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Cauleen Smith
Sojourner
2018
Digital video, color, sound
22:41 minutes
Edition 1 of 5 and 4 APs
Cauleen Smith
Sojourner
2018
Digital video, color, sound
22:41 minutes
Edition 1 of 5 and 4 APs
Cauleen Smith
Sojourner
2018
Digital video, color, sound
22:41 minutes
Edition 1 of 5 and 4 APs
Cauleen Smith
Pilgrim
2017
Digital video and 16 mm film transferred to digital video
7:41 minutes
Edition of five and four Artist’s Proofs
Cauleen Smith: Give It or Leave It, Frye Art Museum, June 1 - September 1, 2019
Top: Black and Blue Over You (After Bas Jan Ader for Ishan), 2010, film transferred to video,9:40 minutes, edition of 5 and 2 APs;Middle: Strelitzia Satellite Meditation, 2012, HD digital video, 4:44 minutes, edition of 5 and 2 APs; Bottom: Cotton Plant 187?, 2018, HD digital video, 6:43 minutes, edition of 5 and 2 APs
Photo credit: Jueqian Fang
Cauleen Smith: Give It or Leave It, Frye Art Museum, June 1 - September 1, 2019
Left: Give it or Leave It (Omokehinde), 2018, satin, poly-satin, quilted pleather, upholstery, wool, felt, wool velvet, poly filing, 60 x 48 inches; Right: Give it or Leave It (Taiwo), 2018, satin, poly-satin, quilted pleather, upholstery, wool, felt, wool velvet, poly filing, 60x48 inches
Photo credit: Jueqian Fang
Cauleen Smith
Space Station: Two Rebeccas
2018
A remix of sculpture: Wallpaper, disco balls, turntable, motor, fur, shag carpet, 2 projectors, DVD
Dimensions vary
Cauleen Smith: Give It or Leave It, Frye Art Museum, June 1 - September 1, 2019
Left: Sojourner, 2018, digital video, color, sound, 22:41 minutes, edition of 5 and 2 APs;Right: Space Station: Two Rebeccas, 2018, a remix of sculpture: Wallpaper, disco balls, turntable, motor, fur, shag carpet, 2 projectors, DVD, dimensions vary
Photo credit: Jueqian Fang
Cauleen Smith
Epistrophy
2018
Multichannel video (color, sound), four CCTV cameras, four monitors, projection, custom wood table, taxidermy raven, wood figures, bronze figures, plastic figures, books, seashells, minerals, jar of starfish, Magic 8- Ball, maneki-neko, mirror, metal trays, plaster objects, wood objects, wire object, fabric, glass vase, plants
Dimensions vary
Installation view ICA Philadelphia
Cauleen Smith
Sula
2019
gouache on paper
12 x 9 inches (paper size)
14 1/2 x 11 inches (frame size)
Cauleen Smith
Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge and the
Teachings of Plants
2019
gouache on paper
12 x 9 inches
Cauleen Smith
Sine At The Canyon & Sine At The Sea, By Kelly Gabron
2010/2016
16 mm film transferred to digital video and found digital video
7:06 minutes
Edition of five and two Artist’s Proofs
Cauleen Smith
Riot
2019
gouache on paper
12 x 9 inches
Cauleen Smith
Ivory Anthropologie #21
2010
White Out, graphite and acrylic on magazine paper
10 1/2 x 7 1/2 inches
Cauleen Smith
Ivory Anthropologie #5
2010
White Out, graphite and acrylic on magazine paper
10 1/2 x 7 3/4 inches
Cauleen Smith
Ivory Anthropologie #11
2010
White Out, graphite and acrylic on magazine paper
9 1/2 x 8 inches
Cauleen Smith
Ivory Anthropologie #3
2010
White Out, graphite and acrylic on magazine paper
10 1/2 x 7 3/4 inches
Cauleen Smith
Ivory Anthropologie #20
2010
White Out, graphite and acrylic on magazine paper
9 x 8 inches
Cauleen Smith
Ivory Anthropologie #14
2010
White Out, graphite and acrylic on magazine paper
10 1/2 x 7 3/4 inches
Cauleen Smith
Black and Blue Over You (After Bas Jan Ader for Ishan)
2010
Film transferred to digital video, color, sound
9:40 minutes
Edition 1 of 5 and 2 APs
Cauleen Smith
Ivory Anthropologie #17
2010
White Out, graphite and acrylic on magazine paper
10 1/2 x 9 inches
Cauleen Smith
Remote Viewing
2009
digital video
14:00 minutes
Edition of five and two Artist’s Proofs
Cauleen Smith
Ivory Anthropologie #22
2010
White Out, graphite and acrylic on magazine paper
10 1/2 x 9 inches
Cauleen Smith
Remote Viewing
2009
digital video
14:00 minutes
Edition of five and two Artist’s Proofs
Cauleen Smith
Camera Lucida
2015
graphite, watercolor and gouache on paper
12 x 8 1/2 inches
Cauleen Smith
Women, Race & Class
2015
graphite and watercolor on paper
12 x 8 1/2 inches
Cauleen Smith
Open Veins of Latin America
2016
graphite, watercolor, acrylic and gouache on paper
12 x 8 1/2 inches
Cauleen Smith
This Bridge Called My Back
2015
graphite, watercolor and acrylic on paper
12 x 8 1/2 inches
Cauleen Smith
Ivory Anthropologie #16
2010
White Out, graphite and acrylic on magazine paper
13 x 7 3/4 inches
Cauleen Smith
In the Wake: On Blackness and Being
2019
gouache on paper
12 x 9 inches
Cauleen Smith, Apartment Therapy 2, 2019, shelf frame, Grape Agate cluster (Mamuju Sulawesi Indonesia), pastels, found image, 9 1/2 x 12 x 4 inches. Photo: Aron Gent.
