Mickey Smith was born in Duluth, Minnesota in 1972.
Smith is a conceptual artist and photographer. She received a BA in Photography from Minnesota State University Moorhead in 1994. Works from her Volume series have exhibited throughout the United States, in Europe, China and Russia. Smiths' work is held in numerous public and private collections, including the Weisman Art Museum, Sheldon Museum of Art and Museum of Modern Art Library. Smith has received a McKnight Photography Fellowship as well as grant awards from Forecast Public Art Affairs, CEC ArtsLink and the Lower Manhattan Cultural Council. Her first major public art commission was selected as one of the 40 best permanent public art works in the United States by Americans for the Arts in 2010. Smiths' photographs have appeared in several publications including ESOPUS, Theme, The Last Magazine, GQ, and on the covers of PDNEdu and Photography Quarterly. Her artist's book, Denudation, published by Hassla, is currently part of a photobook installation exhibited in A Different Kind of Order: The ICP Triennial.
Smith lives in Auckland, New Zealand and is represented by Invisible-Exports in New York.
| SOLO EXHIBITIONS |
Denudation Invisible-Exports, New York, NY 2012 Tell You What Land of Tomorrow, Louisville, KY 2011 Believe You Me Invisible-Exports, New York, NY 2010 Collocations Georgia College State University Milledgeville, GA 2010 You People Invisible-Exports, New York, NY 2008 Volume Alvar Alto Library, Voyburg, Russia 2008 Contemporary Art in Traditional Museums PRO ARTE Institute, St. Petersburg, Russia 2008 New Collocations Center for Photography at Woodstock 2008 Forever Govern Ignorance Carleton College Gould Library, Northfield, MN 2007 New Works Kathy Dowell Art + Service, Kansas City, MO 2007 BIO Minnesota Center for Photography Projects Gallery, Minneapolis, MN 2006 Volume Open Book Gallery, Minneapolis, MN 2005 In the Stacks Minnesota History Center, St. Paul, MN 2005 Volume The Post Office + Public Library, Cooperstown, ND 2004 |
GROUP EXHIBITIONS |
2013 A Different Kind of Order: The ICP Triennial Photobook Installation International Center for Photography 50 Gifts for 50 Years Sheldon Museum of Art 2012 The Unseen Eye Blue Sky Gallery Bloodyminded The Wye 2011 Library Science Artspace Bibliomania Visual Art Center of New Jersey TINA B. Prague Contemporary Art Festival Book Report Bank of America Center 2010 Altered Appropriations Chapman Guggenheim Gallery Method + Message Sonoma State University Art Gallery Reader’s Delight McKenzie Fine Art New Language Ogilvy & Mather PQ:100 Center for Photography at Woodstock 2009 I’ve been meaning to tell you… Marty Walker Gallery Summer Reading Jen Bekman Gallery Artists Who Use Texts to Say Nice Things Aaron Krach Circulation Gallery Knustler at Booksmart Studio 2008 Unabridged Traffic Zone Center for Visual Arts 2007 Wellbound Ellen Curlee Gallery New Visual Language hpgrp gallery McKnight Fellows: New Photography MN Center of Photography Hey Hot Shot! Jen Bekman Gallery Inscribire Chandra Cerrito Contemporary The Library Show Firehouse No.13 2006 WORD Deborah Colton Gallery Midwestern Views Pingyao International Photography Festival New Works Gallery Silver Eye Center for Photography Poster Offensive Frank Stone Gallery 2005 Correspondence Jon Oulman Gallery Photocentric Biennial Minnesota Center for Photography MN Biennial: 2D II Minnesota Museum of American Art Visible Fringe Minnesota Fringe Festival 2004 Accords Frank Stone Gallery |
