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
Alixa and Naima, 2010
Digard — Urban Contemporary Art
2017
Swoon
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.
Collections
- MoMA PS1 , New York, USA
- Institute of Contemporary Art , Boston, USA
- Tate Modern , London, UK
- São Paulo Museum of Art , São Paulo, BR
- Brooklyn Museum , New York, USA
- V&A Prints, Drawings and Paintings Collection , London, UK
Exhibitions
- Beyond The Streets , Saatchi Gallery, London, UK, 2023
- Eidophones , The Mezzanine Gallery at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, USA, 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, USA, 2019
- Swoon: Submerged Motherlands , Brooklyn Museum, New York, USA, 2014
Swoon Editorial
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28 Jun 2022
Fair Game | The Artists Highlighting Inequality
Can art be a force for change? Below, we take a look at five pioneering artists raising issues around poverty...
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31 Aug 2021
In Conversation with Swoon
Swoon (aka Caledonia Curry) is an American contemporary artist known for her large-scale installations and intricate portrait pieces which bridge...
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26 Jul 2021
Introducing Game Changers | Six Artists Who Have Changed the Art World for the Better
In celebration of our new exhibition Game Changers: renegade artists defying convention, we reveal more about the artists featured and...
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26 Jul 2021
Game Changers | Private View Launch & Photos
On the evening of Thursday 29th July, we finally got the chance to host our first Private View in over...
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25 Feb 2021
Arty Political Broadcasts
Though galleries and museums remain shut in many parts of the world, art is playing a crucial part in the...
