![]() ![]() I’ve a focused, confident artist because of them." Īt nineteen, she moved to the Borough Park section of Brooklyn, New York to study painting at the Pratt Institute, which she attended from 1998 to 2001. Curry said, "the 80-year-old retired painters adopted me, they taught me how to paint. ![]() At the age of 10, her mother enrolled her in art classes for retirees. Both of her parents struggled with opioid addiction. Early life and education A work by Swoon in Djerbahood, TunisiaĬaledonia Curry was born in New London, Connecticut, and raised in Daytona Beach, Florida. Her work centers the transformative capacity of art as a catalyst for healing within communities experiencing crisis. She is best known as one of the first women Street Artists to gain international recognition. SWOON: Submerged Motherlands, Brooklyn Museum 2014 Photo: Tod SeelieĬaledonia Curry (born 1977), whose work appears under the name Swoon, is an American contemporary artist who works with printmaking, sculpture, and stop-motion animation to create immersive installations, community-based projects and public artworks. Street art, community engaged art, site-specific installation, printmaking, sculpture, stop-motion animation ![]()
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