Artists

Kiki Smith

1954

Born Nuremburg, Germany

One Person Exhibitions

1982	"Life Wants to Live", The Kitchen, New York
1984	"Kiki Smith ; Drawings", Piezo Gallery, New York
1988	Fawbush Gallery, New York
1989	"Concentrations 20: Kiki Smith", Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas, TX Center for the Arts, Wesleyan University, Middletown, CT Galerie René Blouin, Montreal
1990	Tyler Gallery, Tyler School of Art, Philadelphia Institute for Art and Urban Resources at The Clocktower, New York Fawbush Gallery, New York Centre d'Arte Contemporaine, Geneva
1990 - 1	"Projects: Kiki Smith", Museum of Modern Art, New York Institute of Contemporary Art , Amsterdam
1991	Greg Kucera Gallery, Seattle, WA Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC Art Awareness, Inc, Lexington, New York University Art Museum, Berkeley, CA " Tears Come" , Shoshana Wayne Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
1991 - 2	Galerie René Blouin, Montreal
1992	Galerie Fricke, Dusseldorf Bonner Kunstverein, Bonn Moderna Museet, Stockholm Museum of Applied Arts, Vienna Fawbush Gallery, New York Rose Art Museum, Brandeis University, Waltham, MA
1992 - 3	Williams College Museum of Art, Williamstown,MA Wexner Center for the Arts, Ohio State University,Columbus,OH Shoshana Wayne Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
1993	Anthony d'Offay Gallery, London Fawbush Gallery, New York Phoenix Art Museum, Phoenix, AZ
1994	University Art Museum, Santa Barbara, CA Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Humlebaek, Denmark Travelled to Kunstnernes Hus, Oslo, Norway Galerie René Blouin, Montreal Israel Museum, Jerusalem Barbara Gross Galerie, Munich Laura Carpenter Fine Art, Santa Fe, NM "Kiki Smith Drawings", Pace Wildenstein, New York
1994-95	The Power Plant, Toronto "Kiki Smith ; Prints and Multiples", Barbara Krakow Gallery, Boston, MA Travelled to: New Orleans Contemporary Art Center , New Orleans, LA; Olin Arts Center, Bates College Museum of Art, Lewiston, ME; David Winton Bell Gallery, Brown University, Providence, RI; University of North Texas, TX; University of Missouri, MI; Milwaukee Art Museum, WI; Wilkes Art Museum, ND; Davidson College Art Musuem, NC; University Gallery, Memphis State University, TN; Kresge Art Museum, Michigan StateUniversity, MN
1995	Whitechapel Art Gallery, London "Kiki Smith; New Sculpture", Pace Wildenstein, New York "Kiki Smith, Sculpture and Drawings"Anthony d'Offay Gallery London "Kiki Smith, Photography", PaceWildensteinMacGill, Los Angeles
1996	"Kiki Smith, Photographs", PaceWildensteinMacGill, New York "Kiki Smith:Works1988 - 1995" St.Petri Kuratorium,Lubeck "Kiki Smith; Landscapes" Huntington Gallery, Massachusetts College of Art, Boston, MA "Field Operation", Pace Wildenstein, Los Angeles, CA
1996 - 7	The Montreal Museum of Fine Arts,Montreal Travelled to: The Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, TX; A/D Gallery, NY
1997	"Kiki Smith: Once I Saw a Bird" Anthony d'Offay Gallery, London Shoshana Wayne Gallery, Santa Monica, CA "Kiki Smith: Reconstructing the Moon", PaceWildenstein, New York
1997 - 8	"Kiki Smith: Convergence", Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin
	1998 "Constellation", Barbara Gross Galerie, Munich "Directions - Kiki Smith: Night", Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Smithsonian Institution, Washington D.C. "Kiki Smith", Mattress Factory, Pittsburgh, PA "Invention/Intervention: Kiki Smith and the Museums", Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh, PA "Kiki Smith: All Creatures Great and Small", Kestner Gesellschaft, Hanover "Kiki Smith: Photographs 1997-1998", Galerie Fricke, Berlin "Kiki Smith", Räume für neue Kunst", Wuppertal "Kiki Smith: Nocturne", The LeRoy Neiman Center for Print Studies, Columbia University School of Arts, New York
1999	"Kiki Smith: New Editions", Pace Prints, New York "Kiki Smith", Barbara Krakow Gallery, Boston, MA "Kiki Smith", Indianapolis Museum of Art, IN "Kiki Smith", Galerie Fortlaan 17, Ghent "Kiki Smith: Creation", Diözesanmuseum, Greising "Kiki Smith: You Are The Sunshine of My Life...", The Fruitmarket Gallery, Edinburgh, Scotland "Familiars" - a collaborative exhibition by Kiki Smith featuring sound pieces by composer Margaret De Wys, Center for Curatorial Studies Museum, Bard College, Annandale-on- Hudson, NY "Kiki Smith: Of Her Nature", PaceWildenstein, 142 Greene Street, New York
1999 - 2000	"My Nature: Works with Paper by Kiki Smith", St. Louis Art Museum, St. Louis, October 19th 1999 - January 23rd 2000

