SVETLANA ZWETKOF

ART | LANGUAGE | SOUND
COLORADO -> WESTERN MASS -> SATX -> MPLS


“ill - messenger poisoner version” (2023) by Shouter Whisperer. Grungey art rock, drums by Alejandro Abeledo and produced by Will Chappell and Svetlana Zwetkof.


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2025
2024
2023
BIOGRAPHY
SCHEDULE

Dark Critter demos to come this summer.

SEPT 5, 2025 - 6-8pm - MCAD MFA Fall Show



CURRENT PROJECTS

Dark Critter (2024--onward) - synthesizer, electric guitar + bass, vocals - electronic grungey/doomy art rock made with Ribbon Flores.

PULPY DAUGHTER WATER - essays by S. Zwetkof

coffin nails - video/movement/sound series

2022
2021
2020
PRESS ACCOLADES

forthcoming: Minneapolis College of Art and Design - MFA Candidate - 2025-2027

Mount Holyoke College -  BA Linguistics & Studio Art - 2013-2017
   cum laude, high honors in art thesis
   Phi Beta Kappa & Mary Lyon Scholar

Svet @ Texas Noise and Ambience 2018 - Contemporary Arts Museum Houston

Rousay/Zwetkof Tour - midwest United States - summer 2017

2019
2018
2017
2016


 PAST PROJECTS

Persistent Bloom Creative Retreat - February 2025

Shouter Whisperer (2023-2024) - synthesizer, electric ukulele, vocals - art rock
   one released album

Svet (2016-2023) -  vocals, synthesizer - experimental/ambient music
   seven released albums (listed with Shouter Whisperer)

Jejune Stars (2018-2019) - synthesizer, vocals -  indie

Ston the Band (2023-2024) - synthesizer - wonky tonk

14th Annual Research Colloquium for the College of Education         and Human Development at UTSA - speaker and graduate
   assistant organizer

Rousay/Zwetkof Duo (2017-2018) - vocals - experimental improvisational drum/vocal duo

Gloomy Swamp, Breathless Mud (2016-2017) -  
       wax sculptures and video/sound installations.
       Read the written thesis.

CoLang 2016 archivist working with Unangam Tunuu in                    Fairbanks, AK

Institute for Curatorial Practice 2015 student/intern

Diversions A Cappella - collegiate a cappella vocalist
      and arrangement composer (2014-2017)

2024
“Celtic ancestors doing the cleaving” (2024). ink pen on artist-made abaca paper.“Traces of somebody” (2024). Handmade recycled paper, embossing from woodblock and relief ink.


“Celtic doom spiral” (2024). embossing from woodblock and relief ink on artist-made recycled paper.Study of “Sarcophagus of the Spouses” Etruscan sculpture (2024). Ink pen on cardstock.Study from Irish medieval figure sculpture from a knight’s effigy, Killkenny, Ireland. (2024). Ink pen sketch.Study of Ulysses from the Sperlonga sculptures. (2024) Ink pen sketch on cardstock.

Study of medieval Irish architectural sculpture (2024). Ink pen on cardstock.


“gave into this lonely state” (2024). video collage, voice, synthesizer.

lyrics:
Serendipity
Might be the thing you care about the most

What is serendipitous
About taking a human life and being let off the hook?


“Sleeper” (2024) by Dark Critter. Voice, electric ukulele, guitar, bass.

lyrics:
I took a xanax and it didn’t work

I took an anti depressant and it didnt work

I took a day of rest and it didn’t work

I took a day off work and it didn’t work


One day the sleeper will wake

One day the sleeper will wake

But until that day I will be resting in my grave



 “Kennedi’s dead plant with some methyl cellulose, etc.” detail (2024). 
Failed plant transplant, bound to clay balls, lavender, dirt, rose, and cloves by methyl cellulose. Some mold spores included.screenshots from “Margin” (2024). Digital zine. See pdf here.