 2010)
Victoria Dalkey, "Views of the World Through Smoke," The Sacramento Bee (June 11, 2010)
Younghae Yook, “Youngsuk Suh, Questioning the relationship between man and nature",
Asiana Monthly (August, 2009)
Cate McQuaid, "Whence Wilderness", The Boston Globe (July 8, 2009)
Interview by Sungyong Kim, “Youngsuk Suh, Wanderers", Photonet Monthly (June, 2009)
Cate McQuaid, "A Journey from Techno to Mellow", The Boston Globe (August 16, 2007)
Victoria Dalkey, "Picture This", The Sacramento Bee (March 11, 2007)
Cate McQuaid, "Frieze as Sublime as a Cool Breeze", The Boston Globe (August 17, 2006)
Sunsoon Park, “Monthly Photographer”, Photography Monthly, Korea (April, 2005)
Cate McQuaid, “A New Take on Adventure Tourism”, The Boston Globe (March 19, 2004)
Thomas Garvey, “Vacation Nation”, South End News (March 18, 2004)
Shawn Hill, “Visiting Hours and Vistas”, Arts Media (March 2004)
“Short List: Altered Landscape”, The New Yorker (July 23, 2001)