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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MCAD MFA Fall Show: Reception at MCAD in first floor hallway, Sept. 11 from 6-8pm
CURRENT PROJECTS
Svet (2016--present): experimental music, folk, and art rock, sometimes with collaborators (currently Ribbon Flores).
Paper sculpture
slugger witch
breathing mouth of cabinet
Dark Critter
Darkly Glistening (link soon)
Svet
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
Gloomy Swamp, Breathless Mud (link soon)
PAST PROJECTS
Transitions - MCAD MFA group show at Gallery 148, February 25 - March 10, 2026
Persistent Bloom Creative Retreat - February 2025
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)
2025
“I would take off my head” (2025) by Dark Critter. Synthesizers, voice, MIDI effects.
lyrics:
I have never felt right in this body
He does not deserve you
You don’t deserve what he did
I would take you and cherish you
I would take off my head
It would haunt him in daylight
By moonlight and evening time too
And when he woke up he would wonder
Why he had done that to you
They said that I keep many secrets
Secrets I keep, it is true
No one can know the way I feel
No one can know the way I do
I gathered all the flowers in the meadow
I gathered all the field
I braided my heart into them
I felt my heart swell
And I gathered all the flowers in the meadow
I gathered all the rocks on the shore
And when you came to me my darling
I knew I could hide no more
I do not deserve you
I am a freak
I have never felt right in this body,
That was not holding a woman against me
I have never felt right in this body
Woman
“Forget” (2025). Music, sculpture, video, movement.
“Sad little thing” (2025). Details and alternate views. Wire, plaster, cloth, acrylic paint.
“Dancing the pain away” (2025). Video/sound/movement/voice/MIDI instruments and synthesizers.“harmful creature” (2025). Video/sound/movement. Vocals and ukulele by Svetlana Zwetkof, guitar and bass by Ribbon Flores.
“Forget (sculpture)” (2025). Epoxy clay, paper, ink, acrylic paint.
“Eat” (2025). Bread.
objects from the noise table reliquary (relics of my noise music past). (2025). epoxy clay, wire, acrylic paint, graphite, foil, cardboard.
“Blue guts” (2025). Epoxy clay, acrylic paint.
“Fissure” (2025). Papier mache, wire. Photo by Pat Stephens.