David Surman (b. 1981) is a British artist based in London. He has established an international reputation in contemporary art for his paintings exploring the conventions and boundaries of figuration. Through animal imagery he has developed a contemporary language embracing gestural expression, a knowledge of art history and pop cultural motifs such as cuteness. He is a graduate of the animation programme at the Newport Film School (2002) and the postgraduate film studies programme at Warwick University (2004). Recent solo exhibitions include ‘Sleepless Moon’ at Gallery THEO (2024) Seoul, ‘Portraits of a Wild Family’ Sens Gallery (2022) Hong Kong, ‘Fairy Painting’ Sim Smith (2021) London, and ‘Sirens’ (2019) also at Sim Smith. His work is held in several major public and private collections, including the UK Arts Council Collection, The McEvoy Foundation for the Arts, the Neumann Family collection, the Hornik Collection, Colección ALKAR Arriola Zugaza and Colección Espinosa de los Monteros Sáinz de Vicuña.