Colorado artist and writer Delaney Gardner-Sweeney uses installation, performance art, and durational sculpture to promote the radical sharing of intimate experiences. Her queer identity informs the theoretical framework of their practice as she examines the importance of fostering communal empathy through a right to be public instead of a right to privacy. Gardner-Sweeney received her BFA and BA from the University of Colorado and has exhibited at Agnes Scott College, Decatur, GA; the University of Colorado, Boulder, CO; Del Mar College, Corpus Christi, TX; Rancho La Florida, Antonito, CO; Dab Art Co., Los Angeles California; Pour-d Gallery, Rockford, MI; The University of Colorado Natural History Museum, Boulder, CO; The Mountain Research Station, Nederland, CO; and Galleria Artificio, Meta, Columbia; among others. The artist received the 2020 Prairiewood Preserve Residency in collaboration with Aaron D. Treher. Gardner-Sweeney’s writing and projects have been published in multiple publications including San Luis Valley, On Collecting (now archived in the Special Collections at the University of Colorado Boulder), Artistonish Magazine, Ecology of Practice, and RADIUS Volume 1.
