ARTWORK BY GERRY SWANSON

Art Resume’


Gerry Swanson
801-580-2699
swerv49@yahoo.com
www.silentswanart.com

BORN                    Salt Lake City, UT  1982
EDUCATION        BFA                Lewis and Clark College          Portland, OR                2006


AWARDS            Art Department Honors L&C College          Portland, OR             2006 
                              Sterling Scholar Taylorsville High School     Salt Lake City, UT     2001
                              Rosenblatt Scholarship                              Salt Lake City, UT     2001 
                              Graduated Cum Laude L&C College            Portland, OR            2006

 

SOLO EXHIBITIONS              
FICE (Modern Mountain-West)                    Salt Lake City, UT     2012

Sundance Film Festival                                 Park City, UT              2012
Rio Grande Gallery Show                             Salt Lake City, UT   2010
Salt Lake Recording Service Show               Salt Lake City, UT    2010
Gallery Stroll Silent Swan Studio                 Salt Lake City, UT     2010
Art Walk, Urbane Clothing Store                 Steamboat, CO        2009
Gallery Stroll, Z Pizzaria                             Sugarhouse, UT       2009
Gallery Stroll, Electric Chair Solon               Salt Lake City, UT    2009
Get Lost in Wonderland SLCC                     Salt Lake City, UT    2009
United Nations UDHR 60th Anniversary       NY, NY                   2008
Static Solon Gallery Stroll                           Salt Lake City, UT    2006
Academic Accumulation, Circle Lounge       Salt Lake City, UT     2007
Wooden Waterfalls, Hoffman Gallery           Portland, OR           2006
Stress and Tension, Hoffman Gallery           Portland, OR           2006
Talking Trees, Rusty Nail Café                    Portland, OR            2005

 

GROUP EXHIBITIONS
Idaho-Down Music Festival                                         McCall, ID                   2010
Uncle Uncanny Music Festival                                      Heber, UT                  2010
Rio Gallery: Drawing Show                                                SLC, UT                  2010

Gallery Stroll: Fice Clothing Store Oil Spill Based            SLC, UT                     2010
Spring Salon Show: Springville Museum of Art               Springville, UT            2010
Utah Arts Festival                                                       Salt Lake City, UT        2010-2011
Desert Rocks Music Festival                                         Moab, UT                   2010
Uncle Uncanny Music Festival                                      Park City, UT               2009
Brooklyn Invitational                                                   Brooklyn, NY               2009
Green Mountain Eco Festival                                       Bradford, MO               2009
FICE Gallery Stroll                                                      Salt Lake City UT         2009
Danksgiving Festival, Portrero Gallery                          San Francisco, CA        2008
Rocky Mountain Art and Antique Show                         Salt Lake City, UT         2008
Human Rights Awareness Tour                                   United States               2008
Desert Rocks Music Festival                                        Moab, UT                    2008/2009
Poor Yorick Open Studio                                             Salt Lake City, UT         2007
Senior Exhibition L&C College                                      Portland, OR                2006
Gender Symposium  Thayer Lounge                             Portland, OR               2005

 COLLECTIONS   
Galinson’s Gun Shop Mural Series
Taylorsville High School
Idaho-Down Music Festival
J.R. Gabriel Collection
Patrick and Nicole Essex
Young’s Market
Black Student Union Mural, Lewis and Clark College
Hawaiian Club Mural, Lewis and Clark College
United Nations Plaza, NY, NY
University of Connecticut

WORK EXPERIENCE:  
Art Director: Powell-a-Palooza Music Festival
Art Director: Desert Rocks Music Festival
Art Director: Uncle Uncanny Music Festival
A Gallery, SLC, UT       Framer/Gallery assistant
Human Rights Awareness Tour      On Tour Artist www.humanrightstour.org
Silent Swan Studio, SLC, UT         Owner
References: Debra Beers, Drawing professor at Lewis and Clark College
   Mike Rathbun, Sculpture Professor at Lewis and Clark College
                   John Ripley Corkery IV, Founder of Human Rights Awareness Tour