AO:05
2025, BASEL
Scenography and lighting objects for Accessible Objects
In collaboration with Kaito Yamamoto-Ran
2025, BASEL
Scenography and lighting objects for Accessible Objects
In collaboration with Kaito Yamamoto-Ran
AO:05 was a one-day exhibition of emerging artists, hosted in a private apartment.
Two lighting objects. Standard aluminum profiles are casted into concrete bases, which are filled with debris from a nearby demolition site. Formwork was made from trash and duct tape.
One table with five legs.
SOMIN YOO is an architectural designer, curator, and artist working across the United States and Switzerland. Their work examines spatial and infrastructural politics. They have practiced at Christ & Gantenbein, Barkow Leibinger, and Neri & Hu.
Somin is the co-founder of Accessible Objects, a curatorial platform for emerging design.
Somin holds a BA in Art History from Yale University and is a 2028 MArch I candidate at the Harvard Graduate School of Design, where they received the 2025 Araldo Cossutta Prize for Design Excellence.
Somin is the co-founder of Accessible Objects, a curatorial platform for emerging design.
Somin holds a BA in Art History from Yale University and is a 2028 MArch I candidate at the Harvard Graduate School of Design, where they received the 2025 Araldo Cossutta Prize for Design Excellence.
CHANGING ROOM
Basel, 2026
Site-specific architectural intervention
A collaboration between Somin Yoo, Kaito Yamamoto-Ran, Adrián M. Maldonado, Jack Zhang, Oskar Emmrich
LIVING ROOM
Basel, 2026
Exhibition scenography for After Hours
A collaboration between Somin Yoo, Kaito Yamamoto-Ran, Adrián M. Maldonado, Jack Zhang, Oskar Emmrich
AO:05
Basel, 2025
Exhibition scenography and lighting objects
In collaboration with Kaito Yamamoto-Ran
40 CHAIRS
Boston, 2025
Fashion show and performance scenography for Noa Toyonaga
In collaboration with Paris Bezanis and Celeste Martore
2123: NAIVE FUTURES
Brooklyn, 2023
Curation
In collaboration with Chloe Vadot
HARVARD GRADUATE SCHOOL OF DESIGN
Masters of Architecture I
2023 - 2028 (ongoing)
ARALDO COSSUTTA DESIGN EXCELLENCE PRIZE
Harvard Graduate School of Design
2025 recipient
YALE UNIVERSITY
B.A. in Art History (Distinction)
2009 - 2014
Nominated for Andrus Award for Best Thesis in Art History Thesis
somin@sominyoo.com
@sominyoo