Biographie / Biography
Geboren in Nürnberg, Deutschland
Born in Nuremberg, Germany
Lebt und arbeitet in New York, USA
Lives and works in New York, USA
Preise und Auszeichnungen / Awards and Distinctions
2016
Lifetime Achievement Award,
International Sculpture Centre, New York
2012
U.S. State Department Medal of Arts, given by Hillary Clinton,
2010
Theo Westenberger Women of Excellence Award,
Nelson A. Rockefeller Award, Purchase College School of the Arts,
2009
Awarded the 50th Edward MacDowell Medal,
New Hampshire, USA
2006
Medal Award from the School of the Museum of Fine Arts Boston,
TIME 100: The People Who Shape Our World,
Time Magazine
Honorary Degree from Bowdoin College,
Maine, USA
2005
Athena Award for Excellence in Printmaking,
Rhode Island School of Design (RISD), Rhode Island, USA
2000
Skowhegan Medal for Sculpture,
Einzelausstellungen (Auswahl) / Selected Solo Exhibitions
2018
Barbara Gross Galerie (upcoming)
Procession,
Haus der Kunst, Munich, Germany
2017
Kiki Smith: Breath,
Palau de La Música Ofeó Català, Barcelona, Spain
Kiki Smith: Shelter ,
Galerie Lelong, Paris, France
Kiki Smith: From the Creek,
The Thomas Cole House, Catskill, New York, USA
Kiki Smith and Paper: The Body, the Muse and the Spirit,
Oklahoma State University Museum of Art, USA
2016
Kiki and Seton Smith: A Sense of Place,
Walsh Gallery at Seton Hall University, South Orange, New Jersey
Woven Tales,
Peters Projects, Santa Fe, New Mexico
Kiki Smith and Tony Smith Masterpiece in Focus,
National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa
2015
Kiki Smith: Seed,
UNT ArtSpace Dallas, University of North Texas, Dallas, USA
Kiki Smith: Sculpture,
Church of Mary Magdalene, Alba, Italy
Kiki Smith: Each Day,
John Davis Gallery, Hudson, New York, USA
Maria Maddalena,
Chiesa di Maria Maddalena, Alba, Italy
2014
Kiki Smith,
LeeAhn Gallery, Seoul, Korea
Kiki Smith,
Galleria Continua, San Gimignano, Italy
Kiki Smith: Wonder,
Pace Gallery, 510 West 25th Street, New York, USA
Kiki Smith: Transformations,
UNT on the Square, University of North Texas, Denton, USA
2013
Musée d´Art Moderne, Saint Etienne, France
Kiki Smith: Inventions,
Pace Prints, New York, USA
Mortal,
Memorial Art Gallery of the University of Rochester, Rochester, NY, USA
Kiki Smith: Inventions,
Pace Prints, New York, USA
2012
Kiki Smith: Meravigliosa Creatura,
Fondazione Mario Merz, Torino, Italy
Kiki Smith: Moments of Clarity,
Barbara Gross Galerie, Munich, Germany
Kiki Smith: Behold,
Timothy Taylor Gallery, London, UK
Kiki Smith: By the Stream,
Galleria Raffaela Cortese, Milan, Italy
Kiki Smith‘s Chorus (organized by Art Production Fund, New York),
The Last Lot, New York, USA
Kiki Smith: Catching Shadows,
Galerie Lelong, Paris, France (cat.)
