Suriya Sam-Khuth (b. 1998, she/her) is a Khmer-American 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. Using the languages of serigraphy, photography, and collage, she gives shape to paper assemblages that record her fascinations with how we piece together our sense of selves from the contexts we exist in. She is particularly interested in exploring processes of becoming through the framework of collage because it revolves around acts of accumulation and reinvention. Within Suriya's work collecting, unfolding, listening to, writing on, and reshaping fragments, serve as gestures towards mapping out her understandings of transness.
Suriya recently completed a 2 year long residency in Public Functionary’s Studio 400 Incubator Program for emerging artists. Currently, Suriya is a Thomas J. Watson Fellow where she is researching how trans artists and archives give shape to worlds that center their own communities’ lineages, desires, safety, and dreams in Argentina, Brazil, the United Kingdom, South Africa, Cambodia, the Philippines, Thailand, and Samoa.
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︎ mskhuth810@gmail.com ︎ @sssamkhuth, @generation__magazine
Suriya recently completed a 2 year long residency in Public Functionary’s Studio 400 Incubator Program for emerging artists. Currently, Suriya is a Thomas J. Watson Fellow where she is researching how trans artists and archives give shape to worlds that center their own communities’ lineages, desires, safety, and dreams in Argentina, Brazil, the United Kingdom, South Africa, Cambodia, the Philippines, Thailand, and Samoa.
︎ mskhuth810@gmail.com ︎ @sssamkhuth, @generation__magazine