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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It’s the summer of Svet....check back soon!


CURRENT PROJECTS

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

Xerography - for prints and publication. Coming soon.

Upcoming film: oral history interview/art film about banshees and sheela na gigs and ghosties and ghouls and wards and charms.

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

Transitions - MCAD MFA group show at Gallery 148, February 25 - March 10, 2026

Persistent Bloom Creative Retreat - February 2025

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

Svet (2016--?) -  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)

BIOGRAPHY

Svetlana (Svet) Zwetkof is an transdisciplinary artist working across sound, video, and language. Born and raised in a small college town in rural Colorado, before moving cross country to Massachusetts, then Texas, then Minnesota, Svet has long had an interest in the land and what it means to be part of it. Whether that is a mental practice or a practice of putting her fingers in the dirt is unclear and she likes to keep it that way.

Svet attended Mount Holyoke College for her BA where she studied Linguistics and Studio Art. In 2017 Svet completed a senior thesis project called “Gloomy Swamp, Breathless Mud”, in which she reclaimed bodily autonomy in the wake of trauma through video, sound/music, and sculptural installation.

This work eventually formed the foundation of her solo experimental music project “Svet” (2016-2023), a grunge band called Shouter Whisperer (2023-2024) in which Svet played a five string electric ukulele, and her current art rock project, Dark Critter, co-written and performed with her partner Ribbon Flores. After Massachusetts, Svet lived in San Antonio for eight years, where she played many experimental, electronic, and rock shows, recorded several more albums, worked many odd jobs, and had many adventures.

Svet is a current MFA candidate at the Minneapolis College of Art and Design (MCAD). Her current work centers play and the oscillating mechanisms of being alive, a  
metaphor derived from the visual sound wave representations on Korg Minilogue screens that make the musician a visual spectator to the oscillators within the instrument...More on this later.