Artist

Kiki Smith

Portrait of Kiki Smith

American, b. 1954

Kiki Smith is an American artist. 26 works are cataloged here, principally at Museum of Modern Art. Kiki Smith was born in Nuremberg.

Kiki Smith is a German-born American artist whose work has addressed the themes of sex, birth and regeneration. Her figurative work of the late 1980s and early 1990s confronted subjects such as AIDS, feminism, and gender, while recent works have depicted the human condition in relationship to nature. Smith lives and works on the Lower East Side of Manhattan in New York City, and in the Hudson Valley.

Collections represented

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