anna gonzalez suero: about

Dr. Anna Gonzalez Suero is author of An Artistic Autoethnography on the Public Fetus: Feminist Perspectives (Routledge, 2025). She earned her PhD in Art from Goldsmiths, University of London. For her PhD thesis, she explored the ways in which art and science intersect with and work through gender, with a focus on how female bodies are visualized, narrated and policed in contemporary societies. The final format of her PhD was an autoethnographic text that told personal stories about her artistic practice in an interdisciplinary manner. After completing her PhD, Gonzalez Suero was awarded a post-doctoral scholarship in the Faculty of Art and Design at the Bauhaus University Weimar for her ongoing project titled "Storying Artistic Research Using Methods of Autoethnography."

Growing up in Miami, USA, Gonzalez Suero is of Spanish and Venezuelan descent. She studied at the Copper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art in New York, received her BFA from Gerrit Rietveld Academy in Amsterdam and then studied at the Academy of Media Arts in Cologne, receiving her Diploma in 2012. She has shown her artistic work in galleries, festivals and museums, including Alpha Nova and Galerie Futura (Berlin); Akiyoshidai International Art Village (Japan); Galerie Diana Stigter (Amsterdam); Museum Abteiberg (Mönchengladbach); La Virreina Centre de la Imatge (Barcelona); Institute Cervantes (Stockholm); LOOP (Barcelona); ISEA (Dortmund). For her artistic work, she has received various grants and awards, including a DAAD Prize and a Dr. Dormagen-Guffanti Scholarship in the video/video installation division, for which she worked with people with disabilities in a care home in Cologne. Other previous works in medical settings include a collaborative video project using German proverbs to explore questions of personal identity in the context of memory loss and in relation to issues of medicalization, normalization and institutionalization.

Gonzalez Suero has presented her research at various events, including the 2025 International Symposium on Autoethnography and Narrative, and the 2023 International Summer School on Gender and Science at the University of Granada. She has also organized events, for example, the one-day seminar titled "Equality, not Sameness," held at the Women's Art Library in London. For the collaborative project, "Reproductive Labor: Parenting Beyond Patriarchy," she received a Goldsmiths Graduate Fund Award (won jointly).