11/7 Sylvia de Swaan

Time: 6pm, CFA 112

Sylvia de Swaan is a Romanian born photographer who has lived in Europe, Mexico and the United States. She works on projects that address a range of issues, including memory, identity, transience, war, the imprint of the past on the present and the anxieties of living in a changing world. Her projects have been supported by a variety of art foundations and organizations, including Art Matters, New York Foundation for the Arts, ArtsLink, Light Work, Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, and Austrian Ministry of Culture. She has exhibited work at CEPA, Buffalo, Bemis Center for Contemporary Art, Omaha, NE; the Springfield Museum of Art, Springfield, OH; Munson-Williams-Proctor Institute, Utica, NY; Cankarjev dom, Ljubljana, Slovenia and Art in General, NYC. She teaches photography at Hamilton College.