Group Exhibitions

1979	"Doctor and Dentist Show", 591 Broadway, New York "Salute to the Creative Youth", 75 Warren Street, New York
1980	"A More Store", COLAB, New York "COLAB Benefit", Brooke Alexander Street, New York Manifesto Show, 5 Bleecker Street, New York "Times Square Show", New York
1981	"Cave Created Chaos", White Columns, New York TEUGUM COLAB, Geneva, Switzerland "Lightning", Institute for Art and Urban Resources at Long Island City, New York "New York, New Wave", Institute for Art and Urban Resources at Long Island City, New York White Columns, New York Artists Space, New York
1982	"Natural History", Grace Borgenicht Gallery, New York "COLAB in Chicago", Chicago, IL "A More Store", Barbara Gladstone Gallery, New York
1983	Hallwalls, Buffalo, New York "Science and Prophecy", White Columns, New York "Emergence: New Work from the Lower East Side", Susan Caldwell Gallery, New York "IM Theatre", Buro-Berlin, Berlin, West Germany "Island of Negative Utopia", The Kitchen, New York
1984	"Modern Masks", Whitney Museum of American Art, New York "360 Kunst-Speil", Wuppertal, West Germany "CAYA", Buenos Aires, Argentina "Museo Castagnino", Rosario, Argentina "Kiki Smith, Bill Taggert and Tod Wizon", Jack Tilton Gallery, New York "Works on Paper", Cable Gallery, New York "Call and Response: Art on Central America", Colby College, Colby, ME "1984: Women in New York", Galerie Engstrom, Stockholm Jack Tilton Gallery, New York "Inside/Out", piezo Electric Gallery, New York
1985	"Synaethics", Institute for Art and Urban Resources, Long Island City, NY "Male Sexuality", Art City, New York Moderna Museet, Stockholm "Recent Acquisitions", Cincinatti Art Musuem, Cincinatti, OH
1986	"Hanno Ahrens, Maureen Conner, David Nelson and Kiki Smith", Art Salon, DeFacto, New York "Donald Lipski, Matt Mullican and Kiki Smith", Institute for Art and Urban Resources, at The Clocktower, New York "Possession is 9/10 of the Law", Fawbush Editions, New York "Public and Private: American Prints Today", The Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, New York "Momento Mori", Centro Cultural Arte, Polanco, Mexico "Group Invitational", Curt Marcus Gallery, New York
1987	Fawbush Gallery, New York "Emotope", organised by Buro-Berlin, Berlin "Kiki Smith: Drawings", Piezo Electric Gallery, New York
1988	"Desire Path", Schulman Sculpture Garden, White Plains, New York "Committed to Print", The Museum of Modern Art, New York "A Choice", curated by Fred Wagemans, Kuntsrai, Amsterdam "In Bloom", IBM Gallery, New York "Recent Acquisitions: 1986-88", The Musuem of Modern Art, New York Arch Gallery, Amsterdam, Holland
1989	"Projects and Portfolios" The Brooklyn Museum, New York Tom Cugliani Gallery "Cara Perlman and Kiki Smith", Fawbush Gallery, New York "New York Experimental Glass", The Society for Art in Craft, Pittsburg, PA
1990	Myers/Bloom Gallery, Santa Monica, CA "Portraits", Institute for Art and Urban Resources at Long Island City, New York "Renaissance Society", Chicago, IL Simon Watson Gallery, New York "The Abortion Project", Simon Watson Gallery, New York Travelled to: Holly Solomon Gallery, New York "Recent Acquisitions", Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington D.C. Jack Tilton Gallery, New York "Figuring the Body", Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA "Group Material: AIDS Timeline", Wadsworth Atheneum, Hartford, CT "The Unique Print: 70s into 90s", Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA "11th British International Print Biennale", Bradford Museum, West Yorkshire "Fragments, Parts and Wholes", White Columns, New York "Diagnosis", The Art Gallery of York University, Toronto "Selections form Fawbush Editions", Fawbush Gallery, New York "Witness Against Our Vanishing", Artist Space, New York "Stained Sheets/Holy Shrouds", Krieger Landeau Gallery, Los Angeles, CA "Watercolour", U.L.A.E. Gallery, New York