Kiki Smith,
Gund Gallery, Kenyon College, Gambier, Ohio, USA
Visionary Sugar: Works by Kiki Smith,
Neuberger Museum of Art, Purchase College, State University of New York, USA
2011
Rituals,
High Museum of Art, Atlanta
Kiki Smith,
Barbara Krakow Gallery, Boston, USA
2010
Kiki Smith: Mortal,
Galerie Lelong, Printshop, Paris, France
Kiki Smith: Color Still,
Under Museu of Contemporary Art, Colle di Val d‘Elsa, Italy
Sojourn,
Brooklyn Museum, New York, USA
Kiki Smith: Lodestar,
The Pace Gallery, New York, USA
I Myself Have Seen It: Photography in the Work of Kiki Smith,
Henry Art Gallery, Seattle, USA
2009
Kiki Smith,
Galerie Lelong, Zurich, Switzerland
2008
Kiki Smith,
Kornelia Tamm Fine Arts, Santa Fe, New Mexico, USA
Kiki Smith: The Touch of the Eye / The Look of the Hand,
Weatherspoon Art Museum, Greensboro, NC, USA
Kiki Smith: Her Memory,
Fondació Joan Miró, Barcelona, Spain
Kiki Smith: Her Home,
Kunsthalle Nürnberg, Germany
›Her Home‹,
Haus Lange, Krefeld, Germany
2007
Kiki Smith: A Gathering, 1980-2005,
Whitney Museum, New York , USA
Kiki Smith: Constellation,
Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, USA
2006
Kiki Smith: A Gathering, 1980-2005,
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art; travelling to Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, USA
Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston, USA
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, USA
The Forest: Politics, Poetics, and Practice,
Nasher Museum of Art, Duke University, Durham, NC, UK
2005
Kiki Smith, Homespun Tales, Storie di occupazione domestica,
Fondazione Querini Stampalia, Venice, Italy
Kiki Smith: Bronze Relief and Drawings,
Barbara Gross Galerie, Munich, Germany
2004
Kiki Smith: Prints, Books & Things,
The Museum of Modern Art, Queens, New York, USA
2003
Kiki Smith: Homework,
The Fabric Workshop and Museum, Philadelphia, USA
2001
Kiki Smith: Telling Tales,
International Center of Photography, New York,USA
Kiki Smith: small sculptures and large drawings,
Ulmer Museum, Ulm, Germany
2000
My Nature: Works with paper by Kiki Smith,
St. Louis Art Museum, St. Louis,USA
1998
Kiki Smith,
The Mattress Factory, Pittsburgh, USA
Kiki Smith: : All Creatures Great and Small,
Kestner Gesellschaft, Hannover, Germany
Concentrations 20,
Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas, USA
1998
Constellation,
Barbara Gross Galerie Munich, Germany
1996
Kiki Smith: Works 1988-1995,
St. Petri Kuratorium, Lübeck, Germany
1996
Kiki Smith,
The Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, Montreal, Canada
1995
Whitechapel Gallery, London; Galerie Rudolfinum, Prag, Czech Republic
1994
Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Humblebaek, Denmark
The Israel Museum, Jerusalem, Israel
1993
Kiki Smith,
Barbara Gross Galerie München, Germany
1992
Kiki Smith: Silent Work,
MAK- Vienna, Austria
Moderna Museet, Stockholm, Sweden
Bonner Kunstverein, Bonn, Germany
1991
Projects 24: Kiki Smith,
The Museum of Modern Art, New York, USA
Gruppenausstellungen (Auswahl) / Selected Group Exhibitions
2017
Stars ,
Lentos Kunstmuseum Linz, Austria
58 Snake Road Exhibition,
58 Snake Road, Catskill, New York, USA
New York Silver, Then and Now,
Museum of the City of New York, USA
Dreamers Awake ,
White Cube, London, United States
VOICE = SURVIVAL ,
The 8th Floor, New York, USA
Viva Arte Viva,
54th International Art Exhibition, Venice Biennale, Italy
The American Dream: Pop to the Present ,
British Museum, London, United Kingdom
Entangled: Threads & Making ,
Turner Contemporary, Kent, United Kingdom
The Human Form,
Berggruen Gallery, San Francisco, USA
2016
Glass,
Pace Gallery, New York, USA
Talking on Paper,
Pace Beijing, China
Medicine In Art,
Museum of Contemporary Art in Kraków, Poland
Wuzhen International Contemporary Art Invitational Exhibition,
Wuzhen, China
The Nest: An Exhibition of Art in Nature ,
Katonah Museum of Art, New York, USA
Revealed Terrain: The Semantics of Landscape ,
Center for Book Arts, New York, USA
The nest, an exhibition of art in nature,
KMA: The Katonah Museum of Art, Katonah, New York, USA
"Utopias. Heteropias" Wuzhen International Contemporary Art,
Wuzhen, China
Language of the Birds: Occult and Art,
NYU Steinhardt, New York, USA
Going Home: 43 Fifth Avenue,
Bortolami Gallery, New York, USA
40 Years: Part 2: Gender, Race, Identity,
Rhona Hoffman Gallery, Chicago, USA
The Christa Project: Manifesting Divine Bodies,
Cathedral Church of St. John the Divine, New York, USA
The 105th Annual Exhibition of Contemporary Art: Threatening Beauty,
