Molly R. Surno Davis

Molly is a visual artist and cultural curator and strategist who blends visual art, film, performance, music, food, and technology to create installations and experiences in cultural institutions and beyond. Surno developed the contemporary arts program, Landscape, housed within the walls of the Brooklyn nightclub, Elsewhere. A portion of every ticket sale funds artists' projects reimagining the architecture and notions of patronage. In 2008, she founded her nomadic performance series Cinema 16, which pairs contemporary musicians with experimental films. Named after the New York-based avant-garde film society in 1947 and inspired by Maya Deren's Greenwich Village exhibition of experimental films, Cinema 16 has shown at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, The Kitchen, MoMA/PS1, Museum of Moving Image, among others. Surno has worked for the team that created TEDx and as the first Outreach Director for Kickstarter. She served as the Art Director for Elsewhere and consults on curating, cultural production, and creative programming. Molly was awarded a BA from UC Santa Cruz and an MFA Columbia University.