1991	"Whitney Biennial", Whitney Museum of American Art, New York "Drawings", Susanne Hilberry Gallery, Birmingham, MI "Drawing Conclusions", Guid Arte Gallery, New York "Kiki Smith / Tom Dean", Galerie Rene Blouin, Montreal "Lick of the Eye", Shoshana Wayne Gallery, Santa Monica, CA "Body, Legs, Heads... and Special Parts", Westfalischer Kunstverein, Munster "Drawings", Brooke Alexander Gallery, New York "Physical Relief", Hunter College Art Gallery, New York "Burning In Hell", Franklin Furnace, New York (organised by Nancy Spero) "The Interrupted Life", New Museum of Contemporary Art, NewYork Suzanne Hilberry Gallery, New York "Body Language", Lannan Foundation, Los Angeles, CA "When Objects Dream and talk in Their Sleep", Jack Tilton Gallery, New York and Shoshana Wayne Gallery, Santa Monica
1992	PROSPECT 93,Frankfurt Kunstverein, Frankfurt, Germany "Art on Paper", Weatherspoon Art Gallery, Greensboro, NC "Strange Developments", Anthony d'Offay Gallery, London "Post-Human", FAE Musée d'Art Contemporaine, Lausanne Travelled to: Castello di Rivoli, Museo d'Arte Contemporanea, Rivoli; Deste Foundation for Contemporary Art, Athens; Deichtorhallen Hamburg, Hamburg "Désordes", Galerie National du Jeu de Paume, Paris "This is My Body, This is My Blood", University of Massachusetts, Amhurst, MA "Excess in the Techno Mediacratic Society", Musée de Dole, Dole "The Abortion Project", Hallwalls Gallery, Buffalo, New York Travelled to: "Erotiques", A.B. Galeries, Paris "The Body Electric", The Corcoran Gallery, Washington, D.C. and Greg Kucera, Seattle, WN "Byron Kim / Kiki Smith", AC Project Room, New York "In Your Face", AC Project Room, New York and Cortland Jessup Gallery, Provincetown, MA "The Body", Nathalie Karg Gallery, New York Milwaukee Art Museum, Milwaukee, WI "Recent Acquisitions", San Diego Museum of Art, La Jolla, CA "Rebecca Howland, Carla Perlman, Christy Rupp & Kiki Smith", University Gallery, Illinois State University, Normal, IL "Acquisitions of the 90s", Whitney Museum of American Art, New York "Prints", Whitney Museum of American Art, New York "Recent Acquisitions", Museum of Modern Art, New York
1993	"Regarding Masculinity", Arthur Roger Gallery, New Orleans "Aperto 1993", Venice Biennale "Human Factor: Figurative Sculpture Reconsidered", Albuquerque Museum of Art, Albuquerque, NM "Whitney Biennial", Whitney Museum of American Art, New York "PROSPECT 93", Frankfurt Kunstverein, Frankfurt "Drawings", Paula Cooper Gallery, New York "I am the Enunciator", Thread Waxing Space, New York (curated by Christain Leigh) "Women Artists", Richard Anderson Gallery, New York "Art on Paper", Weatherspoon Art Gallery, Greensboro, NC
1993 - 5	"Skulptur staat Denkmal Ausstellungsprojekt", Galerie Marion und Roswitha Fricke, Dusseldorf
1994	"Metamorphosis: Surrealism to Organic Abstraction 1925-1993", Marlborough Graphics, New York "In the Lineage of Eva Hesse", The Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art, Ridgefield, CT "The Figure in Sculpture", Transamerica Pyramid Lobby, San Francisco, CA "The Ossuary", Luhring Augustine Gallery, New York "24", Anthony d'Offay Gallery, London "Wunderkammer", Rena Bransten Gallery, San Francisco "World Mortality", Kunsthalle Basel "Some Went Mad ... Some Ran Away", Serpentine Gallery, London "Selected Works and Projects (Part One)", Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin "The Essential Gesture", Newport Harbor Art Museum, Newport Beach, CA "Of the Human Condition", Mito Art Tower, Tokyo "Miriam Cahn, Marlene Dumas, Kiki Smith, Sue Williams: Dessins", Centre d'Art Contemporain, Geneva
1994-5	"Scultpure", Anthony d'Offay Gallery, London "The Music Box Project", Equitable Gallery, Equitable Center, New York "Cocido y Crudo", Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia, Barcelona, Spain
