SWOON
Caledonia Curry
Born in 1977, New London, Connecticut
Raised in Daytona Beach, Florida
Attended Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, 1998–2001
Lives and works in Brooklyn
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2022 Eidophones, The Mezzanine Gallery at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY.
2021 Swoon: Tender, The Vitrine at Saint Kate - The Arts Hotel, curated by J Myszka Lewis and Sona Pastel-Daneshgar for Tandem Press, Milwaukee, WI, August 14 - November 14.
2021 Cicada and Tymbal, Superchief Gallery NFT, New York, NY, July 17 - 22.
2021 Swoon: Wholeness In Mind, Turner Carroll Gallery, Santa Fe, New Mexico. May 28 - July 11.
2020 Seven Contemplations, Albright-Knox Foundation, Buffalo, NY. Curated by Aaron Ott. September 26 - January 10.
2020 The Heart Lives through the Hands, Contemporary Craft, Pittsburgh, PA, September 3 - January 2021.
2020 Asteraceae, Underdogs Gallery, Lisbon, Portugal, July 10 - August 8.
2020 Swoon: Time Capsule, multi-city travelling exhibition, Museum of Urban and Contemporary Art, Munich, Germany, May - August.
2020 The Slow Reprise, Galerie LJ, Paris, France, June 25 - September 26.
2019 Cicada, Deitch Projects, New York, NY, November 14 - February 1.
2019 Swoon: Time Capsule, multi-city travelling exhibition, Fluctuart Centre d’Art Urbain, Paris, France, July 4 - September 22.
2019 Swoon: Every Portrait is a Vessel, Treason Gallery, Seattle, WA, April 4 - May 18.
2019 Swoon, Galerie Henrik Springmann, Freiburg, Germany.
2018 Raggedy Hecate and the Memory Box, Chandran Gallery, San Francisco, CA, November 30 - February 8.
2018 Mirai Minima, SNOW Contemporary, Tokyo, Japan, October 6 - November 2.
2018 Swoon: New Works, Galerie LJ, Paris, France, October 11 - November 24.
2017 The Canyon: 1999-2017, retrospective, Contemporary Art Center, curated by Steven Matijcio, Cincinnati, OH, September 23 - February 25.
2017 To Accompany Something Invisible, Allouche Gallery, New York, NY, April 27 - May 21.
2017 Haven, solo exhibition, mural commission and storytelling project in collaboration with the Million Person Project, Skissernas Museum, Lund, Sweden, January 28 - November 21, 2018.
2016 Thalassa, Detroit Institute of Arts Museum, Detroit, MI, September 24 - June 25.
2016 The Light After, Library Street Collective, Detroit, MI, October 8 - November 26.
2016 City Lights, site-specific installation, MIMA Contemporary Art Museum, Brussels, Belgium, March 24 - August 28.
2014 Swoon: Submerged Motherlands, Brooklyn Museum, curated by Sharon Matt Atkins, Brooklyn, NY, April 11 - Aug. 24.
2013 Motherlands, Galerie LJ, Paris, France, November 30 - January 15.
2013 Petrichor, Manatee-Sarasota Fine Art Gallery, State College of Florida, Brandenton, FL, March 1 - April 3.
2012 Honeycomb, SNOW Contemporary, Tokyo, Japan, April 4 - May 20.
2011 Murmuration, site-specific installation, Black Rat Projects, London, England, December 1 - December 24.
2011 Anthropocene Extinction, site-specific installation, The Institute of Contemporary Art,
2011 Boston, Massachusetts, September 3 - December 30, 2012.
2011 Swoon: Thalassa (The Great Hall Project), site-specific installation, New Orleans Museum of Art, New Orleans, LA, July 8 - September 25.
2011 Thekla, Metro Gallery, Melbourne, Australia, February 14 - March 5.
2010 Fata Morgana, Galerie LJ, Paris, France, October 24 - December 4.
2008 Swoon: Swimming Cities of Switchback Sea, site-specific installation with public performances, Deitch Studios, Long Island City, NY, September 7 - October 19.
