Swoon Biography
Swoon, pseudonym of Caledonia Curry, is a street artist born and raised in Daytona Beach, Florida, but who, at the age of nineteen, decided to move to New York in order to cultivate her artistic aspirations. His artistic training took place at the Pratt Institute in Brooklyn, where he studied painting, before moving on to engraving, sculpture and stop-motion animation in order to create immersive installations, projects focused on the community he belongs to and works of public art with extremely identifying peculiarities. Swoon's art, strongly motivated by the urban context that surrounds it, saw its first developments in the posting of posters and stickers on city walls and billboards, through a practice of "branding" aimed at altering pre-existing advertising, in a perspective of social criticism. This attitude, which over time became his distinctive stylistic feature, was then oriented towards the creation of life-size wheat paste prints and paper cutouts depicting ordinary people. Swoon's art is found in the major permanent collections of major museums including the Tate, MOMA, and the Brooklyn Museum.
