Sur Rodney Sur

Enigmatically recognized as an artistic collaborator, curator, writer and archivist — Sur is most renowned for his former position as co-director of the celebrated Gracie Mansion Gallery from 1983-1988.

During the early to mid 1990s he served as a curator and archivist at Kenkeleba House, a Lower Manhattan African-American art institution and was hired to assist with archiving the New School University’s art collection. His work with artists estates, at cause to the HIV/AIDS pandemic, led him to serve on the board of Visual AIDS (1994-2009) and help establish the Frank Moore Archive Project, a support for artists with HIV/AIDS and their estates.

Currently Sur has organized an archive of his late spouse Geoffrey Hendricks, an artist associated with Fluxus, now at Northwestern University in Chicago and is managing the studio and archives of conceptual artist and writer Lorraine O’Grady.