Surya Suran Gied

Surya Suran Gied (*1980 in Cologne, Germany) studied at the University of the Arts Berlin and graduated with an MFA in 2008. In her work, she explores the feeling of fragmentation and the accompanying abstraction of one's own identity in the form of painting, installation, sound, and video. 

After graduation, she went to Seoul, South Korea on a DAAD scholarship and was a guest artist at Seoul National University. This was followed in 2013 by a residency at the Seoul Art Space Geumcheon, South Korea. In 2015, she received a grant from the Robert Bosch Foundation for an exhibition project in Washington, DC. In 2020, she was awarded the Berlin Senate Research Fellowship and the following year won the Dieter Ruckhaberle Fellowship Award. Surya Gied received a one-year fellowship from the Pollock-Krasner Foundation in 2022 and was awarded the German Academy Casa Baldi Fellowship in 2023. Her work has been shown in numerous exhibitions worldwide including Kunstraum Kreuzberg/Bethanien Berlin, Hillyer Art Space in Washington DC, PyeongChang Biennale South Korea, University Delaware USA, Savvy Contemporary Berlin, and Galerie Wedding Berlin. Surya Gied lives and works in Berlin.

Since 2010 Surya Gied develops and leads courses, workshops and seminars at Universities and Museums in the field of painting and drawing. References include among others Kunsthochschule Kassel, University of Kassel, CODE University Berlin, and Bode Museum Berlin. 

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