Cauleen Smith, Apartment Therapy 5, 2019, shelf frame, Rough Septarian (Madagscar), pastels, found image, 17 1/2 x 12 1/4 x 5 1/4 inches. Photo: Aron Gent.
Cauleen Smith, Apartment Therapy 7, 2019, shelf frame, Fluorite crystal cube cluster (Madagascar), pastels, found image, 17 1/2 x 12 1/4 x 5 1/4 inches. Photo: Aron Gent.
Cauleen Smith
Sinners Keep On Trying: Madikizela
2019
glazed cassius basalt ceramic
12 x 11 x 7 inches
Cauleen Smith
Sinners Keep On Trying: O.D.B.
2019
glazed cassius basalt ceramic
15 x 10 x 9 inches
Cauleen Smith
Sinners Keep On Trying: Rick James
2019
glazed cassius basalt ceramic
17 x 8 x 11 inches
Cauleen Smith
Light up My Life (For Sandra Bland)
2019
Neon, plexiglass, faceted hematite and aluminum chain
78 x 48 inches
Edition 1 of 3 and 1AP
Installation view of Loitering is delightful, Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery
October 31, 2019 - January 12, 2020
Image courtesy of the Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery, Photograph by Jeff McLane
Cauleen Smith
Orange Jumpsuit
2019
Film transferred to digital video, color, sound
Edition of five and two Artist’s Proofs
Cauleen Smith
I Appreciate You in Advance
2018
Fiberglass screen, woven metalic polyesters, woven two-tone silk
53 x 310 inches
Cauleen Smith
Cotton Plant 187?
2018
HD digital video
6:43 minutes
Edition of five and two Artist’s Proofs
Cauleen Smith
SOJOURNERS
2018
six mylar and fabric banners Dimensions vary
Cauleen Smith
We Were Never Meant To Survive
2017
satin, poly-satin, wool felt, upholstery, indigo-dyed silk-rayon velvet, metallic thread, embroidery floss,acrylic fabric paint, poly-silk tassels, and sequins
72 x 52 inches
Cauleen Smith
Camera, Pen, or Gun?
2017
satin, poly-satin, silk-rayon velvet, indigo-dyed silk-rayon velvet, indigo- dyed silk satin, rayon-polyester ribbon, acrylic fabric paint, satin cord, poly-silk tassel, and sequins
73 x 47 inches
Cauleen Smith
Pigeons Are Black Doves
2017
satin, poly-satin, indigo-dyed silk-rayon velvet, indigo-dyed silk satin, embroidery floss, acrylic fabric paint, satin cord, polyester fringe, poly-silk tassels, and sequins
70 x 49 1/2 inches
Cauleen Smith
Three Songs about Liberation
2017
16 mm transferred to digital
9:27 minutes
Edition of five and two Artist’s Proofs
Cauleen Smith
Three Songs about Liberation
2017
16 mm transferred to digital
9:27 minutes
Edition of five and two Artist’s Proofs
Cauleen Smith
Chip’s Block
2016
four drawings, graphite, watercolor and/or acrylic on graph paper
8 1/2 x 11 1/5 inches each
14 1/2 x 11 x 1 inches each (framed)
Cauleen Smth, Contuct Your Blooming, 2015, installed at University Art Galleries, UC Irvine 2017.
Cauleen Smith
Conduct your Blooming
2015
seven banners, sequin and satin fabric with felt, cotton, velvet and rayon letters
Dimensions vary
Cauleen Smith
Crow Requiem
2015
Digital Video
11:08 minutes
Edition of five and two Artist’s Proofs
Cauleen Smith
Egungun
2015
Archival pigment print on rag paper
12 x 9 inches; 21 x 18 x 1 1/2 inches (framed) Edition 2 of 8 & 2 APs
Cauleen Smith
Lessons in Semaphore
2015
16 mm film transferred to digital file
1:40 minutes
Edition of five and two Artist’s Proofs
Cauleen Smith
H-E-L-L-O
2014
digital video
11:06 minutes
Edition 1 of 5 and 2 APs
Cauleen Smith
The Score
2012
ceramic
10 1/2 x 8 1/4 inches
Cauleen Smith
Space Is the Place (A March for Sun Ra)
2011
HD video
10 minutes, 56 seconds
edition of 5, 1 AP
BIO
Lives and works in Los Angeles, CA.
