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Kiki Smith (born January 18, 1954) is a West German-born American artist whose work has addressed the themes of sex, birth and regeneration. Her figurative work of the late 1980s and early 1990s confronted subjects such as
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and
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, while recent works have depicted the human condition in relationship to nature. Smith lives and works in the
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, New York City, and the
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,
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.


Early life and education

Smith's father was artist Tony Smith and her mother was actress and opera singer
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. Although Kiki's 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 formal craftsmanship firsthand. Her childhood experience in the Catholic Church, combined with a fascination for the human body, shaped her work conceptually. Smith moved from Germany to
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, as an infant in 1955. She subsequently attended
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, but left to attend Changes, Inc. Later, she was enrolled at
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in Connecticut for eighteen months from 1974 to 1975. She then moved to New York City in 1976 and joined Collaborative Projects (
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), an artist collective. The influence of this radical group's use of unconventional materials can be in seen in her work. For a short time in 1984, she studied to be an emergency medical technician and sculpted body parts, and by 1990, she began to craft human figures.


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).


Film

In 1984 Smith finished a definitively unfinished feminist no wave super8 film, begun in 1981, entitled '' Cave Girls''. 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
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, Smith printed an array of posters in the early 1980s containing political statements or announcing Colab events. In 1988 she created "All Souls", 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.
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and the
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both have extensive collections of Smith's prints. In the "Blue Prints" series, 1999, Kiki Smith experimented with the aquatint process. The "Virgin with Dove" was achieved with an airbrushed aquatint, an acid resist that protects the copper plate. When printed, this technique results in a halo around the Virgin Mary and Holy Spirit.


Sculpture

''Mary Magdelene'' (1994), a sculpture made of silicon bronze and forged steel, is an example of Smith's non-traditional use of the
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. The figure is without skin everywhere but her face, breasts and the area surrounding her navel. She wears a chain around her ankle; her face is relatively undetailed and is turned upwards. Smith has said that when making ''Mary Magdalene'' she was inspired by depictions of
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in Southern German sculpture, where she was depicted as a "wild woman". Smith's sculpture "Standing" (1998), featuring a female figure standing atop the trunk of a Eucalyptus tree, is a part of the Stuart Collection of public art on the campus of the
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. Another sculpture, Lilith, a bronze with glass eyes is on display at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Lilith is an arresting figure, hanging upside down on a wall of the gallery. In 2005, Smith's installation, Homespun Tales won acclaim at the 51st
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. ''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
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. 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
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located on New York's Lower East Side. This permanent commission marked the final significant component of the Museum's 20-year restorationKiki Smith: Lodestar, April 30–June 19, 2010
, PaceGallery.com; accessed April 1, 2015.
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''. For the Claire Tow Theater above the
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, Smith conceived ''Overture'' (2012), a little mobile made of cross-hatched planks and cast-bronze birds. In 2019, Smith conceived Memory, a site specific installation for the DESTE Foundation for Contemporary Art on the Greek island of Hydra.


Artist books

She has created unique books, including: ''Fountainhead'' (1991); ''The Vitreous Body'' (2001); and ''Untitled'' (
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) (1986).


Tapestries

Since the early 2010s Smith has created twelve 9 x 6 ft.
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tapestries, published by
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. In 2012, Smith showed a series of three of these woven editions at the
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. In early 2019, all twelve were exhibited together as part of "What I saw on the road" at the
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in Florence, Italy. Smith notes that the tapestries provide an opportunity to work at a larger scale ("I never thought I could make a picture so big") and to work with color, which she does not frequently do otherwise.


Collaborations

Smith collaborated with poet
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to produce ''Endocrinology'' (1997), and ''Concordance'' (2006), and with author
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to create ''Madame Realism'' (1984). She has worked with poet
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on ''If I Could Say This With My Body, Would I. I Would''. Smith also collaborated on a performance featuring choreographer Douglas Dunn and Dancers, musicians Ha-Yang Kim, Daniel Carter, Ambrose Bye, and Devin Brahja Waldman, performed by and set to Anne Waldman's poem Jaguar Harmonics. Smith co-directed with Ellen Cooper a collaboration with a group of young women associated with
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on her 1984 No Wave underground film '' Cave Girls''.


