BiographySwoon (born Caledonia Curry) is an American street artist best known for her intricate, large-scale woodblock-printed and hand-cut paper portraits of ordinary people pasted on buildings in cities around the world, creating a humanizing counterpoint to advertising-saturated urban space. She was the first woman to have a solo exhibition at MoMA PS1 and has led community-driven art projects in post-Katrina New Orleans and post-earthquake Haiti. Her practice blurs the lines between fine art, activism, and community engagement.
