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Kiki Smith

Biography

Born:

1954 Nuremburg, Germany. Lives and works in New York

Selected Solo Exhibitions:
2004 Boston, Barbara Krakow Gallery, Near
2003 "Prints, Books and Things", Queens, NY, The Museum of Modern Art, Kiki Smith:
2002 "Kiki Smith: Realms", PaceWildenstein, New York,
"Kiki Smith: Realms", Triple Candie, New York,
"Kiki Smith", Gent, Galerie Fortlaan,
"Kiki Smith: Homework", Philadelphia, The Fabric Workshop and Museum,
"Kiki Smith: Near", Paris, Galerie Lelong, travelled to Zurich, Galerie Lelong,
2001 "Kiki Smith", Montreal, Rene Blouin Gallery,
Dusseldorf, Galerie M + R Fricke,
"Portraits", New York, Pace/MacGill Gallery,
"Kiki Smith", Milan, Galleria Raffaella Cortese,
"Kiki Smith: Small Sculptures and Large Drawings", Ulm, Ulmer Museum,
"Kiki Smith: Telling Tales," New York, International Center of Photography,
"Works on Paper", Seattle, Greg Kucera Gallery,
"Recent Editions ", New York, Pace Prints
2000 “Realm” Recent Sculpture & Drawings, John Berggruen Gallery, San Francisco, CA.
1999-2000 “My Nature: Works on Paper by Kiki Smith,” St. Louis Art Museum
1999 “Kiki Smith: New Editions,” Pace Prints, New York, NY
“Kiki Smith,” Barbara Krakow Gallery, Boston
“Kiki Smith,” Indianapolis Museum of Art, Indianapolis
“Kiki Smith,” Galerie Fortlaan 17, Gent, Belgium
“Kiki Smith: Creation,” Diozesanmuseum, Freising, Germany
“Kiki Smith: ‘You are The Sunshine of My Life…” The Fruitmarket
Gallery, Edinburgh, Scotland
“Kiki Smith: Of Her Nature,” PaceWildenstein, New York
“Kiki Smith,” Wildenstein, Tokyo
1998 “Kiki Smith: Constellation,” Galerie Barbara Gross, Munich, Germany
“Kiki Smith,” Metta Galeria, Madrid, Spain
“Kiki Smith,” The Mattress Factory, Pittsburgh, PA
“Invention/Intervention: Kiki Smith and the Museum,” Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh, PA
“Reconstructing the Moon,” PaceWildenstein, New York
“Kiki Smith: All Creatures Great and Small,” Kestner Gesellschaft, Hannover, Germany
“Kiki Smith: Photographs 1997-1998,” Galerie Fricke, Berlin, Germany
1997 “Kiki Smith,” Shoshana Wayne Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
“Once I Saw a Bird,” Anthony d’Offay Gallery, London, England
“Paper Sculpture, Prints and Multiples,” Greg Kucera Gallery, Seattle, WA
“Kiki Smith: Convergence,” Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin, Ireland
1996 “Kiki Smith: Works 1988-1995,” St. Petri-Kuratorium, Lubeck, Germany
“Landscape,” Huntington Gallery, Massachusetts College of Art,
Boston, MA
“Field Operation,” PaceWildenstein, Los Angeles, CA
“Kiki Smith,” The Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, Montreal. Traveled to: Modern Art Museum, Fort Worth, TX
“Paradise Cage: Kiki Smith and Coop Himmelb(l)au,” The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA
1995 “Kiki Smith,” Whitechapel Art Gallery, London, England. Traveled to: Galerie Rudolfinum, Prage, Czecolslavakia
“Kiki Smith, Sculpture & Drawings,” Anthony d’Offay Gallery,
London, England
“New Sculpture,” PaceWildenstein, New York, NY
