Michael Swaney

Selected group exhibitions

2010
Xmas group show, Galleri Christoffer Egelund, Copenhagen
Tots Sants, Eat Meat, Barcelona
Group show, Galería Fernando Zubillaga, curated by Square Studio, Caracas
Group show, Gallery Connexion, curated by Joey Haley, Fredericton
Art Trek 7, Mekanik Strip, Antwerp
¿pintura? cuatro respuestas, Adhoc Galeria, Vigo
Relationships, Galleri Christoffer Egelund, Copenhagen
Too Cool for School, Iguapop Gallery, Barcelona
Guasch Coranty Painting Prize exhibition, Centre d’Art Tecla Sala, Barcelona
Draw, Museo de la Ciudad de Mexico, Mexico City
Zine exhibition, D21 Kunstraum, Leipzig
100 records, Gallery 16, San Francisco
April group show, Guerrero Gallery, San Francisco
To the road less travelled - wishing you love and happiness and curiosity forever, V1 Gallery, Copenhagen
Exposicion Colectiva, Galeria Victor Saavedra, Barcelona

2009
The Pop of Colors, POVevolving Gallery,, Los Angeles
Genesis, Chapter One Gallery, London
Hello My Name Is, Katharine Mulherin Contemporary Art Projects, Los Angeles
Colectiva, Galeria Victor Saavedra, Barcelona
Singular 09, Galeria Victor Saavedra, Barcelona

2008
SCOPE Miami with Iguapop Gallery
Landscape Portrait Pattern, Hallway Projects, San Francisco
Just Painting, Ego Gallery, Barcelona
Out of STH, group show at Awangarda BWA, Wroclaw, Poland
5 year Anniversary Show, heliumcowboy artspace, Hamburg
White Noise Drawn Together, V1 Gallery, Copenhagen
How Clouds Dream, Deluge Contemporary, Victoria
Art Chicago & Art Cologne with Galeria Altxerri
SCOPE New York with Iguapop Gallery
White Noise, Space 1026, Philadelphia
Kick the Bucket, Galeria Victor Saavedra, Barcelona

2007
SCOPE Miami with Iguapop Gallery
Slump, Galeria Altxerri, San Sebastian, Spain
Going to Bed, Heaven Gallery, Chicago
Figures and Fables, Atelier Gallery, Vancouver
Iguapop, Helium Cowboy Artspace, Hamburg
Dog Days of Summer, Atelier Gallery, Vancouver
SWAB Art Fair with Iguapop Gallery, Barcelona
The Gangs All Here, Les Gallery, Vancouver

2006
The Summer Show, Iguapop Gallery, Barcelona
Onoffonoffonoff, Art Firm, Calgary

2005
Humble Beginnings, Belkin Satelite, Vancouver
Teenager Art, Disrupt Gallery, Auckland, New Zealand

2004
Organic, Iguapop Gallery, Barcelona, Spain
Spirit in the sky takes rest in the forest of fertility at ferternity falls,
The Crying Room, Vancouver
X the owl and the land of make believe, Voice 1156 Gallery, San Diego

2003
Humanfive, Compound Gallery, Portland

2002
Dollhouse, The Crying Room, Vancouver
It’s a Small World, Gallerie le Deco, Tokyo & Sis Boom Bah, Toronto
Suggestive Line, Belkin Satellite Gallery, Vancouver

2001
Live installation/performance with Humanfive, Helen Pitt Gallery, Vancouver
Residents, Bubble Gallery, Vancouver

Selected exhibition catalogues and books

The Corner, exhibition catalogue, Galeria Victor Saavedra, 2010
Guasch Coranty International Paint Prize, Barcelona, 2010
Genesis, Chapter One Gallery, London, 2009
The Zulu Nationals, Picnic Editorial. Madrid, 2009
The Performances, Stickit Books. Utrecht, The Netherlands, 2009
Out of STH, BWA Wroclaw Galeria Awanguarda. Wroclaw, Poland 2008
Kick the Bucket, Galeria Victor Saavedra. Barcelona, 2008
Iguapop Gallery, Swab catalogue. Barcelona, 2007
Artifacts from Finland, Iguapop Gallery. Barcelona, 2007
Artifacts from Finland, Le Dilly Publishing. London, UK, 2007
Hard Earned Modern Art (w/ Simon Redekop), self published, 2007
Kentucky Buccanneers (w/ Simon Redekop), self published, 2007
Red Castle No’s 1 & 2, self published, 2006/07
Residents, self published, 2002
Humanfive, self published, 2000

Bibliography

La Vanguardia, Juan Bufill, “El metarrealismo de Mike Swaney…”, Oct.30, 2010
The Gutenberg’s Quarterly, Issue 2-Vol.01, interview, Feb.-May, 2o10
El Pais, Xavi Sancho, “Barcelona: Arte Contra la Apatia”, Oct.2, 2009
QueFem?, Marc Vargas, “Collage I Misteri a Iguapoop Gallery”, Sept. 11, 2009
Free Drawings 4, 2009
Sarah Magazine, 2008
Georgia Straight, Robin Laurence Sept. 25, 2008
Beautiful Decay Magazine, Issue X, interview/images, 2008
SCOPE Miami, Exhibition Catalogue, 2007
Redux Mag #25, interview/images, Fall 2007
“Arte expontaneo, sin fisuras”, Gipuzkoa, Nov. 2007
Jose Javier Fernandez, “Entre dos culturas”, Diario Vasco, Nov. 2007
Modart, Issue 13, cover, 2007
Café Royal Issue 0, Café Royal Publishing, interview, 2007
Into the Nature, Die Gestalten Verlag Publishing, i2006
EGO Magazine, Volume 02, interview/images, 2006
Suite Magazine, interview/image, 2004
Made Magazine, Raif Adelberg, Ed, images, 2004
The Art of Rebellion book, Christian Hundertmark, mages/interview, 2003
Pound Magazine, #18, images, 2003
Eye Rhyme: Journal of Experimental Literature, #5, Pinball Publishing, images, 2003
www.cbcradio3.com, www.evilmonito.com, interviews, June/July 2003
Vapors Magazine, #12, interview/images, 2002
Homesick Magazine, Jen Nichols, Ed., issue 1, 2002
Metropolis Magazine, #438, “It’s a Small World”, Tokyo, images/review, 2002
Copperpress Magazine #9, Sister When I’ve Raised Hell You’ll Know It, cover, 2002
Vancouver Underground Film Festival, 2002

Charity auctions and fundraisers

2008
Les Gallery art auction, Vancouver, Canada

2007
The 85 Cat Fundraiser, 85 Gallery, Antwerp, Belgium

Residences

Fountainhead Residency, Miami, Sept.–Nov. 2008