Kiki Smith American, b. 1954

Kiki Smith began making sculptures and drawings that isolated fluids, veins, skin, bones, sex organs, or hair into self-sufficient fragments. More recently, she has diversified her conceptual and technical approach to figuration, creating life-sized figures in a host of traditional and unconventional materials. Smith received the first of many one-person exhibitions in New York at Fawbush Gallery (1988).

Kiki Smith has been continuously recognized nationally and internationally for her work and contribution to art. She is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and in 2017 was awarded the title of Honorary Royal Academician by the Royal Academy of Arts, London. In 2006, Smith was recognized by TIME Magazine as one of the “TIME 100: The People Who Shape Our World.” She received the Skowhegan Medal for Sculpture in 2000, the Edward MacDowell Medal in 2009, the 2010 Nelson A. Rockefeller Award from Purchase College School of the Arts, the U.S. Department of State Medal of Arts in 2013, and the 2016 Lifetime Achievement Award from the International Sculpture Center.