Exhibitions

In 1980, Smith participated in the
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organized exhibition ''
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''. In 1982, Smith received her first solo exhibition, "Life Wants to Live", at
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.Kiki Smith: Realms, March 14–April 27, 2002
, PaceGallery.com; accessed April 1, 2015.
Since then, her work has been exhibited in nearly 150 solo exhibitions at museums and galleries worldwide and has been featured in hundreds of significant group exhibitions, including the
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, New York (1991, 1993, 2002); La Biennale di Firenze, Florence, Italy (1996-1997; 1998); and the
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(1993, 1999, 2005, 2009). Past solo exhibitions have been held at the
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and the Modern Art Museum, Fort Worth (1996–97);
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, Los Angeles (1996–97);
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, Dublin (1997–98);
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, Washington, DC (1998);
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, Pittsburgh (1998);
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,
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, Annandale-on-Hudson (1999);
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(1999-2000); and the
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(2001). In 1996, Smith exhibited in a group show at
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, along with
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. In 2005, "the artist's first full-scale American museum survey" titled ''Kiki Smith: A Gathering, 1980-2005'' debuted at the
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. Then an expansion came to the
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in Minneapolis where the show originated. At the Walker, Smith coauthored the
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with curator
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. The exhibition traveled to the
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, to the
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in New York, and finally to La Coleccion Jumex in
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outside Mexico City. In 2008, Smith gave ''Selections from Animal Skulls'' (1995) to the Walker in honor of Engberg. 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.'' Smith participated in the 2017
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, ''Viva Arte Viva'', from May 13 - November 16, 2017. In 2018, Smith took part in Frieze Sculpture (part of
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, where her work ''Seer (Alice I)'',
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, was presented in Regent's Park, London, England, from July 4 - October 7, 2018. Also in London in 2018, an exhibition of Smith's tapestries, sculpture and works on paper was presented at the
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from September 13 – October 27. ''Woodland'' was produced in collaboration with
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. In 2019, the DESTE Foundation's Project Space at the Slaughterhouse on Hydra island featured ''Memory'', a site specific exhibition. In 2019 The 11 Conti –
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presented the first solo show of Smith by a French public institution. In 2019 the
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in Vienna, Austria, presented a solo show of Smith entitled "Processions", presenting about sixty works from the last three decades.


Recognition

Smith's many accolades also include the Nelson A. Rockefeller Award from Purchase College School of the Arts (2010), Women in the Arts Award from the
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(2009), the 50th Edward MacDowell Medal (2009), the Medal Award from the School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (2006), the Athena Award for Excellence in Printmaking from the
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(2006), the Skowhegan Medal for Sculpture from the
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, Maine (2000), and ''
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''’s “''Time'' 100: The People Who Shape Our World” (2006). Smith was elected a member of the
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, New York, in 2005. In 2012, she received the U.S. State Department Medal of Arts from
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. Pieces by Smith adorn consulates in
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and
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. After being chosen speaker for the annual Patsy R. and Raymond D. Nasher Lecture Series in Contemporary Sculpture and Criticism in 2013, Smith became the artist-in-residence for the
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Institute for the Advancement of the Arts in the 2013–14 academic year.Internationally renowned artist Kiki Smith to serve as IAA artist-in-residence at UNT for 2013-14 University of North Texas, September 27, 2013.
/ref> In 2016, Smith was awarded the
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'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.,
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Dinero: The Story of a
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Art Gallery (Collaborative Projects (
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), NY, 1985).


Footnotes


External links

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Kiki Smith
talks with
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about her ''Cave Girls'' film and The
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Cardboard Air Band at
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Kiki Smith at Barbara Gross Galerie

Biography, interviews, essays, artwork images and video clips
from
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series ''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 fro
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
with
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Kiki Smith: "Life Wants to Live" (1:33)
published at ''
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