2008 Portrait of Silvia Elena, Honey Space Gallery, New York, NY, May 2008.
2008 Drown Your Boats, New Image Art Gallery, Los Angeles, CA, February 16- April 19.
2005 Swoon, site-specific installation, Deitch Projects, New York, NY, July 7 - August 13.
GROUP EXHIBITIONS (selected)
2022 Portals, Maia Contemporary, Mexico City, Mexico. April 28 -
2022 The Hunt, Vertical Gallery, Chicago, IL. March 5 - March 26.
2022 Positive Fragmentation: From the Collections of Jordan D. Schnitzer and His Family Foundation, American University Museum at the Katzen Arts Center, organized by the National Museum of Women in the Arts, Washington DC, January 29 - May 22.
2022 Creative Attention: Art and Community Restoration, Palo Alto Art Center, Palo Alto, CA. Curated by Ann Trinca. January 22 - May 21.
2021 Allouche Gallery Los Angeles, inaugural exhibition, Allouche Gallery, Los Angeles, CA. October 28 - November 25.
2021 Firebrands: Judy Chicago, Camille Claudel, Swoon, and Hung Liu, Pie Projects, Santa Fe, NM, July 17 - August 14.
2021 Beyond the Streets On Paper, Southampton Arts Center, Southampton, NY. July 17 - August 28.
2021 Contemporary Women Artists: Figure and Form, Moberg Gallery, Des Moines, IA, May 21 - June 30.
2021 The Intricate Intimate, Allouche Gallery, curated by Swoon, Monica Canilao, and BLK PALATE, New York, NY, May 6 - June 2.
2021 Precious Gems, Anna Shapolsky Gallery, New York, NY. February 6 - May 1.
2020 Living In America: An Exhibition In Four Acts, International Print Center, New York, NY. Curated by Assembly Room. September 30 - December 19.
2020 Crescendo, New Image Art Gallery, Los Angeles, CA. August 1 - August 15.
2020 Solstice: Create Art for Earth, Turner Carroll Gallery, curated by Judy Chicago, Santa Fe, NM, June 20 - July 12.
2020 Here and Now: A Survey on New Contemporary Art, Fort Wayne Museum of Art, Ft. Wayne, IN. Curated by Josef Zimmerman and Ken Harman. March 14 - May 17.
2020 Renegades, Turner Carroll Gallery, Santa Fe, NM. March 5 - April 30.
2020 Fresh Diversity, Woodward Gallery, New York, NY. February 6 - March 4.
2020 American Woman, Allouche Gallery, New York, NY. January 16 - March 7.
2020 It’s Urgent, Luma Arles Parc de Ateliers, curated by Hans-Ulrich Obrist, online.
2019 The Outwin 2019: American Portraiture Today, National Portrait Gallery, Washington D.C., October 26 - August 30. On Tour: October 3, 2020 to April 4, 2021 Michele and Donald D’Amour Museum of Fine Arts Springfield Museums Springfield, MA; September 10, 2021 to January 23, 2022 Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum Washington University, St. Louis, MO.
2018 Catastrophe and the Power of Art, Mori Art Museum, Tokyo, Japan, October 6 - January 20. (catalogue)
2016 Radical Seafaring, Parrish Art Museum, curated by Andrea Grover, Water Mill, NY, May 8 - July 24, 2016. (catalogue)
2015 Witch-Wife, collaborative site-specific installation with Monica Canilao, Chandran Gallery, San Francisco, CA, February 19 - April 1.
2015 Unrealism, Moore Building, curated by Jeffrey Deitch and Larry Gagosian, Miami Design District, Florida, December 1 - 6.
2015 Some Place Like Home, Rumney Guggenheim Gallery, New York, NY, October 9 - November 11.
2015 Coney Island: Visions of an American Dreamland 1861-2008, Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art, organized by Robin Jaffee Frank, Hartford, CT, January 31 - May 31. On Tour: Brooklyn Museum, curated by Connie H. Choi, Brooklyn, NY, November 20, 2015 - March 13, 2016. (catalogue)
2013 Hecho en Oaxaca, Museo de Arte Contemporáneo Oaxaca, Oaxaca, Mexico, July 5 - July 31.
2012 2nd Annual Ural Industrial Biennial, National Center for Contemporary Art, Ekaterinburg, Russia, September 13 - October 22.
2011 Inside Out/Outside In, Museu de Arte de São Paulo, curated by Mariana Martins, Baixo Ribeiro & Eduardo Saretta, São Paulo, Brazil, August 17 - December 23.
