SVETLANA ZWETKOF

ART | LANGUAGE | SOUND
SAN ANTONIO, TX 78209


“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

Slugger Witch demos to come this summer.

Attending MCAD in the fall.


CURRENT PROJECTS

Slugger Witch
(2024--?) - synthesizer, electric guitar + bass, vocals - electronic grungey/doomy art rock made with Jared Flores of Flowerss.
2022
2021
2020
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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

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

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

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.
BIOGRAPHY

Svetlana (“Svet”) Zwetkof is a multidisciplinary artist living and working in San Antonio, Texas. She grew up in Greeley, Colorado where her childhood was spent handling pinecones, holding funerals for fallen squirrels, and using leaves as pretend currency. In 2013 she moved to South Hadley, Massachusetts, where she attended Mount Holyoke College. During undergrad she studied Studio Art and Linguistics, ultimately completing a senior thesis project entitled “Gloomy Swamp, Breathless Mud” that used video/sound installations and clay/wax sculptures to explore the psychological terrain of trauma via geological metaphor. For this project she waded through lakes and creeks, cast wax directly in clay, and recorded vocal arrangements that dealt with grief and reclamation.

In 2017, post-grad, Svet moved to San Antonio, Texas to follow a musical thread that related to the sound art and a cappella music she explored during college. Since that time, she has had many strange (and “odd”) jobs and performed in a number of bands and experimental music projects, including the solo vocal/noise project called Svet, an art rock band called Shouter Whisperer, and her current electronic duo project Slugger Witch, which is performed with her partner Jared Flores.

Svet will be attending Minneapolis College of Art and Design in the fall for an MFA in Visual Studies. She is returning to a life of pinecones, ambiguous sculptures, epoxy clay, handmade paper, and wax. Current project topics include Celtic doom spirals, a fear of the brown bull (a concept inspired by the Irish epic of The Tain), and victim advocacy for survivors of sexual assault.