Kiki Smith
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Nationality | German American |
Known for | Printmaking, sculpture, drawing |
Kiki Smith (born January 18, 1954) is a German-born American artist
Early life and education
Smith's father was artist Tony Smith and her mother was actress and opera singer Jane Lawrence.[4] Although her work takes a very different form than that of her parents, early exposure to her father's process of making geometric sculptures allowed her to experience Modernism's formal craftsmanship firsthand. Her childhood experience in the Catholic Church, combined with a fascination for the human body, shaped her artwork conceptually.[5]
Smith moved from Germany to
Work
Themes
Prompted by her father's death in 1980 and by the AIDS death of her sister, the underground actress Beatrice "Bebe" Smith, in 1988, Smith began an ambitious investigation of mortality and the physicality of the human body. She has gone on to create works that explore a wide range of human organs; including sculptures of hearts, lungs, stomach, liver and spleen. Related to this was her work exploring bodily fluids, which also had social significance as responses to the AIDS crisis (blood) and women's rights (urine, menstrual blood, feces).[10]
Film
In 1984 Smith finished a definitively unfinished feminist no wave super8 film, begun in 1981, entitled Cave Girls.[11] It was co-directed by Ellen Cooper.
Printmaking
Smith has experimented with a wide range of printmaking processes. Some of her earliest print works were screen-printed dresses, scarves and shirts, often with images of body parts. In association with Colab, Smith printed an array of posters in the early 1980s containing political statements or announcing Colab events, such as her The Island of Negative Utopia poster done for ABC No Rio in 1983.[12] In 1988 she created All Souls,[13] a fifteen-foot screen-print work featuring repetitive images of a fetus, an image Smith found in a Japanese anatomy book. Smith printed the image in black ink on 36 attached sheets of handmade Thai paper.
Sculpture
Mary Magdelene (1994), a sculpture made of silicon bronze and forged steel, is an example of Smith's non-traditional use of the
In 2005, Smith's installation, Homespun Tales won acclaim at the 51st Venice Biennale. Lodestar, Smith's 2010 installation at the Pace Gallery, was an exhibition of free-standing stained glass works painted with life-size figures.
Commissions
After five years of development, Smith's first permanent outdoor sculpture was installed in 1998 on the campus of the University of California, San Diego.[16]
In 2010, the Museum at Eldridge Street commissioned Smith and architect Deborah Gans to create a new monumental east window for the 1887 Eldridge Street Synagogue, a National Historic Landmark located on New York's Lower East Side.[17] This permanent commission marked the final significant component of the museum's 20-year restoration[18] and was topped off with an exhibition of site-specific sculptures by Smith in a 2018 show entitled Below the Horizon: Kiki Smith at Eldridge.[19]
For the
In 2019, Smith conceived Memory, a site specific installation for the DESTE Foundation for Contemporary Art on the Greek island of Hydra.[21]
Artist books
She has created unique books, including: Fountainhead (1991); The Vitreous Body (2001); and Untitled (
Tapestries
Since the early 2010s Smith has created twelve 9 x 6 ft.
Mosaics
In 2022, Smith to created a series of five giant mosaics for Manhattan train station at
Collaborations
Smith was an active member of
Exhibitions
In 1980, Smith participated in the
Past solo exhibitions have been held at the
In 1996, Smith exhibited in a group show at SITE Santa Fe, along with Kara Walker.[33]
In 2005, "the artist's first full-scale American museum survey" titled Kiki Smith: A Gathering, 1980-2005 debuted at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art.[34] Then an expansion came to the Walker Art Center in Minneapolis where the show originated. At the Walker, Smith coauthored the catalogue raisonné with curator Siri Engberg.[35]
The exhibition traveled to the
In 2016, the Walsh Gallery at Seton Hall University, in collaboration with the Lennie Pierro Memorial Arts Foundation, hosted Kiki and Seton Smith: A Sense of Place.[38]
Smith participated in the 2017 Venice Biennale, Viva Arte Viva, from May 13 – November 16, 2017.[39]
In 2018, Smith took part in Frieze Sculpture (part of Frieze Art Fair, where her work Seer (Alice I), Timothy Taylor (gallery),[40] was presented in Regent's Park, London, England, from July 4 – October 7, 2018.[41]
Also in London in 2018, an exhibition of Smith's tapestries, sculpture and works on paper was presented at the Timothy Taylor (gallery) from September 13 – October 27.[42] Woodland was produced in collaboration with Magnolia Editions.[43]
In 2019, the Deste Foundation's Project Space at the Slaughterhouse on Hydra island featured Memory, a site specific exhibition.[44]
In 2019 The 11 Conti – Monnaie de Paris presented the first solo show of Smith by a French public institution.[45]
In 2019 the Österreichische Galerie Belvedere[46] in Vienna, Austria, presented a solo show of Smith entitled "Processions",[47] presenting about sixty works from the last three decades.
