about
Dongho So is a designer based in Seoul. His work questions the notion of craft and design by experimenting with diverse materials and techniques to make chairs, lighting, and objects.
Solo Exhibition
2022 모든 의자는 평등하다 All Chairs are Created Equal, Topgoal Art Gallery, Seoul
2018 부유하는 것들 Ghosting, Factory2, Seoul
Group Exhibitions
2021 역대 영 디자이너 20인 기획전 Seoul Design Festival, Coex, Seoul
2021 우리들의 정원 Open Museum Garden, Space of Design and Architecture Museum, Hwaseong
2021 을 – 이야기, 재료, 실험 Eul – Story, Materials, and Experiments, C.ENTER, Seoul
2020 Seating Seoul, Onyang Folk Museum Gujeong Art Center, Asan
2020 Seating Seoul, Culture Station Seoul 284 TMO, Seoul
2020 당신에게 할 이야기가 있어요 I need to tell you something, SS Campus, Suwon
2020 Encore Seoul Design Festival, Gallery Moiso, Seoul
2019 Amateur Seoul, DDP Gallery Mun, Seoul
2019 Art Supermarket, Insa Art Center, Seoul
2019 사물의 집 House of Things, Space of Design and Architecture Museum, Hwaseong
2019 나른 Drowsy, Weekly Cabinet, Seoul
2018 Seoul Design Festival, Coex, Seoul
2018 Craft Trend Fair, Coex, Seoul
2018 Euljiro Light Way, Sewoon Sangga, Seoul
2018 Tent London, London
2017 Euljiro Light Way, DDP, Seoul
2016 Tent London, London
2015 Craft Trend Fair, Coex, Seoul
2015 Gwangju Design Biennale, Gwangju
2015 Saint-Etienne Design Biennale, Saint-Etienne
2014 Seoul Design Festival, Coex, Seoul
2014 Craft Festival On-gi, Culture Station Seoul 284, Seoul
2013 Craft Trend Fair, Coex, Seoul
2013 Gwangju Design Biennale, Gwangju
2013 Maison et Objet, Paris
2013 Korea Power : Design and Identity, Museum of Applied Arts, Frankfurt
2011 Design and Art Fair, Hangaram Design Museum, Seoul
Projects
2021 Korea Craft Week, Cooperative planner, KCDF, Seoul
2020 Seating Seoul, Archiving member, Seoul
2019 Seoul Design Festival, Art director, Designhouse Inc., Seoul
2019 Euljiro Light Way ‘by Euljiro Project’, Art director, Jung District Office, Seoul
2018 Korean Royal Cuisine Festival, Visual director, Institute of Korean Royal Cuisine, Seoul
2017 Euljiro landscape lighting Installation, Artist, Jung District Office, Seoul
2016 Tour to Euljiro alleyes, Design director, Jung District Office, Seoul
2015 Asia Crafts · Design Project, Designer, Arumjigi Culture Keepers Foundation, Seoul
Lecture & Talk
2021 DDP Design School, Seoul Design Foundation
2020 16p, Seoul
2019 Designhouse Inc., Seoul
2018 Heritage Project Inc., Guri Arts Hall, Guri
2017 Art & Crafts Dept., Sookmyung Women’s University, Seoul
2014 Art & Crafts Dept., Sookmyung Women’s University, Seoul
Residency
2021 – Sewoon Makers Cube, Seoul Metropolitan Government
2015 – 2020 Euljiro Design Art Project, Seoul Jung District Office