“Kiki Smith: Photographs,” PaceWildensteinMacGill, Los Angeles, CA. Traveled to: PaceWildensteinMacGill, New York, NY
1994 “Kiki Smith: Sojurn in Santa Barbara,” University Art Museum, Universituy of California, Santa Barbara, CA
“Kiki Smith,” Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Humlebaek, Denmark. Traveled to: Kunstnernes Hus, Oslo, Norway
“Kiki Smith,” Galerie Rene Blouin, Montreal, Canada
“Kiki Smith,” The Israel Museum, Jerusalem
“Kiki Smith,” Galerie Barbara Gross, Munich, Germany
“Kiki Smith,” Laura Carpenter Fine Art, Santa Fe, NM
“Drawings,” PaceWildenstein, New York, NY
“Kiki Smith,” The Power Plant, Toronto, Canada
“Prints and Multiples 1985-1993,” Barbara Krakow Gallery, Boston, MA. Traveled to: New Orleans Contemporary Art Center, New Orleans, LA; Olin Arts Center, Bates College Museum of Art, Lewiston, ME; David Winton Bell Gallery, Brown University, Providence, RI; The University of North Texas Art Gallery, University of North Texas, Denton, TX; Gallery of Art, University of Missouri, Kansas City, MI; Milwaukee Art Museum, Milwaukee, WI; Sordoni Art Gallery, Wilkes University, Wilkes-Barre, PA; North Dakota Museum of Art, Grand Forks, ND; Davidson College Art Gallery, Davidson, NC; University Gallery, University of Memphis, Memphis, TN; The Art Gallery, University of New Hampshire, Durham, NH; Kresge Art Museum, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI.
1993 Fawbush Gallery, New York, NY
“Kiki Smith,” Anthony d’Offay Gallery, London, England
1992 Fawbush Gallery, New York, NY
“Kiki Smith: Silent Work,” MAK – Oserreischisches Museum fur angewandte Kunst, Vienna, Austria
“Kiki Smith,” Moderna Museet, Stockholm, Sweden
“Kiki Smith,” Bonner Kunstverein, Bonn, Germany
“Kiki Smith: Sculpture and Works on Paper,” Greg Kucera Gallery, Seattle, WA
“Kiki Smith,” Galerie Fricke, Dusseldorf, Germany
“Kiki Smith: Unfolding the Body,” Rose Art Museum, Brandeis University, Waltham, MA. Traveled to: Wexner Center for the Arts, The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH
“Kiki Smith,” Shoshana Wayne Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
1991 “Kiki Smith: Matrix/Berkeley 142,” University Art Musuem, University of California, Berkeley, CA
“Tears Come,” Shoshana Wayne Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
1990 Fawbush Gallery, New York, NY
“The Periphery-Part 4,” The Institute for Art and Urban Resources, Inc. at The Clocktower, New York
“Kiki Smith,” Tyler Gallery, Tyler School of Art, Temple University, Philadelphia, PA
“Projects 24: Kiki Smith,” The Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY
“Kiki Smith,” Centre d’Art Contemporain, Geneva. Traveled to: Institute of Contemporary Art, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
1989 “Kiki Smith,” Galerie Rene Blouin, Montreal, Canada
“Kiki Smith,” Ezra and Cecile Zilkha Gallery, Center for the Arts, Weslyan University, Middletown, CT
“Concentrations 20: Kiki Smith,” Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas, TX
1988 Fawbush Gallery, New York, NY
1982 “Life Wants to Live,” The Kitchen, New York, NY

