Sable Elyse Smith

Bio

Sable Elyse Smith is an interdisciplinary artist, writer, and educator based in New York. Using video, sculpture, photography, and text, she points to the carceral, the personal, the political, and the quotidian to speak about a violence that is often unseen, and potentially imperceptible otherwise. Her work has been featured at MoMA Ps1, New Museum, the Whitney Museum, The Studio Museum in Harlem, JTT gallery, the Venice Bienniale, and numerous others. Smith has received awards from Creative Capital, Fine Arts Work Center, the Queens Museum, Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, Rema Hort Mann Foundation, the Franklin Furnace Fund, the Joan Mitchell Fellowship, Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation, and Art Matters. She is currently Assistant Professor of Visual Art at Columbia University. Smith’s first solo show at Regen Projects, Fair Grounds, presents a series of two new sculptures and several “coloring book” paintings.