Swoon (artist)

Swoon
Born	Caledonia Dance Curry 1977 New London, Connecticut
Nationality	United States
Education	Pratt Institute

Originally known for her street art, Swoon (born Caledonia Dance Curry in 1977) is a mixed media artist who specializes in life-size wheatpaste prints and paper cutouts of human figures. She studied at the Pratt Institute in Brooklyn, receiving a BA in fine arts in 2002. She started to gain recognition for her street art around 1999 and large-scale installations soon thereafter; in 2005, she was the subject of an eponymous solo exhibition mounted by now-mentor Jeffrey Deitch. Swoon has since been featured in major museums including a 2014 solo show, Submerged Motherlands, at the Brooklyn Museum.

Curry was born in New London, Connecticut, and raised in Daytona Beach, Florida. She moved to the Borough Park section of Brooklyn, New York when she was nineteen to study painting at the Pratt Institute.

Then, Curry joined groups in New York City like Grub, which provides free Dumpster-dived dinners in Brooklyn. She also founded the Toyshop collective, known for organizing events such as a march through the Lower East Side consisting of 50 people playing instruments made out of junk.

Swoon most famous piece, Anthropocene Extinction, include her signature style lifestyle human forms made from recycle news paper. The process takes weeks to paint and cut out every figure inside of her studio. When she is finished she will transport the piece to the streets in New York. Using wheat paste, she glues the pieces on to the sides of bulidings.

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