Kiki Smith

Monoprint with hand-applied pencil, ink, and watercolor stamp on Losiny Prague paper
Print: 11 1/2 x 8 in (29.2 x 20.3 cm)
Framed: 18 X 14 1/2 in (45.72 x 36.83 cm)
Signed by the artist

Kiki Smith (b. 1954, Nuremberg, Germany; lives and works New York, NY) has been known since the 1980s for her multidisciplinary work that explores embodiment and the natural world. She uses a broad variety of materials to continuously expand and evolve a body of work that includes sculpture, printmaking, photography, drawing, and textiles. Life, death, and resurrection are thematic signposts in her expansive oeuvre, which extends to sculpture, painting, printmaking, textiles, installation, and photography. Using imagery drawn from myth, folklore, and her own personal constellation of references, she excavates the body, foregrounding its intrinsic properties while presenting it as a site of transformation.

Kiki Smith has been the subject of numerous solo exhibitions worldwide including over 25 museum exhibitions. Her work has been featured at five Venice Biennales, including the 2017 edition. She is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and in 2017 was awarded the title of Honorary Royal Academician by the Royal Academy of Arts, London. Previously, she was recognized in 2006 by TIME Magazine as one of the “TIME 100: The People Who Shape Our World.” Other awards include the Skowhegan Medal for Sculpture in 2000; the 2009 Edward MacDowell Medal; the 2010 Nelson A. Rockefeller Award, Purchase College School of the Arts; the 2013 U.S. Department of State Medal of Arts, conferred by Hillary Clinton; and the 2016 Lifetime Achievement Award from the International Sculpture Center, among others. She is an adjunct professor at NYU and Columbia University.

Kiki Smith was a Resident Faculty Artist in 1993.