Gio Swaby

Gio Swaby is a Bahamian interdisciplinary visual artist living in Toronto, Canada whose multimedia textile work involves intricate stitching and quilting techniques incorporating colorful fabrics...

From Oct. 24–27, Harlem-based Claire Oliver Gallery, which represents the likes of BK Adams, Carolyn Mazloomi, and Barbara Earl Thomas, brought 23 works to the...

The country’s biggest art fair, with more than 100 exhibitors, is both a centre of commercial activity and a sprawling diorama of a national aesthetic...

The domestic arts of sewing, embroidery, and quilting result in beautiful, intricate creations that are bright, colorful, and intimate. But they’ve also been long associated...

'Gio Swaby: Fresh Up' From afar, a Gio Swaby portrait may resemble an acrylic painting: bright colors and thick lines. But up close, it’s clear...

Loose black thread dangles from bare canvas in Gio Swaby’s “Another Side to Me” series, all of them self-portraits, or portraits of women close to...

Going out requires preparation: adjusting necklines, swooping edges, applying makeup and sculpting hair, a party punctuated by scuffed heels, haloed flyaways, flaked product and smeared...

Gio Swaby is a multidisciplinary artist exploring the intersections of Blackness and womanhood. Swaby was born in 1991 in the Bahamas and works in Canada....

GIO SWABY: FRESH UP A quiltmaker with a thoroughly contemporary vision for the medium, Swaby, who is in her early 30s, makes portraits of the...

Swaby’s work is a marked counterpoint to this: intentionally serving as a love letter to Black women, often her friends, through a gaze that is...

The exhibition features life-scale textile works including six self-portraits and a grid work of nine silhouettes. This new series explores the concept of dual identities...

Episode No. 605 of The Modern Art Notes Podcast features artist Gio Swaby , and curator Leslie Jones.

The textile artist celebrates the multifaceted power of her chosen medium, finding softness and strength in her monumental embroidered portraits.

Moving to a new country can be invigorating and isolating all at once. When Bahamian artist Gio Swaby relocated to Canada, she found herself presenting...

To create the textile works in her new solo exhibition at Claire Oliver Gallery, in Harlem, Gio Swaby turned inward. After a prolific few years...

Swaby's art is a reminder that, like flowers breaking through concrete, we too can find the strength to bloom and flourish, regardless of the challenges...

The beautiful intricacy of Going Out Clothes 1 is a common characteristic of each of Swaby’s works, which feature models with diverse body types, outfits...

The exhibition is a love letter to Black and Brown women, often Swaby’s friends. Focalizing on their flaws, personal style, strength and eccentricities through sewn...

Nascono da una sagoma per poi divenire textures di stoffe vivaci con enfasi floreale i ritratti di donne che caratterizzano l’ultima serie di Gio Swaby...

From minimal outlines in black thread, empowering portraits of Black women emerge in new large-scale textile pieces by Toronto-based artist Gio Swaby (previously). Vivid fabrics...

Having grown up in the Bahamas surrounded by the materials her seamstress mother used, Swaby chose to work in textiles—a medium traditionally associated with domesticity...

I Will Blossom Anyway Coincides with the Artist’s Second Solo Museum Exhibition, Fresh Up, On View at the Art Institute of Chicago – through July...

For over thirty years, Claire Oliver Gallery has remained true to its original policy to champion underrepresented artists. Thanks to their initiative, the works of...

Gio Swaby is a Bahamian interdisciplinary visual artist currently represented by Claire Oliver Gallery. She is known for her textile portraits that explore and celebrate...

Gio Swaby originally drew from the concept of Double Consciousness originally coined by W.E.B. Debois in his 1903 work, The Souls of Black Folk where...

When you think of the Art Institute of Chicago , names of old masters like Monet, van Gogh, Picasso and Dalí might be the first...

At first glance, Gio Swaby’s artwork can be deceptively simple. Her portraits are marked by thin, black lines that sketch the images of beautiful, confident...

Sales appeared promising during the first day of Expo Chicago , the US Midwest’s largest art fair, as dealers said the city’s art scene is...

Harlem’s Claire Oliver Gallery had success with artist Gio Swaby, whose work is the focus of a just-opened solo show at the Art Institute of...

It is not a total surprise that Gio Swaby would base her practice on textiles. After all, her mother was a seamstress. However, there is...

“For the past 10 years, the exposition has created a setting for the outgrowth of art and ideas, and our programs have always been a...

More than expressing love visually, Swaby is hoping for an honest reflection of Black people—”an unmediated version of Blackness,” she calls it. The influences of...

Bringing together seven of her series from 2017 through 2021, including “Love Letters,” “Pretty Pretty,” “My Hands Are Clean,” “New Growth (an ode to Black...

Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois Fresh Up , an exhibition that explores the intersections of Blackness and womanhood from the textile-based, multidisciplinary artist Gio...

On view from today, The Art Institute of Chicago will open Gio Swaby: Fresh Up , an exhibition that explores the intersections of Blackness and...

The Art Institute is pleased to announce Gio Swaby: Fresh Up, an exhibition that explores the intersections of Blackness and womanhood from the textile-based, multidisciplinary...

The exhibition—Swaby’s first solo museum show—brings together seven of Swaby’s series from 2017 through 2021, along with approximately 15 new works, including her largest work...

“I am approaching the world of art as an outsider, being a Black woman from the Caribbean,” the multimedia artist Gio Swaby told Harper’s Bazaar...

Gio Swaby: Fresh UP April 8 - July 3, 2023, Art Institute of Chicago Gio Swaby textile-based practiice explores the intersections of Blackness and womanhood.

Her embroidered portraits are anchored in the connections she forges with her subjects: each portrait begins with a photo shoot in which her sitters are...

Multidisciplinary visual artist Gio Swaby, here in the second stop for her first solo museum exhibition, often begins her work with photo portraits, used as...

As across the rest of the year, contemporary art presentations abound throughout the third coast hub, including Gio Swaby: Fresh Up at the Art Institute...

Gio Swaby’s textile portraiture is simply beautiful to look at. Swaby specializes in embroidered work that channels Blackness and womanhood. In them, she plays with...

The Art Institute has announced Gio Swaby: Fresh Up, an exhibition that explores the intersections of Blackness and womanhood from the textile-based, multidisciplinary artist Gio...

“Swaby’s intention of creating more positive images of Black portrait sitters who are empowered to be themselves, beautiful but not idealized, is a message that...

In Gio Swaby: Fresh Up , get up close with Swaby’s large-scale portraits of Black women, rendered in hand-embroidered fabric. The Art Institute’s exhibition is...

In Bahamian artist Gio Swaby’s colorful sewn portraits, an invisible yet integral thread comes in the form of an invitation to celebrate Blackness and womanhood....

Gio Swaby crafts layered textiles of various colors and patterns that explore both Blackness and womanhood . Acknowledging the number of stigmas attached to both...

Downtown St. Pete’s Museum of Fine Arts will host the first solo museum exhibition of multidisciplinary artist Gio Swaby, whose work explores the intersections of...

Bahamian artist Gio Swaby’s giant tapestries on canvas will grace the walls until Oct. 9, so get there fast. Swaby’s first solo museum exhibition is...

GIO SWABY’S “FRESH UP,” TRACEY ROSE’S “SHOOTING DOWN BABYLON,” AND “AFRICA FASHION” AT THE V&A MUSEUM ARE JUST A FEW OF THE INSTALLATIONS ON DISPLAY...

Swaby didn’t grow up going to galleries and looking at fine art. The daughter of a seamstress, she grew up with textiles. She and her...

ST. PETERSBURG — “I’m making the art that I wanted to see.” That is how Bahamian artist Gio Swaby explained her textile-based portraits of Black...

“I make work for people to see, but the process is for me,” says Gio Swaby, the Bahamian portrait artist who positions Black joy as...

Multidisciplinary artist Gio Swaby was born and raised in Nassau, Bahamas before moving to Canada to purse a Master of Fine Arts at Ontario College...

The 30-year-old Bahamian artist, whose solo museum debut opened at The Museum of Fine Arts, St. Petersburg on Saturday, accompanied by a coffee table book...

When Gio Swaby was a teenager in the Bahamas, adults told her not to go out “gyalavantin” with her friends all weekend. Over a decade...

Every picture, it’s been wisely observed, tells a story. And with Fresh Up, the exhibition of works opening Saturday at the Museum of Fine Arts,...

Gio’s work evokes at once awe and comfort, complexity in a misleadingly simplistic form. It is approachable even as you must pause and admire the...

American museums are making steady efforts to show a large range of media, styles and perspectives. But this spring and summer, the most notable diversity...

The 30-year-old Bahamian multimedia textile artist took the art world by storm after her debut exhibition in New York City's Claire Oliver Gallery , 'Both...

Mixed-media paintings and textile works by emerging and mid-career artists were hot sellers. “Everything’s gone,” Harlem gallerist Claire Oliver said of her booth. That was...

the 29-Year-Old Phenom Whose Sold-Out Debut Boasted Buyers Including Eight Museums (and Roxane Gay) The 29-year-old artist is still in grad school. When an artist...

For many, art provides a voice for the unheard. It can capture moments of positivity that might otherwise be unrepresented. The first solo exhibition by...