1995	"Division of Labour: Women's Work in Contemporary Art", The Bronx Museum of the Arts, Bronx, NY "Altered States: American Art in the 90s", Forum for Contemporary Art, St Louis "Body as Metaphor", Proctor Art Center, Bard College, New York "Summer 1995", PaceWildenstein, New York "Summer Academy 2", PaceWildenstein, New York "Body, Mind and Spirit: Eight Sculptures", Ruth Chandler Williamson Gallery, Scripps College, Claremont, CA "Laboratories pour une expérience du corps: Damien Hirst, Fabrice Hybert, Kiki Smith, Patrick van Caeckenbergh", Galerie Art et Essai, Université Rennes, Rennes
1995 -6	"Feminin - masculin ; le sex de l'art", Musée National d'Art Moderne, Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris "In the Flesh", Freedman Gallery, Albright College Center for the Arts, Reading, PA. Travelled to: Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art, Ridgefield, CT "Exit Art/The First World", 548 Broadway, New York "The Material Imagination", Guggenheim Museum SoHo, NewYork "Time Machine", Museo Egizio, Turin, Italy "Being Human", Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA
1995 - 7	"Art Works: the Paine Webber Collection of Contemporary Masters", Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, TX Travelled to: Detroit Institute of Arts, MN; Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA; Minneapolis Institute of Arts, Minneapolis, MO; San Diego Museum of Arts, San Diego, CA; Center for the Arts, Miami, FA
1996	"A Portrait of the Artist", Anthony d'Offay Gallery, London "Young Americans: New American Art in the Saatchi Collection, Part 2", Saatchi Gallery, London "Selections from the Collection of livia and Marc Straus", Everson Museum of Art, Syracuse, NY "Bodyscape", Barbara Cross Galerie, Munich "Conceal - Reveal", Sight, Sante Fe, NM "La Toilette de Venus: Women and Mirrors", CRG, New York "Women's Work", Greene Naftali, New York
1996 - 7	"Everything That's Interesting Is New ; The Dakis Joannou Collection", DESTE Foundation, Athens Travelled to: Museum for Modern Art, Copenhagen; Guggenheim Museum SoHo, New York "Biennale di Firenze: New Persons/New Universe", Florence "Passionate Pursuits: Hidden Treasures of the Garden State", The Montclair Art Museum, Montclair, NJ
1997	"Terra Firma", The Art Gallery, University of Maryland, College Park, MD Travelled to: Salisbury State University Galleries, Salisbury, MD "art & science", The Mariboe Gallery at The Peddie School, Highstown, NJ "American Academy Invitational Exhibition of Painting and Sculpture", American Academy of Arts and Letters, New York "Mirror Enough: Self Portraits", Nolan/Eckman Gallery, New York "Art Foundry Editions Santa Fe at Knoedler New York", Knoedler & Co., New York "Summer Show 97", PaceWildenstein, 142 Greene Street, New York "Summer 1997", PaceWildenstein, 32 East 57th Street, New York "Recent Acquisitions: Process on Paper - Prints, Drawings and Inaugural Exhibition Ace Gallery Mexico, Ace Gallery, Mexico "Text and Touch", Hunter College Galleries, Hunter College of the City of New York, NY "Material Girls: Gender, Process and Abstract Art Since 1970", Gallery One Twenty-Eight, New York "Spiders and Webs", Barbara Krakow Gallery, Boston, MA "Strong Spirits", Doroth Uber Bryan Gallery, Fine Arts Center, Bowling Green State University, OH
1997 - 8	"Proof Positive: Forty Years of Contemporary American Printmaking at ULAE, 1957-1997", The Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington D.C. Tavelled to: UCLA at the Armand Hammer Museum of Art and Cultural Center, Los Angeles, CA; Sezon Museum of Art, Tokyo; Kitakysyu Municipal Museum of Art, Kitakysyu City "Objects of Desire: The Modern Still Life", The Museum of Modern Art, New York Travelled to: Hayward Gallery, London "Contemporary Sculpture: The Figurative Tradition", Margaret Woodson Fisher Sculpture Gallery, Leigh Yawkey Woodson Art Museum, Wasau, WI "The Quick and the Dead: Artists and Anatomy", Royal College of Art, London Travelled to: Mead Gallery, Warwick Arts Center, Coventry; Leeds City Art Gallery Exhibition organised by the Hayward Gallery for the Arts Council "Winter Group Show", PaceWildenstein, New York
