Michael Swaney’s faux-naïf, whimsical works express a childlike vision of the world. Informed by the rough aesthetic and rebellious spirit of Art Brut artists like Jean Dubuffet and the CoBrA group, Swaney’s paintings, collages, drawings, and …

Michael Swaney (b. 1978, Kimberley, British Columbia) is a prolific artist living and working in Barcelona, Spain. For nearly twenty years Swaney has been crafting exuberant paintings, works on paper, ceramics and installations with childlike intensity.

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Michael Swaney (b. 1978, Kimberley, British Columbia) is a prolific artist living and working in Barcelona, Spain. For nearly twenty years Swaney has been crafting exuberant paintings, works on paper, ceramics and installations with childlike intensity.

Swaney works in a variety of media, including painting, collage, sculpture, ceramics, video, and installation. He has exhibited internationally since 2004, with recent exhibitions at No Place (Columbus, OH), GNYP Gallery (Berlin), The Dot Project (London), and Charlotte Fogh Gallery (Aarhus, Denmark).

Michael Swaney’s faux-naïf, whimsical works express a childlike vision of the world. Informed by the rough aesthetic and rebellious spirit of Art Brut artists like Jean Dubuffet and the CoBrA group, Swaney’s paintings, collages, drawings, and ceramics have

Michael Swaney (b. 1978, Kimberley, British Columbia) is an artist living and working in Barcelona, Spain. For nearly twenty years, Swaney has been crafting exuberant paintings, works on paper, ceramics and installations. Swaney’s visual universe is expansive and rich, exhibiting a childlike intensity paired with baroq

Known for his expressive painting and sculptures, Swaney invites the viewer to inquire about customs, rituals and objects from the perspective of the absurd. Their eagerness to reproduce situations of our daily life causes that, once introduced in the work, they adhere to a surrealist logic that leaves no one indifferent.

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