EDUCATION
2015 MFA Photo, Video and Related Media - School of Visual Arts, New York, NY
2007 BFA Photography; Graphic Design Minor - Savannah College of Art and Design, Savannah, GA
2001 AA Film Production - Miami-Dade College, Miami, FL
PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES
2019 Co-Director, Ortega y Gasset Projects
CURATORIAL PROJECTS
2019 Twist and Twine Annual Open Call Exhibition - Paradice Palase, Brooklyn, NY (Guest Juror / Co-Curator)
2017 Up-Root - Periphery Space, Pawtucket, RI (Co-Curator)
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2018 Thank You for the Souvenir - Montserrat College of Art, Beverly, MA (Solo Exhibition)
A Moment in the Sun - Recess Assembly, Brooklyn, NY (Solo Exhibition)
2017 Plant Life - Space Create, Newburgh, NY (Solo exhibit)
For Tropical Girls... - The Wassaic Project, Wassaic, NY (Solo exhibit)
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2019 ALTAR: Prayer, Ritual, Offering, presented by MFON: Women Photographers of the African Diaspora - Jacob Lawrence Gallery,
University of Washington, Seattle, WA
Idol Worship (guest curated by Emily Colucci) - Smack Mellon, Brooklyn, NY
At the Pith - Nook Gallery, Oakland, CA
Subject / Object - Longwood Art Gallery at Hostos, Bronx, NY
Front and Center/ed - Black Gotham, Brooklyn, NY
2018 NE9: The Fruit and the Seed - National Art Gallery of the Bahamas, Nassau, Bahamas
In the Future When... - Welancora Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
San Gennaro 2018 - Baxter St. CCNY, New York, NY
Family Room - I am CaribBEING, Brooklyn, NY
It Just Sort of Happens One Day - Paradice Palase, Brooklyn, NY
Citizen - Yeh Gallery, St. John’s University, Queens, NY
Legacy of the Cool: A Tribute to Barkley L. Hendricks - Bakalar & Paine Galleries, MassArt, Boston, MA
2017 Miami is Nice - SpaceCamp, Baltimore, MD
The Future is (Black) Femme - Atype, Newy York, NY
Predator, Twilight, Edible - Fjord Gallery, Philadelphia, PA
Bronx Calling: The Fourth AIM Biennial - Bronx Museum of the Arts, Bronx, NY
Re: Art Show One Year Anniversary Show - (Alternative space - reclaimed Pfizer facility), Brooklyn, NY
A Dark Rock Surged Upon - Garner Arts Festival, Garnerville, NY
Round 46 | Black Women Artists for Black Lives Matter at Project Row Houses -
(collective project co-curated by Ryan N. Dennis and Simone Leigh) - Project Row Houses, Houston, Texas
Black Artstory, The Altar: Rituals of Healing in the African Diaspora - Myrtle Avenue, Brooklyn, NY
SPRING/BREAK Art Show - Conde Nast building, Times Square, NYC
Jamaica Biennial 2017 - National Gallery of Jamaica, Kingston, Jamaica
2016 Make Me Feel Like A Woman - (curated by Wardell Milan), Long Gallery, Harlem, NY
Re: Art Show - (Alternative space - reclaimed Pfizer facility), Brooklyn, NY
Psychedelic Pantry Party - Ortega y Gasset Projects, Brooklyn, NY (Screening)
Flux Art Fair, Harlem - Marcus Garvey Park, Harlem, NY (Public Project)
Unabashedly, The Roger Smith Hotel, New York, NY
Color of the Year - presented by X-Rite and Pantone, UICA, Grand Rapids, MI
All Your Wide Futures, The Gateway Project, Newark, NJ (Public Project)
2015 SAMO Journey - Photo NOLA, PORT, New Orleans, LA
International Photo Festival, Leiden, The Netherlands
Photoville 2015, Brooklyn Bridge Park, New York, NY
Published by the Artist, International Print Center, New York, NY
Ticka Arts, O2 Gallery, Austin, TX
Licking the Trigger, SVA Gramercy Gallery, New York, NY
MFA Photo/Video 2015 Thesis, SVA Chelsea Gallery, New York, NY
2014 Jamaica Biennial 2014, National Gallery of Jamaica, Kingston, Jamaica
BIBLIOGRAPHY
- PhotoWork: Forty Photographers on Process and Practice, Edited and introduced by Sasha Wolf, October 2019, Aperture, New York. Print.
- Seph Rodney, “An Exhibition in the Bahamas Crosses Boundaries and Borders” hyperallergic.com, March 28, 2019
- Jen Shepard, “A Funeral and a Tourist Trap” thecoastalpost.com, February 25, 2019
- Bitch Media, Bitch: Feminist Response to Pop Culture, Travel Issue #79, Summer 2018, 45-49, Print.
- Diana Budds, “How a Brooklyn art gallery is fighting mass incarceration”, Curbed NY, ny.curbed.com, April 20, 2018
- Greg Cook, “Reenvisioning Black Pride And Identity In The Barkley Hendricks Tribute ‘Legacy Of The Cool’”, Wonderland, gregcookland.com/wonderland, March 1 2018
- Pamela Reynolds, “MassArt's Barkley L. Hendricks Tribute 'Legacy Of The Cool' Is Too Hot To Overlook”, The ARTery, wbur.org/artery, February 09, 2018
- Adolfo Steve Vazquez, “International Women’s Day feature - Tiffany Smith Visual Artist / Queens Collaborator”, queenscapes.nyc, March 8, 2018
- Brittany Britto, “Baltimore couple draw on 'Golden Girls' as inspiration for art exhibit, and their wedding'” The Baltimore Sun, baltimoresun.com, October 6, 2017
- Bronx Calling: The Fourth AIM Biennial Catalog, July, 2017, The Bronx Museum of the Arts. Print.
