Founder｜Michael Suh

Michael Suh ｜ Curator

For nearly three decades, Michael Suh has worked as a curator across China and international art contexts. His practice is shaped by long-term collaboration: building projects with artists and institutions, returning to the same questions over time, and turning fieldwork into writing that can be revisited.

In the early 2000s, he contributed to discussions around kinetic and dynamic approaches to sculpture and public art in China through ongoing collaboration with international artists and scholars. He later took part in major public art initiatives and worked within institutional settings, developing a working knowledge of how exhibitions, commissions, and cultural programmes are built and sustained.

Between 2008 and 2009, he led the touring project Digital Stone in China, coordinating international artists and local researchers across multiple cities. The project used exhibition-making as a way to test how new tools and material processes could enter public and academic discussion through concrete works and on-site presentation.

In 2010, he initiated vibrARTion™, a long-running curatorial platform developed through exhibitions, research trips, and writing across multiple cities including Hamburg, Lucerne, Beijing, Wuhan, Tianjin, Ottawa, and New York. Since 2018, he has continued this work in North America while maintaining long-term ties with artists and institutions across regions.

In recent years, he has been developing AARC · Asia Art Research Center in Ottawa and expanding Time Commons as a multi-site base for research, residency, and public exchange.

His writing focuses on how artistic judgment forms over time: how a work holds up in changing contexts, how a research path becomes traceable, and how texts can return as usable references rather than one-time statements.

Time Commons grows from this long-duration approach—linking research, practice, publishing, exhibitions, and public learning through shared time, shared work, and shared records.