Kiki Smith

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 the entire history of the world is in your body," Smith said. This multidisciplinary artist participates in various topics related to human condition using tattoos, paintings, sculptures, printmaking, textiles, and photographs. Born in Nuremberg, Germany on January 18, 1954, she moved to South Orange, New Jersey with her father's sculptor Tony Smith and her mother singer Jane Lawrence, who was a child. Before moving to New York in 1976, most of self-taught Smith studied at Hartford Art School for a short time. In New York, I became a member of downtown art scene including artists such as David Hammons. Jenny Holzer. She continues to live in New York, New York. Smith's work is in the collection of the Chicago Art Museum, the National Museum of Fine Arts of Washington DC, the Whitney Museum of Art in New York, the Walker Art Center in Minneapolis.

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 the entire history of the world is in your body," Smith said. This multidisciplinary artist participates in various topics related to human condition using tattoos, paintings, sculptures, printmaking, textiles, and photographs. Born in Nuremberg, Germany on January 18, 1954, she moved to South Orange, New Jersey with her father's sculptor Tony Smith and her mother singer Jane Lawrence, who was a child. Before moving to New York in 1976, Smith, a self-taught student, studied short-term at Hartford Art School. She continues to live in New York, New York.