Zina Swanson


Zina Swanson is a New Zealand artist. Her works are held in the Christchurch Art Gallery, University of Canterbury and Hocken Collections.
Swanson was born in Christchurch in 1981. She graduated from the University of Canterbury School of Fine Arts with a BFA in 2003. After losing her studio and most of her early art production in the Christchurch earthquakes she lived in Auckland briefly before arriving in Dunedin in 2013 to take up her tenure as the University of Otago’s Frances Hodgkins Fellow. Swanson's work investigates the relationships between humans and the natural world.

Awards and Residencies

Timely Additions, Eastern Southland Gallery, Gore
For Luck, Dunedin Public Art Gallery
No Need for Water: Zina Swanson, Hocken Library
Ready to Roll, City Gallery Wellington