Amber Hawk Swanson (b. 1980, Davenport, Iowa) is a video and performance artist living and working in Brooklyn. More...
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Currently working on two forthcoming projects, "The Auction", and "FIVE DOLLS"

May 2013 Atlantic Center for the Arts Residency curated by Coco Fusco

June-July 2013 MacDowell Residency

Coming soon to Academic Writing (PDF Download): David Getsy, "Queer Exercises: Amber Hawk Swanson's Performances of Self-Realization," GLQ vol 19, no. 4 (forthcoming Fall 2013) and "Acts of Stillness: Statues, Performativity, and Critical Passivity," Criticism 56.1 (forthcoming January 2014)

Performances: "Cleaning" and "Ribbon Tying"

Performance in Iceland

Lectures at New York University's Tisch School of the Arts, School of the Art Institute of Chicago, and Syracuse University in London, UK

Detroit for Doll Husband and Synthtics Advocate, Davecat

Solo Show, "All That is Left of You / Everything You Are Now" (Catalog)

Letter to Amber Doll

Summer 2012 Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture Residency

36 Hour, "Amber Doll > Tilikum" Screening + Palais de Tokyo (Paris) Opening

Dallas Biennale (DB12)

Like a Girl's Name: The Adolescent Drag of Amber Hawk Swanson, Kate Gilmore, and Ann Liv Young
(PDF Download)

VIDEO 2012 at Momenta Art (Brooklyn)