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)

PRESS

Rick Weaver: “windfall of free-shifting artistic currency: music, performance and rolling language built soundly on and off precarious boundaries, supplemented with extended, elongated new text color wheel. Each performance from Zwetkof breaks from the last; each set a complete picture. Her album ‘Prehistory (horse n buggy days)’ cements adaptation into poetry at the speed of folk.”

Yeah I Know it Sucks: “…the future is now & Svet’s songs and music is simply time & basically genre-less. Not afraid to do whatever that makes sense, providing the act of brushing teeth along with harsher noise & twisting her extremely warm and kind sounding vocals in a way that makes miraculously lots of sense in it’s togetherness.”

Lance Higdon (review on Bandcamp): “Svet expertly pairs (without blending) careful consideration of stereo soundfield design with the unadorned beauty of her own singing. 13th-meets-20th-century. Favorite track: THOU ART.”

Sarah Gill for Art Grove Newsletter: “Svet’s work as a multidisciplinary artist showcases the value of curiosity and levity in one’s practice. You can venture into new territory without fear, while still being grounded in an area of expertise.”