2011 Art in the Streets, Museum of Contemporary Art, curated by Jeffrey Deitch, Roger Gastman and Aaron Rose, Los Angeles, CA, April 17 - August 8. (catalogue)
2011 Viva la Revolución: A Dialogue with the Urban Landscape, Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego, curated by Pedro Alonso and Lucía Sanromán, July 18 - January 2.
2012 The Graphic Unconscious, Philagrafika, curated by José Roca, John Caperton, Sheryl Conkelton, Shelley Langdale, Lorie Mertes, and Julien Robson, Philadelphia, PA, January 29 - April 11.
2008 The Way That We Rhyme, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, curated by Berin Golonu, San Francisco, CA, March 29- June 29.
2008 Feral, The Luggage Store, San Francisco, California, March 21 - April 26.
2007 Swoon, Chris Stain, and The Polaroid Kidd, Galerie LJ, Paris, France, November 10- December 8.
2007 Heap, collaboration with Monica Canilao and David Ellis, Black Rat Press, London, England, October 25 - November 20.
2007 The Burning House, New Image Art Gallery, curated by Marsea Goldberg, Los Angeles, California, January 20 - March 17. On tour: Museum Het Domein, Sittard, Netherlands, May 12 - August 5.
2006 Since 2000: Printmaking Now, Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY, curated by Judy Hecker, May 3 - September 18.
2006 La Boca del Lobo, collaboration with Polonia Soloveichek and Allison Corrie, Black Floor Gallery, Philadelphia, PA, April 7- 28.
2006 Generations USA, Pinchuk Art Center, Kiev, Ukraine, January 19 - March 25.
2005 Greater New York 2005, MoMA P.S.1, Long Island City, NY, curated by Klaus Biesenbach, Alanna Heiss, Glenn Lowry, Robert Nickas, Amy Smith-Stewart, and Ann Temkin, March 13 - September 26.
2005 Graffiti, Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, NY, curated by Charlotta Kotik, June 30 - September 3.
LEADERSHIP
2015 - present Founder, Heliotrope Foundation, Brooklyn, NY.
WORLD-BUILDING: MULTI-YEAR INSTALLATIONS & COMMUNITY COLLABORATIONS
2018 Lead Artist, The Road Home, Philadelphia, PA. Collaborators: Jessica Radovich, Philadelphia Mural Arts, and The Million Person Project
2015 - 2018 Founding Artist, Braddock Tiles, Braddock, PA. Lead Artist Team: KT Tierney and Katie Johnson
2015 Co-Lead Artist, 5 Stories, Philadelphia, PA. Collaborators: Jessica Radovich, Philadelphia Mural Arts, and The Million Person Project
2011- present Founding Member and Co-Lead Artist, Music Box Village, New Orleans, LA. Created initial design, plan and concept, which was expanded by a collective of 20+ individual artist contributors. Lead Artist Team: Delaney Martin, Taylor Shepard, and Jay Pennington.
2010- present Founding Member, Lead Designer and Project Manager, Konbit Shelter, Comier, Haiti Collaborators: KT Tierney and Ben Wolf Lead Architect: Joana Torres
2009 Lead Artist, Swimming Cities of Serenissima, Adriatic Sea and Littoral Canals between Koper, Slovenia and Venice, Italy Public Performance Collaborators: Ben Burke, Adina Bier, and Dark Dark Dark.
2008 Lead Artist, Swimming Cities of Switchback Sea, Hudson River between Troy, NY and New York City. Performance Collaborators: Lisa D’Amour (playwright), Sxip Shirey (circus composer), and Dark Dark Dark (original music).
2006 - 2007 Miss Rockaway Armada, Mississippi River from Minneapolis to St. Louis Founding Member and Lead Artist of collective with 30+ artist contributors.
AWARDS, GRANTS, FELLOWSHIPS & RESIDENCIES (selected)
2020 The Jaunt Artist-in-Residence, Nilwella, Sri-Lanka
2019 Finalist - Outwin Boochever Portrait Competition, National Portrait Gallery, Washington, D.C., USA
2019 Tandem Press Printmaking Residency, Madison, WI, USA
2018 Robert Rauschenberg Foundation Residency, Captiva, FL, USA
2016 Tandem Press Printmaking Residency, Madison, WI, USA
2014 Present Project International Artist Residency, Kaka’ako, Honolulu, HI, USA
2011 SGC International Community Engagement Award, School of Design & Visual Arts at Washington University, St. Louis, MO, USA
2010 The Creative Time Global Residency, Bigones, Haiti
2010 Boomerang Grant
2010 Creative Time Grant
2009 Town House Gallery Residency, Cairo, Egypt
2007 Tides Foundation Lambent Fellowship
2002 Evolutionaere-Zellen Grant, NGBK, Berlin, Germany
PUBLIC ART & COMMISSIONS (selected)
2021 Public Installation and Performance, The House Our Families Built, commissioned by PBS American Portrait, New York, NY, USA.
