Sylvia de Swann

Sylvia de Swaan is a Romanian born fine art and documentary photographer who has lived and worked in Mexico, Europe, and several parts of the United States.  In the mid-1970s, she moved to a hamlet in Central New York with her second husband and son.  After her marriage ended, she was invited to be the Director of Sculpture Space, an arising studio program in Utica, NY.  Where she earned an international reputation, an NYS Governors' Art award, and a MacArthur Award.  From there she has been involved in the arts as an educator, curator, visual arts panelist and arts consultant.

In her personal work, Sylvia de Swaan engages in long-term self-assigned projects that explore themes of transience, loss, individual and collective memory and identity, the state of the world and the neighborhood where she lives.