SMITH

Born in 1985, SMITH is a French artist-researcher who lives and works in Paris. He is a graduate of the École nationale supérieure de la photographie d’Arles, Le Fresnoy – Studio national des arts contemporains, and has a doctorate in Research-Creation from the Université du Québec à Montréal (UQAM) and Le Fresnoy. He is an artist associate at La Filature – Scène nationale (Mulhouse), and a Villa Albertine 2023 laureate in collaboration with writer Marie NDiaye. His work (exhibitions, films, performances, conferences) is regularly presented in the form of solo exhibitions, notably at the Rencontres d’Arles, the Palais de Tokyo (Paris), the Centre Pompidou (Paris), and in many European countries, as well as in California, China, Korea and Latin America (Chile, Uruguay, Mexico). In his work, the artist experiments with and explores the connections between contemporary humanity and its marginal figures (specters, mutants, hybrids), engaging his own body and that of his collaborators. SMITH is represented by Galerie Christophe Gaillard and Agence Modds (Paris).