Kiki Smith Art
American, b. 1954
Born in Germany in 1954, the daughter of minimalist sculptor Tony Smith, Kiki Smith was raised in the United States and has earned international status as one of the most significant artists of her time. She was chiefly influenced by Louise Bourgeois, Eva Hesse and Lee Bontecou. While she is best known for her often dissected, anatomical sculptures, she has also produced a body of innovative printed art.
Some of the major themes that Smith explores in her printed works include physiology, self-portraiture, nature, and female iconography. While her work in both mediums share a common psychological quality, she advances beyond the strict biological emphasis in her sculpture by including images such as snowflakes and butterflies in her prints.
Smith’s work has been featured at five Venice Biennales and she has had several major solo museum shows.Smith’s work is in several major museum collections, including the Museum of Modern Art, New York; Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; the Walker Art Center, Minneapolis; Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York; The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York; and the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles. She is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. In 2017, she was made an Honorary Royal Academician by the Royal Academy of Arts, London. In 2000 she was awarded the Skowhegan Medal for Sculpture and in 2009 the Edward MacDowell Medal. She also received the 2010 Nelson A. Rockefeller Award, 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, to name just a few. Smith is an adjunct professor at NYU and Columbia University and lives and works in New York.(Biography provided by Marlborough New York)
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Artist: Kiki Smith
Kiki Smith "Noon 2007" Engraving Portrait Musician Ryan Bingham
By Kiki Smith
Located in Detroit, MI
" Noon 2007" Portrait of Musician Ryan Bingham engraving by Kiki Smith of a young man looking directly at the viewer. His look is not one of challenge, but more of a questioning nature. It is numbered on verso 28/33, and dated 2007.
Kiki Smith (1954 - ) is a West German-born American artist. Her work encompasses many themes: sex, birth, regeneration and death along with personal investigation of her life and those of her family. Her figurative work of the late 1980s and early 1990s confronted subjects such as AIDS and gender. Her recent works have depicted the human condition in relationship to nature. Smith lives and works in New York City and the Hudson Valley, New York State.
Her father was sculpture artist, Tony Smith and her mother was actress and opera singer Jane Lawrence. Although Kiki's work takes a very different form than that of her parents, early exposure to her father's process of making geometric sculptures allowed her to experience formal craftsmanship firsthand.
Smith was enrolled at Hartford Art School in Connecticut for eighteen months from 1974 to 1975, then moved to New York City in 1976 and joined Collaborative Projects (Colab), an artist collective. The influence of this radical group's use of unconventional materials can be in seen in her work. For a short time in 1984, she studied to be an emergency medical technician and sculpted body parts, and by 1990, she began to craft human figures.
In addition to print making Kiki Smith has created in a number of different mediums such as film, sculpture, tapestries, books and the confines of commissions.
She experimented in a wide range of printmaking processes. Some of her earliest print works were screen-printed dresses, scarves and shirts, often with images of body parts. In association with Colab, Smith printed an array of posters in the early 1980s containing political statements or announcing Colab events. In 1988 she created "All Souls”, a fifteen-foot screen-print work featuring repetitive images of a fetus, an image Smith found in a Japanese anatomy book...
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Early 2000s American Modern Kiki Smith Art
Materials
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Club
By Kiki Smith
Located in Palm Desert, CA
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Late 20th Century Abstract Kiki Smith Art
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Chimera in Prayer - Sculptures by Kiki Smith - 2004
By Kiki Smith
Located in Roma, IT
Chimera in prayer is a contemporary artwork realized by Kiki Smith in 2004.
Original sculpture in porcelain and biscuit.
Provenance Lorcan O’Neil Roma Gallery.
Authenticity cert...
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Early 2000s Contemporary Kiki Smith Art
Materials
Porcelain
Kiki Smith Collage/Lithograph Various Flying Creatures "moth" Signed Dated
By Kiki Smith
Located in Detroit, MI
A collage lithograph from her series Various Flying Creatures by Kiki Smith titled: "moth." Smith has used one of her animal/insect iconic figures f...
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1990s American Modern Kiki Smith Art
Materials
Paper, Lithograph
Kiki Smith Lithograph/Collage Various Flying Creatures "bee" Signed Dated
By Kiki Smith
Located in Detroit, MI
A collage lithograph from her series Various Flying Creatures by Kiki Smith titled: "bee." Smith has used one of her animal/insect iconic figures for this glassine paper and wove pap...
Category
1990s American Modern Kiki Smith Art
Materials
Lithograph, Paper
Kiki Smith Collage/Lithograph "squirrel" Flying Creatures Signed Dated
By Kiki Smith
Located in Detroit, MI
A collage lithograph from her series Various Flying Creatures by Kiki Smith titled: "squirrel." Smith has used one of her animal/insect iconic figur...
Category
1990s American Modern Kiki Smith Art
Materials
Paper, Lithograph
Kiki Smith Collage/Lithograph Various Flying Creatures "bat" Signed Dated
By Kiki Smith
Located in Detroit, MI
A collage lithograph from her series Various Flying Creatures by Kiki Smith titled: "bat." Smith has used one of her animal/insect iconic figures fo...
Category
1990s American Modern Kiki Smith Art
Materials
Paper, Lithograph
Kiki Smith Etching "Bat" Signed Dated
By Kiki Smith
Located in Detroit, MI
An etching by Kiki Smith titled "Bat." Smith has used one of her animal/insect iconic figures for this etching on wove paper creating it close to life size and therefore causing the ...
