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ID: 500352527
Page Link: http://vocab.getty.edu/page/ulan/500352527

 

Record Type: Person
Rodney (Sur), Sur (Canadian artist, writer, and activist, born 1954, active in the United States)

Note: Arrived New York in 1976 after graduating Montreal Museum of Fine Arts School of Art and Design. In 1980, Sur hosted a series of television talk shows advertised as the Sur Rodney Sur Show and the All New Sur Rodney (Sur) Show, which were featured on Manhattan Cable Television and at the Mudd Club in New York. During that year, the artist also became a member of the Blackheart Collective, a group of gay black poets, writers, and multimedia performance artists. From 1982 until 1988, Sur worked to much acclaim as the co-director of the Gracie Mansion Gallery.

Names:
Rodney (Sur), Sur (preferred,U,index)
Sur Rodney (Sur) (U,display)
(Sur), Sur Rodney (V)
Sur Rodney Sur (V)
Rodney, Sur (V,LC)
(Sur), Sur (U)

Nationalities:
American (preferred)
Canadian
African American

Roles:
artist (preferred)
writer
performance artist
archivist
activist

Gender: male

Related People or Corporate Bodies:
partner in ....  Gracie Mansion Gallery  1982-1988
..................  (American repository, New York City, active 1982-1991) [500303938]
spouse of ....  Hendricks, Geoffrey  
................  (American painter and installation artist, 1931-2018) [500068090]

List/Hierarchical Position:
 ....  Persons, Artists
 ........  Rodney (Sur), Sur (I,U)

Biographies:
(Canadian artist, writer, and activist, born 1954, active in the United States) ..... [VP Preferred]
(artist) ..... [GRI Special Collections]
(Canadian artist, born 1954) ..... [MoMA]

Additional Names:

Sources and Contributors:
Rodney, Sur ........ [VP]
........................  Library of Congress Authorities online (2002-) no 98098765
Rodney (Sur), Sur ........ [GRISC Preferred, VP]
...................................  GRI Special Collections Finding Aids databases (1980-) 2006M8
...................................  Radical Presence: Black Performance in Contemporary Art. [online] (2013).
Sur Rodney (Sur) ........ [GRISC, MoMA, VP]
.................................  Artists, Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) New York (2000-)
.................................  Getty Vocabulary Program rules
Sur Rodney Sur ........ [VP]
.............................  Radical Presence: Black Performance in Contemporary Art. [online] (2013).
(Sur), Sur ........ [MoMA Preferred]
......................  Artists, Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) New York (2000-)
(Sur), Sur Rodney ........ [VP]
...................................  Getty Vocabulary Program rules

Subject: ........ [GRISC, MoMA, VP]
....................  GRI Special Collections Finding Aids databases (1980-)
 
Note:
English .......... [VP]
.......... Radical Presence: Black Performance in Contemporary Art. [online] (2013).
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