Kiki Smith
[2023-11-17 21:26:50]
Since the 1980's, Kiki Smith (USA, Nuremberg, Germany, 1954) is known for interdisciplinary practices related to human condition and nature. She uses a wide variety of materials to develop a wide range of works such as sculpture, printmaking, photography, paintings and textiles.
Smith was the subject of many solo exhibitions around the world including exhibitions of more than 25 art museums. Her work is exhibited at five Venice Biennale including the 2017 edition. She is a member of American Academy of Literature and Academy of American Academy of Arts and Sciences and received the Royal Academy Award from the Royal University of the Arts in London in 2017. Smith was previously elected by Time magazine in 2006 as one of "Times 100: People who shape our world". Other prizes include the 2000 Skowhegan sculpture medal, the 2009 Edward McDowell medal, the 2010 Nelson A. Rockefeller award, the Academy of Arts purchase, the 2013 US State Department Arts Award, the Hillary Clinton awards, and the international sculpture There is a center. He is a part-time professor at New York University and Columbia University.
Since the 1980's, Kiki Smith (USA, Nuremberg, Germany, 1954) is known for interdisciplinary practices related to human condition and nature. She uses a wide variety of materials to develop a wide range of works such as sculpture, printmaking, photography, paintings and textiles.
Smith was the subject of many solo exhibitions around the world including exhibitions of more than 25 art museums. Her work is exhibited at five Venice Biennale including the 2017 edition. She is a member of American Academy of Literature and Academy of American Academy of Arts and Sciences and received the Royal Academy Award from the Royal University of the Arts in London in 2017. Smith was previously elected by Time magazine in 2006 as one of "Times 100: People who shape our world". Other prizes include the 2000 Skowhegan sculpture medal, the 2009 Edward McDowell medal, the 2010 Nelson A. Rockefeller award, the Academy of Arts purchase, the 2013 US State Department Arts Award, the Hillary Clinton awards, and the international sculpture There is a center. He is a part-time professor at New York University and Columbia University.
Kiki Smith was born in Nuremberg, Germany in 1954. Kiki Smith, a daughter of American sculptor Tony Smith, grew up in New Jersey. As a young girl, Smith 's first artistic experience was to help her father make cardboard models of his geometric sculptures. Coupled with her growing experience at the Catholic Church, this formal training system later appeared again in Smith's exciting sculpture, paintings and printmaking. The theme that appears repeatedly in Smith's work is the body as a container of knowledge, belief, and storytelling.
Kiki Smith was born in 1954 as an American parent in Nuremberg, Germany. Her father was a minimalist sculptor, Tony Smith, whose mother was Jane Lawrence, an American actress and opera singer who worked in Germany when Kiki was born. Her artistic pedigree also claims her grandfather is an altar painter. When Smith was a baby, her family returned to America and lived in the childhood house of her father in South Orange, New Jersey. Family friends who visited this house include Jackson Pollock, Barnet Newman, Tennessee Williams, Mark Roscoe. Art, especially contemporary art, appears at every stage of Smith 's lifetime and helps her father to make his sculpture model paper after his living room or after school. Her young twin sister Seton and Beatrice (Bebe) also followed the way to creativity. Seton is the most famous artist in her Cibachrome (now called 'Ilfochrome') picture and Bebe is an actress
Kiki Smith is a contemporary American artist known for his death, degeneracy, and images of sexuality. Smith is often fascinated by body and body fluids and often checks excrement such as blood, semen, bile, etc. in elaborate sculpture that has surreal influence. "I always think that