Shinique Smith
Birdhouse of My Soul, 2011 (left). Ink, acrylic, fabric, and collage on canvas diptych, 91 x 60 x 3 1/2 inches and 91 x 60 x 2 inches. Angel, 2011 (right). Clothing, fabric, dye, ribbon, and rope, 66 x 51 x 51 inches
There Were Saturday Afternoons, 2013. Installation at the Birmingham Museum of Art, mixed media,
144 x 120 x 120 inches. Photo Sean Pathasema
BIOGRAPHY
Born: Baltimore, Maryland, 1971
Resides: Stone Ridge, New York
Education: Maryland Institute College of Art (M.F.A.,
2003; B.F.A., 1992); Tufts University and School of the
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (M.A.T., 2000)
Selected Solo Exhibitions
2014
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston.
"Arcadian Clusters," Eli and Edythe Broad Art Museum,
Michigan State University, East Lansing.
2013
"Kaleidoscopic," David Castillo Gallery, Miami.
"Bold as Love," James Cohan Gallery, New York.
"Firsthand," Los Angeles County Museum of Art.
2011
"To the Ocean of Everyone Else," Brand New Gallery, Milan.
"New Degree of Love," Galerie Zidoun, Luxembourg.
SCAD Museum of Art, Savannah, Georgia.
"Urban Pastoral," SCAD Museum of Art, Savannah, Georgia.
2010
"Every Brick," SECCA, Winston-Salem, North Carolina.
"Menagerie," Museum of Contemporary Art, North
Miami. Traveled to the Museum of Contemporary Art,
Madison, Wisconsin. Catalogue.
"No Words," Yvon Lambert, Paris.
2009
"10 x Myself," Yvon Lambert, New York.
"Lost & Found," Studio Museum in Harlem, New York.
Selected Group Exhibitions
2013
"Painting Outside the Lines," Contemporary Arts
Museum Houston.
"Etched in Collective History," Birmingham Art
Museum, Alabama.
"Spun: Adventures in Textiles," Denver Art Museum.
2012
"Everyday Abstract – Abstract Everyday," James Cohan
Gallery, New York.
"Flights from Wonder," Santa Barbara Contemporary
Arts Forum.
2011
"The Bearden Project," Studio Museum in Harlem,
New York. Catalogue.
"Don't Get High On Your Own Supply," David Castillo
Gallery, Miami.
"Converging Voices: Selections from the Elliot and
Kimberly Perry Collection," Texas Southern University
Museum, Houston.
"Stargazers," The Bronx Museum of the Arts. Catalogue.
2010
"At Home / Not at Home: Works from the Collection of
Martin and Rebecca Eisenberg," Hessel Museum of
Art, Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, New York.
Catalogue.
"Extended Family: Contemporary Connections,"
Brooklyn Museum.
"Embrace!" Denver Art Museum. Catalogue.
2009
"30 Seconds Off an Inch," Studio Museum in Harlem,
New York. Catalogue.
"30 Americans," Rubell Family Collection, Miami.
Traveled to the North Carolina Museum of Art, Raleigh;
Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.; Chrysler
Museum of Art, Norfolk; Milwaukee Art Museum; and
First Center for the Visual Arts. Catalogue.
2008
"Freeway Balconies," Deutsche Guggenheim, Berlin.
Catalogue.
"RECOGNIZE!" National Portrait Gallery, Washington, D.C.
"Something from Nothing," Contemporary Arts Center,
New Orleans.
2007
"Unmonumental: The Object in the 21st Century," New
Museum, New York. Catalogue.
2006
"Altered, Stitched and Gathered," MoMA PS1, Queens.
"Frequency," Studio Museum in Harlem, New York.
Catalogue.
Selected Bibliography
2014
Whitney, Kathleen. "Anonymous Exchanges:
A Conversation with Shinique Smith," Sculpture
(January/February).
2013
"50 Under 50: The Next Most Collectible Artists,"
Art+Auction (June).
2012 Smith, Roberta. "Like Watching Paint Thrive," The New
York Times (June 29).
Hansell, Sally. "Shinique Smith Fabric into Form,"
Surface Design Journal (Spring).
2011
Rosenberg, Karen. "Bundles of Energy: Shinique Smith
Gives Castoffs a Second Life as Fine Art," O Magazine
(April).
2010
Ausin, Tom. "Her Body of Work: Shinique Smith Shines
in Solo Show at MOCA," Miami Herald (October 3).
Cashdan, Marina. "Care Bears and My Little Pony:
Shinique Smith's Brooklyn Treasure Trove," The
Huffington Post (September 14).
Walleston, Aimee. "Vested Histories: Shinique Smith,"
ArtInAmerica.com (August 30).
Sudalnik, Alex. "Shinique Smith: Bound Together,"
FiberARTS (January/February).
Pollack, Barbara. "Clothes Connections," ARTnews
(January).
2009
Rosenberg, Karen. "Shinique Smith: Ten Times Myself,"
The New York Times (June 5).