Gio Swaby: Fresh Up @ MFA St. Petersburg FL

Downtown St. Pete’s Museum of Fine Arts will host the first solo museum exhibition of multidisciplinary artist Gio Swaby, whose work explores the intersections of...

ST. PETERSBURG — “I’m making the art that I wanted to see.” That is how Bahamian artist Gio Swaby explained her textile-based portraits of Black...

Multidisciplinary artist Gio Swaby was born and raised in Nassau, Bahamas before moving to Canada to purse a Master of Fine Arts at Ontario College...

When Gio Swaby was a teenager in the Bahamas, adults told her not to go out “gyalavantin” with her friends all weekend. Over a decade...

American museums are making steady efforts to show a large range of media, styles and perspectives. But this spring and summer, the most notable diversity...