ABOUT/ART/WRITING/GOLDEN
Eliza Swann is an interdisciplinary artist, intuitive, writer, and educator based in New York City.
Eliza received a BA in Painting from the San Francisco Art Institute, and an MFA from Central St. Martins in London. They studied hypnotherapy at the Isis Centre in England, Vedic cosmology with Dr. Vagish Shastri, Insight Meditation with the Insight Meditation Society, and ancestral healing with Daniel Foor. They have trained with the Builders of the Adytum and other orders belonging to Gnostic and Western Mystery traditions that are not public facing.
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 teaching alchemy at Pratt Institute.
Eliza has contributed 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.
Contact: elizaswann@gmail.com
*photo by Luz Gallardo
PODCAST APPEARANCES
The Cosmic Dispatch, 2021
So You Wanna Be A Witch, 2020
Saved By the Spell, 2020
Art Witch, 2020
Living Open, 2020
Living Tarot, 2020
Rise Up! Good Witch, 2020
SELECTED PRESS
Momus
Interior Beauty Salon
Shout Out LA
Daily Bulletin
Voyage LA
Hyperallergic
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