BIOGRAPHY

Caitlyn Swift (b. 1999) is a multimedia artist currently based in Phoenix, Arizona. Her evocative figurative paintings, drawings, and sculptures serve as physical manifestations of personal, psychological, and historical feminine archetypes. Through exaggeration, elongation, and nuanced historical poses, Caitlyn's figures engage in dialogue with traditional portrayals of the female body throughout art history. She earned her BFA from the University of Arizona in 2020 and her MFA at Arizona State University in 2025. 

Caitlyn has been awarded the Martin Wong Scholarship and ASU’s GRSP Thesis Grant in support of her thesis exhibition Ghosts of Girls I Could’ve Been and Once Was (2025) at the Harry Wood Gallery in Tempe, AZ. She was one of forty figurative artists in the United States selected to showcase her work in the 2024 AXA Art Prize at the New York Academy of Art, and she will return there as an artist-in-residence in July 2025, funded by the Academy’s Merit Scholarship. In celebration of Women’s History Month, Caitlyn was a panelist and solo exhibitor at Bay College (2024). Her recent solo exhibitions include Restless at Bay College, MI (2024), and ORCHID HOUSE at Subspace Gallery in Tucson, AZ (2021). Caitlyn was an artist-in-residence at Château d’Orquevaux in France (2022), supported by the Denis Diderot Grant, and has a piece in their permanent private collection. Her work has been published in Sandscript Magazine (2019), Polaris Magazine (2020), and Persona Magazine (2021), earning first-place honors in visual arts from two of these publications.