2020 Lobby Sculpture Wave Flowers Wall Hanging and Exterior Mural Wave Flowers Mural, commissioned by Charney Companies, The Dime Building, Williamsburg, Brooklyn, NY, USA
2019 Special Project, mixed media wall, commissioned by IFPDA Fine Art Print Fair, The Javitz Center, New York, NY, USA
2018 Mural, Healing Begins Through Connection, commissioned by Philadelphia Mural Arts, Philadelphia, PA, USA
2017 Mural, solo exhibition, site-specific installation, and collaboration with The Million Person Project, Haven, Skissernas Museum, Sweden
2017 Public Installation, tram mural, Commissioned by HKWalls, Hong Kong
2016 Mural, Moni and the Sphinx, commissioned by Library Street Collective, Detroit, MI, USA
2016 Collaborative Mural with Baba Wayne, Nee-Nee, commissioned by Library Street Collective, 14635 East Jefferson St., Detroit, MI, USA
2015 Mural, commissioned by Facebook Artist-in-Residence Program, Facebook Headquarters, Palo Alto, CA, USA
2015 Special Project, Open Source, city wide exhibition created in collaboration with Philadelphia Mural Arts, Jessica Radovich, and Heather Box, Philadelphia, PA, USA
2015 Mural, Dawn and Gemma, commissioned by Wynwood Walls, Miami, FL, USA
2014 Collaborative Mural with Groundswell, commissioned by Goldman Properties, Bowery Mural, New York, NY, USA
2013 Public Art Commission, The Anthropocene, Scotiabank Nuit Blanche Festival, Toronto, Canada
2013 Public Art Commission, Thalassa, Fame Festival, curated by Angelo Milano, Grottaglie, Italy.
2007 Public Art Installation, group exhibition, Santa’s Ghetto commissioned by Pictures on Walls, Bethlehem
2005 Public Art Installation, group exhibition, Greater New York, MoMA PS.1, Queens, NY, USA
2004 Public Art Installation, group exhibition, The Dreamland Artist Club, hosted by Creative Time, Brooklyn, NY, USA
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ARTIST TALKS, LECTURES & PANELS (selected)
2021 Virtual Artist Talk, “Keith Haring: Street Art with Swoon,” Caledonia Curry and Carlo McCormick, Museum of Contemporary Art Denver, March 24.
2021 Virtual Artist Talk, Swoon and the NYTimes Design Team, March 19.
2021 Virtual Artist Talk, “Re-building Sanctuary,” Caledonia Curry and Za'Kiyah House Founder Ronna Davis-Moore, PRACTICE, If You Were Here Now, Online, March 8.
2021 Virtual Storytelling Workshop, “The Madeleine Moment: Storytelling through food and memory with Swoon and Mina Stone”, MoMA PS1 in collaboration with PBS American Portrait, February 10.
2021 Virtual Artist Talk, Caledonia Curry in conversation with Kaya Hanasaki, Reborn Festival, February 22.
2021 Virtual Artist Lecture, School of Visual Arts, February 23.
2021 Virtual Artist Talk, Caledonia Curry at the Cosmopolitan Club, NYC, January 27.
2021 Virtual Storytelling Workshop, Caledonia Curry, Heather Box and Julian Mocine-McQueen, PBS American Portrait, Million Person Project and If You Were Here Now, Online, January 26.
2020 Virtual Artist Talk, “Swoon: Rogue Routes,” presented by Atlas Obscura and Nissan, November 14.
2020 Presenter, MAD Lifetime Achievement Award to Judy Chicago, Museum of Arts and Design’s Virtual Gala, October 15.
2020 Artist Talk, Deitch Projects, New York, NY, USA
2020 Virtual Artist Talk, “Creativity, Healing from Trauma, and Collective Liberation,” Prentis Hemphill and Caledonia Curry, Albright-Knox Foundation, Buffalo, NY, USA, December 4.
