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Sable Elyse Smith (born 1986) is an interdisciplinary artist, write and educator based in New York. Smith works in photography, neon, text, appropriated imagery, sculpture, and video installation connecting language, violence, and pop culture with autobiographical subject matter. In 2018, Smith was an Artist-in Residence at the Studio Museum in Harlem. Her work was first featured at several areas such as MoMA ps1, New Museum, Brooklyn Museum, the Institute of Contemporary Art Philadelphia, MIT List Visual Arts Center, Cambridge, Massachusetts, and other places. The artist lives and works in Richmond, Virginia, and New York City. She has been an assistant professor of Visual Arts at Columbia University since 2020.

Early life and education
Smith was born in 1986 in Los Angeles, California. '''Growing up with an incarcerated father, Smith was exposed to the American penal system firsthand and lived through the effects of mass incarceration. Smith graduated high school in 2004, and immediately began a five year architecture at Hampton University in Virgina. After dropping out after semester and taking community college classes in Los Angeles, Smith eventually enrolled at Oglethorpe University in Atlanta. She studied abroad in London in 2007 and 2008 .''' Smith holds a B.A. in studio art and film from Oglethorpe University and a MFA in Design & Technology from Parsons the New School for Design.

Work
Smith often uses surveillance tape to explore the structure of the incarcerated labor system its corruption.

Smith makes sculptures and two-dimensional works that raise questions about societal problems. Her work is inspired by her father who been incarcerated for most of her life. Smith is able to recall her own experiences and use it in her work, questioning the efficacy of the American penal system as a whole as well as its effect on society. Her work uses common objects from the prison system to question labor, class, and memory with emphasis on the everyday effects of institutional violence. She began showing in 2015, with her exhibition Blue is Ubiquitous and Forbidden which focused on the critique of mass incarceration through images, video, sculpture, and text. Smith uses coloring books for children used in court setting as a subject in some of her 2D works. Smith has talked about her work stating: “The work should never say the same thing to every viewer. It is multi-vocal in its address and affect—that's the point." She has received several awards from Creative Capital, Fine Arts Work Center, the Queens Museum, Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation, Rea Hort Mann Foundation, the Franklin Furnace Fund, and Art Matter.

She was included in the 2019 traveling exhibition Young, Gifted, and Black: The Lumpkin-Boccuzzi Family Collection of Contemporary Art.

'Smith continues to present her work on the penal system around the world, recently with an exhibition titled Landscape'' at the Venice Biennale in Italy, which featured experimental, large-scale neon works. Her most recent full showing, Tithe, at JTT gallery in New York City, focuses on the parallels between Christianity and the American penal system, drawing similarities in the themes of innocence and guilt that run through both. The same year she has also had a sculpture piece titled A Clockwork featured as part of the 2022 Whitney Biennial exhibition ''Quiet as It's Kept. A Clockwork'' is part of a series by Smith showcasing sculptures built from the exact replicas of prison artifacts including chairs and prison bars. Smith also participated in another group exhibition, Combinations, held at the Sugar Hill Children's Museum of Art and Storytelling. This exhibition focused on the juxtaposition of different topics in art and how to present them in a way suitable for children. In October 2022, Smith published her first book collection titled Sable Elyse Smith: And Blue in a Decade Where it Finally Means Sky. It includes over 140 color images as well as accompanying text by Horace Ballard, Johanna Burton, Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah, and Christina Sharpe. It covers her work from 2015-2022. '''

Solo

 * 2022 - Tithe, JTT, New York, New York
 * 2019 - or the song spilling out, Carlos/Ishikawa, London, UK.
 * 2018 - Ordinary Violence, Haggerty Museum, Milwaukee, WI.
 * 2018 - BOLO: be on (the) lookout, JTT, New York, New York.
 * 2017-18 - Sable Elyse Smith: Ordinary Violence, Queens Museum, Queens, New York.

Group

 * 2022 - Whitney Biennial 2022: Quiet as It's Kept, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York City, NY 


 * 2020 - Marking Time: Art in the Age of Mass Incarceration, MoMA PS1, Long Island City, NY 


 * 2019 - Great Force, Institute for Contemporary Art, Richmond, Richmond, VA.
 * 2019 - MOOD | Studio Museum Artists in Residence 2018 - 19, MoMA PS1, Long Island City, NY.
 * 2019 - Colored People Time: Banal Presents, Institute of Contemporary Art, Philadelphia, Philadelphia, PA.
 * 2019 - Mirror/Echo/Tilt, New Museum, New York, NY.
 * 2017 - Trigger: Gender as a Tool and a Weapon, New Museum, New York, NY.