Other activities
In 2023, Smith served on the jury that chose Sarah Lucas as first winner of the New Museum's $400,000 Hostetler/Wrigley Sculpture Award.[48]
Recognition
Smith's many accolades also include the Nelson A. Rockefeller Award from Purchase College School of the Arts (2010),
In 2012, Smith received the
In 2016, Smith was awarded the International Sculpture Center's Lifetime Achievement in Contemporary Sculpture Award.
References
- Adams, Laurie Schneider, Ed. A History of Western Art Third Edition. New York: McGraw-Hill Higher Education, 2001.
- Berland, Rosa JH. "Kiki Smith: A Gathering, 1980-2005." C Magazine: International Contemporary Art, 2007.
- Engberg, Siri, Linda Nochlin, and Marina Warner, Kiki Smith: A Gathering, 1980–2005 (Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, 2005).
- Posner, Helaine, with an interview by Christopher Lyon, Kiki Smith (Monacelli Press, New York), 2005.
- Alan W. Moore and Marc Miller, eds., ABC No Rio Dinero: The Story of a Lower East Side Art Gallery (Collaborative Projects (Colab), NY, 1985).
Footnotes
- ^ a b c "Kiki Smith | American artist". Encyclopædia Britannica. Retrieved March 5, 2016.
- ^ Danielle Stein (October 2007), "The Glass Menagerie" Archived July 19, 2016, at the Wayback Machine, W; accessed April 1, 2015.
- ^ Newell-Hanson, Alice (February 28, 2019). "Kiki Smith Shares a Glimpse Into Her World, in Photographs". The New York Times.
- ^ Roberta Smith. "Jane Lawrence Smith, 90, Actress Associated With 1950's Art Scene, Dies", nytimes.com; accessed April 1, 2015.
- ^ "Kiki Smith | Art21 | PBS". www.pbs.org. Retrieved March 5, 2016.
- ^ "Seton Smith". setonsmith.com. Retrieved March 2, 2021.
- ^ "Seton Smith". International Center of Photography. June 30, 2016. Retrieved March 2, 2021.
- ^ Kiki & Seton Smith; A Sense of Place, Seton Hall University. Accessed January 19, 2020. "'Seton knew she wanted to be an artist when she was 12, but I had no idea,' Kiki says. 'I went to Columbia High School and just hated it. My parents sent me to Changes, Inc., which was run by the Ethical Culture Society and was more progressive.'"
- ^ "Kiki Smith Prints at Universal Limited Art Editions (ULAE)". ulae.com. Archived from the original on May 18, 2017. Retrieved March 5, 2016.
- ^ "Queen of Arts". The New Yorker. Retrieved March 31, 2017.
- ^ Kiki Smith interviewed by Joseph Nechvatal on Cave Girls, Collaboration, and Some of Her Earliest Works] published January 14, 2020, at Hyperallergic
- ^ [1] Kiki Smith, The Kitchen Presents The Island of Negative Utopia Poster, ABC No Rio, 1983
- ISBN 978-0-87070-583-0.
- ISBN 978-0-87070-583-0.
- ^ Smith, Kiki (1994). "Lilith". www.metmuseum.org. Retrieved March 14, 2019.
- ^ Leah Ollman (November 1, 1998), She Stands Expectation on Its Head Los Angeles Times; accessed April 1, 2015.
- New York Times; accessed April 1, 2015.
- ^ a b c Kiki Smith: Lodestar, April 30–June 19, 2010 Archived March 4, 2016, at the Wayback Machine, PaceGallery.com; accessed April 1, 2015.
- ^ Meier, Allison (June 5, 2018). "Kiki Smith Takes Over the Eldridge Street Synagogue with 50 Artworks". Hyperallergic.
- ^ Kimmelman, Michael (July 15, 2012). "A Glass Box That Nests Snugly on the Roof". The New York Times.
- ^ [2] KIKI SMITH: MEMORY DESTE Foundation for Contemporary Art PROJECT SPACE, SLAUGHTERHOUSE, HYDRA 18.6.2019-31.10.2019
- ^ "Visionary Sugar: Works by Kiki Smith at the Neuberger Museum." artnet.com. Retrieved February 13, 2013.
- ^ "Kiki Smith: What I saw on the road". Uffizi Galleries.
- ^ Dorsa, Daniel (March 7, 2019). "Inside the Magical and Relentlessly Creative World of Beloved Artist Kiki Smith". Artsy. Retrieved March 15, 2019.
- ^ Stone, Nick (2018). Kiki Smith: Tapestries. Magnolia Editions (Oakland, CA).
