YOUNGSUK SUH

b. 1970 Korea

Assistant Professor of Photography, Department of Art & Art History, University of California Davis

Education
2001  MFA in Studio Art, School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston

1998  BFA in Photography, Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, NY

1989-1991  Sogang University, Biology, Seoul, South Korea

Solo Exhibitions
2010

“Wildfires by Youngsuk Suh” Center for Contemporary Art, Sacramento, CA 

"Calm in the Landscape : Wildfires & Wilderness"  Jane Deering Gallery, Santa Barbara 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
2010

AN AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF THE SAN FRANCISCO BAY AREA, Part 2: The Future Lasts ForeverSF 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

UpClose + Unframed : The Enduring Beauty of Works on Paper, Jane Deering Gallery, Santa Barbara CA

2005

“Wish: Mediated Desire”, BAG Gallery, School of the Museum of Fine Arts

“Fresh Fiction”, The Museum of Fine Arts, Boston

“Photographers 7”, Jane Deering Gallery, Gloucester, MA

2004

“Leisure”, North Haven Gallery, North Haven, Maine

2003

“Construction-Coincidence?!”, Momentum Gallery, Berlin, Germany

2002

Two Person Exhibition with Joy Episala, “Surroundings”, Clifford Smith Gallery, Boston

“Altered Landscape”, LFL Gallery, New York, NY

“Instant Traveler”, Aidekman Arts Center

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
2001 – 2003 Adjunct Faculty, School of the Museum of Fine Arts, BostonAdjunct Faculty, Tufts University, Medford, MA

Adjunct Faculty, Art Institute of Boston at Leslie University, Boston

Awards & Residencies
2010 Residency, MacDowell Colony, Peterborough, NH

2001-2002  Post-Graduate Teaching Fellowship, School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston

2001  Graduate Teaching Fellowship, School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston MA

2001  Yusef Karsh Award in Photography, Honorable Mention, The School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston MA

2000  Yusef Karsh Award in Photography, Honorable Mention, The School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston MA

Lectures & Artist Talks
2007  Visiting Artist Lecture Series, Southern Utah University, Cedar City, UT         Invited presenter to PhotoFutures, Santa Barbara Museum of Art Photography               Department

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
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)