Artist
Swoon
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About
Pratt Institute alumna Caledonia Curry creates large-scale paper cut outs and prints from recycled newspaper in her Brooklyn studio, with much of her work depicting her family and friends in imagined cityscapes. Originally pasting them all onto the streets of New York with glue, she now prefers a mix of street and gallery work, as she hates the idea of everything disappearing. In 2014, Swoon became the first living street artist to show at the newly-opened Brooklyn Museum.
Artworks
Info
Did you know?
Swoon’s first gallery projects were at the behest of art supremo Jeffrey Deitch.
Country of Birth
USA
Auction Record
€26,000
Digard — Urban Contemporary Art, 'Alixa and Naima, 2010', 2017
Notable Collections
MoMA PS1, New York, US
Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston, US
Tate Modern, London, UK
São Paulo Museum of Art, São Paulo, Brazil
Brooklyn Museum, New York, US
V&A Prints, Drawings and Paintings Collection, London, UK
Notable Exhibitions
Eidophones, The Mezzanine Gallery at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, US, 2022
Seven Contemplations, Albright-Knox Foundation, Buffalo, NY, US, 2020
Swoon: Time Capsule, Museum of Urban and Contemporary Art, Munich, DE, 2020
Cicada, Deitch Projects, New York, US, 2019
Swoon: Submerged Motherlands, Brooklyn Museum, New York, US, 2014
Exhibitions by Swoon
GAME CHANGERS: Renegade artists defying convention
Bridget Riley,Nancy Fouts,Nina Chanel Abney,Swoon,Tracey Emin,Yayoi Kusama
30 Jul 2021 – 17 Sep 2021
Hang-Up Curates | Vol. I
Banksy,Bridget Riley,Harland Miller,José Parlá,Swoon,The Connor Brothers,Tim Fishlock,Patrick Hughes
2 Nov 2020 – 25 Nov 2020
Swoon Editorial
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25 Feb 2021