AWARDS + HONORS |
Public Art Year in Review Project Winner 2010 LMCC Manhattan Community Arts Fund Grantee 2009 Permanent Commission Recipient, University of Florida 2009 CEC Artslink Grantee 2008 Baum Award for Emerging American Photographers 2008 [Nominee] Fulbright Research Fellowship 2008 [Finalist + Alternate] Photolucida Top 150 Critical Mass Photographer 2007 FORECAST Public Artworks Public Art Affairs Grantee 2007 Magenta Foundation’s Flash Forward 2007 [Honorable Mention] McKnight Foundation Artist Fellowship for Photography 2006 Photolucida Top 150 Critical Mass Photographer 2006 |
RESIDENCIES |
PV Studio, Puerto Vallarta, Mexico 2010 Contemporary Art in Traditional Museums, St. Petersburg, Russia 2008 Society for Contemporary Photography, Kansas City, MO 2007 |
COLLECTIONS |
Center for Photography at Woodstock, Woodstock, NY Dorsey & Whitney, Minneapolis, MN Fidelity Corporate Art Collection, Boston, MA Fredrickson & Byron, Minneapolis, MN Johns Hopkins Children's Center, Baltimore, MD Miami-Dade Public Library, Miami, FL Minnesota Historical Society, Saint Paul, MN Northland Collection, Saint Paul, MN North Dakota Museum of Art, Grand Forks, ND Sheldon Muesum of Art, Lincoln, NE University of Florida, Gainesville, FL Weisman Art Museum, Minneapolis, MN |
EDUCATION |
BA in Photography, Moorhead State University 1994 |
BIBLIOGRAPHY |
Architecture Glass Art, Franz Mayer of Munich 2013 50 Gifts 50 Years, Sheldon Museum of Art 2013 Denudation, Hassla, essay by W.M. Hunt 2012 Blood, Trunk Books, 2012 GQ. The Book that Changed My... June 2011 Abe’s Penny. Collaboration with Lamb, John. February 2011 The Last Magazine. October 2010. THEME Magazine [Issue #23]. Dalton, Trinie. Schiller, Sara + Marc [Curators]. July 2010. Abe’s Penny NADA Special Edition. Brehm, Hannah. December 2009. ESOPUS [Issue #13]. Artist Project. October 2009. PRC Annual Juried Publication. September 2009. Habertarts.com Text Messaging. Habler, John. April 2009. Dallas Morning News. There’s something I’ve been meaning to tell you... Granberry, Michael. March 2009. Time Out St. Petersburg. Volume: Mickey Smith Project. Turkina, Olesia. December 2008. Modern Art Obsession. Mickey Smith Photography at the New Invisible-Exports Gallery. Hoeh, Mike. November 2008. New York Magazine. Photographer Mickey Smith Goes to the Library. Pearse, Emma. November 2008. Artinfo.com. Editor’s Picks. Ayers, Robert. November 2008. PDNedu [Vol. 7 Issue #1]. One To Watch. Gordon, Jessica. March 2008. American Photography 23. Selected Photographer. November 2007. MyArtSpace.com. Interview. Sherwin, Brian. October 2007. Magenta Foundation for the Arts. Flash Forward 2007. October 2007. mnartists.org. The Medium Itself. Riddle, Mason. September 2007. Flak Photo. Weekend Series. September 2007. Review Magazine. Project-in-Print. August 2007. Flak Photo. Featured Artist. February 2007. Photography Quarterly [Issue #95]. Cover Image. September 2006. mnartists.org. Money, Money, Money. O’Sullivan, Thomas. August 2005. |
ART FAIRS + BENEFITS |
Aperture Foundation Art Chicago Art Platform Los Angeles Brooklyn Academy of Music Center for Photography at Woodstock Children's Museum of Art Frankfurt Book Fair Magenta Foundation for the Arts Minnesota Center for Photography NADA Art Fair Miami& Cologne The New York Art Book Fair North Dakota Museum of Art PULSE Miami SCOPE Miami Silver Eye Center for Photography VOLTA NY The Watermill Center |