Cauleen Smith (born Riverside, California, 1967) is an interdisciplinary artist whose work reflects upon the everyday possibilities of the imagination. Operating in multiple materials and arenas, Smith roots her work firmly within the discourse of mid-twentieth-century experimental film. Drawing from structuralism, third world cinema, and science fiction, she makes things that deploy the tactics of these disciplines while offering a phenomenological experience for spectators and participants.
Her films, objects, and installations have been featured in group exhibitions including the Whitney Biennial (2017), Prospect 4, New Orleans (2017), Studio Museum Harlem; the Contemporary Art Museum Houston; the New Museum, New York; and BALTIC Center for Contemporary Art, Gateshead, UK. She has had solo exhibitions at MASS MoCA; the Art Institute of Chicago; Institute for Contemporary Art Pennsylvania; the Museum of Contemporary, Chicago; Los Angeles Museum of Contemporary Art; the Contemporary Arts Museum Houston and a two person exhibition with Theaster Gates at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art.
Smith is the recipient of numerous grants and awards including the 2022 Heinz Award, the Guggenheim Fellowship, the 2020 Wein Artist Prize from the Studio Museum in Harlem, the inaugural Ellsworth Kelly Award from the Foundation for Contemporary Art in 2016, the 2016 Herb Alpert Award for Film/Video, Rockefeller Media Arts Award, Creative Capital Film /Video, Chicago 3Arts Grant, the Foundation for Contemporary Arts, Artadia, a Rauschenberg Residency in 2015 and recently in 2019, Smith was an artist in residence at Artpace. Smith was born in Riverside, California and grew up in Sacramento. Smith earned a B.A in Cinema from San Francisco State University in 1991 and an M.F.A. from the University of California, Los Angeles in 1998. Smith studied with Trinh T. Minh Ha, Angela Davis, and Lynn Hershman-Leeson at San Francisco State University. She attended the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture in 2007. Smith lives in Los Angeles and is a Professor at CalArts School of Art.
Curriculum Vitae
PDF - Cauleen Smith CVExhibitions
- Cauleen Smith Space Is the Place (A March for Sun Ra) September 14 - October 12, 2024
- Nothing Is: Sun Ra and Others' Covers January 24 - March 1, 2025
- Art Basel Miami Beach 2022 December 1 - 3, 2022
- Cauleen Smith & Shannon Stratton Twin Voids June 25 - August 7, 2021
- Cosmic Meteorites & Other Burners July 17 - August 22, 2020
- The Big Dig: Joe McPhee & Cauleen Smith July 24, 2020
- EXPO Chicago 50 Years: 1968-2018 September 27 - 30, 2018
- Small Sculpture September 8 - October 14, 2017
- Cauleen Smith October 21 - December 3, 2016
- Cauleen Smith Ivory Anthropologie July 18 - August 29, 2015
News + Events
- Cauleen Smith’s COVID MANIFESTO Showing at Piccadilly Circus
- Cauleen Smith Awarded the 2020 Wein Artist Prize
- Cauleen Smith’s Mutualities Featured in The New York Times
- Cauleen Smith Interviewed in Hyperallergic
- Cauleen Smith Interviewed in Art in America
- Cauleen Smith interviewed in Hyperallergic
- Cauleen Smith on the cover and featured in Art Forum
- Cauleen Smith’s exhibition, Give It or Leave It, opens at the Institute for Contemporary Art at Virginia Commonwealth University
- Film Screening: Cauleen Smith
- Review – Cauleen Smith in Art in America
- Cauleen Smith awarded a United States Artists 2018 Fellowship
- Review – Cauleen Smith at Gallery TPW
- Cauleen Smith Profiled in the Chicago Tribune
- Frieze.com Critic’s Guide to Chicago featuring Small Sculpture at Corbett vs. Dempsey | David Hartt | Cauleen Smith
- Cauleen Smith featured in the Chicago Tribune
- Cauleen Smith in Nylon Magazine
- Cauleen Smith in Whitney Biennial 2017 on view at Whitney Museum of American Art, New York
- Cauleen Smith’s Asterisms reviewed in Artforum
- Cauleen Smith receives Herb Alpert Award
- Cauleen Smith in Histories of Sexuality at New Museum
- Cauleen Smith and Joshua Mosley screenings at the Schaulager
- Cauleen Smith one of two recipients of FCA award in the Visual Arts
- New 4K restoration of Cauleen Smith's 1998 feature debut 'Drylongso'
- Cauleen Smith receives The Heinz Award for the Arts
- Cauleen Smith in group show at Smithsonian American Art Museum
- Cauleen Smith in group show at JTT
- Cauleen Smith solo exhibition at Morán Morán, Los Angeles
- PLAYING HER PART: Short Films and Videos by Cauleen Smith