BIO
Caledonia Curry, known professionally as Swoon, is a Red Hook, Brooklyn-based mixed media artist whose work explores humanity through portraiture, printmaking, and immersive installation. Swoon graduated from Pratt in 2001 and in 2005 was the subject of a pivotal solo exhibition mounted by now-mentor Jeffrey Deitch. Swoon’s work has since adorned the collections of the Brooklyn Museum, the Museum of Modern Art, the Tate Modern, LA MOCA, Mass MoCA, the New Orleans Museum of Art, and many more. Her 2014 Brooklyn Museum exhibition, Submerged Motherlands, was the Museum’s first solo show devoted to a living artist with roots in street art. In Fall 2017, Swoon will create a large scale, site-specific installation in the Zaha Hadid-designed Cincinnati Contemporary Arts Center as part of a two-story solo exhibition.
BIO
VITA
Born 1978 in the USA
Lives and works in New York City
SELECTED PERMANENT COLLECTIONS
The Brooklyn Museum
The Chrysler Museum of Art
Jeffrey Deitch/Deitch Projects (New York)
The Institute of Contemporary Art (Boston)
The Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art
The Minneapolis Institute of Art
The Museum of Contemporary Art (Los Angeles)
The Museum of Modern Art (New York)
MoMA PS1
The New Orleans Museum of Art
The Russian Museum (St. Petersburg)
Tate Modern (London)
SELECTED EXHIBITIONS AND PROJECTS
Ongoing
Dithyrambalina: a sonic playground, performance venue, and laboratory for musical
architecture and community engagement in New Orleans, 2011 – present
The Konbit Shelter Project: a comprehensive and locally sustained community building
project in post-ˇearthquake Haiti, 2010 – present
Braddock Tiles: a multi-ˇtiered community arts project revitalizing the once-ˇprosperous
Rust Belt neighborhood of North Braddock, PA, 2007 – present
2015
No Commission: an art exposition curated by Swizz Beatz, Miami, FL, December 2010
The Brooklyn Museum: Coney Island: Visions of an American Dreamland, 1861–2008,
group exhibition, Brooklyn, NY, November 2015
Facebook: mural commission for corporate headquarters, Palo Alto, CA, October 2015
City of Philadelphia Mural Arts Program Residency: Open Source, a project in public art
and social practice, Philadephia, PA, May 2015
New Orleans Airlift: The Music Box Roving Village, part of an interactive community arts
Project, New Orleans, LA, March 2015
2014
Wynwood Walls: mural for Tony and Janet Goldman’s public art project, Miami, FL, December 2014
International Artist Residency: Present Project, a public art and community arts
engagement initiative, Honolulu, HI, September 2014
The Brooklyn Museum: Submerged Motherlands, a site-ˇspecific installation Brooklyn, NY, April 2014
Galerie Itinerrance: Djerbahood Project, an “open-ˇair museum” in Tunisian village of
Djerba, Djerba, Tunisia, August 2014
2013
Galerie Jeudy, Paris, France – solo exhibition, November 2013
Nuit Blanche, Toronto, Ontario – group show, October 2013
Museum de Arte Contemporaneo de Oaxaca, Oaxaca, Mexico – ‘Zona Urbana’, group show, July 2013
State College of Florida Manatee-Sarasota Fine Art Gallery, Brandenton, Florida – ‘Petrichor’, solo exhibition, February 2013
2012
Black Rat Projects, London, England – ‘Wunderkammer’, group show, November 2012
Prague, Czech Republic – ‘Stuck on the City’, group show, October 2012
2nd Annual Ural Biennial, Ekaterinburg, Russia – group show, September 2012
XYZ Gallery, Tokyo, Japan – ‘Honeycomb’, solo exhibition, April 2012
Dithyrambalina, New Orleans, LA – Group sculpture
2011
Black Rat, London, England, – ‘Murmuration’, December 2011
Museu de Arte de Sao Paulo, Sao Paulo, Brazil, – ‘Inside Out Outside In’, group exhibition, August 2011
The Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston, Massachussettes, – ‘Anthropocene’ solo exhibition, August 2011
New Orleans Museum of Art, New Orleans, Louisiana, – ‘Thalassa’ commissioned sculpture, June 2011
Los Angeles Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, – ‘Art in the Streets’, group exhibition, April 2011
Metro Gallery, Melbourne, Australia, – solo exhibition, February 2011
2010
Konbit Shelters, Phase #2, Barrier Juedy, Haiti, December 2010/January, 2011
Black Rat Projects, London, – ‘Small Acts of Resistance Group Exhibit’, November 2010
Galerie L.J, Paris, – ‘Fata Morgana’, October 2010
Konbit Shelters, Barrier Juedy, Haiti, August 2010
NYC Parks Department and Urban Art Projects, Brooklyn, New York, -‘Konbit Park Sculpture’, May 2010
Philagrafika, The Graphic Unconcious, Philadelphia, January 2010
2009
Distance Don’t Matter, collaborative installation, SPACE gallery, Portland, ME
Urban art info, Berlin, Germany
Swimming Cities of Serenissima, Venice Biennal, Venice, Italy
Residency, Town House Gallery, Kairo, Egypt
The Influencers,Centro de Cultura Contemporánea, Barcelona, Spain
2008
Swoon, Deitch Projects, New York, NY (solo)
The Way That We Rhyme: Women, Art & Politics, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco, CA
Feral, The Luggage Store, San Francisco, CA (Collaboration exhibition with Monica Canilao)
Drown Your Boats, New Image Art Gallery, Los Angeles, CA (solo)
Portrait of Sylvia Elena, Honeyspace, New York, NY
In the Land of Retinal Delights: The Juxtapoz Factor, Laguna Art Museum, Laguna Beach, CA
2007
The Burning House, New Image Art Gallery, Los Angeles, CA (Collaborative exhibition with Faile and David Ellis)
Generations USA, Pinchuk Art Center, Kiev, Ukraine
2006
Graffiti, The Brooklyn Museum of Art, New York, NY
La Boca del Lobo, Black Floor Gallery, Philadelphia, PA (Collaborative exhibition with Polonia Soloveichek and Allison Corrie)
Spank the monkey, BALTIC The Centre for Contemporary Art, Gateshead, UK
Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY (solo)
2005
Swoon, Art Basel Miami Beach, FL (solo)
[T]here. New York, Solyanka Gallery, Moscow, Russia
Swoon, Deitch Projects, New York, NY (solo)
Greater New York, P.S.1 Contemporary Arts Center, Long Island City, NY
Project Backumps Part 2, Kunstraum Kreuzberg, Berlin, Germany
2004
Publico, Cincinnatti, OH
Space 1026, Philadelphia, PA
Roda Sten, Gothenburg, Sweden
1:100, DCKT Contemporary, New York, NY
III Communication II, Urbis, Manchester, UK
Something Else, The Vinyl Factory, London, UK
2003
Project Backjumps, Kunstraum Kreuzberg, Berlin, Germany
2002
NGBK, Berlin, Germany
Swoon loves Solovei, Urban-Art.info, Berlin, Germany
