ABOUT/ART/WRITING/GOLDEN
Eliza Swann is an interdisciplinary artist, intuitive, writer, educator, and community organizer based in New York and 29 Palms, CA.
Eliza received a BA in Painting from the San Francisco Art Institute, and an MFA from Central St. Martins in London. They trained in hypnotherapy at the Isis Centre in England. Additionally, they have trained with Dr. Vagish Shastri in Vedic cosmology, The Builders of the Adytum, and other orders belonging to the Western Mystery tradition. They have also studied ancestral healing with Daniel Foor.
Eliza has exhibited artwork internationally, most recently at the University of California Santa Cruz (Santa Cruz, CA), and the Feminist Center for Creative Work (Los Angeles, CA).
They have lectured at UCLA, the Hammer Museum, the San Francisco Art Institute, Central St Martins, Cal Arts, the Dia Museum, the New School and many more venues and are currently a Visiting Professor at Pratt Institute.
Eliza has contributed critical writing to BOMB, Arthur, Contemporary Art Review LA, and Perfect Wave Magazines. Their book “The Anatomy of the Aura” was released by St. Martin’s Press in April 2020.
Eliza is the founder of The Golden Dome School, a curatorial and educational platform that studies intersections of art, metaphysics and ecology.
Contact: elizaswann@gmail.com
PODCAST APPEARANCES
The Cosmic Dispatch, 2022
Saved By the Spell, 2020
Art Witch, 2020
Living Open, 2020
Living Tarot, 2020
So You Wanna Be A Witch, 2020
Rise Up! Good Witch, 2020
SELECTED PRESS
Shout Out LA
Daily Bulletin
Interior Beauty Salon
Hyperallergic
Momus
Voyage LA
Emergency Index 6
Curate LA
Contemporary Art Review LA
ArtNews
Time Out
Creators Connect
Curate LA
Perfect Wave
LA Weekly
LA Weekly
Emergency Index 4
LA Weekly
LA Weekly
Ravelin
Apogee
Frank Exchanges
The Wild
Beautiful Savage
The Wild
Stigmart
Field Projects
Operating System
The New Inquiry
Emergency Index 1
Vice
Exit Strata