Maier Museum of Art at Randolph College, Lynchburg, Virginia, USA
Her Crowd: New Art by Women from Our Neighbors’ Private Collections ,
Bruce Museum, Greenwich, Connecticut, USA
Bird in the Hand,
Gail Severn Gallery, Ketchum
Greater New York,
MoMA PS1, New York, USA
2015
A Secret Affair: Selections from the Fuhrman Family Collection,
Flag Art Museum, New York, USA
Vienna for Art’s Sake,
Winterpalais, Vienna, Austria
Rites of Spring: 2015 Long House Season Opening,
Long House, East Hampton, New York, USA
America is Hard to See,
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, USA
River Crossings: Contemporary Art Comes Home,
Thomas Cole National Historic Site and Olana State Historic Site, Hudson Valley, USA
Bodies Burning at the Edges,
Leroy Neiman Gallery, Columbia University, New York, USA
Rabenmütter. Zwischen Kraft und Krise: Mütterbilder von 1900 bis heute,
Lentos Kunstmuseum Linz, Germany
Summer Group Show,
Pace Gallery. 534 West 25th Street, New York, USA
Imprint/In Print,
Johnson Museum of Art, Cornell University, New York, USA
Flaesh,
Galerie Rudolfinum, Prague, Czech Republic
Beastly Beauty,
New York Academy of Art, USA
About Face: The Self-Portrait in Contemporary Art,
Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, USA
2014
This secret world that exists right there in public,
Rampa Gallery, Istanbul, Turkey
Sleeping Beauty,
Hiroshima City Museum of Contemporary Art, Japan
A Secret Affair: Selections from the Fuhrman Family Collection (Catalogue),
The Contemporary Austin, USA
No City is an Island,
Lodge Gallery, New York, USA
Multi Panel,
Pace/MacGill Gallery, New York, USA
One Another: Spiderlike, I Spin Mirrors,
Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, USA
Grounded,
Pace Gallery. 534 West 25th Street, New York, USA
The Age of Small Things,
Dodge Gallery, New York, USA
DRAW: Mapping Madness at Inside Out Art Museum,
Inside Out Museum, Beijing, China
A Brief History of Pace,
Pace Gallery. 534 West 25th Street, New York, USA
Beyond Classical: Imagining the Ideal Across Time,
National Academy of Design, New York, USA
Performance: Contemporary Photography from the Douglas Nielsen Collection,
Center for Creative Photography, University of Arizona, Tucson, USA
Three Artists at the Dr. Oliver Bronson House,
Hudson Correctional Facility, Hudson, New York, USA
Universal Limited Art Editions: Books,
Hiram Butler Gallery, Houston, USA
2013
It's New / It's Now: Recent Gifts of Contemporary Prints and Drawings,
Minneapolis Institute of Arts, Minneapolis, USA
Beyond Belief: 100 Years of the Spiritual in Modern Art,
Contemporary Jewish Museum, San Francisco, USA
Les Papesses,
Collection Lambert, Avignon, France
Frauen – Liebe und Leben,
Lehmbruck Museum, Duisburg, Germany (cat.)
Waiting Time: Selection from the Museum’s Collections,
Musée départemental d'art contemporain de Rochechouart, France
The Moment for Ink,
Chinese Culture Center of San Francisco, USA
NYC 1993: Experimental Jet Set, Trash and No Star,
New Museum, New York, USA
Legacy: The Emily Fisher Landau Collection,
Norton Museum of Art, West Palm Beach, Florida, USA
Midnight Party,
Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN, USA
Recent Acquisitions: American Art from the Johns Collection,
Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., USA
Come Together: Surviving Sandy, Year 1,
Industry City, Sunset Park, Brooklyn, NY, USA
Its Surreal Thing: The Temptation of Objects (Catalogue),
Sheldon Museum of Art at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, USA
Being,
Storefront for Art and Architecture, New York, USA
Fiber Visions: Hangzhou Triennial 2013,
Zhejiang Art Museum, Hangzhou, China
Yes, No, Maybe: Artists Working at Crown Point Press,
National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C., USA
Witches and Wicked Bodies,
The Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art, Edinburgh, UK
Nur Skulptur!,
Kunsthalle Mannheim, Mannheim, Germany
reines privatvergnügen,
[dst.galerie], Münster, Germany
2012
Kiki Smith, Seton Smith, Tony Smith,
Kunsthalle Bielefeld, Bielefeld, Germany
Alice im Wunderland der Kunst,
Kunsthalle Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany
Postcards from the edge. 14th annual,
Cheim & Read Gallery, New York, USA
From Death to Death and Other Small Tales: Masterpieces from the Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art and the D.Daskalopoulos Collection,
Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art, Edinburgh, Scotland
The Female Gaze: Women Artists Making Their World,
Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia, USA (cat.)
