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Caledonia Curry Aka Swoon CALEDONIA CURRY AKA SWOON Born in 1977 in New London, Connecticut; art to respond to crisis. These include Konbit grew up in Daytona Beach, Florida. Lives Shelter, a sustainable building project developed and work in Brooklyn. Graduated from Pratt in the aftermath of the 2010 earthquake that Institute, NY. devastated Haiti; Music Box Village , an immersive musical environment built to and address the cultural toll of Hurricane Katrina by fostering collaborations between the New Orleans’ creative community and artists from around the world; and Braddock Tiles , a job-readiness and soft skills training program for local youth that responds to the decades-long disinvestment and economic crisis in Braddock, Pennsylvania. Curry’s recent work has been focused specifically on the relationship of trauma and addiction, drawing from her experience growing up in an opioid addicted family. In 2015, she developed The Road Home in collaboration with Philadelphia Mural Arts and the Million Person Project to serve Caledonia Curry, or Swoon, is recognized around a community ravaged by the opioid epidemic in the world for her pioneering vision of public North Philadelphia. The project included daily artwork. Through intimate portraits, immersive drop-in art therapy workshops and an ambitious installations and multi-year community based advocacy component that culminated with projects, she has spent over 20 years exploring harm-reduction workshops with the Philadelphia the relationships of individuals to the built Department of Health and a public symposium. environment, using her art as a catalyst for social change and healing. Curry has a long history of executing projects of ambitious scale and vision. The most notable is Swoon is best known as one of the first women a series of floating sculptures and experimental street artists to gain international recognition. living projects that include The Miss Rockaway However, her expansive practice defies genre. As Armada (Mississippi River, 2006-2007);​​ Swimming a classically trained printmaker, she has innovated Cities of Switchback Sea (Hudson River, 2008); new approaches to large-scale relief, screenprint and Swimming Cities of Serenissima (Adriatic and papercutting. The deep consideration of Sea), which crashed the 2009 Venice Biennale. form is inseparable from Curry’s vision of the transformative role of public art in communities. Curry has participated in numerous solo and group Her critical engagement with issues of social and exhibitions in major museums and galleries around environmental justice have positioned her at the world, including the Museum of Modern Art the forefront of the emergent discourse around and MoMA PS1 , New York; the Brooklyn Museum ; socially-engaged practice. Her commitment the Mori Art Museum , Tokyo, Japan; the Institute to expanding the possibilities of art to repair of Contemporary Ar t, Boston; the Skissernas trauma and foster personal and collective healing Museum , Lund, Sweden; MIMA Contemporary continues to drive her substantial contributions Art Museum , Brussels, Belgium; and Museo de to contemporary art through experimentation Arte Contemporáneo , Oaxaca, Mexico. Her first with portraiture, sculpture, installation and most museum retrospective was The Canyon: 1999– recently, stop-motion animation. 2017 at the CAC Cincinnati . Her work is held in public and private collections including the Curry’s gallery and museum exhibitions are Museum of Modern Art , Tate Modern , the Detroit deeply influenced by her activism and community Institute of Arts , and MASS MoCA . projects outside of traditional gallery spaces. In 2015 she founded the Heliotrope Foundation to support multiple collaborative projects that use SELECTED EXHIBITIONS Nuit Blanche, Paris, Commissioned installation on former 2020 train station Masséna in Paris 13th district Seven Contemplations, Albright-Knox Museum, Buffalo Expressions Urbaines, Institut Bernard Magrez, Bordeaux, (NY), Solo show Group show The Heart Lives Through the Hands, Contemporary Craft 2013 Art Centre, Pittsburgh, Solo show Motherlands, Galerie LJ, Paris, Solo show The Slow Reprise, Galerie LJ, Paris, Solo show Hecho en Oaxaca, Museo de Arte Contemporaneo, Oaxa- Asteraceae, Underdogs Gallery, Lisbon, Solo show ca, Group show, curated by Carlo McCormick Solstice: Create Art for Earth, Turner Carroll Gallery, San- 2012 ta Fe, Group show, curated by Judy Chicago Second Ural Industrial Biennale of Contemporary Art, It’s Urgent!, Luma, Arles, Parc des ateliers, Group show, Ekaterinburg, Russie, Section “Special Projects” curated by Hans-Ulrich Obrist The Folding of a Known World, Galleria Patricia Armoci- Time Capsule, MUCA, Munich, Solo show da, Milan, 3-person show with Monica Canilao and Dennis 2019 McNett Cicada, Deitch