GREG SMITH

Born in DeKalb, IL, 1970

Amherst College, Amherst, MA, BA, 1993

Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, PhD, 2000
Hunter College, New York, NY, MFA, 2005
Lives and Works in New York, NY

 

GREG SMITH (b. 1970), in addition to receiving his MFA from Hunter College in 2005, graduated with a PhD in Physics from Harvard University in 2000. The artist is well-qualified and known for staging exhibitions that consider the possibilities and problems presented by our current technological deluge. He builds installations using an amalgam of unlikely materials and processes that trace contemporary limits of language, ownership, and governance. Through his enigmatic work, the artist navigates how systems of communication are constructed, dispersed, and convoluted. Smith has had solo exhibitions at the Grinnell College Museum of Art, Grinnell, IA; Museum of Fine Arts, St. Petersburg; the McNay Art Museum, San Antonio; and White Columns, NYC, among others. His work has been featured in exhibitions at The Margulies Collection at the Warehouse, Miami, FL; Zolla Lieberman Gallery, Chicago, IL; Marlborough, London, United Kingdom; and the Museum of Modern Art, NYC. Smith was awarded a Guggenheim Grant in 2013.