Eliza Swann is an interdisciplinary artist, intuitive, writer, educator, and community organizer based in Los Angeles and New York.
Eliza received a BA in Painting from the San Francisco Art Institute, and an MFA from Central St. Martins in London. She has trained in hypnotherapy at the Isis Centre in England. Additionally, she has trained with a number of teachers in energy healing, Western Mystery traditions, Vedic cosmology and ancestral healing.
Eliza has exhibited her artwork internationally, most recently at the University of California Santa Cruz (Santa Cruz, CA), and the Women’s Center for Creative Work (Los Angeles, CA). She has received grants from The Foundation for Contemporary Arts, the Los Angeles Department of Cultural Affairs and PEN America.
Eliza has guest 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 is currently a Visiting Professor at Pratt Institute.
Eliza has contributed critical writing to BOMB, Arthur, Contemporary Art Review LA, and Perfect Wave Magazines. Her 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.
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Contact: elizaswann@gmail.com
PODCAST APPEARANCES
Art Witch, 2020
Living Open, 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
Creative Capital
Field Projects
Operating System
The New Inquiry
Emergency Index 1
Vice
Exit Strata
XO Jane
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