Meet the Artists: Monica Duncan, Jennifer Tobias and SuRan Song

SuRan Song is a Riverdale, Bronx-based artist of Korean and Greek descent. Her multidisciplinary performance practice explores how justice relates to love, the ancient roots of Greek hospitality, Sanskrit, audience engagement and accessibility, among other themes. Inspired by post-punk songwriters and Early Dada artists, she also leads a performance art rock band that has toured widely. Song’s work has been featured in exhibitions at the Katonah Museum of Art and Queens Museum, both in NY, and the Villa Terrace Arts Museum in Milwaukee, WI. She earned an MFA in Sculpture from Parsons School of Design, NY. 

Photo: Anastasia Song

Monica Duncan is a Riverdale, Bronx-based video and performance artist whose time-based work investigates sensory perceptions, queer potentiality, and relationality to our more-than human world. Her video and performance work has been presented at Hebbel am Ufer HAU1, Berlin; Franfurt Lab, zietraumexit, Mannheim and ZKM Center for Art and Media, Karlsruhe, all in Germany; Warszawa, Warsaw, Poland; La Casa Encendida, Madrid, Spain; Los Angeles County Museum of Art and Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions, CA; Kuala Lumpur Experimental Film, Video & Music Festival, Malaysia; Athens International Film + Video Festival, Greece; Chicago Underground Film Festival, IL; Ann Arbor Film Festival, MI; and The Kitchen and Hallwalls Buffalo, both in New York. Duncan has been an artist-in-residence at the Experimental Television Center, Institute for Electronic Arts, Binghampton; Lower Manhattan Cultural Council; and Harvestworks Digital Media Arts Center, all in NY; PACT Zollverein, Essen, Germany and Scena Robocza, Poznań, Poland, among others. She earned a BFA from the NYSCC School of Art and Design at Alfred University, NY; anMFA in Visual Arts from the University of California, San Diego; and an MA in Choreography and Performance at the Institute for Applied Theater Studies, Justus Liebig University Gießen, Germany. Learn more about the artist at monicaduncan.net. 

Photo: Dean Erdmann

Jennifer Tobias is a scholar, artist and illustrator based in New York City. Her practice is driven by a curiosity and love of research, making and communicating. Tobias’ visual art and illustration have been featured at Cullman Education Center, Museum of Modern Art and Cooper Union, both in New York, and in Extra Bold: A Feminist, Inclusive, Anti-racist, Nonbinary Field Guide for Graphic Designers (Princeton Architectural Press), Health Design Thinking (Smithsonian) and Design is Storytelling (D.A.P.), among others. She earned a BFA from Cooper Union, NY; and MLS from Rutgers University, NJ; and a Ph.D. in Art History from City University of New York Graduate Program.