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Biography - Kiki Smith

Born

1954 Nuremberg, Germany. Lives in New York

Education

1972 Studies industrial banking under the Manpower Training Act, Newark, NJ.

Exhibitions

2007-2008 Museum Haus Esters, Krefeld, Germany
2006 “Kiki Smith: A Gathering, 1980-2005” A Traveling Retrospective. San Francisco MOMA, Walker Art Center Minneapolis, Contemporary Arts Museum Houston, Whitney Museum of American Art New York
“The Forest: Politics, Poetics and Practice” Nasher Museum of Art, Duke University, North Carolina
“De la comtesse De Castiglione a Cindy Sherman”, Galerie de France, Paris
“Kiki Smith: A Cautionary Tale”, John Berggruen Gallery, San Francisco, CA “The Pleasure of Your Company: Private View Cards and Invitations from the Collection”, Dean Gallery, Edinburgh, Scotland
“A Kind of Magic – The art of transforming”, Kunstmuseum Luzern, Luzern
Explorations in Bronze: Degas and New Mexico Sculptors”, Museum of Fine Arts, Sante Fe, NM
Barbara Gross Galerie, Munich
“Kiki Smith: Prints and Things”, Galerie Lelong, Paris
“Colecoes VI: 17 Foros- 18 Artistas”, Galerie Luisa Strina, Sao Paulo
“Homespun Tales: a Tale of Domestic Occupation” Fondazione Querini Stampalia, Venice Italy
2004 “”Near” Barbara Krakow Gallery, New York
“East Village USA”, New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York
“Bodily Space: Works from the Permanent Collection”, Albright-Knox ART Gallery, Buffalo, NY
“Animals”, Haunch of Venison, London
“Modern Means: Continuity and Change in Art from 1880 to the Present”, Mori Art Museum, Tokyo
Bodily Space: New Obsessions in Figurative Sculpture”, Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, NY
“How Sculptors See: Making the Body in Contemporary Sculpture”, The Allen Memorial Art Museum, Oberlin, OH
Brooke Alexander Editions, New York
2003 “Nancy Spero and Kiki Smith”, BALTIC: The Center for Contemporary Art, Gateshead, England
“Kiki Smith: Prints, Books and Things”, Museum of Modern Art, NY
“Near”, Galerie Lelong, Zurich
“Recent Acquisitions”, Barbara Mathes Gallery, New York
“Me and More”, Kunstmuseum Luzern, Luzern
Echigo-Tsumari Art Triennial 2003, Niigata-ken
“Favorites”, Galerie Krinzinger, Vienna
“From Modernism to the Contemporary, 1958-1999”, The Allen Memorial Art Museum, Oberlin, OH
2002 Whitney Biennial, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York
“The Smiths: Tony, Kiki, Seton”, The Palm Beach Institute of Contemporary Art (PBICA), Lake Worth, FL
“De kooning to Today – Highlights from the Permanent Collection”, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York
“Drawn from a Family: Contemporary Works on Paper”, Colby College Museum of Art, Waterville, ME
“Kiki Smith: Realms” Pace Wildenstein. New York
2001 “Naked since 1950”, L&M Arts, New York
“Concentrations 20”, Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas, TX
“Heart of Glass”, Queens Museum of Art, Flushing Meadows, New York
“God is in the Details”, Centre d’Art Contemporain, Geneva, Switzerland
“Eye to I: 30 Fotografen Stellen aus”, Raab Galerie, Berlin
Galerie M+R Fricke, Dusseldorf
Barbara Gross Galerie, Munich
“Kiki Smith: Telling Tales”, International Center of Photography, New York
“A Room of Their Own: From Arbus to Gober”, MOCA The Geffen Contemporary, Los Angeles
“Through the Looking Glass”, Galerie M+R Fricke, Dusseldorf
“Works on Paper”, Greg Kucera Gallery, Seattle, WA
“Kiki Smith: Small Sculptures and Large Drawings” Ulmer Museum, Germany
2000 “Import”, Irish Museum of Modern Art, IMMA, Dublin
“Through the Looking Glass”, Galerie M+R Fricke, Dusseldorf
“Kunst mit Fliege – Zeitgenossische Kunst zum Thema Fliege”, Galerie & Projekte Mathias Kampl, Berlin
“Katharina Grosse, Ana Mendieta, Kiki Smith, Remy Zaugg: Neue Arbeiten”, Barbara Gross Galerie, Munich
“Over the Edges”, Stedelijk Museum voor Actuele Kunst, Gent, Holland
“Cosmos: From Goya to De Chirico from Friedrich to Keifer”, Palazzo Grassi, Venice, Italy
“Drawing on the Figure: Works on Paper of the 1990s from the Manilow Collection”, Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago
“Realm: Recent Sculptures and Drawings”, John Berggruen Gallery, San Francisco, CA
1999 “Zeitwenden: Ruckblick und Ausblick”, Kunstmuseum Onn, Bonn
“Skin”, Deste Foundation, Centre for Contemporary Art, Athens
“Reality and Desire”, Fundacion Joan Miro, Barcelona
“The Art of Craft”, The de Young Museum, San Francisco, CA
