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Biography
Allison Smith was born in Manassas, Virginia in 1972. She received a BA in psychology from the New School for Social Research (1995), a BFA in sculpture from Parsons School of Design (1995), and an MFA from the Yale University School of Art (1999). She participated in the Whitney Museum of American Art Independent Study Program (1999-2000). Smith has exhibited her work in numerous venues in the U.S. and abroad, including the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (2010); Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum, St. Louis (2010); Indianapolis Museum of Art (2008), the Contemporary Arts Museum Houston (2008), and The Mattress Factory, Pittsburgh (2008); University of California Berkeley Art Museum MATRIX series (2007); Palais de Tokyo, Paris (2007); Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art, North Adams (2006); Andy Warhol Museum, Pittsburgh (2006); and P.S.1 MoMA, Long Island City, New York (2005). Smith has received major funding from Arts Council England, Public Art Fund, the Foundation for Contemporary Arts, Artadia, and the New York Foundation for the Arts. Residencies include Headlands Center for the Arts, Sausalito, California (2010); Artpace San Antonio, Texas (2006); Grizedale Arts/ The Wordsworth Trust, Cumbria, England (2005), among others. Smith's work is included in the collections of the Whitney Museum of American Art, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum, Indianapolis Museum of Art, Saatchi Gallery London, and private collections worldwide. Her monograph Allison Smith: The Muster was released in 2007 and is being distributed by Distributed Art Publishers (D.A.P.), and her book Allison Smith: Needle Work was recently released and is being distributed by University of Chicago Press. Over the past decade, Smith has taught at Columbia University, Parsons School of Design, New York University, Maryland Institute College of Art in Baltimore, and the Institute for American Universities in Aix-en-Provence, France. She has lectured widely on her work at art schools, universities, and museums in the U.S. and in Europe. In the fall of 2008, she joined the Sculpture and Graduate Fine Arts faculty at the California College of the Arts in San Francisco, and she currently runs the project SMITHS out of her storefront studio in Oakland. |
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