1998	"VisAlchemical: New Directions in Contemporary Glass Sculpture", University of California, San Diego, University Art Gallery, CA "Kiki Smith / Joey Kotting", PaceWildensteinMacGill, New York "Kiki Smith, Byron Kim, Anne Chu", AC Project Room, NY "Four Artists the Body / the Figure: Eric Fischl, Susan Rothenberg, Joel Shapiro, Kiki Smith", Harvard University at the Carpenter Center, Cambridge, MA "Inner Self", Mitchell-Innes & Nash, New York "Then and Now: Art Since 1945 at Yale", Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, CT "Theater of Self-Invention: Self Portraiture in Contemporary Art", Speed Art Museum, Louisville, KY "Paper Thin", Stephen Wirtz Gallery, San Francisco, CA "House of Wax", The Contemporary Arts Center, Cincinnati, OH "PAPER + works on Dieu Donné paper", The Gallery at Dieu Donné, Papermill, New York "Beyond Belief: Modern Art and the Religious Imagination", National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne "Animal as Muse", The Norton Museum of Art, West Palm Beach, FA "Giacometti to Judd: Prints by Sculptors", The Museum of Modern Art, New York "Art and the American Experience", Kalamazoo Institute of Arts, Kalamazoo, Michigan
1998 - 9	"Mirror Images: Women, Surrealism and Self-Representation", MIT, List Visual Arts Center, Cambridge, MA Travelled to: Miami Art Museum, FA; San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, CA
1998 - 00	"Double Trouble: The Patchett Collection", Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego, CA Travelled to: Museo de las Artes and Instituto Cultural Gundalajara, Mexido; Museo de Monterrey, Mexico; Museo Universitario de Arte, Mexico City; Auditorio de Galicia and Iglesia San Domingos de Bonaval, ; Santiago de Compostela, Spain; Sala Alamos, Salvador, Longrono, Spain
1999	"Skulptur - Figur - Weiblich", Kunstsammlungen Chemnitz, Chemnitz "As Above, So Below: The Body at Work", The Fabric Workshop and Museum, Philadelphia, PA "The Virginia and Bagley Wright Collection of Modern Art", Seattle Art Museum, WN "Schöpfung (Creation)", Zeitgenössische Kunst an historischen Orten: München, Karmelitenkirche, Promenadeplatz and Diözesanmuseum, Freising, and Heilig-Geist-Kirche "House of Sculpture", Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, TX "Cosmos", The Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, Montreal "Kant Park", Wilhelm Lehmbruk Museum, Duisburg "Summer 99", PaceWildenstein, NY "Callendar 2000", Center for Curatorial Studies Museum, Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, NY
1999 - 00	"The American Century: Art & Culture 1950 - 2000", Whitney Museum of American Art, NY "Regarding Beauty: A View of the Late 20th Century", Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Smithsonian Institution, Washington D.C. Traveled to: Haus der Kunst, Munich
2000	"Das Funfte Element - Geld oder Kunst", Stadtische Kunstalle Dusseldorf, (January 28th - May 28th 2000) "Touch", University of Southern Maine, Gorham, ME
1999 - 01	"Botanica: Contemporary Art and the World of Plants", Tweed Museum of Art, Duluth, MO Travelled to: Plains Art Museum, Fargo, North Dakota Travelling to: University Galleries, Illinois State University, Normal, Illinois; Carlton College, Northfield, Minnesota; Alexandria Museum of Art, Alexandria, Louisiana; Tarble Arts Center, Eastern Illinois University, Charleston,; Illinois, Chicago Cultural Center, Chicago, Illinois; University Gallery, University of Delaware, Newark, DE

