Zina Swanson is a Christchurch based artist. Swanson studied Sculpture at the University of Canterbury, and graduated in 2004. Since completing her degree she has made and exhibited a number of large scale sculptural works, and had several exhibitions of drawings. Swanson has exhibited her work nationally, galleries include Artspace ( Ak ), Enjoy ( Wgtn ), Hsp ( ChCh ) and City Art ( ChCh ). In 2004 she was the winner of the CoCA/Anthony Harper Award for Contemporary Art.