Kiki Smith x Tree with Light and Singing Birds pillowcase set &ndash Kiki Smith
Material: 100% Cotton Pillowcase Set with double-sided hand screenprint, embroidery and glitter
Edition: 1000
In collaboration with Brooklyn Museum
Kiki Smith (b. 1954, Nuremberg, Germany) is an artist of international prominence whose career has spanned over three decades. She is a leading figure among artists addressing philosophical, social, and spiritual aspects of human nature. Since 1982, Smith’s work has been exhibited in nearly 150 solo exhibitions at museums and galleries worldwide. Her work has also been featured in hundreds of significant group exhibitions, including the Whitney Biennial, New York (1991, 1993, 2002); La Biennale di Firenze, Florence, Italy (1996-1997; 1998); and La Biennale di Venezia (1993, 1999, 2005, 2009).
Kiki Smith: Sojourn, which explores a woman’s life from birth to death, recently opened at the Elizabeth A. Sackler Center for Feminist Art, Brooklyn Museum in New York, where it will be on view through September 12, 2010. This is the final venue of the exhibition, after having travelled to three other museums internationally. Kiki Smith: I Myself Have Seen It is also currently on view (through August 15, 2010), at the Henry Art Gallery, Seattle. Other important recent exhibitions include Kiki Smith: A Gathering, a major retrospective organized by The Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, which travelled to the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art; Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston; Whitney Museum of American Art; and La Colección Jumex, Mexico City (2005-2007) and Kiki Smith: Prints, Books & Things, mounted by The Museum of Modern Art, New York in 2003. Smith installed Homespun Tales: a tale of domestic occupation at the Fondazione Querini Stampalia, a museum house in Venice, Italy, during the 2005 Venice Biennale.
The Museum at Eldridge Street recently commissioned Smith and architect Deborah Gans to create a new monumental east window for the 1887 Eldridge Street Synagogue, a National Historic Landmark located on New York’s Lower East Side. The design, a galaxy of golden stars against an undulating blue firmament, recreates in stained-glass the blue and gold star pattern painted on the walls immediately surrounding the new window. This permanent commission marks the final significant component of the Museum’s 20-year restoration and will be unveiled in late spring of 2010.
Kiki Smith’s work is part of more than 40 significant public collections worldwide, including Bonner Kunstverein, Bonn, Germany; Art Institute of Chicago; Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.; Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin; Israel Museum, Jerusalem; Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York; The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, Moderna Museet, Stockholm; Museum of Fine Arts, Boston; The Museum of Modern Art, New York; San Francisco Museum of Modern Art; Tate Gallery, London; and Whitney Museum of American Art, New York.
This year, Smith was the recipient of the Theo Westenberger Women of Excellence Award, as well as the Nelson A. Rockefeller Award from Purchase College’s School of the Arts. Other accolades include the Women in the Arts Award from the Brooklyn Museum (2009), the 50th Edward MacDowell Medal (2009), the Medal Award from the School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (2006), the Athena Award for Excellence in Printmaking from the Rhode Island School of Design (2006), and the Skowhegan Medal for Sculpture from the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, Maine (2000). Smith was elected a member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters, New York, in 2005.
Kiki Smith lives and works in New York City. She has been represented by PaceWildenstein since 1994, and her new stained glass work will be the subject of her next exhibition at the gallery’s 22nd Street location from March 26 to May 1, 2010.