Selected Benefit Exhibitions

"Art Against Aids"

"Artists Call"

"Heresies", Bess Cutler Gallery, New York

"Franklin Furnace", Ronald Feldman Gallery, New York

"Wedge", Nature Morte Gallery, New York

"Act Up: Auction for Action", Paula Cooper Gallery, New York

"Fashion Moda", Brooke Alexander Gallery, New York

"Franklin Furnace", Marian Goodman Gallery, New York

"The Abortion Project", Simon Watson, New York

"Act-Up Benefit Sale", Paula Cooper Gallery and Matthew Marks Gallery, New York

"Act-Up Art Box", Josh Baer, Rawbush, and Robert Miller Galleries, New York, and Rhona Hoffman Gallery, Chicago, also Rosamund Felsen and Burnett Miller Galleries, Los Angeles, CA

"Independent Curators Incorporated Benefit Exhibition and Sale", Sonnabend Gallery, New York

"The Chair Event", to benefit Friends in Deed, The Metropolitan Pavilion, New York

Selected Public Collections

Museum of Modern Art, New York

Moderna Museet, Stockholm

New York Public Library

Toledo Museum of Art

Cincinatti Museum of Art, Cincinatti, Ohio

Tate Gallery, London

Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington D.C.

Lannan Foundation, Los Angeles

Allen Memorial Art Museum, Oberlin, OH

Whitney Museum of American Art, New York

Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Texas

Victoria and Albert Museum, London

San Diego Museum of Contemporary Art, La Jolla, California

Museum of Fine Arts, Boston

Yale University Art Museum, New Haven, Conneticut

Louisiana Museum, Copenhagen

Bonner Kunstverein

Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois

Brooklyn Museum of Art, Brooklyn, New York

Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, Ohio

Contemporary Art Museum, Honolulu, Hawaii

Des Moines Art Center, Des Moines, Iowa

The Detroit Institute of Arts, Detroit, Michigan

Fogg Art Museum, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA

Hallmark Cards Inc., Kansas City, Missouri

High Museum of Art, Atlanta, Georgia

Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin, Ireland

Israel Museum, Jerusalem, Israel

J.B. Speed Art Museum, Louisville, Kentucky

Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, California

The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, New York

Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, California

Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego, California

San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, California

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