Steven Swancoat

About the Artist:

 

  Steven Swancoat is a 31-year-old full time Ob/Gyn physician and artist living in New York City’s TriBeCa. Steven moved to New York in July 2010 as a medical student where his father encouraged him to “give art a try”. Starting with photography and shortly after picking up the brush for the first time, Steven never imagined how his life would change forever.   

                                                                

  In just six years as a self-taught photographer and painter, he has had multiple exhibitions, featured on Bravo Television, various magazines and raised over $22,000 towards various charities using his artwork. Notably, in 2014 following the Winter Olympics  he was commissioned to make painting series for Russian President Vladimir Putin. Also he hosted an Art show & fundraiser with Susan Sarandon’s and her Ping Pong Club SPiN in New York City. She too now has a piece of Swancoat’s artwork in her private collection.

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 In 2015, after moving into a new Downtown apartment with outdoor terraces that looked up at the beautiful night sky, Steven’s girlfriend got him a telescope for their 6-month anniversary. What started out as a hobby turned into obsession. One telescope soon became 10 and he went from looking through the telescope to trying to photograph through the telescope. Though a demanding and difficult learning curve, Steven had developed a new passion. One that kept him up many nights until the wee hours of the morning.

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“Honestly, in my opinion astrophotography is more difficult than medicine. Not only do you need to learn to master sophisticated equipment, software and the imaging process, but you have to battle against the weather and in New York City, buildings. Often, many of nights, I only have a very short period of time from minutes to few hours to capture the images I want. Especially when an astronomical event comes around once every 10 to 20 years, you don’t want to miss out on that opportunity”.

 

On top of his artwork and charitable efforts, Swancoat has resided as a board member for New York’s Ovarian Cancer Research Fund, has authored & co-authored numerous medical research papers, and is currently pursuing patents and designs for his medical and astronomy inventions.