2020 Virtual Panel, “Taking Care of Ourselves & Community” muraLAB: Art in Action, Philadelphia Mural Arts
2020 Virtual Talk/Workshop, “Create Art for Earth Workshop with Swoon and Judy Chicago”, Chandran Gallery
2020 Roslyn Brock Stern public lecture, Auburn University, Biggin Hall, Auburn, Alabama, USA
2019 Lecture, “Unearthing the Medea: The Intersection of Art and Psychedelic Assisted Therapy,” Caledonia Curry, Horizons: Perspectives on Psychedelics Conference, New York, NY
2019 Lecture, “Finding Good in Our Own Limitations,” TedxPittsburghWomen, Byham Theater, Pittsburgh, PA, USA
2019 Panel, “The Evolution of Street Art in L.A.” W/ALLS: Defend, Divide, and the Divine, Annenberg Space for Photography, Los Angeles, CA, USA
2019 Panel, “Living History in Contemporary Printmaking: The New Renaissance of Etching,” IFPDA Fine Art Print Fair, Javitz Center, New York, NY, USA
2016 In Conversation, “How Do We Build to be Better?” Swoon and Liz Ogbu, National Museum of Women in the Arts, Fresh Talk Lecture Series, Washington, D.C., USA
2016 Artist Talk and Workshop, Hong Kong Contemporary Art Foundation, SCAD Hong Kong Campus, Kowloon, Hong Kong, February 9.
2015 Lecture, Loeb Fellowship Anniversary Keynote Speaker, Harvard University Graduate School of Design, Cambridge, MA.
2011 Public Presentation, “A Conversation with Creative Time's Global Residency Artists,” 92nd Street Y, New York, NY, USA.
2009 Public Presentation, “The Influencers: Art, Guerilla Communication, Radical Entertainment”, Center of Contemporary Culture, Barcelona, Spain
ARTIST’S PUBLICATIONS & MONOGRAPHS
Caledonia Curry, “How one artist helped bring healing to herself and a community struggling with addiction,” The Renewal Project, April 8, 2019. https://www.therenewalproject.com/how-one-artist- helped-bring-healing-to-herself-and-a-community-struggling-with-addiction/
Caledonia Curry. Swoon. New York: Abrams, 2010.
Caledonia Curry, foreword to Graffiti Women : Street Art from Five Continents, by Nicholas Ganz, New York: Abrams, 2006.
BIBLIOGRAPHY: PRESS, PERIODICALS & FEATURES
(Feature) Kathaleen Roberts, “Art to Swoon Over,” Albuquerque Journal, June 5, 2021. https://www.abqjournal.com/2397041/art-to-swoon-over.html
(Interview) Miranda Metcalf, “Episode 93: Caledonia Curry aka SWOON,” PINE | COPPER | LIME, June 2, 2021. https://www.pinecopperlime.com/episode-ninetythree
(Interview) Mina Stone, “Cooking with Artists: Caledonia Curry,” MoMA Magazine, February 25, 2021. https://www.moma.org/magazine/articles/513
(Interview) Wendy Goodman, “A Box Truck That Carries Our Dreams of Home See Swoon’s fantastical memory box on wheels, ‘The House Our Families Built,’” Curbed, January 25, 2021. https://www.curbed.com/article/swoon-house-our-families-built.html
(Survey) Gabriella Angeleti, “Mobile portraits of American life roll into three US cities through PBS public art initiative,” The Art Newspaper, January 25, 2021. https://www.theartnewspaper.com/news/rick-lowe -swoon-and-carlos-ramirez-inaugurate-pbs-public-art-initiative
(Preview) Keith Estiler, “Swoon Transforms Box Truck Into Moving Public Installation in NYC,” HypeBeast, January 22, 2021. https://hypebeast.com/2021/1/swoon-brooklyn-bridge-park-pier-1- installation-pbs
(Feature) Romy Oltuski, “Creating wonder with New York City’s Swoon,” Playboy, May 18, 2020. https://www.playboy.com/read/creating-wonder-with-swoon
(Interview) Barry Samaha, “State of the Art Industry in the Time of Coronavirus,” Harper’s Bazaar, May 7, 2020. https://www.harpersbazaar.com/culture/art-books-music/a32366408/fine-art-industry- coronavirus/
(Print Feature) Sarah Gooding, “Swoon: Steadfast and Self-Sustaining,” Flood, vol.1, no. 10, 2019. pp 51-61.
