Kiki Smith
- January 4, 2024
- Sculptor
Quick Facts
Kiki Smith Biography
| Name | Kiki Smith |
| Birthday | Jan 18 |
| Birth Year | 1954 |
| Place Of Birth | Nuremberg |
| Birth Country | Germany |
| Birth Sign | Capricorn |
| Parents | Tony Smith, Jane Lawrence |
| Siblings | Seton Smith, Beatrice Smith Robinson |
Kiki Smith is one of the most popular and richest Sculptor who was born on January 18, 1954 in Nuremberg, Germany. American artist and sculptor classified as a feminist artist. Her Body Art is used to discuss political and social issues.
She and John Martin have both had their works exhibited in the MOMA.
Smith moved from Germany to South Orange, New Jersey, as an infant in 1955. She subsequently attended Columbia High School, but left to attended Changes, Inc. Later, she was enrolled at Hartford Art School in Connecticut for eighteen months from 1974–75. She then moved to New York City in 1976 and joined Collaborative Projects (Colab), an artist collective. The influence of this radical group’s use of unconventional materials can be in seen in her work. For a short time in 1984, she studied to be an emergency medical technician and sculpted body parts, and by 1990, she began to craft human figures.
Smith has experimented with a wide range of printmaking processes. Some of her earliest print works were screen-printed dresses, scarves and shirts, often with images of body parts. In association with Colab, Smith printed an array of posters in the early 1980s containing political statements or announcing Colab events. In 1988 she created “All Souls”, a fifteen-foot screen-print work featuring repetitive images of a fetus, an image Smith found in a Japanese anatomy book. Smith printed the image in black ink on 36 attached sheets of handmade Thai paper.
Her father was the artist Tony Smith and her mother was the actress Jane Lawrence Smith.
Kiki Smith Net Worth
| Net Worth | $5 Million |
| Source Of Income | Sculptor |
| House | Living in own house. |
Kiki Smith is one of the richest Sculptor from Germany. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Kiki Smith 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)
She grew up in New Jersey and began sculpting in the 1970s.
Her work also often includes the themes of birth and regeneration.
Kiki Smith (born January 18, 1954) is a West German-born American artist whose work has addressed the themes of sex, birth and regeneration. Her figurative work of the late 1980s and early 1990s confronted subjects such as AIDS and gender, while recent works have depicted the human condition in relationship to nature. Smith lives and works in the Lower East Side, New York City, and the Hudson Valley, New York State.
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Mary Magdelene (1994), a sculpture made of silicon bronze and forged steel, is an example of Smith’s non-traditional use of the female nude. The figure is without skin everywhere but her face, breasts and the area surrounding her navel. She wears a chain around her ankle; her face is relatively undetailed and is turned upwards. Smith has said that when making Mary Magdalene she was inspired by depictions of Mary Magdalene in Southern German sculpture, where she was depicted as a “wild woman”. Smith’s sculpture “Standing” (1998), featuring a female figure standing atop the trunk of a Eucalyptus tree, is a part of the Stuart Collection of public art on the campus of the University of California, San Diego. Another sculpture, Lilith, a bronze with glass eyes is on display at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Lilith is an arresting figure, hanging upside down on a wall of the gallery.
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Kiki Ranked on the list of most popular Sculptor. Also ranked in the elit list of famous people born in Germany. Kiki Smith celebrates birthday on January 18 of every year.
Past solo exhibitions have been held at the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts and the Modern Art Museum, Fort Worth (1996–97); Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles (1996–97); Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin (1997–98); Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, DC (1998); Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh (1998); Center for Curatorial Studies and Art in Contemporary Culture, Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson (1999); St. Louis Art Museum (1999-2000); and the International Center for Photography (2001).
What is Kiki Smith most known for?
Kiki Smith is a contemporary American artist best known for her figural representations of mortality, abjection, and sexuality. With a special fascination with the body and bodily fluids, Smith often examines excreta such as blood, semen, and bile in carefully crafted sculptures that bear the influence of Surrealism.
Who inspired Kiki Smith?
“I learned it from Ben Franklin , and it’s a good thing to learn if you don’t know what else to do…. Making things is a kind of romance with the physical world. I’m living my fantasy life every day.” Smith’s romance with the world sometimes seems a strange one.
What kind of artist is Kiki Smith?
Printmaking
Who represents Kiki Smith?
On Ocula, the artist is represented by Galerie Lelong & Co. Paris, Krakow Witkin Gallery, and Pace Gallery. Recent exhibitions include From Inside, Galerie Lelong & Co. Paris (2021); Solo Exhibition, Krakow Witkin Gallery, Boston (2020); and Light, Pace Gallery, Geneva (2020).
What is Kiki Smith's message?
By depicting women and wolves together Smith represents the idea of ‘ Embracing one’s Inner Wolf ‘ – the self-knowledge and self-acceptance gained from deep personal introspection.