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b. 1998 Rochester, MN
Lives and works in Rochester. Minnesota


EDUCATION

2020    B.A. Media and Cultural Studies, Macalester College, St. Paul, MN
2019     Photography, Institute for Field Education, Paris, FR 

FELLOWSHIPS

2020   SEAD (Southeast Asian Diaspora) Project’s Changemakers/Artists Storytelling Fellowship  
             Emerging Curators Institute Fellowship
             Thomas J. Watson Fellowship
2018    JGS (Joy of Giving Something) Imagining America Digital Media & Photography Fellowship

GRANTS & AWARDS

2022    Minnesota Center for Book Arts/Jerome Book Arts Mentorship VIII
             Macalester College Public Art Commission Honoring Alumni of Color
2021     Family Tree Clinic’s LGBTQ COVID-19 Community Care and Learning Artist Initiative Grant
2020    Macalester Media and Cultural Studies Prize for Academic Excellence
2019     Macalester Live It! Fund Independent Summer Project Grant
             Macalester Gateway Essay Prize for Excellent Writing: “Unburnt and Unburied: Khmer Refugee Family Photographs as Acts of Survival”

RESIDENCIES  

2022   Grand Marais Arts Colony x Public Functionary Residency, Grand Marais, MN
            Cuttyhunk Island Artist Residency, Elizabeth, MA, Partial Scholarship
2021    Public Functionary: Studio 400, Minneapolis, MN
            Chautauqua School of Art Residency Program, Chautauqua, NY, Full Tuition Scholarship

SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2020    To the body you left behind, Macalester College Koch Gallery, St. Paul, MN

GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2023    Jerome Artists in Residence Exhibition, MCBA Main Gallery, Minneapolis, MN
2022    Smoke and Ground, Public Functionary Gallery, Minneapolis, MN
2022    Weaving Fragments: Dreams of the Contemporary Moment, Form + Content Gallery, Minneapolis, MN
2021    Chautauqua Resident Artists Group Show, Fowler-Kellogg Art Center, NY
            Pride, Family Tree Clinic Gallery, St. Paul, MN
2019    08, Open Call Cabaret Gallery Space, St. Paul, MN

CURATORIAL   

2021     Sutures, The Minnesota Museum of American Art, St. Paul, MN
2019     Generation Magazine Issue 01: Voices of the Khmer Diaspora, Rochester, MN

WRITING

2021.   Sutures, published by the Minnesota Museum of American Art and the Emerging Curators Institute (catalog)
            Curating with Fluidity: A Glimpse Into Lumi Tan’s Practice, published by the Emerging Curators Institute (interview)

PUBLICATIONS

2023   “The Possibilities of Queer Aesthetic(s)”, Vol. 1, Issue 1: Queer Aesthetics (forthcoming)
2021     “Asian American Futures: Youth Folio”, Lantern Review

LECTURES, PUBLIC TALKS/PROGRAMMING

2023    Visting Artist, St. Olaf College, Northfield, MN 
             Visiting Artist, “On mixed-media and paper,” University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN
             Artist Talk,  â€śMacalester Public Sculpture,” Macalester College, St. Paul, MN
             Visiting Artist, “Collage as endless becoming,” Hamline University, Minneapolis, MN
             Visiting Artist, “Collage as a means of transformation,” Minneapolis College of Art and Design, Minneapolis, MN
              Artist Talk, “MCBA/Jerome Book Arts Mentorship,” Minnesota Center for Book Arts, Minneapolis, MN
2022     Artist Talk, “Weaving Fragments,” in conversation with Satya Varghese Mac, Maiya Lee Hartman, and                 Alexandra Beaumont, Form + Content Gallery, Minneapolis, MN
2021      Panelist, “Curatorial Conversations” in conversation with Jehra Patrick, Macalester College, St. Paul, MN
              Curator, “Seeing New Potentialities,” The Minnesota Museum of American Art, St. Paul, MN


PRESS

2022    Hanesworth, Ian. “Sutures: An Interview with Michael Khuth,” Sixty Inches From the Center, May 2022
2021     Henegan, Meredith. “How curation revealed itself to Suriya Khuth,” The Minnesota Museum of            American Art, November 2021

RELEVANT EXPERIENCE

2021    Founder & Curator, Generation Magazine, Rochester, MN
2019    Curatorial Assistant, Le Centre Georges Pompidou Department of Photography, Paris, FR
            Assistant Photographer, Le Ministre de l'IntĂ©rieur, Paris, FR

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