Francesca Schwartz is an artist and psychoanalyst based in New York. Her artwork is informed by a fascination with the materiality and metaphors of the female body. Schwartz works in a range of mixed media processes encompassing painting, sculpture, photography, and collage, and her diverse materials include inks, dyes, wax, bone, textiles, and found objects, and most recently fire. She has had solo exhibitions at Mu Gallery, Chicago, IL, 2022; Studio 1608, Miami, FL, 2018; and online solo shows with Women United Art Movement in 2024 and M. David & Co. Gallery in 2021. This year Schwartz has shown in “Of Grit and Grid” with SiteSeen in NYC, “(Shed) My Skin” at ArtCake, NYC and “Terra” and “Pareidolia” at Lichtundfire, NYC. She recently joined the Atlantic Gallery in NYC, and participated in the “Annual Members Exhibition 2025.” Other group exhibitions last year include “Ariadne’s Thread,” “Orpheus & Eurydice,” and “Bohemian Rhapsody” at Lichtundfire, NYC, and “The 108^th Annual Juried Exhibition” at Greenwich Art Society, CT, at which she received the GAS Award for Oil/Acrylic for her piece “Bleed (Out)”. Schwartz was a finalist in the Women United Art Prize- Collage and Fiber Art category. Art fairs that have featured her work include Works on Paper, 2021; Market, Art and Design, 2021; and The Other Art Fair, 2021. Schwartz’s work has been featured in publications including Tussle, ROOM, and Women United Art Magazine, and she has completed several residencies at M. David & Co. Gallery in Brooklyn, NYC.