London

Contact: serena8769@yahoo.com


Selected Group Exhibitions

2023 Bow Arts Open Studios, Bow Arts Vauxhall
2023 Vanitas, Jazzlive at the Crypt, London
2023 An Evening with More Pussy 3mpire, Avalon Café, London
2023 Impermanent, Safehouse 1&2, London
2023 Vestibule, Lethaby Gallery, London
2022 I know a guy, the formula of withheld knowledge,
Arthub Deptford, London
2021 Belay, 252 Kensington High Street, London, W8 6ND
2021 Open Fragments, exhibition, online
2019 Wheels To Water, Petrie Museum of Egyptian Archaeology, London
2018 FIGS, The Flying Dutchman, London
2018 Recycled Ideas Workshop for Studio Complex, Tate Exchange, Tate Modern, London


Other

2021 Nominated for Barry Martin Prize for Experimentation in Art Practice
2021 Narrator for Transmission podcast series by Ines Doujak & John Barker for Liverpool Biennale
2020 Awarded Samsung KX Grant (STEAM project)
2020 Awarded Satellite Studios: Block C Studio Residency, Cubitt Gallery, London (cancelled due to Covid-19)
2019 Performer for Art Night x Kings Cross, London
2019 Nominated for Hollyport Capital Prize


Publications

2021 Adjecter, Self-Published group work led by Toby Christian, London
2021 Dispersed Narratives, Self-Published group work, London



Education

2021 BA Fine Art (Hons), Central Saint Martins

Serena Swanson is a Contemporary Artist, born in the UK, whose work spans photography, film, performance and installation.

Swanson is a mentor for Tate Collective Producers and has worked as an Interim Associate Lecturer at Central Saint Martins, UAL. Alongside her collaborators, she was awarded a grant in 2020 from Samsung KX to fund a series of intergenerational educational workshops in digital modelling. In 2019, she co-curated the inaugural ‘Exxistenz’ exhibition with Johanne Christinsen and Freyja Eilif of international artists at The Museum of Perceptive Art in Reykjavík, Iceland.

Swanson graduated with a First Class Honours in BA Fine Art at Central Saint Martins, UAL in 2021. Recent projects include ‘My Art School’, Kingswood Arts, London (2024) and ‘A Night with MP3 (More Pussy 3mpire)’, Avalon Café, London (2023). Recent group exhibitions include ‘Vanitas’, The Jazz Café, London (2023), ‘Impermanence’, Safehouse 1&2, London (2023) and ‘Slowness’, The Lethaby Gallery (2023).