Utica, NY is a post industrial city in in Upstate New York that has gained fame as the "City that Loves Refugees" by welcoming immigrants fleeing climate disasters, war zones and persecution from all parts of the world, providing English language classes & other other orientation programs to prepare them to become citizens. Likewise it's an active center for the "Black Lives Matter" movement with rallies that attract multi cultural participation.
Sylvia de Swaan
EDUCATION Hunter College, New York City High School of Music & Art
OTHER INFORMATION Born, Czernowitz, Romania Languages: Spanish, German Sylvia de Swaan 19 Rose Place Utica, NY 13502 TEL 315-732-5048
SELECTED PROFESSIONAL 2013/15 Shared Traditions, special project with Munson-Williams-Proctor Inst. & the Mohawk Valley Center for Refugees 2013 Guest Curator, Contemporary Drawing: Recent Trends, Kirkland Art Center, Clinton, NY 2012 Instructor, Intermediate B&W Photo, Pratt Institute/upstate 2011 Juror, Photo Place Gallery, Middlebury, VT Ongoing Reviewer, Photography Reviewer, Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, Ongoing Portfolio Reviewer, Society for Photographic Education, National Conferences 2010 Instructor, Photography for Veterans/Workforce Development Inst. 2009 Juror, Made in New York, Schweinfurth Art Center, Auburn, NY Fellowship Panelist, Constance Saltonstall Foundation, Ithaca, NY 2008-2011 Fellowship Advisory Committee, New York Foundation for the Arts 1998-08 Visiting Instructor, Photography, Hamilton College, Clinton, NY 2001 Curator, “Duane Michals: Photographer as Magician” Hamilton College, Clinton, NY 1998 Co-curator, “Whatever Floats Your Boat,“ Art OMI, Ghent, NY 1997 Interim Director, Stone Quarry Hill Art Park, Cazenovia, NY 1979-95 Executive Director, Sculpture Space Inc, Utica, N.Y. 1993/95 Visual Arts Panelist, International Studio Program, PS1, New York City 1992 Co-Curator "Re-Claiming Land", Stone Quarry Art Park, Cazenovia, N.Y. 199l Visual Arts Panelist, National Endowment for the Arts, Washington, D.C. 1990 Visual Arts Panelist, Mid Atlantic Arts Foundation, Baltimore, MD 1987/04 Fellowship Panelist, Photography, New York Foundation for the Arts, NYC 1983-86 Visual Arts Panelist, New York State Council on the Arts, NYC 1981 Panelist, "Beyond Survival" Founding Conference of NAAO, New Orleans, La. 1972 Workshop Instructor, New Orleans Museum of Art 1967-71 Adjunct Faculty, Design, School of Architecture, UNAM, Mexico, DF
SELECTED GRANTS / FELLOWSHIPS / PRIZES 2016 New York Foundation for the Arts Photography Fellowship 2014 Paris Photo PX3, second prize, Press/War ND Award, 3rd Place (Bronze Star) in the category “Travel” for “Return” 2013 Paris Photo, Px3, First Prize (Gold), Self Portraiture/Portraiture 2012 Society for Photographic Education, Creative Artist Project Support Grant 2011 United States Artists Projects, fundraising platform for book production 2006 New York Foundation for the Arts - Photography Fellowship 2005 Kirkland Endowment, Hamilton College, professional advancement grant 2000 Constance Saltonstall Foundation - Photography Fellowship New York Foundation for the Arts – Photography Fellowship 1999-2008 Hamilton College, Faculty Travel Grants 1998 New York Foundation for the Arts - catalogue production grant Aaron Siskind Foundation, Fellowship Arts Link /CEC Partnership - project /travel grant to Slovenia 1996 Arts Link /CEC Partnership - project /travel grant to Romania 1994 New York Foundation for the Arts – Photography Fellowship 1993 Arts Link/CEC - project /travel grant to Romania Art Matters Inc. - Fellowship 1977/92/01 Light Work, Syracuse, NY - project grant
