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Amber Hawk Swanson’s last name is “Hawk Swanson.” Citations should read “Hawk Swanson, Amber.” 
This site is not a comprehensive archive of Hawk Swanson’s body of work. Full versions of her major works, Feminism? Project (2005–2006); Amber Doll Project (2005–2011); Amber Doll > TILIKUM (2011); All That is Left of You / Everything You Are Now (2012); Sidore Mark II, Heather > LOLITA (2013); Doll Closet (2014); Pieces (2011–2015); Dollstock / Dollpile (2013–2015); DOTTIE (2015–2017); DOTTIE: The Ride (2017); and DOLLY / PETER (2018) are available via private link upon request. The Harmony Show (begun 2020, produced 2021–present) is available at theharmonyshow.com.
Hawk Swanson is available to discuss her research, lesser known projects, and objects of archival interest.

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Discussions of Amber Hawk Swanson’s work in academic journals, books, and exhibition catalogues
 
Gilmore, Kate, and Jonah Westerman. Hard Return: 9 Experiments for this Moment (Neuberger Museum, 2023). Exh. cat. Goddard, Maggie Unverzagt. “Poking fun: Dildo Play and Camp Aesthetics.” Women and Performance: A Journal of Feminist Theory 31.1 (December 2021): 59-78. Fisher, Anna Watkins. The Play in the System: The Art of Parasitical Resistance (Duke University Press, 2020). Musser, Amber Jamilla. Sensual Excess: Queer Femininity and Brown Jouissance (NYU Press, 2019). Beam, Cris. I Feel You: The Surprising Power of Extreme Empathy (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2018). Larmon, Oraison H. Franklin Furnace: Performance & Politics. (HemiPress, 2018). Banks, Grace. Play with Me: Dolls, Women and Art (Laurence King Publishing, 2017). Ramos, Iván. “Spic(y) Appropriations: The Gustatory Aesthetics of Xandra Ibarra (aka La Chica Boom).” ARARA [Art and Architecture in the Americas] 12 (2016): 1–18.

Kim, Lisa, and Rebecca Roberts, eds. Artists to Artists Volume 2 (2002-2016): 25 Years of the Marie Walsh Sharpe Space Program and Sharpe-Walentas Studio Program (Sharpe-Walentas Studio Program Press, 2016). Hurst, Rachel Alpha Johnston. “Silicone Embodiments: The Breast Implant and the Doll.” Liminalities: A Journal of Performance Studies 11.2 (Jun. 2015): 24pp. Rodríguez, Juana María. “Viscous Pleasures and Unruly Feminisms.” GLQ: A Journal of Lesbian and Gay Studies 21.1 (Jan. 2015): 10–12. Smith, Marquard. The Erotic Doll: A Modern Fetish (University of Westminster and Yale University Press, 2014).

Getsy, David. “Acts of Stillness: Statues, Performativity, and Critical Passivity.” Criticism 56.1 (Winter 2014): 1–20. Getsy, David. “Queer Exercises: Amber Hawk Swanson’s Performances of Self-Realization.” GLQ: A Journal of Lesbian & Gay Studies 19.4 (Oct. 2013): 465-485. Hernandez, Jillian. “Meditations on the Multiple: On Plural Subjectivity and Gender in Recent New Media Art.” Lateral: Journal of the Cultural Studies Association 2 (2013). Fisher, Anna Watkins. “Like a Girl’s Name: The Adolescent Drag of Amber Hawk Swanson, Kate Gilmore, & Ann Liv Young.” TDR: The Drama Review 56.1 (Spring 2012): 48-76. Dawn Whitney, Jennifer. “‘Beyond Fake’: Real Dolls™ and Posthuman Troubling of Femininity and Desire.” Assuming Gender 1.1 (Spring 2010). Web.





Publications by Amber Hawk Swanson
Hawk Swanson, Amber. Online Comments (Amber Hawk Swanson, 2019). Hawk Swanson, Amber. Doll Closet [ps2, Belfast, UK: 10 Nov.–2 Dec. 2017] (Amber Hawk Swanson, 2017). Exh. cat. Hawk Swanson, Amber. All That is Left of You / Everything You Are Now [BOLT Gallery, Chicago, IL: 17 Aug.–6 Sep. 2012] (Amber Hawk Swanson, 2012). Exh. cat. Hawk Swanson, Amber. “All That is Left of You / Everything You Are Now.” Women and Performance: A Journal of Feminist Theory 23.3 (Nov. 2013): 374–413.



Full bibliography including art and popular criticism of Amber Hawk Swanson’s work ︎ ︎

Moser, Whet. “WBEZ Hires Sex Doll Rapist.” Chicago Reader 25 Sept. 2007. Web.