Surel studied Fashion and Textile Design at the U.B.A., Buenos Aires (1993), and Costume and Set Design at the Arts Institute of Teatro Colón, Buenos Aires. She has lived and worked in Miami since 2001.

Her practice centers on ceramics, drawing from rites of passage, fertility, and cycles of transformation. Working primarily with stoneware clay fired in her Miami studio, she engages Florida’s pre-colonial histories and ecological narratives through texture as tactile language — bridging the physical and the symbolic, honoring both land and lineage.

Selected solo exhibitions include The Multiverse is Singing Our Song with Spinello Projects, NADA New York (2025), Greta Chamotta with Spinello Projects, Art Basel Miami Beach (2024), Allegory of Florida, Miami Design District (2024), and Florida Beauty, Spinello Projects, Miami (2023).

Selected group exhibitions include UNREAL, Secrist | Beach, Chicago (2026), South Florida Cultural Consortium Fellows Exhibition, Museum of Contemporary Art North Miami (2026), A World Far Away, Nearby, and Invisible, El Espacio 23, Miami (2025), Changes: Reflections on Time & Space, Spinello Projects, Miami (2025), A Mother, Possibly, Orlando Museum of Art (2024), and Still There are Seeds to be Gathered, Miami Design District (2023).

Public and private collections include Lunar Bodies (Sisters of the Moon), PS Reserve / Miami International Airport, Miami-Dade Art in Public Places (2026); The Holder, El Espacio 23 Collection, Miami (2025); Allegory of Florida, Legacy Purchase Program, City of Miami Beach (2024); Cyborg, Jorge M. and Darlene Pérez Private Collection, Miami (2023); The Multiverse Is Singing Our Song, Delano Hotel Private Collection, Miami Beach.

Maritime collections include The World Residences at Sea (2008), Celebrity Cruises (2014), Windstar (2022), and Icons of the Sea (2022).

Awards and residencies include the South Florida Cultural Consortium Visual and Media Artist Grant (2025), and Miami Individual Artists Grant (2023).

In 2016, Surel founded Collective 62, Miami’s first all-women artist-run space, bringing together up to 17 contemporary artists in a shared studio and programming environment. Surel is represented by Spinello Projects.