Alexandria Smith

Alexandria Smith was born in the Bronx, New York, in 1981 and lives and works in New York. Exhibitions include All the Women in Me…, Levitt Gallery, University of Iowa, Iowa City (2016); Try a Little Tenderness, Union for Contemporary Art, Omaha, NE (2017); A Litany for Survival, Boston University (2018); Of Water and Spirit, Hallwalls Contemporary Arts Center, Buffalo, NY (2019); Monuments to an Effigy, Queens Museum, New York (2019); Seeds to Harvest, Davis Museum, Wellesley College, MA (2019–22); and Memoirs of a Ghost Girlhood: a Black Girl’s Window, Currier Museum of Art, Manchester, NH (2022–23). Smith is assistant professor in painting and printmaking and director of undergraduate studies at the Yale School of Art, New Haven, Connecticut, and from 2017 through 2018 served as co-organizer of the collective Black Women Artists for Black Lives.

Source: Gagosian