FUNDED RESIDENCIES 2004 Center for Exploratory Perceptual Arts (CEPA), Buffalo, NY, residency 2001 Anderson Ranch Art Center, Snowmass, CO., Visiting Artist 2000 Künstlerhaus, Austrian Ministry of Culture, Vienna, Austria,, co-sponsored VCCA 1999 Bemis Center for Contemporary Art , Omaha, NE, three months residency 1995 Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, Sweet Briar, VA - sponsored by MAAF 1994 Light Work , Residency, Syracuse, NY – one month 1992 School 33 Art Center, Baltimore, MD – sponsored by Mid Atlantic Arts Foundation 1990 Light Work , Residency, Syracuse, NY – one month 1990 Washington Project for the Arts - residency sponsored by Mid Atlantic Arts 1973/4 Madewood Arts Festival, Thibodeaux, LA, Photographer in Residence, M SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS 2019/20 University of LaVerne, La Verne, California 2015 The Other side, Utica, NY 2011 “Intersecting Narratives,” Picker Gallery, Colgate University 2005 CEPA Gallery, Buffalo, NY Clifford Gallery, Colgate University, Hamilton, NY Onondaga Community College, Syracuse, NY 1999 Bemis Center for Contemporary Art, Omaha, NE The Clement Gallery, U. of Toledo, Toledo, OH. 1997 Earlville Opera House, Earlville, NY 1996 Museum of Art, Munson-Williams-Proctor Institute. Utica, NY, Cankarjev Dom, Ljubljana, Slovenia Salon Likovni, Celjie, Slovenia 1995 Art in General, New York City Sculpture Center, New York City CEPA Gallery, Buffalo, NY College of Saint Rose, Albany, NY 1993 Ithaca College, Ithaca, N.Y. 1987 Colgate University, Dana Art Center, Hamilton, N.Y. Visual Arts Center of Alaska, Anchorage 1984 State University of New York, Cobeskill, N.Y. 1980 Rutger Gallery, Utica, NY 1977 Mid York Library System - Travelling Exhibition 1972 Studio 8 - New Orleans, LA Midtown Gallery, New Orleans 1970 Galerie de Sfinx, Amsterdam, NL 1969 Galeria Pecanin, Mexico City 1967 Museo de Artes Plasticas, Xalapa, Ver. Cine Foto - Exploción 67, mixed media event - Mexico City Ruta 67, Guadalajara, Mexico 1966 Galeria Municipal, Xalapa, Veracruz, Mexico Galeria Pecanin, Mexico City Galeria Nios, Mexico City
SELECTED GROUP SHOWS 2015 ArtVenice Biennale3- The Biennial Project, in the Austrian Pavilion “EMBRACED: THE INTERNATIONAL COMMUNITY,” Center for Book Arts, NYC “Manifesto,” Odessa Biennale, Odessa, Ukraine Short listed, Athens Photography Festival Aleppo International Photo Festival, Aleppo, Syria, curated by Issa Touma 2013 63rd Regional Art Exhibition, Munson-Williams-Proctor Institute 2011 Transcultural Identities, Welch School Gallery, Georgia State U, Atlanta, GA Center for Book Arts,, Multiple, limited, Unique, from the Permanent Collection 2010 Sub-version, diptychs, online feature on Lenscratch Artists of Central New York, Museum, MWPAI, Utica, NY 2009 PhotoCinema, Format International Photography Festival, Derby, UK, The Art of Caring, curated by Cynthia Goodman, New Orleans Museum of Art 2008 In Transition, Russia 2008, National Center for Contemporary Art Moscow and National Center for Contemporary Art, Yekaterinburg, Russia Highways and Byways, Schweinfurth Art Center, Auburn, NY Invitational, Monmouth Museum, Lincroft, NJ Reciprocity, Faculty Exhibition, Hamilton College 2007 Flash Pop, NY Foundation for the Arts Benefit, Location One, New York City Signs of Life, College Art Gallery, Cazenovia College, 2006 Faculty Show, Emerson Gallery, Hamilton College In Transition, Independent Museum of Contemporary Art, Limassol, Cyprus