Atlantic: Wonder,
Atlantic City, New Jersey, USA (Curated by Lance Fung)
Visual Conversations: Selections from the Collection,
Fisher Landau Center for Art, Long Island City, New York, USA
10th Anniversary Show,
Russell Bowman Art Advisory, Chicago, USA
2011
Natur. Sammlung der Altana Kunststiftung,
Karl Ernst Osthaus-Museum, Hagen, Germany
Memories of the Future: The Olbricht Collection,
La Maison Rouge, Paris, France
9. Frieze Art Fair 2011,
London, UK
The Luminous Interval,
Guggenheim, Bilbao, Spain
Paradise Lost,
Istanbul Modern, Istanbul, Turkey
2010
Lebenslust und Totentanz,
Kunsthalle Krems, Krems, Austria
Keeping It Real - Act 1,
Whitechapel Art Gallery, London, UK
An die Natur,
Langen Foundation, Neuss, Germany
Pictures by Women: A History of Modern Photography,
Museum of Modern Art, New York, USA
Eröffnung in Neuen Räumen,
Barbara Gross Galerie, Munich, Germany
Elles@centrepompidou: Artistes femmes dans les collections du Centre Pompidou,
Centre national d'art et de culture Georges Pompidou, Paris, France
Pictures by Women: A History of Modern Photography,
MOMA, New York, USA
Philagrafika 2010: The Graphic Unconscious,
Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, Philadelphia USA
LEBENSZEICHEN - Altes Wissen in der zeitgenössischen Kunst,
Kunstmuseum Luzern, Switzerland
Strictly Death: Selected Works from the Richard Harris Collection,
Slought Foundation, Philadelphia, USA
2009
(Des) Accords Communs,
FRAC, Haute Normandie, Sotteville-lés-Rouen, France
Six Artists,
John Berggruen Gallery, San Francisco, USA
Kiki Smith/Nancy Spero/Nalili Malni,
Estiarte, Madrid, Spain
2008
The Puppet Show
,
ICA Philadelphia, USA
ZEICHNUNGEN,
Barbara Gross Galerie, München, Germany
2007
Traum und Trauma,
Kunsthalle Wien, Vienna, Austria
Kiss Kiss, Bang Bang,
45 years of art and feminism, Museo de Bellas Artes Bilbao, Bilbao, Spain
2006
INTO ME / OUT OF ME,
P.S.1 MoMA, Long Island, New York, USA
Kiki Smith (Group Exhibition at The American Academy of Arts and Letters),
American Academy of Arts and Letters, New York, USA
2005
Contemporary Voices: Works from the UBS Art Collection,
The Museum of Modern Art, New York, USA, travelled to: The Fondation Beyeler, Basel, Switzerland
Two by Two for AIDS and Art,
Dallas Museum of Art, Texas, USA
Exhibition of Work by Newly Elected Members and Recipients of A kind of magic,
Kunstmuseum Luzern, Switzerland
Honors and Awards,
The American of Arts and Letters, New York, USA
The Giving Person,
Palazzo delle Arti Napoli, Palazzo Roccella, Napoli, Italy
The Forest: Politics, Poetics, and Practice,
Nasher Museum of Art, Duke University, Durham, North Carolina, USA
2004
East Village USA,
New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York, USA
Noah’s Ark,
National Gallery of Canada at La Cité de l’énergie, Shawinigan, Ontario, Canada
Andata e ritorno, Artiste contemporanee tra Europa e USA,
Palazzo Bonacossi, Ferrara, Italy
Bodily Space: Works from the Permanent Collection,
Albright Knox Gallery, Buffalo, USA
Art of the 1990s from the Logan Collection,
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, USA
Otherworlds: The Art of Nancy Spero and Kiki Smith,
Baltic The Centre for Contemporary Art, Gateshead, UK
Making the Body in Contemporary Sculpture,
Allen Memorial Art Museum, Oberlin College, Ohio, USA
Carpe Diem Press, Oaxaca: James Brown, Dan McCleary, George Moore, Kiki Smith and Rob Wynne,
Texas Gallery, Houston, USA
BIRDSPACE: A Post-Audubon Artists Aviary,
Contemporary Arts Center, New Orleans, USA. Traveled.