(Feature) Lauren Messman, “Swoon Installation at Fine Art Print Fair,” The New York Times, October 24, 2019.
(Feature Interview) Kristin Farr, “SWOON: The Catalyst,” Juxtapoz, January, 02, 2019. https://www.juxtapoz.com/news/magazine/features/swoon-the-catalyst/
(Feature Interview) Katie Payton, “Sending Out the Signal: Swoon Interviewed by Katie Peyton,” BOMB Magazine, June 28, 2018. https://bombmagazine.org/articles/sending-out-the-signal-swoon-interviewed/
(Feature) Romy Oltuski, “Street Artist Swoon on Why Her Work Can Be Girly and Gritty,” InStyle Magazine, May 01, 2018. https://www.instyle.com/news/swoon-street-artist
(Feature) Samantha Melamed, “Mural Arts as harm reduction: 'Today was my 24th overdose reversal,’” The Philadelphia Inquirer, May 15, 2018.
(Feature) Adam Lehrer, “New York Street and Installation Artist Swoon Uses Humanity as Her Most Powerful Tool,” Forbes, February 16, 2016. https://www.forbes.com/sites/adamlehrer/2016/02/13/ new-york-street-and-installation-artist-swoon-uses-humanity-as-her-most-powerful-tool/#74b348ae4c16
(Interview) Sarah Cascone, “Here’s What Artists Have to Say About the Future of America Under Donald Trump,” artnet News, November 10, 2016. https://news.artnet.com/art-world/heres-artists-say- future-america-donald-trump-741710
(Feature) Andrew Salomone, “Street Artist Swoon Brings a Spiritual Installation to Detroit,” VICE, October 17, 2016. https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/53wx98/street-artist-swoon-spiritual-installation-detroit
(Preview) Kristin Sancken, “Swoon Installation Breathes Life, and Death, Into Deserted Detroit Architecture,” artnet News, October 18, 2016. https://news.artnet.com/exhibitions/death-swoon- detroit-architecture-street-art-708572
(Feature) Sarah Rose Sharp, “Glimpses of the Afterlife in Swoon’s New Installation,” Hyperallergic, November 3, 2016. https://hyperallergic.com/330700/glimpses-of-the-afterlife-in-swoons-new-installation/
(Feature) Priscilla Frank, “Artist Simulates What It’s Like To Have A Shared-Death Experience,” Huffington Post, October 11, 2016. https://www.huffpost.com/entry/swoon-detroit-shared-death- experience-art_n_57fbf9f8e4b068ecb5e10432
(Review) Jane L. Levere, “Review: Exhibition at Parrish Museum Celebrates Rule-Breaking,” The New York Times, June 6, 2016. https://www.nytimes.com/2016/06/26/nyregion/review-exhibition-at-parrish -museum-celebrates-rule-breaking.html
(Feature Interview) Laura Flanders, “One of the Most Recognized Artists in the World Writes on the Streets,” The Nation, February 25, 2016. https://www.thenation.com/article/archive/one-of-the-most- recognized-artists-in-the-world-writes-on-the-streets/
(Feature) Alexandra Hammond, “CALEDONIA CURRY Five Stories with SWOON,” The Brooklyn Rail, November, 2015. https://brooklynrail.org/2015/11/artseen/caledonia-curry-five-stories-with-swoon
(Feature) Roland Henry, “Meet the women redefining street art,” The Guardian, January 7, 2015. https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2015/jan/07/street-art-women-elle-swoon-vexta
(Feature) Melena Ryzik, “An artist’s life of wonderment,” The New York Times, September 8, 2014.