Sites of Memory and Honor, Hera Gallery, Wakefield, RI Un-staged, Arti et Amicitiae , curated by Charlie Citron, Amsterdam, Holland Periferic Biennial , curated by Stephanie Benzaquen, Iasi, Romania Visions of Sister Gertrude Morgan, Bergeron Gallery , New Orleans Tools of Her Ministry/ Art of Sister Gertrude Morgan, New Orleans Museum of Art 2001 Grant Recipients, Light Work, Syracuse, NY 2000 Women in Documentary Photography, Springfield Museum of Art, Springfield, OH Faculty Exhibition, Hamilton College, Clinton, N 1999 The Eternal Past, curator, Jean Caslin, Houston Center for Photography 1998 Developing Illusions, Philip Brookman, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C. 1997 Working in Brooklyn,Pierogi 2000 at the Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, NY 1994 Struggles Against Racism, National Center for Afro American Artists, Boston, MA 1993 The Family Seen, Curator by Bill Laven, Cameraworks, San Francisco, CA. Photonominal, Curator by Carlos Solana, Forum Gallery, Jamestown, N.Y. We Are the Stories We Tell, curator by Evelyn Leong, Pace University,NYC 1992 Miss-ing, 37 Raume, curated by B. Stammer/G. Horn - Berlin, Germany Making War, curated by Grace Bently-Scheck, Hera Gallery, Wakefield, RI Between the Personal & the Political, Hera Gallery, Wakefield, RI Artists Invite Artists, Cold City Gallery, Toronto, Ont. Flaneur, curated by Evelyn Leong, Barbara Fendrick Gallery, NYC Crisis in Agriculture, curated by Sydney Waller, Gallery 53, Cooperstown, N.Y. SPE Regional, Visual Studies Workshop, Rochester, N.Y Taking Liberties, curator, Anthony Bannon, NY State Museum , Albany, N.Y. 1984 Regional Exhibition, Munson-Williams-Proctor Institute, Utica, N.Y. 1983 Gender Construction, Handwerker Gallery, Ithaca College, Ithaca, NY1982 Collected Visions, Women's Studio Workshop, Rosendale, N.Y. Biennial Exhibition, Everson Museum, Syracuse, N.Y. 1978 Three Women Photographers, Kirkland Art Center, Clinton, NY 1975 Photography Council, New Orleans, LA Images, New Orleans, LA 1973 Downtown Gallery, New Orleans, LA 1971 Zamora Gallery, Mexico City 1968 Galeria de Bellas Artes, Mexico City International Press Club, Mexico City
SELECTED LECTURES/VISITING ARTIST 2015 Temple Emanuel, Utica, NY University of Tennesee, Chattanooga, TN 2014 Presenter, National Conference, Society for Photographic Education , Baltimore, 2013 Jewish Museum, Chernivtsi (Czernowitz) Ukraine 2011 Munson-Williams-Proctor Art Institute, Utica, NY 2010 F.I.L.M., Film Program, Slide Presentation, Hamilton College, Clinton, NY Lunch Hour Series, MWPAI, Utica, NY 2009 Diversity & Social Justice Program, Hamilton College, Clinton, NY 2008 Yekaterinburg Academy for Contemporary Art, Yekaterinburg, Russia 2007 Visual Studies Workshop, Rochester, NY 2006 State University of New York, Oswego, NY 2005 Jan van Eyck Art Academy, Maastricht, NL Visual Arts Speakers Series, University of Buffalo, Buffalo, NY University of Fl, Tallahassee, Society for Photographic Education SE conference Colgate University, Art Department Cornell University, Society for Photographic Education NE conference, Ithaca, NY 2004 Onondaga Community College, Syracuse, NY 2003 Colgate University, co-sponsored by Art Departments with Peace Studies 2002 Society for Photographic Education, National Conference, Las Vegas, NE 2001 State University of New York, Albany, NY 1999 Cultural Resource Council, Syracuse, NY 1998 University of Louisville, Louisville, KY University of Toledo, Toledo, OH 1997 Mary Washington College, Fredericksburg, VA Society for Photographic Education, National Conference, Dallas, TX 1996 Museo de Arta, Timisoara, Romania 1995 Colgate University, Hamilton, NY Matrilineage Conference, Syracuse University, Syracuse, NY 1994 Soros Foundation, Prague, Czech Republic Queens College, NYC 1992 Syracuse University, Syracuse, NY
