Swoon (artist)

Swoon
Swoon at the PopTech conference, 2014, Camden, Maine
Born
Caledonia Dance Curry

1977 (age 47–48)
New London, Connecticut, U.S.
EducationPratt Institute
Known forStreet arts, community engaged art, site-specific installation, printmaking, sculpture, stop-motion animation

Caledonia 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. She is best known as one of the first women street artists to gain international recognition. Her work centers the transformative capacity of art as a catalyst for healing within communities experiencing crisis.

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