SuRan Song is a biracial American of Korean and Greek descent born in 1969. She is a multidisciplinary performance artist and songwriter with an M.F.A. in Sculpture. The themes and ideas she explores in her work include philoxenia, audience, and accessibility. She is interested in understanding how justice relates to love. SuRan is primarily inspired by post-punk songwriters and Early Dada artists, particularly the live installations of Kurt Schwitters.

She leads a performance art rock band that has toured widely and released four studio albums, gaining recognition on the CMJ Charts and performing live on numerous radio stations across the U.S., including WBAI, WFMU, and KEXP. SuRan’s visual artwork has been featured in exhibitions at the Katonah Museum of Art, Queens Museum, and the Villa Terrace Museum.

In 2021, after living in Jackson Heights, Queens, for fifteen years, she moved to Riverdale, Bronx. She has worked at Pat Hearn Gallery and Andrea Rosen Gallery, as a ceramicist at Peter Max Studios, and as a studio art teacher at Trinity Preparatory School.

She loves to study Sanskrit, Ancient Greek, and math in alternative bases. SuRan’s multicultural background —her father, a gay Korean immigrant and mathematician, and her Greek mother, a pianist—shapes her artistic vision.

SuRan’s father’s papers, which offer keen insight into the Korean diaspora, were placed posthumously by her gay older sister into a collection held with the Rare Books & Manuscripts Library at Ohio State University http://amdavis.org/Song-Family/

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