10 Facts About Ena Swansea

Ena Swansea was born on 1966 and is an artist based in New York City.

Ena Swansea studied painting and film at the University of South Florida in Tampa.

Ena Swansea often combines images in selections that eschew fixed meaning, with topical and cultural references.

Ena Swansea is influenced by art history and her early work in film.

Ena Swansea's first exhibition was a 2-person show with Robert Miller at P122 in the East Village in 1996, followed by a solo show in 1998.

Ena Swansea's work is included in several public collections, including the Museum of Modern Art, New York; the Galerie Neue Meister Dresden; Deichtorhallen, Sammlung Falckenberg, Hamburg; the Olbricht Collection, Berlin; Cornell University's Herbert F Johnson Museum of Art, Ithaca, NY; Boca Raton Museum of Art, Boca Raton, FL and the Colby College Museum of Art, Waterville, ME.

Ena Swansea is the recipient of a 2001 Hassam, Speicher, Betts and Symons Purchase Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters.

Ena Swansea's contributions were custom reversible sofas, whose imagery is based upon the artist's paintings.

Ena Swansea is married to Antoine Guerrero, who is in charge of special projects at LUMA Arles, and former Director of Operations and Exhibitions at MoMAPS1.

Ena Swansea is the widow of film critic Joel Siegel with whom she has a son.