Shinique Smith

Born in Baltimore, Maryland in 1971, Shinique Smith currently lives and works in Brooklyn, New York. She received her BFA in 1992 from the Maryland Institute College of Art, an MA in teaching from Tufts University and the School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston in 2000, and returned to the Maryland Institute College of Art to complete her MFA in 2003. She has also participated in studio residencies at the Vermont Studio Center, the Lower Manhattan Cultural Center, the Henry Street Settlement in New York, and the Headlands Center for the Arts in Sausalito, California.

Smith’s work has been widely exhibited throughout the United States and abroad, including at such institutions as the Smithsonian National Portrait Gallery Washington D.C., the New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York, the Studio Museum in Harlem, P.S.t. Contemporary Art Center in New York, the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco, and the Deutsche Guggenheim Museum in Berlin. She is in the public collections of the Studio Museum in Harlem, New York, the Brooklyn Museum of Art, and the Denver Art Museum. She is represented by the Yvon Lambert Gallery in New York.