SuRan Song & William M. Weis III, installation view of You're Soaking in It at Wave Hill Glyndor Terrace Garden, 2025
SuRan Song & William M. Weis III, installation view of You're Soaking in It at Wave Hill Glyndor Terrace Garden, 2025
SuRan Song & William M. Weis III, installation view of You're Soaking in It at Wave Hill Glyndor Terrace Garden, 2025
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WAVE HILL SUNROOM PROJECT SPACE GLYNDOR TERRACE GARDEN
Presents
You're Soaking in It!
A Participatory Sculpture and Live Performance by SuRan Song & William M. Weis III
May 31 – September 15, 2025
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SuRan Song, installation view from Parallel Lives, 2024
SuRan Song, installation view from Parallel Lives, 2024
SuRan Song, installation view: Sketch of Desire, 2024 Colored chalk and clear packing tape to touch light through window.
Guest Artist : SuRan Song
Featured Artists: Odalys Burgoa, Clara Cruz, Michelle Frick, Woojin Lee, and Haley Robinson.
Longwood Gallery
Bronx Council on the Arts
House 406B
Colonels Row
Governors Island
I'm inviting you to experience my site-specific art installation. To schedule an appointment, please call 646-240-2823. Don't miss this unique and captivating experience. Looking forward to meeting you there!
On view by appointment through Saturday, October 26th
Hours: 11:00 am - 5:00 pm
SuRan Song, Rustbelt Reaganomics for Independence Day, 2021 Black vinyl card table top, red pillowcase, origami, and tape. 48 x 36 x 3 inches.
To listen to the artwork's original song, "Fuquan," scan the QR code below.
Meyerhoff Gallery
Maryland Institute College of Art
1300 W. Mount Royal Avenue
Baltimore, MD 21214
November 8th through December 15th
Opening reception on
Thursday, November 14, from 5:00 to 7:00 pm
SuRan Song, Rustbelt Reaganomics for Christmas, 2022 Gesso, paint, cardboard box, sundry shipping materials. 48 x 72 x 3 inches.
The Award of Excellence, the highest honor at the 37th Annual Northern National Art Competition, was won from over 700 international entries. The exhibition took place at the Nicolet College Art Gallery in Rhinelander, WI, and was juried by Debra Brehmer, co-curated with Jennifer Bonardelli.
SuRan Song, Even The Tokabis From Dad's House Was Displaced (+ original song Cribbage in Provincetown), 2022 Diptych of aluminum substrate with acrylic print 12 x 18 inches
The Paths We Cross: Perspectives from the Korean Diaspora, Wailoa Center & the University of Hawaiʻi at Hilo. Curated by Mizin Shin. Produced by Michael Marshall and Seri Luangphinith. Award winner: selected for 3rd Prize
SuRan Song, I Undo Dreams of Destruction! Lu-Oh! (Chocolate from Duchamp! Sky from Magritte! Poetry from Taneum Bambrick!), 2023
“The Bride Stripped Bare by Her Bachelors”, the masterpiece by Duchamp, inspired this sculpture. The Ancient Greek verb pronounced (lu-oh), which can mean to free, to destroy, to undo, or to unbind, occupies a new dream for The Bride. Instead of being put through The Chocolate Grinder by The Nine Malic Molds of the Bachelors, she metabolizes liberation, hangs their chocolate tray, and drinks sky.
Box, sundry shipping materials 54 x 54 inches.
Exhibitions include
Exchanges: dialogues between poetry and art
Photography + Sculpture 2023, Rowayton Arts Center
Awarded Honorable Mention
Juror: Hans Neleman
SuRan Song, The Soft Vowels - Acquisition, Extraction, 2024 Collage on gessoed cardboard 4 x 6 inches
SuRan Song, The Soft Vowels - Idiosyncrasy, Obsession, 2024 Collage on gessoed cardboard 4 x 6 inches
SuRan Song, The Soft Vowels - Udder, 2024 Collage on gessoed cardboard 4 x 6 inches
One of the collages from my latest series, The Soft Vowels, is exhibited in the National Collage Society's 2024 Small Format Exhibit mounted at The Art Gallery of Connecticut State University from February 29th to April 12, 2024.
OPENING RECEPTION
Thursday, February 29th at 4:30 p.m.
The Art Gallery at Eastern Connecticut State University
83 Windham Street
Willimantic, CT 06226
Katonah Museum of Art
2021 International Juried Biennial
Cladogram, Curated by Yasmeen Siddiqui
August Christy, performance-art-based video painting with original rock song.
C-print stills and performance-art-based video panting by Suran Song. Music by Suran Song and Keith Marlowe.
Suran Song - vocals, lyrics, melody
Keith Marlowe - guitar
Andrew Shahan - drums
Joel Breen - bass
Recorded and Produced by Adam Lasus
Suran Song, Rustbelt Reaganomics for Election Day, 2021. Gesso, paint, cardboard box, sundry shipping materials 54 x 54 inches
From 434 entries from 38 states and 4 countries, selected for 3rd Prize
National Collage Society 39th Annual Juried Exhibit
29 August – 30 September 2023
The Galleries at Kean University
Liberty Hall Academic Center
Union, New Jersey
Curated by Dr. Lynette A. Zimmerman, Ed.D, M.S.
