Mickey Smith (artist)

MICKEY SMITH (b. 1972 Duluth, MN) is an American conceptual artist. She received a BA in Photography from Minnesota State University 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 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 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