Sur Rodney (Sur)

Board Member

Sur Rodney (Sur) is a writer, curator and archivist who works collaboratively, drawing variously on performance, his writing, and community archives. He has been a fixture on the Lower East Side of Manhattan since discovering it in 1972 at the age of 17. A decade later he would be producing TV broadcasts for Manhattan Cable TV and the Mudd Club before his gallery venture and marriage to art dealer Gracie Mansion in the 80s, and later shifting his practice from gallery co-director to archivist working with artists affected by the growing AIDS pandemic. From the mid-90s into the following decade he would serve on the board of Visual AIDS to help establish the Frank Moore Archive Project. Currently Sur can be found managing records for several archives and managing artist’s studio projects.