Seth Orion Schwaiger is a freelance arts writer whose research interests focus on the growth, direction, and development of urban and regional art systems or scenes in relation to larger national and international trends. His writings can be found in Artcritical, art ltd., The Austin Chronicle, Arts+Culture, Conflict of Interest, Glasstire, New American Painting, Sightlines, and Sculpture Magazine.
Additionally, Schwaiger works with several institutions,
galleries, and individual artists to produce exhibition texts,
catalogs, press releases, and artist statements. Clients include
The Contemporary Austin, Fusebox, Hamilton-Selway Gallery, Austin
Art Alliance, Pump Project Art Complex, Museum of Pocket Art,
grayDuck Gallery, Artist of the Day, POP Austin, Women and Their
Work, and the Glasgow Masters Series.
Current rates begin at $0.33 a word for
underrepresented artists and artist-run spaces. For writing / editing requests please email sethorionschwaiger@gmail.com
Selected Writings
Dispatch From a Pandemic
Another Chicago Magazine
Making It in America: Karl Haendel
Artcritical
If These Walls Could Talk: Ryan Oskin & Kate Stone at Transmitter
Artcritical
The Meaning of an Animal in the World: Interview with Kiki Smith
Sightlines
Q+A with Alex Diamond
Conflict of Interest
Museum of Pocket Art: Future P0et Hamm0ck Set
Fusebox Catalogue
Eva Claycomb: Last Time at Recspec Gallery
Sightlines
Art is Mortal
Sightlines
Wangechi Mutu at The Contemporary Austin
Sightlines
Not Very Statesman-like: Jeanne Claire van Ryzin leaves ...
The Austin Chronicle
Melissa Brown: Future Past
The Austin Chronicle
Cali Thornhill DeWitt: This Magic Moment
The Austin Chronicle
Alyssa Taylor Wendt: Departments of Desire
The Austin Chronicle
Top 10 Contemporary Galleries in Austin
The Austin Chronicle
Robert Jackson Harrington and Hector Hernandez
The Austin Chronicle
Alex Diamond: Wette
The Austin Chronicle
Making the Most of EAST
The Austin Chronicle
Appreciation of Donald Moffett
art ltd.
An EAST Buyer's Guide
The Austin Chronicle
Luz y Movimiento: Ender Martos
The Austin Chronicle
Shawn Smith: Predators, Prey, and Pixels
The Austin Chronicle
Pop Austin: Illumination
Catalogue Text for Pop Austin 2015
Erin Curtis: Narrow Escape From History
The Austin Chronicle
Alice Leora Briggs: The Room
The Austin Chronicle
Talking Curation With Art Alliance Austin's Asa Hursh
The Austin Chronicle
BOOKS by Kevin McNamee-Tweed
The Austin Chronicle
Sound and Silence
Arts+Culture
Young Latino Artists 20: Within Reach
The Austin Chronicle
Conner O'Leary: Requesting Entrance
The Austin Chronicle
Katie Rose Pipkin: picking figs in the garden ...
The Austin Chronicle
Hollis Hammonds: Blanket of Fog
Catalogue Text for Women and Their Work
Colby Bird: Hope Goes With Man ...
The Austin Chronicle
Gently Fried
The Austin Chronicle
William Gaynor: Walking Down the Road ...
The Austin Chronicle
It Takes a Village
Arts+Culture
Bobby Scheidemann: Together at Sunset
The Austin Chronicle
Art and Motherhood on the West Austin Studio Tour
The Austin Chronicle
Flat Earth Folded
Arts+Culture
Ian Shults: Sex, Drugs, and Leave Me Alone
The Austin Chronicle
Amy Yoes, Ezra Masch, Tim Schmidt: Ultraviolet
The Austin Chronicle
Street Credibility
Arts+Culture
Up + Up: 2015 Senior Art Exhibition
The Austin Chronicle
Neil O'Brien: (I saw You) Chugging from a 2 liter"
The Austin Chronicle
Working in Stereo
The Austin Chronicle
Cartographer's Dilemma
Arts+Culture
Tony de los Reyes: Border Theory
The Austin Chronicle
Open Edition
The Austin Chronicle
Cautious Optimism in Austin
Arts+Culture
The Determined Growth of Austin's Co-Lab
Glasstire
Excitingly Unpredictable
The Austin Chronicle
Jackie Lee Young curated by Sandy Carson
The Austin Chronicle
Top 10 (+1) Major Shifts in Austin Visual Arts in 2014
The Austin Chronicle
Susi Brister: Fables
Catalogue Text for Women & Their Work
Donald Moffett: head. at Lora Reynolds
Arts+Culture
Alex.Chitty / Aaron.Meyers
The Austin Chronicle
Elizabeth McDonald: Contamination | Pollination
Exhibition Text for Pump Project
Touring the Tour
The Austin Chronicle
The Nature of the [b]EAST
Arts+Culture
EAST Toast
The Austin Chronicle
Cydonia: Ex-Y. New Gallery enters the Fray with a Group ...
Glasstire
Texas Oil: Painting and Money
New American Painting
About Thirteen Hundred People and About One Hundred Rocks ...
The Austin Chronicle
Daily Drawing
Arts+Culture
George Herms and Sarah Bancroft: Love George Herms
The Austin Chronicle
Barna Kantor's 40Hz at Big Medium
Glasstire
Ryan Cronk: Migration, Wisdom, Chalk lines, ...
The Austin Chronicle
100 Years of Making Music
Arts+Culture
Michael Anthony Garcia: Chimaera
The Austin Chronicle
Lofi, Nofi, or Uberposh: Three Austin Exhibitions
Glasstire
Akiko Kotani: Soft Walls
The Austin Chronicle
Buy What You Love: Glenn Fuhrman Interview
The Austin Chronicle
Invasive Species
Arts+Culture
Drawnonward: Jonathan Gruchawka and Mark Leavens
The Austin Chronicle
Kasey Short: 5 Plus Hearts
The Austin Chronicle
Mariah Dekkenga and Josef Bull: We Have Never Been Modern
The Austin Chronicle
Reevaluating Modernism's Reevaluation
Arts+Culture
Alternate Awards from the Austin Critics Table
Glasstire
Fort Worth Modern: Mexico Inside Out
Sculpture Magazine
Raul Gonzalez and Julon Pinkston: Undetermined Matter
The Austin Chronicle
A Secret Affair: Selections from the Fuhrman Family Collection
Arts+Culture
#WorldWideTrendingTopic
The Austin Chronicle
Susan Collis: I would like to invite the viewer
The Austin Chronicle
Venomous Cabbage and other Demands satisfied Glasstire
'Pillow' Talk: Terri Thomas Interview
The Austin Chronicle
To Glasgow from Austin with love: Michael Smith at Tramway
Glasstire
Sehnsucht
Exhibition Text: Sehnsucht - Glasgow International 2014
WEST 2014: Ink Tank
The Austin Chronicle
The Other Side of Sincerity, Laura Reynolds Gallery
Park Benched
The Austin Chronicle
Common Purpose
The Austin Chronicle
Confessions of a Wayward Artist
Glasstire
Tiny Park: A Catalogue
Glasstire
Saying Goodbye to Red Space
Glasstire
Send off at GRAY Duck
Glasstire
Vacancy Chain
Exhibition Text: Glasgow Masters Series
The Nearest Air: Waltercio Caldas at The Blanton Museum
Glasstire
Texas Tough - Blue Star Contemporary Arts Center
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