MICKEY SMITH is an American conceptual artist.

Conceptual art

Conceptual art is art in which the concept or idea involved in the work take precedence over traditional aesthetic and material concerns. Many of the works, sometimes called installations, of the artist Sol LeWitt may be constructed by anyone simply by following a set of written instructions...

She received a BA in Photography from Minnesota State University

Minnesota State University Moorhead

Minnesota State University Moorhead is a four-year, public university located in Moorhead, Minnesota. The school has an enrollment of nearly 7,500 students and 337 full-time faculty members. MSUM is a part of the Minnesota State Colleges and Universities system...

 Moorhead, MN in 1994. Images from her Volume series have been exhibited in New York, China and Russia. Smith has received the McKnight Artist Fellowship for Photography as well as grants from Forecast Public Art, CEC ArtsLink, and the Lower Manhattan Cultural Council. Smith's first major public art

Public art

The term public art properly refers to works of art in any media that have been planned and executed with the specific intention of being sited or staged in the physical public domain, usually outside and accessible to all...

 project at the University of Florida received recognition from the 2010 Public Art Year in Review. She is represented by Invisible-Exports, NY.



Selected SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2011_ Marty Walker Gallery Upcoming

2011_ Miami Dade Public Library Upcoming

2010_ Invisible-Exports Believe You Me

2010_Georgia College State University Collocations

2008_ Invisible-Exports You People

2008_Alvar Alto Library

Vyborg Library

The Municipal Library in Vyborg, Russia, is an internationally acclaimed design by the Finnish architect Alvar Aalto. The library, built in 1933–35 is considered one of the first manifestations of "regional modernism"...

Volume

2008_ PRO ARTE Institute Contemporary Art in Traditional Museums

2008_ Center for Photography at Woodstock New Collocations

2007_Carleton College Gould Library Forever Govern Ignorance

2007_ Kathy Dowell Art + Service

2006_MN Center for Photography Bio

2005_ Open Book Gallery Volume

2005_Minnesota History Center ''In the Stacks''



Selected GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2010_Chapman Guggenheim Gallery Altered Appropriations

2010_Sonoma State University Art Gallery Method + Message

2010_McKenzie Fine Art Reader's Delight

2010_Ogilvy + Mather New Language

2010_Center for Photography at Woodstock PQ:100

2009_Marty Walker Gallery I've been meaning to tell you...

2009_Jen Bekman Gallery Summer Reading

2009_Aaron Krach Artists Who Use Text to Say Nice Things

2009_Gallery Knustler at Booksmart Studio Circulation

2008_Traffic Zone Center for Visual Art Unabridged

2007_Ellen Curlee Gallery Wellbound

2007_hpgrp Gallery New Visual Language

2007_MN Center for Photography McKnight Fellows: New Photography

2007_Jen Bekman Gallery Hey Hot Shot!

2007_Chandra Cerrito Contemporary Inscribere

2007_Firehouse No.13 The Library Show

2006_Deborah Colton Gallery Word

2006_Pingyao International Photography Festival Midwestern Views

2006_Silver Eye Center for Photography New Works Gallery

2006_Frank Stone Gallery Poster Offensive III

2005_Jon Oulman Gallery Correspondence

2005_MN Center for Photography Photocentric Biennial

2005_Minnesota Museum of American Art MN Biennial: 2D

2005_Minnesota Fringe Festival Visible Fringe



Selected COLLECTIONS

Center for Photography at Woodstock

Fidelity Corporate Art Collection

Miami-Dade Public Library

Minnesota Historical Society

North Dakota Museum of Art

University of Florida

Weisman Art Museum



ARTFAIRS + AUCTIONS

Aperture Foundation

Art Chicago

Artspace Projects

Brooklyn Academy of Music

Center for Photography at Woodstock

Frankfurt Book Fair

Magenta Foundation for the Arts

Minnesota Center for Photography

NADA

The New York Art Book Fair

North Dakota Museum of Art

PULSE Miami

SCOPE Miami

Silvereye Center for Photography

Stivers School of the Arts
VOLTA NY

The Watermill Center

Zenon Dance Company



AWARDS

2010_ Public Art Year in Review Project Winner

2009_ LMCC Community Arts Fund Grantee

2009_Permanent Commission Recipient University of Florida

2008_ CEC Artslink Grantee

2008_ Baum Award for Emerging Photographers Nominee

2008_ Fulbright Research Fellowship Finalist + Alternate

2007_ Photolucida Critical Mass Top 150 Photographer

2007_ Forecast Public Art t Grantee

2007_ Magenta Foundation's Flash Forward Honorable Mention

2006_ McKnight Foundation Artist Fellowship for Photography

2006_ Photolucida Critical Mass Top 150 Photographer