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Karinne Smith
American, b. 1992, Lives, works in New Haven, CT 



EDUCATION

2020
MFA, Sculpture, Yale University, New Haven, CT

2013
BFA, Art Practice, University of California, Berkeley, CA 



SELECTED EXHIBITIONS

2023

Shapeshifting: Or, Synonyms for Skin
Anna-Sophie Berger, Nicola Costantino, Hannah Levy, Karinne Smith, Rosemarie Trockel
CCS Bard Thesis Exhibition, curated by Mary Kathryn Fellios
Center for Curatorial Studies, Bard College
Hessel Museum of Art, Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, NY


2022

VISCERA
curated by Moira Sims
Carolina Fusilier, Sylvie Hayes-Wallace,
Priscilla Jeong, Umico Niwa, Sydney Shen, Karinne Smith
Simone Subal, New York, NY

Augurhythms
Earth Aengel, Suzanne Anker, Phong Bui, Geoff Chadsey, Justin Cloud, Coleman Collins, Theresa Daddezzio,
Angela Dufresne, Lauren Fejarang, Sasha Fishman, Kara Gut, Ronald Hall, Anthony Hawley, Fox Hysen, Mala Iqbal, Myeongsoo Kim, Mo Kong, Michael Jones McKean, Lubos Plny, Nevena Prijic, Erik Probst, Timur Si-Qin,
Karinne Smith, Jane South, Peat Szilagyi, Didier William, Andrew Woolbright
Hesse-Flatow, New York, NY


2021 
Melon Skin (solo)
M 2 3, New York, NY 

Girl You Want
Genevieve Gaignard, Ivy Stewart, Jen Liu, Josh Rabineau, Julia Greenburger,
Karinne Smith, María Aguilar, Wendy Red Star 
ArtYard, Frenchtown, NJ 

The Red Wedding
Lise Haller Baggesen, Emmy Bright, Vaginal Davis, Fatemeh Kazemi and Yasmina Hashemi, Evan Kleekamp,
Dorrie Lane, Adam Milner, Jeffry Mitchell, Catie Rutledge, Alexandro Segade, Barbara T. Smith, Karinne Smith,
Beth Stephens and Annie Sprinkle, Laurie Stern, Ryan Wilde
RUSCHMAN, Chicago, IL 

Straight Lick (online)
Organized by Ebony L. Haynes with the website http://inflatableworld.site 
created in partnership with curator, David Lisbon


2020 
Yale Sculpture MFA 2020 (online)
Genevieve Goffman, Lauren Lee, Efrat Lipkin, Randi Renate, Anna Miller,
Peyton Peyton, David Roy, Sam Shoemaker, Karinne Smith, Anne Wu, Alex Zak
M 2 3, New York, NY 

No Deep Kissing, MFA Thesis Exhibition
Efrat Lipkin, Randi Renate, Anna Miller, Sam Shoemaker, Karinne Smith, Anne Wu
Yale University, New Haven, CT 


2019
No Shame November (performance)
Yale University, New Haven, CT 

Chocolate (online)
The Wrong Biennale, Sometimes Gallery

Reading Silences
Aaron Jones, Zinnia Naqvi, Joi T. Arcand, Sharzad Changalvaee, Karinne Smith
Forest City Gallery, London, Ontario 


2018
Generation - The 2018 UC Berkeley Art Alumni Group Exhibition
Worth Ryder Gallery, Berkeley, CA


AWARDS/EXPERIENCE

2020 - 2022
Image Archivist, Felix Gonzalez-Torres Archive
Andrea Rosen Gallery, New York, NY


2021, 2022
Adjunct Faculty, University of New Haven, New Haven, CT


2021      
Connecticut Office of the Arts Emerging Recognition Award 

Visiting Artist Lecturer & Critic
Body Image: Racing Abstraction and Surfacing Figuration in Contemporary Art and its Histories
Bennington College, Bennington, VT


2020 
Black Womxn & GNC Artists Grant, Topical Cream
Selection committee included Legacy Russell, Associate Curator of Exhibitions, The Studio Museum in Harlem, 
artist Theresa Chromati, artist Sondra Perry

Visual Arts Fund Recipient, West Collection

Dean's Critical Practice Research Grant, School of Art, Yale University 

Visiting Artist Lecture
Place Matters: Indigeneity, Subjectivity, and Medium in Contemporary Art
Bennington College, Bennington, VT 


2019 
Fannie B. Pardee Scholarship for Excellence in Sculpture, Yale University

Artist Collective Summer School, Institute of Contemporary Arts, London, UK 

PUBLICATIONS

2023
Karinne Smith in Conversation with Samuel Staples, CODE, issue 02

2021
Art in Transit with Karinne Smith, by Andrew Woolbright, The Brooklyn Rail, October 5, 2021.

ArtYard’s New Art Center Opens With Inaugural Exhibition Girl You Want, Hyperallergic, May 5, 2021

2020
Interview with Karinne Smith, by Justice Thelot, Sometimes.gallery, 23 May 2020

Lipstick Effects, by Matt Morris for Trestle Gallery, 30 May 2020