Group Exhibitions:

1997 “Terra Firma,” Art Gallery at the University of Maryland at College Park
“Art and Science,” The Mariboe Gallery at The Peddie School,
Highstown, NJ
“Surrogacy, Silhouettes, Negatives, Costumes, Impersonations, Disguises, and Substitutions,” Greg Kucera Gallery, Seattle, WA
“Identity Crisis: Self-Portraiture at the End of the Century,” Milwaukee Art Museum, Milwaukee, WI
“Proof Positive: 40 Years of Contemporary American Printmaking at ULAE: 1957-1997,” The Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C. Traveled to: Gallery of Contemporary Art, University of Colorado, Colorado Springs, CO; UCLA at the Armand Hammer Art Museum and Cultural Center, Los Angeles, CA; Sezon Museum of Art, Tokyo, Japan
1996 “The Human Body in Contemporary American Sculpture,” Gagosian Gallery, New York
“A Portrait of the Artist,” Anthony d’Offay Gallery, London, England
“Young Americans: New American Art in the Saatchi Collection – Jacqueline Humphries, Richard Prince, Tony Oursler, Charles Ray, Kiki Smith – Part 2,” Saatchi Gallery, London, England
“Selections from the Collection of Livia and Marc Straus,” Everson Museum of Art, Syracuse, NY
“Bodyscape,” Galerie Barbara Gross, Munich, Germany
“Conceal – Reveal,” Site Santa Fe, Santa Fe, NM
“ ‘La Toilette de Venus’: Women and Mirrors,” CRG, New York
“Women’s Work,” Greene Naftali, New York
“Everything That’s Interesting Is New: The Dakis Joannou Collection,” Deste Foundation for Contemporary Art, Athens. Traveled to: The Museum of Modern Art, Copenhagen, Denmark; Guggenheim Museum SoHo, New York
“New Persons/New Universe,” Biennale di Firenze, Florence, Italy
“Passionate Pursuits: Hidden Treasures of the Garden State,” The Montclair Art Museum, Montclair, NJ
1995 “Division of Labor: Women’s Work in Contemporary Art,” The Bronx Museum of the Arts, New York
“Altered States: American Art in the 90s,” Forum for Contemporary Art, St. Louis, MO
“Body as Metaphor,” Procter Art Center, Bard College, Annandale, NY
“Summer 1995,” PaceWildenstein, New York
“Summer Academy 2,” PaceWildenstein, New York
“Body, Mind, Spirit: Eight Sculptors,” Ruth Chandler Williamson Gallery, Scripps college, Claremont, CA
“Laboratoires pour une Experience du Corps: Damien Hirst, Fabrice Hybert, Kiki Smith, Patrick van Caeckenbergh,” Galerie Art et Essai, Universite Rennes, Rennes, France
“Feminimasculin: Le Sex de l’art,” Centre Georges Pompidou,
Paris, France
“In the Flesh,” Freedman Gallery, Albright College Center for the Arts, Reading, PA. Traveled to: Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art, Ridgefield, CT
“Exit Art/The First World,” 548 Broadway, New York
“The Material Imagination,” Guggenheim Museum, SoHo, New York
“Time Machine,” Museo Egizio, Turin
“Being Human,” Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA
“Art Works: The Paine Webber Collection of Contemporary Masters,” Museum of Fine Arts , Houston, TX. Traveled to: Detroit Institute of Arts, Detroit, MI; Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA; Minneapolis Institute of Arts, Minneapolis, MN; San Diego Museum of Art, San Diego, CA; Center for the Fine Arts, Miami, FL
1994 “Metamorphosis: Surrealism to Organic Abstraction 1925-1993,” Marlborough Graphics, New York
“In the Lineage of Eva Hesse,” The Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art, Ridgefield, CT
“The Ossuary,” Luhring Augustine Gallery, New York
