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Shinique Smith

Shinique Smith is a Baltimore native who creates artwork based on consumerism and personal narrative. Her work explores graffiti culture and meshes it with Japanese calligraphy and collage. Smith’s work was recently shown in BRIGHT MATTER, a large scale survey at the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston in 2014 . Smith has also been shown at the Denver Art Museum, Denver, The Studio Museum in Harlem, The National Portrait Gallery, Washington D.C., The New Museum, New York, Deutsche Guggenheim, Berlin, PS1/MoMA, New York, MOCA North, Miami, and The Madison Museum of Contemporary Art, Wisconsin. She has received awards and fellowships from The Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation, The Joan Mitchell Foundation, The New York Foundation for the Arts, Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, and The Lower Manhattan Cultural Council.


Shinique Smith currently on view in a solo exhibition, Wonder and Rainbows at The Frist Center for the Visual Arts through January 2016.

Born 1971
Hometown Baltimore, MD
Lives and Works Hudson, NY
Education
MFA, The Maryland Institute College of Art, Baltimore, MD, 2003
MAT, Tufts University & The School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA, 2000
BFA, The Maryland Institute College of Art, Baltimore, MD, 1992
Permanent Collection

Brooklyn Museum of Art, Brooklyn, NY
Denver Art Museum, Denver, CO
The Studio Museum in Harlem, New York, NY
The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL
The Margulies Collection, Miami, FL
The Rubell Family Collection, Miami, FL

Representing Galleries

David Castillo Gallery, Miami

Brand New Gallery, Milan, Italy

Galerie Zidoun, Luxembourg

Articles

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