- Suhaly Bautista-Carolina, “Tiffany Smith: The Perpetual Tourist'” Art Slant, artslant.com, February 2, 2017
- Barbara Gallo Farrell, “Artist's vision unfolds like 'tropicolor melodrama'” Poughkeepsie Journal, poughkeepsiejournal.com, January 25, 2017
- Ashlin Randolph, “Black Women Artists Matter: In conversation with Tiffany Smith” newmuseum.tumblr.com, October 2016
- “Faculty Member Wardell Milan in Conversation with Tiffany Smith” mfaphoto.sva.edu/alicemag, October, 2016
- Jacqueline Cantu & Markee Speyer, Ginger Zine (cover) Issue No. 5, 2016: 39-45. Gingerzine.net
- Seph Rodney, “A Gateway into the Newark Art Scene” hyperallergic.com, July 28, 2016
- Martha Schwendener, “4 Non-Frieze Art Fairs to Explore This Weekend”, mobile.nytimes.com, May 5, 2016
- “New York’s Photoville” cbsnews.com, September 20, 2015
- Seph Rodney, “A Monthlong Harlem Art Fair Pops Up in Public Spaces”, hyperallergic.com, May 6, 2016
- “Photoville photographers in sea containers at IFL”, photofestivalleiden.com, October 8, 2015
- Sarah Stacke, “PDN Photo of the Day” potd.pdnonline.com, September 25, 2015
- Christina Arza & Chelsea Kozak, Steadfast Magazine, Issue No. 1, 2015: 13. Print
- The 2014 Jamaica Biennial Catalogue, exhibition catalog, December, 2014, The National Gallery of Jamaica, Kingston, Jamaica. Print.
- Allison Hersh, “Facing the music: hip-hop's vibrant culture,” savannahnnow.com, July 20, 2007
AWARDS / HONORS / GRANTS
2020 We Women Grant - to produce The Fourth Ward Photo Parlour project in Houston, TX in 2020
2019 EnFoco Photography Fellowship Awardee
2018 2018 NYSCA/NYFA Artist Fellow in Interdisciplinary Work from The New York Foundation for the Arts
2017 PDN 30 2017 Nominee
2016 Art Slant Prize 2016 Winner - 2nd Place
Marcus Garvey Park Alliance Grant
ARTIST LECTURES / PRESENTATIONS / WORKSHOPS
2019 Presentation/Workshop - Cameron Visiting Artist, Middlebury College, Middlebury, VT, April, 2019
2018 Artist Talk - “NE:9 The Fruit and the Seed” Exhibition, NAGB, Nassau, Bahamas, December, 2018
Artist Talk - “Thank You for the Souvenir” Exhibition, Montserrat College of Art, Beverly, MA, October 2018
Artist Talk - “In the Future When...” Exhibition, Curated by Daricia Mia Demarr, featuring Damien Davis, Delano Dunn and Tiffany Smith,
moderated by Antwaun Sargent, Welancora Gallery, Brooklyn, NY, October, 2018
Workshop - “The Black School” Photo Workshop, Sugar Hill Children’s Museum, New York, NY, November, 2018
Lecture/Presentation - Guest Lecturer Presentations at ICP, New York, NY
2017 Lecture/Presentation - “Shifting Discourses” with Teju Cole and Daniel Johnson, SVA MFA Photo/Video,
New York, NY, September 2017
Artist Talk - “For Tropical Girls..” Exhibition, The Wassaic Project, Wassaic, NY, March 2017
Lecture/Presentation - Guest Lecturer Presentations at ICP, New York, NY
2016 Workshop - “The Black School” Photo Workshop, Brooklyn, NY, December 2016
Lecture/Presentation - “Performing the Continent: Re-Imagining African Identities Through Multidisciplinary Art Practices”
Moderator: Nikki A. Greene, Panelists: Rashayla Marie Brown, Kenyatta A.C. Hinkle, Helina Metaferia, Tiffany Smith; BLACK
PORTRAITURE[S] III: Reinventions: Strains of Histories and Cultures, Johannesburg, South Africa, November 2016
Artist Talk - “All Your Wide Futures” Exhibition, Gateway Project Spaces, Newark, NJ, March 2016
ARTIST RESIDENCIES
2018 Recess Assembly, Recess Art, Brooklyn, NY, Spring 2018
2017 Bronx AIM Program, Bronx Museum, NY, Summer 2017
Malba Arts Project, Malba, Queens, NY, August 2017
2016 Wassaic Artist Residency, Wassaic, NY, August 2016
TEACHING
2020 Part-time Faculty, Parsons School of Design, New York, NY
2018-2020 Visiting Assistant Professor, Photography Department, Pratt University, Brooklyn, NY
2019 Teaching Artist, Recess Assembly, New York, NY
Visiting Artist, University of Bahamas SAI Program, Nassau, Bahamas
2018 Instructor, Digital Photography, Harlem School of the Arts, Harlem, NY
2017 Teaching Artist, The Black School, New York, NY
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