Robert Swainston
   718-486-6513
   robswainston@hotmail.com
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ROB SWAINSTON
475 Kent Avenue, 1007
Brooklyn, NY 11211
(917) 400-7604
robswainston@gmail.com


EDUCATION

2007 Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture

2004-2006 Columbia University,MFA, Visual Arts

1990-1992 Hampshire College BA, Social Sciences
1994-1997

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2006 Festung Austellung, International Summer Academy, Saltzburg, AUSTRIA

2006 Portapocalypse IV, Gallery Alcatraz, Hallein, AUSTRIA

2006 Columbia MFA Thesis Show, New York, NY

2006 Manhattan Project, Frederic Snitzer Gallery, Miami, FL

2006 XC Projects-scopeMiami Int’l Art Fair, Miami, FL

2005 Affordable Art Fair, Pier 92, New York, NY

2005 Hand Pulled, Victory Hall, Jersey City, NJ

2005 Metaphase, Wallach Gallery, Columbia University, New York, NY

2005 Made in America, Pickled Art Center, Beijing, CHINA

2005 Panopoly, LeRoy Neiman Gallery, Columbia University, New York, NY

2005 Peekskill Project, 1st Annual Peekskill Arts Festival, Peekskill, NY

2004 Objects of Desire II, LeRoy Neiman Gallery, Columbia University, New York, NY

2003 Starscape, G-Spot Gallery, Baltimore, MD


AWARDS and RESIDENCIES

Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, Skowhegan, Maine

Hayward Prize, Austrian American Foundation

Miriam Wallach Merit Award, Columbia University

LeRoy Neiman Print Fellow, Columbia University

Graduate Arts Council Merit Scholar, Columbia University

LeRoy Neiman Print Fellow, Columbia University

Graduate Arts Council Merit Scholar, Columbia University


EXPERIENCE

2007-2008 Adjunct Faculty, Columbia University School of the Arts, New York, NY

2006-present Cofounder S11Press-Prints of Darkness, Collaborative print shop, Brooklyn, NY

2004- present Printer, Neiman Center for Print Studies, Columbia University, New York, NY




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