Mickey Smith (b. 1972 Duluth, MN USA) received a BA in Photography from Minnesota State University, Moorhead in 1994. Images from her Volume series have exhibited in New York, China and Russia. Smith has received the McKnight Artist Fellowship for Photography as well as grants from Forecast Public Art Affairs, CEC ArtsLink and the Lower Manhattan Cultural Council. She is represented by Invisible-Exports, NY.
| SOLO EXHIBITIONS |
2012 Invisible-Exports [Upcoming] 2011 Tell You What Land of Tomorrow 2010 Believe You Me Invisible-Exports Collocations Georgia College State University 2008 You People Invisible-Exports Volume Alvar Alto Library Contemporary Art in Traditional Museums PRO ARTE Institute New Collocations Center for Photography at Woodstock 2007 Forever Govern Ignorance Carleton College Gould Library New Works Kathy Dowell Art + Service 2006 BIO Minnesota Center for Photography Projects Gallery 2005 Volume Open Book Gallery In the Stacks Minnesota History Center 2004 Volume The Post Office + Public Library |
GROUP EXHIBITIONS |
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 |
| 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 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 |
| COLLECTIONS |
Center for Photography at Woodstock, Woodstock, NY Dorsey & Whitney, Minneapolis, MN Fidelity Corporate Art Collection, Boston, MA Fredrickson & Byron, Minneapolis, MN 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 University of Florida, Gainesville, FL Weisman Art Museum, Minneapolis, MN Various Private Collections |
| AWARDS + HONORS |
2010 Public Art Year in Review Project Winner 2009 LMCC Manhattan Community Arts Fund Grantee Permanent Commission Recipient, University of Florida 2008 CEC Artslink Grantee Baum Award for Emerging American Photographers [Nominee] Fulbright Research Fellowship [Finalist + Alternate] 2007 Photolucida Top 150 Critical Mass Photographer FORECAST Public Artworks Public Art Affairs Grantee Magenta Foundation’s Flash Forward [Honorable Mention] 2006 McKnight Foundation Artist Fellowship for Photography Photolucida Top 150 Critical Mass Photographer |
| RESIDENCIES |
PV Studio, Puerto Vallarta, Mexico 2010 Contemporary Art in Traditional Museums, St. Petersburg, Russia 2008 Society for Contemporary Photography, Kansas City, MO 2007 |
| BIBLIOGRAPHY |
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. |
| EDUCATION |
B.A. Photography, Moorhead State University 1994 |