Allison Smith is an artist based in New York

New York

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Smith was born in Manassas. Her art consists of interactive public events and more traditional object-based gallery shows. Well known projects are The Muster and Notion Nanny which engage the public in a dialogue about social activism

Activism

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, craft

Craft

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s and identity

Identity (social science)

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Smith received her BFA

Bachelor of Fine Arts

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 from Parsons School of Design and a BA

Bachelor of Arts

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 in Psychology from New School for Social Research in 1995. She got her MFA

Master of Fine Arts

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 from Yale

YALE

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School of Art in 1999.

Selected exhibitions

2007

Grow Your Own, Palais de Tokyo, Paris

Allison Smith/ Simon Leung/ Amy Yoes, Wave Hill, Bronx

2006

Was Wäre Wenn #4: Hands-On History, Jet, Berlin

Art in America, Arario Gallery, Cheonan, South Korea

Don’t Know Much About History… Artspace, New Haven

2005

Greater New York 2005, P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center, New York

You are Here, The Ballroom, Marfa

Notion Nanny, Studio Voltaire, London

The Armory Show: International Fair of New Art, Bellwether, New York

2003

Brand New Letchworth, The Place Arts Centre, Hertfordshire

2002

Stilleven, evenStill, Bellwether, Brooklyn

2001

Consuming Nostalgia, Eldridge Street Project, New York

2000

Mom-n-Pop Market Stall, Artists Space, Meat Market Art Fair, New York

External links

• Website for the artist’s Notion Nanny project
• Website for The Muster project
• Images, biography and texts from the Saatchi Gallery
• Further information from Bellwether Gallery

Further information from Studio Voltaire