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Sable Elyse Smith (born 1986) is an interdisciplinary artist, write and educator based in New York.[1] Smith works in photography, neon, text, appropriated imagery,[2] sculpture, and video installation connecting language, violence, and pop culture with autobiographical subject matter.[3] In 2018, Smith was an Artist-in Residence at the Studio Museum in Harlem.[4] Her work was first featured at several areas such as MoMA ps1, New Museum, Brooklyn Museum, Philadelphia, MIT list visual arts center, Cambridge, Massachusetts, and other places.[5] The artist lives and works in Richmond, Virginia, and New York City.[6] She has been an assistant professor of Visual Arts at Columbia University since 2020.[7]

Sable Elyse Smith
Born	1986 Los Angeles, California
Nationality	American
Education	Oglethorpe University, Parsons School of Design
Known for	interdisciplinary art

Early life and education

Smith was born in 1986[8] in Los Angeles, California.[1] Smith holds a B.A. in studio art and film from Oglethorpe University and a MFA in Design & Technology from Parsons the New School for Design.[4]

Work

Smith often uses surveillance tape to explore the structure of the incarcerated labor system its corruption.[6]

Smith makes sculptures and two-dimensional works that raise questions about societal problems. Her work is inspired by her father who been incarcerated for most of her life.[3] Her work uses common objects from the prison system to question labor, class, and memory with emphasis on the everyday effects of institutional violence.[9][2] Smith uses coloring books for children used in court setting as a subject in some of her 2D works.[2] Smith has talked about her work stating: “The work should never say the same thing to every viewer. It is multi-vocal in its address and affect—that's the point."[8] She has received several awards from Creative Capital, Fine Arts Work Center, the Queens Museum, Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation, Rea Hort Mann Foundation, the Franklin Furnace Fund, and Art Matter.[5]

She was included in the 2019 traveling exhibition Young, Gifted, and Black: The Lumpkin-Boccuzzi Family Collection of Contemporary Art.[10]

Exhibitions

Solo

• 2022 - Tithe, JTT, New York, New York[11]
• 2019 - or the song spilling out, Carlos/Ishikawa, London, UK.[12][13]
• 2018 - Ordinary Violence, Haggerty Museum, Milwaukee, WI.[14]
• 2018 - BOLO: be on (the) lookout, JTT, New York, New York.[15]
• 2017-18 - Sable Elyse Smith: Ordinary Violence, Queens Museum, Queens, New York.[16]

Group

• 2019 - Great Force, Institute for Contemporary Art, Richmond, Richmond, VA.[17]
• 2019 - MOOD | Studio Museum Artists in Residence 2018 - 19, MoMA PS1, Long Island City, NY.
• 2019 - Colored People Time: Banal Presents, Institute of Contemporary Art, Philadelphia, Philadelphia, PA.[18]
• 2019 - Mirror/Echo/Tilt, New Museum, New York, NY.[19]
• 2017 - Trigger: Gender as a Tool and a Weapon, New Museum, New York, NY.[20]

References

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