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1990s American Modern Kiki Smith Art
Materials
Paper, Etching
Kiki Smith Lithograph/Collage Various Flying Creatures "fly" Signed Dated
By Kiki Smith
Located in Detroit, MI
A collage lithograph from her series Various Flying Creatures by Kiki Smith titled: "fly." Smith has used one of her animal/insect iconic figures for this glassine paper and wove pap...
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1990s American Modern Kiki Smith Art
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Butterfly with glitter, signed mixed media monoprint on watercolor paper, framed
By Kiki Smith
Located in New York, NY
Kiki Smith
Butterfly, 2010
Ink, glitter and screenprint on lanaquerelle watercolor paper with the artist's fingerprints
Hand signed and dated by Kiki Smith; also bears artist's uniqu...
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2010s Contemporary Kiki Smith Art
Materials
Glitter, Ink, Mixed Media, Screen
Virgin Mary Poster
By Kiki Smith
Located in New York, NY
Screenprint on handmade Napalese paper. Edition of 3000. Printed by Universität für angewandte Kunst, Vienna. Published by MAK Galerie, Österreichisches Museum für angewandte Kunst, ...
Category
1990s Contemporary Kiki Smith Art
Materials
Handmade Paper, Screen
Tiger Moth
By Kiki Smith
Located in New York, NY
Kiki Smith
Tiger Moth, 2020
Ink and colored pencil on Twin Rocker hand made paper with deckled edges
Pencil signed and dated by Kiki Smith on the front
Frame Included; elegantly floa...
Category
2010s Contemporary Kiki Smith Art
Materials
Handmade Paper, Ink, Color Pencil
Toxicology
By Kiki Smith
Located in New York, NY
Kiki Smith
Toxicology, 2009
Linotype and engraving in black, gray, and yellow on white wove paper. Printed from a magnesium engraving on Vandercook cylinder presses.
Hand signed by ...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Kiki Smith Art
Materials
Etching, Linocut
For Leslie Gore, Mo Tucker Laura Nyro and Mama Cass: What Girls Know About Grids
By Kiki Smith
Located in New York, NY
Kiki Smith
For Leslie Gore, Mo Tucker, Laura Nyro and Mama Cass: What Girls Know About Grids (signed twice), 2000
Eight etching and relief etchings on handm...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Kiki Smith Art
Materials
Mixed Media, Handmade Paper, Photographic Paper, Etching
Red Breast
By Kiki Smith
Located in New York, NY
Red Breast
2021
Signed, dated, and numbered, recto
Watercolor using rubber stamps on handmade Twinrocker paper (Edition of 200)
5.75 x 8.5 inches (14.6 x 21.6 cm)
This work is off...
Category
2010s Contemporary Kiki Smith Art
Materials
Ink, Paper, Watercolor
Kiki Smith Offset Lithograph Photograph "My Secret Business" Photo Litho Print
By Kiki Smith
Located in Surfside, FL
My Secret Business, 1992-1993
Duotone offset litho, Lithograph
Sheet measures 30.13'' x 22.5'' (76 X 56 cm). 23 1/2 × 18 in (59.7 × 45.7 cm) image.
Hand-signed by artist, Signed, da...
Category
1990s Contemporary Kiki Smith Art
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Untitled
By Kiki Smith
Located in New York, NY
Kiki Smith
'Untitled,' 1995
Woodcut with color additions by hand
31 x 21 inches
Edition 43 of 47
Signed
In 1995 five well-known American artists - Donald Baechler, Julian Lethbridge...
Category
1990s Kiki Smith Art
Materials
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Constellations
By Kiki Smith
Located in Santa Fe, NM
Constellations is a framed color lithograph, measures at 56.5 x 31.5 inches, is a small edition of 42 and printed on beautifully delicate Nepal Himalayan paper. Constellations was pr...
Category
1990s Contemporary Kiki Smith Art
Materials
Mixed Media, Lithograph
Zoom
By Kiki Smith
Located in Fairfield, CT
Represented by George Billis Gallery, NYC & LA -- Smith is one of the most widely recognized people in the art world today, and one of the most prolific artists of her generation....
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21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Kiki Smith Art
Materials
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Sun
By Kiki Smith
Located in Fairfield, CT
Represented by George Billis Gallery, NYC & LA -- Kiki Smith is one of the most widely recognized people in the art world today, and one of the most prolific artists of her generati...
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21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Kiki Smith Art
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Spark
By Kiki Smith
Located in Fairfield, CT
Represented by George Billis Gallery, NYC & LA -- Kiki Smith is one of the most widely recognized people in the art world today, and one of the most prolific artists of her generati...
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21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Kiki Smith Art
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Intaglio
Butterfly, Bat, Turtle
By Kiki Smith
Located in Kansas City, MO
Artist: Kiki Smith
Title: Butterfly, Bat, Turtle (Suite of three)
Medium: Dimensional Iris print with collage
Size: 16.5 x 15.5 x 1.25 inches (each)
Year: 2000
Edition: 18
Kiki Smit...
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Early 2000s Contemporary Kiki Smith Art
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Photographic Paper, Inkjet
Dandelions Suite
By Kiki Smith
Located in London, GB
The complete set of six mezzotints.
Each signed, dated and numbered from the edition of 24 in pencil.
Printed on mold-made Hahnemüller paper.
Published by Pace Editions, Inc., New...
Category
1990s Photorealist Kiki Smith Art
Materials
Mezzotint
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