Jane Swavely studied at Boston University and the School of Visual Arts in New York and is the recipient of a Ford Foundation Fellowship. Her work is in numerous public and private collections, including the JP Morgan Chase Art Collection and the Allentown Art Museum in Pennsylvania. Swavely has shown in solo exhibitions at CDS Gallery, A.I.R Gallery, the New Arts Program in Kutztown, PA, where she was a visiting artist, Loyola College, the Mandeville Gallery at Union College as well as in selected group exhibitions in New York, Los Angeles, Warsaw, and Stockholm. Previously represented by CDS Gallery in New York, Swavely had her 5th solo show at A.I.R. Gallery and is currently exhibiting paintings at Magenta Plains Gallery.