“Kiki Smith – Martin Schwenk”, Galerie M+R Fricke, Dusseldorf
“Amerikanische Zeicchnungen”, Raab Galerie, Berlin
“Kiki Smith: Recent Photographic Work”, MIT List Visual Arts Center, Cambridge MA
“Looking at Ourselves: Works by Women Artists from the Logan Collection”, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA
“Mirror Images: Women, Surrealism, and Self-Representation”, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA
“My Nature: Works with Paper by Kiki Smith” Saint Louis Art Museum, MO
1998 “Reconstruction of the Moon”, Pace Wildenstein, New York
“Corpus Virtu”, Sean Kelly Gallery, New York
“The Patchett Collection”, Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego
“Animals as Muse”, Norton Museum of Art, West Palm Beach, FL
“Inner Self”, Mitchell Innes & Nash, Madison Av., New York
“Directions- Kiki Smith: Night” Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington D.C.
Kester-Gesellscaft, Hannover, Germany
“Invention / Intervention: Kiki Smith and the Museum”, Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh, PA
1997 “Terra Firma”, Art Gallery at the University of Maryland
“Kiki Smith”, Shoshana Wayne Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
“Kiki Smith: Convergence”, Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin, Ireland
1996 “Kiki Smith”, The Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, Montreal. Traveled to the Modern Art Museum, Fort Worth, TX
“Paradise Cage: Kiki Smith and Coop Himmelblau”, The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles
“The Human Body in Contemporary American Sculpture”
Gagosian Gallery, New York
1995 “Kiki Smith”, Whitechapel Art Gallery, London
“Kiki Smith: Sculpture and Drawings”, Anthony d’Offay Gallery, London
“New Sculpture”, Pace Wildenstein, New York
1994 “Kiki Smith: Sojourn in Santa Barbara”, University Art Museum, University of California, Santa Barbara
“Prints and Multiples 1985-1993,” Barbara Krakow Gallery, Boston
“Kiki Smith”, The Israel Museum, Jerusalem
“The Ossuary”, Luhring Augustine Gallery, New York
“Kiki Smith”, Barbara Gross Galerie, Munich
1992 “Kiki Smith: Silent Work” MAK - Oserreischisches Museum fur Angewandte Kunst, Vienna, Austria
“Kiki Smith,” Moderna Museet, Stockholm, Sweden
“Kiki Smith,” Bonner Kunstverein, Bonn, Germany
“Kiki Smith: Sculpture and Works on Paper,” Greg Kucera Gallery, Seattle, WA
1990 “Figuring the Body”, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
“Projects 24: Kiki Smith” Museum of Modern Art, New York
1989 “Concentrations 20: Kiki Smith” Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas, TX
1988 Joe Fawbush Gallery, New York
1987 “Kiki Smith Drawings,” Pieao Electric Gallery, New York
1982 “Life Wants to Live” The Kitchen, New York

Selected Collections

Allen Memorial Art Museum, Oberlin College, Oberlin, OH
Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL
Bonner Kunstverein, Bonn, Germany
Brooklyn Museum of Art, Brooklyn, NY
Cincinnati Art Museum, Cincinnati, OH
Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
Contemporary Museum, Honolulu, HI
Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC
Des Moines Art Center
Fogg Art Museum, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA
High Museum of Art, Atlanta, GA
Irish Museum of Modern Art
Israel Museum, Jerusalem, Israel
J.B. Speed Art Museum, Louisville, KY
Lannan Foundation, Los Angeles
Los Angeles County Museum of Art
Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Humlebaek, Denmark
Museum Abteiberg
Metropolitan Museum of Art, NY
Microsoft Corporation, Redmond, WA
Milwaukee Art Museum, Milwaukee, WI
Moderna Museet, Stockholm, Sweden
Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth
Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego, La Jolla, CA
Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles
Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, TX
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA
Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA
Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY
New York Public Library, New York, NY
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, California
Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum
Tate Gallery, London, England
Toledo Museum of Art, Toledo, OH
Victoria and Albert Museum, London, England
Williams College Museum of Art
Whitney Museum of American Art, NY
Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, CT