ARTISTS BOOKS 2012 Where Will You Spend Eternity?, post industrial color photographs 1999 Return - photos and text - edition of 1500 – funded by NYFA Catalogue Project 1972 Inside Eye, a book without words - edition of 50 handmade books 1968 A Specter is Haunting the World , an artist book in collection of ICAIC, Havana, 1965 Libro Sin Palabras - edition of 50 hand made books Dibujos de Vida y Muerte, published by El Corno Emplumado, Mexico City
SELECTED PRINT Aint–Bad Magazine, A-B, Vol 3 Issue #1 2015 Photo Art Magazine, Check Republic, March 2014 Rangefinder Magazine, Photo Finish by David Carol Fractionmagazine.com, review, by Ellen Wallenstein The Art of Caring, New Orleans Museum o f Art, New Orleans, LA 200 Stone Canoe, Number 3, Spring 2009, Syracuse University Lucie Awards, coffee table book 2009 Photographic Possibilities 3/e, Robert Hirsch, Focal Point Press 2008 Sculpture Space 30th Anniversary Catalogue, 2007 Shots 98, Portfolio Issue, Winter 2007 The Elements of Photography, textbook, Focal Point Press, 2007 Private #32, thematic issue, “Night,” Castel Bulognese, Italy, Spring 2006 Black &White Magazine, US July/August, 2005 Exit, Madrid, Spain, Issue #19, 2005 Photography 8th Edition, textbook, London, Stone, Upton, Prentice-Hall, NJ 2004 Tools of Her Ministry: The Art of Sister Gertrude Morgan, NYC Folk Art Museum Exposure, Journal of the Society for Photographic Education, Volume 36:2, 2003 Submersia, Barcelona, Spain, June 2002 Camera Austria, Graz, Austria, Issues #74, May 2001 Fotografija, Ljubljana, Slovenia, Fall 1999 New Observations,, A Memory Palace, guest edited by Charlie Citron, Spring 1999 Corcoran Views, Washington, D.C, Winter 1998 Calumet Photographic , Volume #8 1998 Confrontation, CW Post Campus of Long Island University - Spring 1997 Heritage, Magazine of the NY Historical Association, Winter 1996 Der Alltag, Berlin, Germany - 1996 Whitewalls , Chicago, Ill - 1995 Outtakes, New York City - 1995 Culturefront, New York Council on the Humanities - 1994 New Mexico Photographer - 1994 Contact Sheet, Light Work, Syracuse, NY - 1990/92/95 Frontiers - Women's Studies, U of New Mexico Press ‘87/91/94 Photography for the Art Market, Kathryn Marx - Amphoto 1988 Appearances, New York City - 1986 Afterimage, Rochester, N.Y. - 1985 Venus & Mars, Paul McCartney, album poster - 1975 Petersen’s Photographic - 1974 Revista del Norte, Mexico City - 1974 Texas Review - 1973 New Orleans Review - 1973 El Corno Emplumado - 1973 Revista Comunidad, Mexico City - 1969 Revista de la Universidad, Mexico City – 1968
SELECTED COLLECTIONS Center for Contemporary Art, Moscow Picker Art Gallery, Colgate University, Hamilton, NY Rare Book Collection, Burke Library Hamilton College, Clinton, NY William Benton Museum, University of Connecticut, Storrs, CT Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C. State University of NewYork, Cobleskill, NY The Center for Book Arts Munson-Williams-Proctor Institute, Utica, NY Light Work, Syracuse. NY Museum of Modern Art, New York City – artist books EDUCATION Hunter College, New York City High School of Music & Art
Sylvia de Swaan
Sylvia de Swaan is a Romanian born visual artist/photographer who has lived and worked in Mexico, Europe and the United States.