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Professor Corin Sworn

Professor

Department: Northumbria School of Design, Arts and Creative Industries

Prof Corin Sworn

I am an award winning artist working with performance, video, distributed narrative, digital collage and installation. My work is shown at art institutions and film festivals.

I was previously Associate Professor at the Ruskin School of Art, University of Oxford.

Exhibitions and Film Festivals Include:

Edinburgh Art Festival (2019); Gallery Arsenal, Poland (2016); Toronto Film Festival (2016); Collezione Maramotti, Italy (2015); Whitechapel Gallery, UK (2015); Langen Foundation, Germany (2015); Sydney Biennial, Australia (2014), 55th Venice Biennale (2013); Chisenhale Gallery (2013); National Gallery of Canada (2013); Tate Britain’s Art Now (2011); Rotterdam Film Festival (2010)

Awards:

Leverhulme Prize 2016

Max Mara Art Prize for Women 2014

Corin Sworn

  • Please visit the Pure Research Information Portal for further information
  • In Reflection, Shimmer, Sworn, C. 25 Nov 2023
  • LOOP, Liston, K., O'Sullivan, T., Qureshi, A., Reed, G., Sworn, C., Danby, C., Culver, M., Morris, R., Tatham, J. 30 Nov 2023
  • The Unpickers, Sworn, C., Browning, J. 18 Feb 2022
  • Touch the Veil, Sworn, C. 12 Dec 2022
  • Eco co location, Sworn, C., Parinussa, C. 27 Nov 2021
  • Variations on Assembly, Sworn, C., Hao, S. 22 May 2021
  • Habits of Assembly, Sworn, C. 13 Jul 2019
  • Temporary, Sworn, C. 15 Apr 2019, In: PARSE

  • Helen Knowles More-Than-Human Healthcare: A practice-based study of relationships, allyship and technical assemblages, where humans, plants, psychedleics and artifical intelligence mutually tend to and sustain health Start Date: 30/05/2024
  • David Reynolds DO CYBORGS DREAM OF ELECTRIC QUEERS? Start Date: 01/10/2020 End Date: 11/10/2024

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