“24,” Anthony d’Offay Gallery, London, England
“Wunderkammer,” Rena Bransten Gallery, San Francisco, CA
“World Mortality,” Kunsthalle Basel, Switzerland
“Some Went Mad…Some Ran Away,” Serpentine Gallery, London, England. Traveled to: Kunstverein Hannover, Hannover, Germany
“Selected Works and Projects (Part One),” Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin, Ireland
“The Essential Gesture,” Newport Harbor Art Museum,
Newport Beach, CA
“Miriam Cahn, Marlene Dumas, Kiki Smith, Sue Williams: Dessins,” Centre d’Art Contemporain, Geneva
“Sculpture,” Anthony d’Offay Gallery, London, England
“The Music Box Project,” Equitable Gallery, Equitable Center, NY
“Cocido y Crudo,” Museo Ncional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia, Madrid
1993 “Regarding Masculinity,” Arthur Roger Gallery, New Orleans, LA
“Aperto 1993,” Venice Biennale, Venice, Italy
“Human Factor: Figurative Sculpture Reconsidered,” Albuquerque Museum of Art, Albuquerque, NM
“1993 Biennial Exhibition,” Whitney Museum of American Art, NY
“PROSPECT 93,” Franfurter Kunstverein, Frankfurt, Germany
“Drawings,” Paula Cooper Gallery, New York
“I Am the Enunciator,” Thread Waxing Space, New York
“Women Artists,” Richard Anderson Gallery, New York
“Art on Paper,” Weatherspoon Art Gallery, University of North Carolina at Greensboro, Greensboro, NC
“Skulptur Staat Denkmal Ausstellungsprojeckt,” Galerie Fricke, Dusseldorff, Germany
1992 “Strange Developments,” Anthony d’Offay Gallery, London, England
“Post-Human,” FAE Musee d’Art Contemporain, Pully/Lausanne, Switzerland. Traveled to: Castello di Rivoli, Museo d’Arte Contmporanea, Rivoli, Italy; Deste Foundation for Contemporary Art, Athens, Greece; Deichtorhallen, Hamburg, Germany
“Desordres: Nan Goldin / Mike Kelley / Kiki Smith / Jana Sterbak / Tunga,” Galerie Nationale du Jeu de Paume, Paris
“This Is My Body, This Is My Blood,” Herter Art Gallery, University of Massachusetts, Amerherst, MA
“Excess in the Techno Mediacratic Society,” Musee de Dole, Dole, France
“Erotiques,” A.B. Galeries, Paris, France
“Painted Word/Written Image,” Greg Kucera Gallery, Seattle, WA
“Byron Kim / Kiki Smith,” A/C Project Room, New York
“In Your Face,” A/C Project Room, New York. Traveled to: Cortland Jessup Gallery, Provincetown, Massachusetts
“The Body,” Nathalie Karg Gallery, New York
“Currents 20: Recent Narrative Sculpture,” Milwaukee Art Museum, Milwaukee, WI
“Recent Acquisitions,” San Diego Museum of Art, La Jolla, CA
“Acquisitions of the 90s,” Whitney Museum of American Art, New York
“Prints,” Whitney Museum of American Art, New York
“Recent Acquisitions,” The Museum of Modern Art, New York
“Corporal Politics,” MIT List Visual Arts Center, Cambridge, MA
“Signs of Life: Rebecca Howland, Cara Perlman, Christy Rupp, and Kiki Smith,” University Gallery, Illinois State University, Normal, IL
1991 “Forbidden Games: Childhood,” Jack Tilton Gallery, New York
“Body, Legs, Heads…and Special Parts,” Westfalischer Kunstverein, Munster, Germany
“Drawings,” Brooke Alexander Gallery, New York
“Physical Relief,” Hunter College Fine Arts Gallery, Hunter College, City University of New York, New York
“Burning in Hell,” Franklin Furnace, New York
“The Interrupted Life,” The New Museum of Contemporary Art,
New York
“Drawings,” Susanne Hilberry Gallery, Birmingham, Michigan
“Body Language,” Lannan Foundation, Los Angeles, CA

