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Philip Smith (artist)

Early Life and Education
Philip Smith (born 1952, Miami, Fl.) is a visual artist and writer from Miami, Fl., where he currently lives and works. Upon obtaining a BA from Clark University in 1976 and followed by graduate studies at Pratt Institute, Smith moved to New York to launch his career as an artist, where he was based until 2018. [1 ]

Career
Smith’s work has been widely exhibited in the US and abroad, including the Whitney and Beijing Biennials, and he is represented in the permanent collection of numerous museums such as the Whitney, Boston Museum of Fine Arts, Dallas Museum of Art, and Perez Art Museum among others.[2 ] His artwork was first publicly introduced to a large audience in an exhibition mounted at Artists Space in New York in 1977 titled Pictures, which presented the work of five contemporary artists who all shared the then-radical practice of scavenging and repurposing existing images from everyday life and media.[3]

Featured alongside Troy Brauntuch, Jack Goldstein, Robert Longo, and Sherrie Levine, Smith’s work in the show consisted of five monumental drawings filled with dozens of pictographic images found across dozens of sources and arranged in rows or circular spotlights to form a new type of narrative. The show became known as the first to pinpoint a broader shift in contemporary art away from minimalist and abstract forms to the use of appropriated representational imagery, eventually termed the Pictures Generation.[4] [1] Artnet Database, accessed on June 30th, 2022. http://www.artnet.com/artists/philip-smith/biography

[2] https://whitney.org/artists/3657 and https://collections.dma.org/artwork/5322311

[3] https://artistsspace.org/exhibitions/pictures

[4] “When Photography Became Post-Modern,” Roberta Smith, New York Times, Friday, June 29, 2001,  https://texts.artistsspace.org/sqf5h6t4