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Suriya SamKhuth (b. 1998, she/her) is a Khmer-American photo-collage artist and curator from Rochester, Minnesota. She situates her work within a lineage of artists who follow, reimagine, and write the presence of trans womanhood into history. Bridging the languages of serigraphy, photography, and collage, Suriya forms paper assemblages that seek to trace and keep record of the knowledges embedded in trans and queer memory. Processes of collecting, listening to, writing on, unfolding, and reshaping fragments become gestures toward reflecting through ideas of origin, archives, transformation, and lineage.Suriya is grateful to have participated in residencies and fellowships with the Emerging Curators Institute, the Southeast Asian Diaspora Project, the Chautauqua School of Art, the Minnesota Center for Book Arts, and Public Functionary’s Studio 400 Incubator program. Most recently, she completed a yearlong Thomas J. Watson Fellowship where she immersed herself within the practices of trans artists, collectives, and archives in the United Kingdom, Brazil, Argentina, the Netherlands, Cambodia, and Thailand. Suriya was awarded the Full Color Fellowship from the Highpoint Center for Printmaking and the 2025/2026 MCAD-Jerome Foundation Fellowship for Early Career Artists.
︎ mskhuth810@gmail.com ︎ @suriyasamkhuth