Kiki Smith

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Born in 1954 Nuremberg, Germany. Live and works in New York City.

Kiki Smith is a multidisciplinary artist who employs tattooing, drawing, sculpture, printmaking, textiles, and photography, to engage with a range of themes that relate to the human condition, sex, birth and regeneration.

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Born in 1954 Nuremberg, Germany. Live and works in New York City.

Kiki Smith is a multidisciplinary artist who employs tattooing, drawing, sculpture, printmaking, textiles, and photography, to engage with a range of themes that relate to the human condition, sex, birth and regeneration. She is considered a pioneer in restoring the figure as acceptable subject matter in contemporary art, after years of abstraction and Minimalism had dominated the scene. She attended the Hartford Art School in Connecticut before moving to New York City in the 1980s, where she became an active member in the East Village art scene. From 1982, she has exhibited annually at the Fawbush Gallery in New York; her work received significant attention in 1990 during her exhibition for the Projects Room at the Museum of Modern Art. Today, Smith’s works are held in the collections of the Art Institute of Chicago, the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C., the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York, and the Walker Art Center in Minneapolis, among others. The artist continues to live and work in New York, NY.