- ^ https://www.theartnewspaper.com/2022/10/19/yayoi-kusama-and-kiki-smith-to-create-giant-mosaics-for-new-manhattan-train-station] Ben Sutton, Yayoi Kusama and Kiki Smith to create giant mosaics for new Manhattan train station, The Art Newspaper]
- ^ Kiki Smith interviewed by Joseph Nechvatal on Cave Girls, Collaboration, and Some of Her Earliest Works] published January 14, 2020, at Hyperallergic
- ^ "Kiki Smith: Realms, March 14–April 27, 2002". Archived from the original on March 3, 2016. Retrieved January 30, 2014.
- ^ Diamond, Jason (March 27, 2014). "2014 Will Be the Year of Lynne Tillman". Flavorwire.
- ^ Smith, Anne Waldman and Kiki (April 2, 2010). "If I Could Say This With My Body, Would I. I Would". The Brooklyn Rail.
- ^ "Jaguar Harmonics: A Collaborative Performance, Douglas Dunn Salon, New York, NY | Anne Waldman". www.annewaldman.org.
- ^ a b Kiki Smith: Realms, March 14–April 27, 2002 Archived March 3, 2016, at the Wayback Machine, PaceGallery.com; accessed April 1, 2015.
- ^ "Conceal/Reveal - SITE Santa Fe". sitesantafe.org. Retrieved March 5, 2016.
- ^ "Whitney To Present Kiki Smith Retrospective, Traversing The Artist's 25-Year Career" (PDF) (Press release). Whitney Museum of American Art. July 2006. Archived from the original (PDF) on February 6, 2013. Retrieved May 5, 2013.
- ^ "Siri Engberg". Barnes & Noble. Retrieved May 3, 2013.
- ^ "Mark Stevens (November 25, 2007), "The Way of All Flesh", nytimes.com; accessed April 1, 2015". Archived from the original on November 3, 2019. Retrieved February 19, 2020.
- ^ "Annual Report" (PDF). Walker Art Center. 2008. p. 55. Archived from the original (PDF) on May 8, 2012. Retrieved May 4, 2013.
- ^ "Kiki and Seton Smith: A Sense of Place". 2016 Past Exhibits. January 1, 2016.
- ^ "La Biennale di Venezia - Artists". www.labiennale.org. Archived from the original on June 29, 2017. Retrieved February 22, 2017.
- ^ "Seer (Alice I), 2005". www.akronartmuseum.org. Archived from the original on October 3, 2018. Retrieved October 3, 2018.
- ^ "Frieze Sculpture 2018". www.frieze.com. Retrieved October 3, 2018.
- ^ Jackie Wullschlager (September 28, 2018), "Frieze London: women at work", ft.com; accessed October 3, 2018.
- ^ "Kiki Smith: Woodland, 13 September – 27 October 2018, London". www.timothytaylor.com. Retrieved October 3, 2018.
- ^ "KIKI SMITH: MEMORY | Deste Foundation for Contemporary Art | Athens | Greece". deste.gr.
- ^ "Kiki Smith | Monnaie de Paris". www.monnaiedeparis.fr.
- ^ "Startsite | Belvedere Museum Vienna". www.belvedere.at.
- ^ "Belvedere Museum Vienna | Kiki Smith exhibition". www.belvedere.at.
- ^ Alex Greenberger (March 28, 2023), Sarah Lucas Wins New Museum's $400,000 Sculpture Prize ARTnews.
- ^ Kiki Smith Pace Gallery, New York.
- ^ *"Kiki Smith wins Brooklyn Museum's Women in the Arts Award" Archived March 1, 2012, at the Wayback Machine; accessed April 1, 2015.
- ^ "Hillary Clinton will give five artists medals for embassy art". Los Angeles Times. November 30, 2012.
- ^ Internationally renowned artist Kiki Smith to serve as IAA artist-in-residence at UNT for 2013-14 University of North Texas, September 27, 2013.
External links
- Media related to Kiki Smith at Wikimedia Commons
- Kiki Smith talks with Joseph Nechvatal about her Cave Girls film and The ABC No Rio Cardboard Air Band at Hyperallergic
- Kiki Smith at Barbara Gross Galerie
- Biography, interviews, essays, artwork images and video clips from PBSseries Art:21—Art in the Twenty-First Century (2003)
- Interview with Kiki Smith
- Museum of Biblical Art - Biblical Art in a Secular Century: Selections, 1896-1993 featuring Kiki Smith Processional Crucifix from Saint Peter's Church, New York, NY
- 'Kiki Smith video interview'
- Kiki Smith: Prints, Books and Things at MoMA
- Jewel, an excerpt of Smith's 1997 film in the AVI format
- Heyoka magazine Interview Archived May 30, 2012, at the John Lekay
- Kiki Smith: "Life Wants to Live" (1:33) published at Tellus Audio Cassette Magazine
- Kiki Smith Galerie Lelong & Co.