About Kiki Smith

Kiki Smith uses a broad range of materials to continuously expand and evolve her body of work, which includes sculpture, printmaking, photography, drawing, and textiles.

Smith has been the subject of numerous solo exhibitions worldwide, including over twenty-five museum exhibitions. Her work has been featured at five Venice Biennales, including the 2017 edition. She is a member of The American Academy of Arts and Letters, and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and in 2017 she was awarded the title of Honorary Royal Academician by the Royal Academy of Arts, London. In 2006, Smith was recognized by Time Magazine as one of the “Time 100: The People Who Shape Our World”.

Other awards include the Showhegan Medal for Sculpture in 2000, the 2009 Edward MacDowell Medal, the 2010 Nelson A. Rockefeller Award from Purchase College School of the Arts, the 2013 U.S. Department of State Medal of Arts, conferred by Hillary Clinton, and the 2016 Lifetime Achievement Award from the International Sculpture Center, among others. She is an adjunct professor at NYU and Columbia University.