Kiki Smith
Born in 1954, Nürnberg, Germany
Lives and works in New York City, United States
Overview
American artist Kiki Smith has produced over the course of her career a multi-layered body of work exploring the sociopolitical, philosophical, and spiritual dimensions of human nature. Her investigations of the body, the female body in particular, propose discourses of the human condition. Her works address core themes from aging, death and dying, to wounding and healing, reanimation, pregnancy, birth, sexuality, gender, identity, and memory. While largely sculptural, Smith’s oeuvre employs a r...Read more