(Feature Interview) Kurt McVey, “Swoon’s Mother Lode,” Interview Magazine, April 10, 2014. https://www.interviewmagazine.com/art/swoon-submerged-motherlands
(Feature Interview) Patricia Garcia, “Swoon's Street Art Takes Over the Brooklyn Museum of Art,” Vogue, April 9, 2014. https://www.vogue.com/article/swoon-at-brooklyn-museum-of-art-submerged-motherlands
(Feature) Hrag Vartanian, “Nourishment of the Spirit: Swoon’s Braddock Tiles,” Hyperallergic, November 15, 2013. https://hyperallergic.com/93897/nourishment-of-the-spirit-swoons-braddock-tiles/
(Feature) Rachel Wolff, “A Street Artist Steps Inside,” The Wall Street Journal, September 3, 2011. https://www.wsj.com/articles/SB10001424053111904199404576540823157277998
(Feature) Eleanor Mills, “Swoon: Floored genius,” The Times, November 27, 2011. https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/swoon-floored-genius-pqbrddzsv8z
(Feature) Vanessa Grigoriadis, “Barging In to Venice,” New York Magazine, June 5, 2009. https://nymag.com/arts/art/features/57181/
(Review) Jerry Saltz, “Entropy in Venice,” artnet News, June 29, 2009. https://nymag.com/arts/art/features/57181/
(Review) Aimee de Luc, “The Way That We Rhyme: Women, Art & Politics,” X-TRA, vol. 11, no. 2, Winter 2008. https://www.x-traonline.org/article/the-way-that-we-rhyme-women-art-politics
(Feature) Julie Bloom, “A Floating City with Junkyard Roots,” New York Times, August 17, 2008. https://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/18/arts/design/18flot.html
(Feature) Allen Brisson-Smith, “Art Down the Mississippi. At Least, That’s the Plan.” New York Times, August 9, 2006. https://www.nytimes.com/2006/08/09/arts/09arma.html
(Feature) David Carr, “Arts, Briefly; Mississippi Armada Passes Muster.” New York Times, August 16, 2006. https://www.nytimes.com/2006/08/16/arts/arts-briefly-mississippi-armada-passes-muster.html
(Feature) Kirk Semple, “Lawbreakers, Armed with Paint and Paste.” New York Times, July 9, 2004. https://www.nytimes.com/2004/07/09/nyregion/lawbreakers-armed-with-paint-and-paste-underground-artists-take-to-the-streets.html
BIBLIOGRAPHY Features and commentary on my work in books.
Simon Armstrong, Street Art, London: Thames & Hudson, 2019.
Andrea Grover, Radical Seafaring, Munich: Delmonico Books, Prestel, 2016.
Sara and Marc Schiller, Eleven Spring: A Celebration of Street Art, New York: Wooster Editions, 2016.
Jenna Moussa Spring, Unexpected Art: Serendipitous Installations, Site-Specific Works, and Surprising Interventions, San Francisco: Chronicle Books, 2015.
Katharine Ainger, Drowning Cities: A Voyage to Venice on Junk Art Rafts, Libros au Cordel, 2014.
Jeffrey Deitch, et al. Art in the Streets. Skira Rizzoli, 2011.
Janetta Rebold Benton and Robert DiYanni. Arts and Culture: an Introduction to the Humanities. Pearson, 2014.
William Parry. Against the Wall: the Art of Resistance in Palestine. Lawrence Hill Books, 2013.
Nicholas Ganz, edited by Tristan Manco, Graffiti World : Street Art from Five Continents, new ed., New York: Thames & Hudson, 2009.
Nicholas Ganz, Graffiti Women : Street Art from Five Continents, New York: Abrams, 2006.
Chris Pieretti, Re:vision, Station 606, 2006.
Tristan Manco. Street Logos. New York: Thames & Hudson, 2004.
FILM & VIDEO
2019 “A Voice is All You Need”, Amazon Music, original art made into animation for Alicia Keys’ Underdog
2019 Swoon as herself, “The ‘C’ Files with Maria Brito,” PBS
2017 Swoon as herself, “Fearless”, Frederic King
2010 Swoon as herself, “Exit Through the Gift Shop”, Banksy
2011 Swoon as herself, “Empire Me: New Worlds Are Happening!” Paul Poet, Navigator Film
COLLECTIONS
Museum of Modern Art
Brooklyn Museum of Art
Tate Modern
Jordan Schnitzer Family Foundation
Tudor Investments
Collection of Jeffrey Deitch
Principal Financial Collection
Fidelity Investments Collection
Soak Your Buns Collection
Benetton Collection
Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art
Institute of Contemporary Art Boston
Detroit Institute of Arts
Minneapolis Institute of Art
The Meltser Collection
The Sandrew Collection
MoMA PS1 (permanent site specific installation)
David & Karen Safris Private Collection
NoVo Foundation Collection