Artist Profile
Swoon
Caledonia Curry
Born 1977, New London, Connecticut
Swoon is a Brooklyn-based artist known for her life-size wheatpaste prints and paper cutouts depicting human figures. Her work combines street art with social practice, creating immersive installations and community-based projects. From illegal wheat-pastes to museum exhibitions, Swoon has become one of the most respected female voices in contemporary street art.
Artist Details
Based in: New York City
Artistic Style: Wheatpaste, Paper cutouts, Installation art, Social practice
Notable Works
- •Swimming Cities - Floating art performances
- •Submerged Motherlands (2014) - Brooklyn Museum
- •The Canyon (2014) - Music Box Village
- •Earthquake relief projects in Haiti
Major Exhibitions
- •Brooklyn Museum (2014)
- •Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston (2017)
- •Tate Modern, London (2008)
Collaborations
- •Heliotrope Foundation - Founder
- •Konbit Shelter - Haiti rebuilding project
- •Music Box Village - New Orleans
Achievements & Recognition
- •First woman to show at Brooklyn Museum's rotunda
- •Work in MoMA and Tate Modern collections
- •Featured in Venice Biennale