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From Institute for Contemporary Arts website profile: Julianne Swartz creates immersive, multi-sensory installations, sculptures, and photographs. Her work synthesizes sound and light into ephemeral, participatory, performative, and social experiences. Swartz’s site-specific installations vary widely in material, process, and function. Her work in the 2004 Whitney Biennial, Somewhere Harmony, utilized a system of plexiglass tubing to distribute singing voices throughout five floors of the museum’s stairwell. Can You Hear Me (2004), an auditory and optical periscope commissioned by the New Museum, enabled conversations across physical and social boundaries. In The Sound of Light (2009), radio transmitters broadcasted a sonic treasure hunt throughout the permanent collection exhibits at the Jewish Museum. . . . Swartz’s grants and awards include a New York Foundation for the Arts Fellowship in Sculpture (2005), a Joan Mitchell Foundation Painters and Sculptors Grant (2008), and an American Academy of Arts and Letters Award of Merit Medal for Art (2010). She was awarded a Visiting Artist Fellowship at UrbanGlass, Brooklyn, and an Anonymous Was a Woman Award, both in 2015. Swartz earned a B.A. from the University of Arizona in 1989 and an M.F.A. in Sculpture from Bard College in 2002. She attended the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture as a participant in 1999 and as a faculty member in 2008, and has served on the Board of Governors since 2007. Swartz is a member of the faculty at Bard College and also teaches in the M.F.A. Program at the School of Visual Arts.