Caledonia Curry, known as Swoon, is a contemporary artist and filmmaker recognized around the world for her pioneering vision of public artwork. Through intimate portraits, immersive installations, and multi-year community based projects, she has spent over 20 years exploring the depths of human complexity, and asking how art can fundamentally re-envision the communities we live in towards a more just and equitable world.
 
She is best known as one of the first women Street Artists to gain international recognition in a male-dominated field, pushing its conceptual limits and paving the way for a generation of women Street Artists. As a classically trained printmaker, she has innovated new approaches to create large-scale relief prints and intricate papercut works. The deep consideration of form is inseparable from Curry’s vision of the transformative role of public art in communities. Her critical engagement with issues of social and environmental justice have positioned her at the forefront of the emergent discourse around socially-engaged art practices. Her commitment to expanding the possibilities of art to repair trauma and foster personal and collective healing continues to drive her substantial contributions to contemporary art through her work with portraiture, sculpture, installation and most recently, stop-motion animation.
 
Curry has participated in numerous solo and group exhibitions in major museums and galleries around the world, including the Museum of Modern Art and MoMA PS1, New York; the Brooklyn Museum; the Mori Art Museum, Tokyo, Japan; the Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston; the Skissernas Museum, Lund, Sweden; MIMA Contemporary Art Museum, Brussels, Belgium; and Museo de Arte Contemporáneo, Oaxaca, Mexico. Her first museum retrospective was The Canyon: 1999–2017 at the CAC Cincinnati. Her work is held in public and private collections including the Museum of Modern Art, Tate Modern, the Detroit Institute of Arts, and MASS MoCA.
 
The purchase price of $1,000 is fully tax deductible.
Each studio visit is limited to five guests at $1,000 each.
Studio visit sales are available on a first-come basis. 
Studio visits are non-refundable. 
All studio visits take place in New York City area unless otherwise noted.
The date and time if each will visit will be arranged by the artists' studios in cooperation with the IFPDA and guests.
 
Images:
1. Courtesy of the artist. Photo by Sal Rodriguez.
2. Swoon, George, 2021, Lithography, screen print, gold leaf, colored silver leaf, metal leaf, hand painting, and collage on Stonehenge Kraft, mounted to wood. Edition of 1827 x 23 x 1 1/2 inches. Courtesy of Swoon Studio and Tandem Press. 
3. Installation view of Swoon: Seven Contemplations at Albright-Knox Northland. September 26, 2020 - January 10, 2021. Photograph by Brenda Bieger and Amanda Smith. Courtesy of Swoon Studio.