Projects, New York, Solo show 2011 American Portraiture Today, Smithsonian’s National Por- Art in the Streets, Geffen MOCA, Los Angeles, Group trait Gallery, Washington DC - Outwin Boochever Por- show, curated by Jeffrey Deitch trait Competition: The Outwin 2019, Finalists Group show Anthropocene Extinction, Institute of Contemporary Art, IFPDA (Fine Art Print Fair), New York, Commissioned Boston, Solo show, curated by Pedro Alonzo mural installation Thalassa, New Orleans Museum of Art, New Orleans, Ins- Beyond The Streets, New York, Traveling group show, cu- tallation in the Great Hall rated by Roger Gastman Swoon, Metro Gallery, Melbourne, Solo show Time Capsule, Fluctuart, Paris, Solo show Every Portrait 2010 Is a Vessel, Treason Gallery, Seattle, solo show Fata Morgana, Galerie LJ, Paris, Solo show 2018 Viva la Revolucion, Museum of Contemporary Art San Raggedy Hecate and the Memory Box, Chandran Gallery, Diego, Group show, curated by Pedro Alonzo San Francisco, Solo show 2009 Mirari Minima, Snow Contemporary, Tokyo, Solo show Swimming Cities of Serenissima, Venice (Italy), side pro- Street Space: Embracing the History of Street Art and ject in conjunction with the Biennale of Contemporary Art Culture, The New Gallery of Modern Art, Charlotte (VA), 2008 Group show Swimming Cities of Switchback Sea, Deitch Projects, New Catastrophe and The Power of Art, Mori Art Museum, York, Solo show Tokyo, Group show Drown Your Boats, New Image Art Gallery, Los Angeles, Swoon: New Video Work, CRUXspace, Philadelphia, Solo show Group show 2007 Beyond The Streets, Los Angeles, Traveling group show, Santa’s Ghetto, Bethleem, Collective project initiated by curated by Roger Gastman Banksy on the Israel West Bank barrier Art From The Streets, ArtScience Museum, Singapore, Swoon, Chris Stain & The Polaroid Kidd, Galerie LJ, Paris, Group show 3-person show with Chris Stain and Mike Brodie 2017 Heap, Black Rat Press, Londres, 3-person show with Mo- SWOON - The Canyon: 1999-2017, Contemporary Arts nica Canilao and David Ellis Center, Cincinatti, Early career retrospective, curated by The Burning House, Museum Het Domein, Sittard (Nether- Steven Matijcio lands), 3-person show with Faile and David Ellis To Accompany Something Invisible, Allouche Gallery, 2006 New York, Solo show Since 2000: Printmaking Now, MoMA, New York, Group Haven, Skissernas Museum, Lund (Sweden), Solo show show 2016 Generation USA, PinchukArtCentre, Kiev (Ukraine), Group Juxtapoz x Superflat, Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancou- show ver, Group show, curated by Takashi Murakami and Evan Spank The Monkey, BALTIC, Gateshead (UK), Group show Pricco curated by Pedro Alonzo and Carlo Mc Cormick The Light After, Library Street Collective, Detroit, Solo 2005 show Art Basel Miami Beach, Miami, represented by Deitch Pro- Thalassa, Detroit Institute of Arts, Detroit, Installation jects Coney Island: Visions of an American Dreamland 1861- The Armory Show, New York, represented by Deitch Pro- 2008, Brooklyn Museum, New York, Group show jects Open Source: Engaging Audiences in Public Space, Phi- SWOON, Deitch Projects, New York, Solo show ladelphia Mural Arts Programs, Philadelphia, Solo show Graffiti, Brooklyn Museum of Art, Brooklyn, Group show 2015 2004 Unrealism, Moore Building (Miami Design District), Mia- Good World, Contemporary Arts Center, Cincinna- mi, Group show organized by Larry Gagosian, curated ti, Group show in conjunction with Beautiful Losers by Jeffrey Deitch Something Else, The Vinyl Factory, London, Group show 2014 2002 Submerged Motherlands, Brooklyn Museum of Art, Swoon loves Solovei, Urban Art Info, Berlin, 2-person Brooklyn, Solo show show avec P. Soloveichik. PUBLIC AND PRIVATE COLLECTIONS Trauma, Memory, and the Body», March 25 2020 Brooklyn Museum of Art, Brooklyn, NY Hypebeast, «Swoon’s surrealist stop-motion films and Chrysler Museum of Art, Detroit, MI installations take over Jeffrey Deitch NYC», December Art42/Collection Nicolas Laugero Lasserre, Paris 10 2019 (France) Street Art News, «Swoon’s Cicada opening 11/14/19 at Collection Bernard Magrez, Bordeaux (France) Jeffrey Deitch Gallery», NYC, November 13 2019 Deitch Projects, New York City, NY Hyperallergic, «The Renagades Making Feminist Art in Detroit Institute of Arts, Detroit, MI the Streets», October 31 2019 Fondation Claudine & Jean-March Salomon pour l’Art The New York Times, «Swoon Installation at Fine Art Contemporain, Annecy (France) Print Fair», October 25 2019 Goldman Properties, Miami, FL La Gazette de l’hôtel Drouot, «Swoon: une artiste hu- Jordan Schnitzer Collection, Portland, OR maniste», September 20 2019 Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art, North Télérama, «Villes flottantes et chaos urbain : Swoon, la Adams, Massachusetts, MA célèbre street artiste enfin exposée
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