Executive Director
Liberty Hall Academic Center and Galleries
Kean University
Jurors: Cynthia Behr, Jeff Katzin, Cory Peeke
Press: Union News Daily
AgitStage, 2012
Repurposed jet ski trailer, plywood, hardware, exterior house paint, p.a. system, projectors on tripods for performances on the stage platform, and generator. Portable stage to deliver new songs, poems, and action art images into local communities across the country in parking lots, parks, and festivals. Second edition.
96 x 48 x 36 inches
On Nature (Tokos (τόκος) Minimum Wage), 2015
Birch plywood, transparent plexiglass, white paint, red lipstick, and recitation of my poem, “Minimum Wage.”
24 x 24 x 48 inches
I recited my poem from within the sculpture while pushing up against the plexiglass ceiling of the pedestal form.
On Nature (Ousia (οὐσία) Song of Apology to The Bees), 2015
Birch plywood, transparent plexiglass, white paint, honey, electric guitar strings, microphone pick-ups, and amplifier.
24 x 24 x 72 inches
I composed this musical performance as an apology to the bees for their poisoning by pesticides and their overworking. I bit and licked the electric guitar strings to play an original melody I composed for the amount of time it took for a cup of honey to roll down the side of the sculpture once I pushed it off the top until it trickled onto the top of my left foot at the bottom of the sculpture.
On Nature (Logos (λόγος) In The Sky With Diamonds), 2015
Birch plywood, transparent plexiglass, white paint, lipstick, and residue mist from the breath.
20 x 20 x 100 inches
The one-word poem “Lucy” by Aram Saroya is recited from inside the sculpture platform while slowly spinning on my heels to create marks within the transparent plexiglass staff area. For the first round, maroon lipstick was used to match the sound waves from repeating the one-word poem. In the second round, the residue of my breath from repeating the poem marks the plexiglass staff area. Then, the lipstick traces are wiped clean before exiting the sculpture.
Union News Daily – September 9, 2023
UNION, NJ — The Galleries at Kean University features the top artistic talent in the medium of collage this fall with the National Collage Society: 39th Annual Juried Exhibit at the Liberty Hall Academic Center gallery through Saturday, Sept. 30.
An opening reception, free and open to the public, was at LHAC on Kean’s Union campus on Wednesday, Sept. 6.
The exhibition includes 55 high-quality works by a wide range of artists that exemplify this often understated, yet challenging and highly rewarding art form. Collage offers artists unparalleled opportunities to create textured concepts and designs.
Professional artist and Kean alumna Barbara Minch served as adjudicator of the exhibition.
“I have significant experience working in collage. The array of work and professionalism displayed by the artists in this show was impressive,” she said.
Suran Song, Rustbelt Reaganomics for Election Day, 2021. Gesso, paint, cardboard box, sundry shipping materials 54 x 54 inches
Artists winning first, second and third place were Kenneth Falana, based in Florida, and Sheryl Renee Dobson and Suran Song, both based in New York. Falana is a contemporary printmaker, retired art educator and self-described colorist who draws on remembered experiences from his childhood to inform his own improvised style, which he calls “silkscreen construction collage.” Song melds art and sound into her work and uses her routine mantra meditation practice to inspire her creative process. Dobson, an abstract expressionist painter and collagist, explores human microcosms that exist within a divine macrocosmic background.
Other artists featured in the exhibition are New Jersey’s Kasandra Pantoja, who received honorable mention for her textile on canvas piece, “She Is…The Future,” and Gayle Gerson, of Colorado, who won The President’s Award, granted by Gretchen Bierbaum, president and founder of the National Collage Society.
“It’s an honor to host this exhibition, celebrate the work of so many talented artists, and to promote the advancement of collage as a major art medium,” said Lynette A. Zimmerman, executive director of the Liberty Hall Academic Center and the Galleries at Kean.
Canvas-stele Seva-transmit, 2014.
Participatory painting on raw canvas.
100″ x 39.75″
Social Justice Art Conference 3/7/15 keynote speaker, Marit Dewhurst.
Mudra Flower Shower: Celandine (seeing and knowing one’s highest thoughts), 2014.
Series of edition photographs incorporating projected flower mandalas into hands held in mudras.
16″ x 20″
Edition of 20.
Mudra Flower Shower: Chamomile (presencing sunlight, equanimity), 2014.
Series of edition photographs incorporating projected flower mandalas into hands held in mudras.
16″ x 20″
Edition of 20.
Mudra Flower Shower: Baby Blue Eyes (restoring trust in the goodness of the world), 2014.
Series of edition photographs incorporating projected flower mandalas into hands held in mudras.
16″ x 20″
Edition of 20.
Mudra Flower Shower: California Wild Rose (catalyzing love for human life and the Earth), 2014.
Series of edition photographs incorporating projected flower mandalas into hands held in mudras.
16″ x 20″
Edition of 20.
Mudra Flower Shower: Dandelion (alleviating muscle tension from over-striving), 2014.
Series of edition photographs incorporating projected flower mandalas into hands held in mudras.
16″ x 20″
Edition of 20.
Mudra Flower Shower: Dogwood (healing physical body by expanding etheric body), 2014.
Series of edition photographs incorporating projected flower mandalas into hands held in mudras.
16″ x 20″
Edition of 20.
