SWOON


Works   Biography  

• Born in 1977.
• Educated at Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, NY.
• BA in Fine Arts in 2002.
• Lives and works mainly in New York, but travels a lot around the United States and Europe
  creating exhibitions and workshops.

selected Exhibitions

• 2009 Distance Don't Matter, collaborative installation, SPACE gallery, Portland, ME.
• SQUINCHES AND PENDENTIVES, together with Ben Wolf, urban art info, Berlin.
• Nuart Festival, group exhibition, Stavanger, Norwegen.
• 28th Biennial of Graphic Arts, Ljubljana.
• Swimming Cities of Serenissima, Biennale Venedig.
• Residency, Town House Gallery, Kairo.
• The Influencers, group exhibition, Centro de Cultura Contemporánea, Barcelona.
• 2008 Swimming Cities of Switchback Sea, solo exhibition, Deitch Projects, Long Island City, New York.
• Portrait of Silvia Elena, solo exhibition, Honey Space Gallery, New YorkCity.
• Points of Interest, Braddock Active Arts, Braddock, Pennsylvania.
• Way That We Rhyme, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco.
• Fera, exhibition with Monica Canilao, The Luggage Store Gallery, San Francisco.
• Drown Your Boats, solo exhibition, New Image Art Gallery, Los Angeles.
• 2007 Santa’s Ghetto, Pictures on Walls, Bethlehem.
• Swoon, Chris Stain and The Polaroid Kidd, Galerie LJ Beaubourg, Paris.
• Heap, exhibition with Monica Canilao und David Ellis, Black Rat Press, London.
• The Burning House, exhibition with Faile and David Ellis, New Image Art Gallery, Los Angeles.
• 2006 La Boca del Lobo, exhibition with Polonia Soloveichek and Allison Corrie, Black Floor Gallery, Philadelphia.
• Generations USA, group exhibition, Pinchuk Art Center, Kiev.
• 2005 SWOON, Art Basel Miami Beach, Florida.
• SWOON, Deitch Projects, New York.
• GREATER NEW YORK, P.S. 1 Contemporary Arts Center, New York.
• Backjumps - The live Issue 2, Kunstraum Kreuzberg, Berlin.
• 2004 Good World, group exhibition with The Beautiful Losers and CAC, Publico, Cinncinnatti.
• Change Agent, call it a crew group exhibition with members of the music and design collective
• Change Agent, Space 1026, Philadelphia.
• Ever Wanting Streets, group exhibition, international crosssection of graffiti, street art and
• urban interventionists. Roda Sten, Gothenburg.
• 1:100, group exhibition, organized by Glowlab, DCKT Contemporary, New York.
• ill Communication II, group show of ten contemporary street artists. Urbis, Manchester.
• Something Else, group show of large scale temporary installations, The Vinyl Factory, London.
• 2003 Backjumps – The live Issue, Kunstraum Kreuzberg, Berlin.
• Swoon loves Solovei, with Solovei (Toyshop Kollektiv), urban art info, Berlin.
• 2002 Exhibition in celebration of the reception of the Evolutionaere-Zellen grant given to individuals
• or groups who creatively shape their environment, Neue Geselleschaft für Bildende Kunst. NGBK, Berlin.


Grants/ Fellowships

• 2007 Lambent Fellowship, Tides Foundation
• 2002 “Evolutionaere Zellen” grant


Collections

• Museum of Modern Art
• Brooklyn Museum of Art
• Tudor investments
• Tate
• PS 1
• Massachusettes Museum of Contemporary Art
• Deitch Projects