Biographical

Sylvia de Swaan is a Romanian born photographer who has lived and worked in Mexico, Europe and the United. States. Her work explores issues of transience, loss, memory and identity through long-term narrative projects.

Recent works include, “Return,” “Sub-version,” and “Utica/Along the Tracks,” which have earned her grants, fellowships and residencies from a number of foundations, including Washington Projects for the Arts, Art Matters, Aaron Siskind Foundation; ArtsLink Partnership, Mid Atlantic Foundation, Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, Constance Saltonstall Foundation, New York Foundation for the Arts, Light Work, Bemis Center for the Arts, Austrian Ministry of Culture and Anderson Ranch Art Center. In the Fall of 2008 she has been invited to participate in an exhibition and symposium, titled " In Transition: Cultural Identity in an age of Transnational and Trans-Cultural Flux" at the Centers for Contemporary Art in Moscow and in Yekaterinburg.

She was the founding director of Sculpture Space in Utica, NY and is currently a visiting instructor at Hamilton College.