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Premiering Swoon’s Sibylant Sisters: New Exhibition Announcement
For the last few years, Swoon has worked on her most intimate story and set of characters yet: Sibylant Sisters. This autobiographical, multidimensional artwork is immersive and vulnerable. It portrays a magical story set in her childhood realized through drawing, painting, an oracle deck, and a stop motion film. The artist presents her story so that others can find healing the way she did: over years of “making the subconscious conscious,” and by exploring her parents’ opioid addictions through magical realism. Artwork from Sibylant Sisters will be the focus of Into the Forest.
Swoon’s street art, printmaking, and activism takes the world by storm
Caledonia Curry, recognized internationally by her street art name Swoon, fundamentally shifted street art in the 21st century. Widely known as the most popular female street artist of the century, Swoon began anonymously wheatpasting her intricately detailed paper-cut portraits of everyday people onto the industrial walls and abandoned buildings of New York City in the early 2000s. After gaining notoriety in New York, Swoon completed larger and larger projects, eventually building a fleet of rafts named Swimming Cities of Serenissima which she sailed into the Venice Biennale of 2009. This action cemented her name in art history, and since then Swoon has collaborated with international art icons including Shepard Fairey, Alicia Keys, and Swizz Beatz. The foundational concept behind Swoon’s work is the power of art to heal and transform darkness into light–a message that resonates with art lovers now more than ever.
Exhibitions
Swoon: Into the Forest | May 15–July 10, 2026
Swoon: Into the Forest features works from Swoon’s new body of work Sibylant Sisters exploring her childhood through magical realism, the world premiere of her oracle deck, and and eidophones and unique paintings.
May 17 – June 30, 2024 | Swoon: A Gift in the Rupture
Caledonia Curry, aka Swoon, has had one of the most exceptional careers of any woman artist. The daughter of parents addicted to heroin, her childhood was filled with trauma. Swoon found peace and healing through her art practice, which was the one thing that anchored her throughout her tumultuous life. Swoon has train-hopped, created cashless communities that sailed down the Mississippi in a handmade art raft, and literally crashed the Venice Biennale by sailing across the Adriatic and into the Grand Canal. Her work is gritty and true to her evolution on the streets of Brooklyn, though now Swoon counts the Museum of Modern Art, Tate Modern, and countless other museums internationally as homes for her artworks. Turner Carroll’s own Tonya Turner Carroll curated Swoon’s exhibition at the Mesa Museum of Contemporary Art, part of a comprehensive social justice exhibition series that included Shepard Fairey, Apache artist Douglas Miles, and other well-known street artists. Swoon also enjoys a remarkable midcareer retrospective at the Amarillo Museum of Art, which traveled there from the Taubman Museum of Art; quite a remarkable achievement for an artist not yet 50 years old, to enjoy a retrospective museum exhibition. Swoon is one of the most eagerly collected artists of the 21st century.
March 1 – April 1, 2024 | Blasfemme
The Turner Carroll Gallery exhibition Blasfemme emerges as a compelling testament to the profound impact of female artists who, over the last century, have orchestrated transformative disruptions within the art world. The exhibition unfolds as a tapestry of influential figures, drawing attention to their long-overlooked contributions.
The Godmother of Feminist Art, Judy Chicago, assumes a central role in Blasfemme. Her artistic progeny, the “adopted art daughters” Nadya Tolokonnikova, founder of the notorious Pvssy Riot, and Caledonia Curry, known as Swoon, join her in this exploration. Renowned for their pioneering work in social practice art, Tolokonnikova’s two-year incarceration in Siberia due to activism and Swoon’s distinction as the inaugural female street artist integrated into museum collections are emblematic of their trailblazing spirit.
The roster of groundbreaking women artists showcased in the exhibition expands further to include luminaries such as Louise Bourgeois, Leonora Carrington, Meridel Rubenstein, Kiki Smith, and Monica Lundy. Each of these visionary artists defied societal norms and expectations, collectively forging a path toward a more compassionate and equitable future. Blasfemme thus stands as a resonant chorus celebrating these artists’ indomitable spirit and enduring impact on the artistic landscape.