| Biography | Press
| KIKI SMITH | |
| 1954 | geboren in Nürnberg / born in Nuremberg, Germany |
| lebt und arbeitet in / lives and works New York, USA |
| 2000 | Skowhegan Medal for Sculpture |
| 2005 | Elected member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters Recipient of the Athena Award for Excellence in Printmaking, Rhode Island School of Design |
| 2008 | Her Home, Museum Haus Esters, Krefeld, Museum für Moderne Kunst, Nürnberg (*) |
| 2006 | A Gathering, 1980-2005, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, travelling in 2006-2007 to: - Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, USA - Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston, USA - Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, USA (*) |
| 2005 | Homespun Tales. Storie di occupazione domestica, Fondazione Querini Stampalia, Venice, Italy Bronze, Relief and Drawings, Barbara Gross Galerie Munich, Germany Prints, Books & Things, Museum of Modern Art, New York, USA |
| 2003 | Homework, The Fabric Workshop and Museum, Philadelphia, USA Kiki Smith: Works on Paper, Museum of Modern Art, Queens New York, USA |
| 2002 | Kiki Smith: Near, Galerie Lelong Paris, France, Galerie Lelong Zürich, Switzerland Kiki Smith, Galerie Rene Blouin, Montréal, Canada |
| 2001 | small sculptures and large drawings, Ulmer Museum, Ulm Telling Tales, (with Hans Bellmer, Behind Closed Doors), International Center of Photography, New York Gallery M + R Fricke Duesseldorf, Germany |
| 2000 | Works with Paper by Kiki Smith, St. Louis Art Museum, St. Louis, USA |
| 1999 | Kiki Smith - Martin Schwenk, Galerie M + R Fricke Duesseldorf, Germany Creation, Diözesanmuseum, Freising, Germany Your are the sunshine of my life, Fruitmarket Gallery, Edinburgh, GB Of Her Nature, PaceWildenstein, New York, USA |
| 1998 | All Creatures Great and Small, Kestner Gesellschaft, Hannover, Germany Photographs 1997-98, Galerie M + R Fricke Berlin, Germany |
| 1997 | The Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin, Ireland |
| 1996 | Works 1988-1995, St. Petri Kirche, Lübeck, Germany Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, USA The Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, Montreal, Canada |
| 1995 | Whitechapel Art Gallery, London, GB |
| 1994 | Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Humlebaek, USA Israel Museum, Jerusalem, Israel |
| 1993 | Anthony D'Offay Gallery, London, Great Britain Wexner Center for the Arts, Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio, USA |
| 1992 | Galerie M + R Fricke Düsseldorf, Germany Fawbush Gallery, New York, USA Silent, MAK Museum für angewandte Kunst, Wien, Austria Moderna Museet, Stockholm, Sweden Bonner Kunstverein, Bonn, Germany Rose Art Museum, Brandeis University, Waltham MA, USA |
| 1991 | Institute of Contemporary Art, Amsterdam, Holland University Art Museum, Berkeley, California, USA Projects: Kiki Smith, Museum of Modern Art, New York, USA |
| 1990 | Centre d'Art Contemporain, Genf, Switzerland Fawbush Gallery, New York, USA Institute for Art and Urban Resources at the Clocktower, New York, USA |
| 1989 | Galerie Rene Blouin, Montreal, Canada Center for the Arts, Wesleyan University, Middletown, USA |
| 1982 | Life Wants to Live, The Kitchen, New York, USA |
| 2007 | Review & Preview (Review), Galerie M + R Fricke, Berlin |
| 2005 | Contemporary Voices: Works from the UBS Collection, Museum of Modern Art, New York - travelled to Fondation Beyeler, Basel, Switzerland Exhibition of Work by newly elected Members and Recipients of Honors and Awards, The American Academy of Arts and Letters, New York, USA The Giving Person, Palazzo delle Arti Napoli, Palazzo Roccella, Italy The Forest: Politics, Poetics and Practice, Nasher Museum of Art, Duke University Durham, NC, USA |
| 2004 | Birdspace: A Post-Audobun Artists Aviary, Contemporary Arts Center, New Orleans, USA East Village USA, New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York, USA Noah‘s Ark, National Gallery of Canada at La Cité de l’énergie Shawinigan, Ontario, USA Andata e ritorno - artiste contemporanee tra Europa e USA, Palazzo Bonacossi, Ferrara, Italy Otherworlds: The Art of Nancy Spero and Kiki Smith, Baltic - The Centre for Contemporary Art, Gateshead, GB Making the body in contemporary sculpture, Allen Memorial Art Museum, Oberlin College, Ohio, USA Carpe Diem Press Oaxaca: James Brown, Dan McCleary, George Moore, Kiki Smith, Rob Wynne, - Texas Gallery, Houston, USA Private Öffentlichkeit, Galerie im Museum Folkwang, Essen, Germany Warum! Why! Image Reflection Self-Image, Martin Gropius Bau, Berlin, Germany Metamorphing: Transformation in Science, Art and Mythology, The Science Museum, London, GB |
| 2002 | The Smiths: Tony, Kiki, Seton, Palm Beach Institute of Contemporary Art, USA Sammlung Goetz, Museum Villa Stuck, Munich, Germany Whitney Biennial 2002 in Central Park, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, USA |
| 2001 | Heart of Glass, Queens Museum of Art, Flushing Meadows, New York, USA |
| 2000 | Through the Looking Glass, Galerie M + R Fricke Berlin Düsseldorf, Germany Das Fünfte Element - Geld oder Kunst, Städtische Kunsthalle, Düsseldorf, Germany Zeitwenden - Rückblick und Ausblick, Kunstmuseum Bonn, Germany |
| 1998 | Four Artists: The Boy, the Figure. Eric Fischl, Susan Rothenberg, Joel Shapiro, Kiki Smith, Harvard University at the Carpenter Center, Cambridge Beyond Belief: Modern Art and the Religious Imagination, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, Australia |
| 1997 | The Quick and the Dead: Artists and Anatomy, Royal College of Art, London |
| 1996 | Everything that's interesting is new, The Dakis Joannou Collection / DESTE Foundation, Athens, Greece Happy End, Kunsthalle Düsseldorf, Germany |
| 1995 | Skulptur statt Denkmal, Galerie M + R Fricke Düsseldorf, Germany Kiki Smith / Nan Goldin, Galerie M + R Fricke Düsseldorf, Germany |
| 1994 | Some went mad, some ran away ..., Kunstverein Hannover, Germany |
| 1993 | Über-Leben, Bonner Kunstverein, Bonn, Germany Aperto 1993, Biennale Venice, Italy Whitney Biennal, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, USA Prospect 93, Frankfurt/M, Germany I am The Annunciator, Thread Waxing Space, New York, USA |
| 1992 | Post Human, AEF, Lausanne, Switzerland (travelling) |
| 1991 | Body, Legs, Heads ... and Special Parts, Kunstverein Münster, Germany Burning in Hell, Franklin Furnace, New York, USA (organized by N. Spero) The Interrupted Life, New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York, USA Biennal Exhibition, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, USA |
| 1990 | The Body, The Renaissance Society, The University of Chicago, USA |
| 1985 | Synaethics, PS 1 Museum, Institute for Contemporary Art, Long Island City, USA |
| 1982 | Fashion Moda Store, Documenta VII, Kassel, Germany |
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