Svetlana Shigroff (b. 1982) is a Los Angeles–based artist working in mixed-media sculpture and textile assemblage. Her materially dense works draw from the body, archetypal figures, and talismanic forms to examine inheritance, symbolic lineage, and intra-personal conflict. Through repetitive processes of looping fiber, stitching fabric, and casting her own form, she constructs sculptures that operate as physical incantations — spaces where intimacy and violence, adornment and defense, tenderness and threat coexist. Though often wry in situ, her work carries an undercurrent of tension and visceral uncanniness implicit in the lived female experience. Shigroff teaches Fashion and Sculpture studio courses at Santa Monica College and is cofounder of LA Tactile Lab in downtown Los Angeles. She holds a Bachelor of Science with Honors and a Postgraduate Degree in Tertiary Education from The University of Queensland.