East Village USA,
New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York, USA
2003
Warum! Bilder diesseits und jensseits des Menschen,
Martin-Gropius-Bau, Berlin, Germany
Private Öffentlichkeit,
Galerie im Museum Folkwang, Essen, Germany
2002
Der Akt in der Kunst des 20. Jahrhunderts,
Kunsthalle in Emden, Emden, Germany
Sammlung Goetz,
Museum Villa Stuck, München, Germany
2001
Voici Cent Ans d ́art Contemporain,
Société des Expositions du Palais des Beaux-Arts, Brüssel, Belgium
2000
Das Fünfte Element - Geld oder Kunst,
Städtische Kunsthalle Düsseldorf, Düsseldorf,Germany
Zeitwenden – Rückblick und Ausblick,
Kunstmuseum, Bonn, Germany
1999
Cosmos: From Romanticism to Avant-garde,
Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, Canada; Centre de Cultura Contemporania, Barcelona, Spain; Palazzo Grassi, Venedig, Italy
The American Century: Art and Culture 1950-2000,
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, USA
Schöpfung, Zeitgenössische Kunst an historischen Orten,
Karmeliten-Kirche, München, Germany; Diözesianmuseum Freising, Germany
1997
Museum of Art, Tokio, Japan
1996
Young Americans: New American Art in the Saatchi Collection, Part 2,
Saatchi Gallery, London, England
1995
The Material Imagination,
Guggenheim Museum Soho, New York
1994
Cocido y Crudo,
Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia, Madrid, Spain
Selected Works and Projects (Part 1),
Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin, Ireland
1993
Aperto,
Venice Biennal, Venedig, Italy
The Whitney Biennal,
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York
PROSPECT 93,
Frankfurter Kunstverein, Frankfurt, Germany
1992
Deichtorhallen Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany
1991
Body, Legs, Head... and Special Parts,
Westfälischer Kunstverein, Münster, Germany
The Whitney Bienn,
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York
1989
Projects and Portofolios,
The Brooklyn Museum, New York, USA
1984
Modern Masks,
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, USA
Sammlungen (Auswahl) / Collections (Selection)
The Stuart Collection, University of California, San Diego, USA
Tate, London, UK
ToledoMuseum of Art, Ohio, USA
Victoria and Albert Museum, London, UK
Akron Art Museum, Ohio, USA
Albright-KnoxArtGallery, Buffalo, New York, USA
AllenMemorialArt Museum, Oberlin College, Ohio, USA
Art in Embassies, U.S. Department of State, Washington, D.C., USA
Art Institute of Chicago, Illinois, USA
BallStateUniversityMuseum of Art, Muncie, Indiana, USA
Bonner Kunstverein, Bonn, Germany
Brooklyn Museum of Art, New York, USA
Cincinnati Art Museum, Ohio, USA
Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond, Virginia, USA
ClevelandMuseum of Art, Ohio, USA
ColbyCollegeMuseum of Art, Waterville, Maine, USA
ContemporaryArt Museum, Honolulu, Hawaii
Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., USA
Davidson College, North Carolina, USA
Denver Art Museum, Colorado, USA
Des Moines Art Center, Iowa, USA
Detroit Institute of Arts, Michigan, USA
Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, de Young Museum, San Francisco, USA
Fogg Art Museum, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA
Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art, Hartford, Connecticut, USA
Frederik Meijer Gardens and Sculpture Park, Grand Rapids, Michigan, USA
High Museum of Art, Atlanta, USA
The Hood Museum of Art, Hanover, New Hampshire, USA
Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin, Ireland
IsraelMuseum, Jerusalem, Israel
LaM, Lille Métropole Musée d'art moderne, d'art contemporain et d'art brut,
Villeneuve-d'Ascq, France
Los Angeles County Museum of Art, California, USA
Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Humlebæk, Denmark
McNayArt Museum, San Antonio, Texas, USA
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, USA
Weatherspoon Art Museum, University of North Carolina at Greensboro, Greensboro, USA
Miami Art Museum, Florida, USA
Milwaukee Art Museum, Wisconsin, USA
Moderna Museet, Stockholm, Sweden
Musée départemental d'art contemporain de Rochechouart, France
Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, USA
Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego, USA
Museum at Eldridge Street, New York, USA
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, USA
Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, USA
The Museum of ModernArt, New York, USA
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, USA
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., USA
National Museum of Art, Osaka, Japan
New York Public Library, New York, USA
Newark Museum, New Jersey, USA
PennsylvaniaAcademy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia, USA
Princeton University Art Museum, New Jersey, USA
Saint Louis Art Museum, Missouri, USA
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, California, USA
Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, USA
J.B.SpeedArt Museum, Louisville, Kentucky, USA
YaleUniversityArtGallery, New Haven, Connecticut, USA
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