“When Objects Dream and Talk in Their Sleep,” Jack Tilton Gallery,
New York
“1991 Biennial Exhibition,” Whitney Museum of American Art,”
New York
“Drawing Conclusions,” Guid Arte Gallery, New York
“Kiki Smith / Tom Dean,” Galerie Rene Blouin, Montreal, Canada
“Lick of the Eye,” Soshana Wayne Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
“The Body Electric: Zizi Raymond and Kiki Smith,” The Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
1990 Myers / Bloom Gallery, Santa Monica, California
“Portraits,” The Institute for Art and Urban Resources at P.S.I.,
Long Island City, New York
“The Body,” The Renaissance Society at the University of Chicago, IL
Simon Watson Gallery, New York
“Recent Acquisitions,” The Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
“Figuring the Body,” Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA
“Group Material: AIDS Timeline,” Wadsworth Atheneum, Hartford, CT
“The Unique Print: 70s into 90s,” Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA
“Fragments, Parts and Wholes,” White Columns, New York
“Diagnosis: Marc de Guerre / Mark Lewis / Kiki Smith / Jana Sterbak,” The Art Gallery of York University, York University, Toronto
“Selections for Fawbush Editions,” Fawbush Gallery, New York
“Witness Against Our Vanishing,” Artists Space, New York
“Stained Sheets / Holy Shrouds,” Krieger Landau Gallery, Los Angeles
“The Abortion Project,” Simon Watson Gallery, New York; traveled to: Holly Simpson Gallery, New York; Hallwalls Contemporary Arts Center, Buffalo, New York
1989 “Projects and Portfolios: The 25th National Print Exhibition,” The Brooklyn Museum, New York
Tom Cugliani Gallery, New York
“Cara Perlman and Kiki Smith,” Fawbush Gallery, New York
“New York Experimental Glass,” The Society for Art in Craft, Pittsburgh
1988 “Desire Path,” Schulman Sculpture Garden, White Plains, New York
“Committed to Print: Social and Political Themes in Recent American Printed Art,” The Museum of Modern Art, New York
“A Choice,” Kunstrai, Amsterdam
“In Bloom,” IBM Gallery, New York
“Contemporary Print Acquisitions: 1986-1988,” The Museum of Modern Art, New York
Arch Gallery, Amsterdam
1987 Fawbush Gallery, New York
“Emotope,” organized by Buro Berlin, Berlin, Germany
“Kiki Smith: Drawings,” Piezo Electric Gallery, New York
1986 “Hanno Ahrens, Maureen Conner, David Nelson, and Kiki Smith,” Art Salon, DeFacto, New York
“Donald Lipski, Matt Mullican, and Kiki Smith,” The Institute for Art and Urban Resources, Inc., at The Clocktower, New York
“Possession is Nine-tenths of the Law,” Fawbush Editions, New York
“Public and Private: American Prints Today,” The Brooklyn Museum,
New York
“Memento Mori,” Centro Cultural Arte Contemporaneo, Polanco, Mexico
“Group Invitational,” Curt Marcus Gallery, New York
1984 “Kiki Smith, Bill Taggert, and Tod Wizon,” Jack Tilton Gallery, New York
“Call and Response: Art on Central America,” Colby College Museum of Art, Colby College, Waterville, Maine
“1984: Women in New York,” Galerie Engstrom, Stockholm
“Inside/Out,” Piezo Electric Gallery, New York
“Modern Masks,” Whitney Museum of American Art, New York
“360 Kunst-Spiel,” Wuppertal, Germany
“CAYA,” Buenos Aires
“Synaesthics,” The Institute for Art and Urban Resources at P.S.I.,
Long Island City, New York
Moderna Museet, Stockholm
“Recent Acquisitions,” Cincinnati Art Museum, Cincinnati
1983 Hallwalls Contemporary Arts Center, Buffalo, New York
“Science and Prophecy,” White Columns, New York
“Emergence: New Work form the Lower East Side,” Susan Caldwell Gallery, New York
“IV Theatre,” organized by Buro Berlin, Berlin, Germany
“Island of Negative Utopia,” The Kitchen, New York
“A. More Store,” Jack Tilton Gallery, New York
1982 “Natural History,” Grace Borgenicht Gallery, New York
“Colab in Chicago, Chicago, IL
“Fashion Moda Store,” Documenta VII, Kasel, Germany
“A. More Store,” Barbara Gladstone Gallery, New York
1981 “Cave Created Chaos,” White Columns, New York
“Teu-gum Colab,” Centre d’Art Contemporain, Geneva
“Lightning,” The Institute for Art and Urban Resources at P.S.I.,
Long Island City, New York
White Columns, New York
“Group Show,” Artists Space, New York
1980 “A. More Store,” Colab, 593 Broome Street, New York
“Colab Benefit,” Brooke Alexander Gallery, New York
“Manifesto Show,” Colab, 5 Bleecker Street, New York
“Times Square Show,” Colab, Seventh Avenue and 41st Street, New York
1979 “Doctor and Dentist Show,” Colab (Collaborative Projects, Inc.), 591 Broadway, New York
“Salute to Creative Youth,” Colab, 75 Warren Street, New York

Artist Works

Lounging Legs (4), 2005
collage, ink on Nepal paper
19 1/2 x 30 inches   


Mulberry Drawing (85)
2005
pencil and blood on handmade abaca paper
21 1/4 x 17 1/2 inches   


Oh (7)
2005
collage, ink on Nepal paper
19 1/2 x 30 inches   


Ejaculating Snake
2006
ink on Nepal paper
94 1/2 x 40 inches   



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