TIFFANY SMITH | tiffanysmithstudio@gmail.com
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2024 Back Home - Ten Nineteen Gallery, New Orleans, LA
2023 Photofairs - Special Projects booth with Tern Gallery, New York, NY
2022 Earthseed - Bronx Museum of the Arts, Bronx, NY
2021 Tourist’s Gaze - Paradice Palase, Brooklyn, NY
2018 Thank You for the Souvenir - Montserrat College of Art, Beverly, MA
A Moment in the Sun - Recess Assembly, Brooklyn, NY
2017 Plant Life - Space Create, Newburgh, NY
For Tropical Girls... - The Wassaic Project, Wassaic, NY
CURATORIAL PROJECTS
2023 Carry featuring Marianna Peragallo at HERE Arts, New York, NY
2022 Swallowed into the Soft Underbelly featuring Kat Ryals and Kate Stone - Ortega y Gasset Projects, Brooklyn, NY (Co-Curator)
2021 Becoming Buoyant featuring Melissa Alcena, Adreinne Elise Tarver and Kenyatta A.C.Hinkle - Ortega y Gasset Projects, Brooklyn, NY (Curator)
2021 Black Equity featuring Ayana M. Evans and Tsedaye Makonnen - Ortega y Gasset Projects, Brooklyn, NY (Co-Curator)
2021 Rendezvous - Virtual program series featuring various artists - Ortega y Gasset Projects, Brooklyn, NY (Co-Curator)
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)
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2025 The Unending Stream - The Ogden Museum of Southern Art, New Orleans, LA
Green X Gold - Kingston Biennial, The National Gallery of Jamaica, West Indes (curated by Dr. Ashley James)
2024 Tall Shadows in Short Order - The Wassaic Project Summer Exhibition, The Wassaic Project, Wassaic, NY
2022 Called to the Camera: Black American Studio Photographers - New Orleans Museum of Art, New Orleans, LA
In the Absence of Memories… There are Fragments - Transmitter Gallery, Brooklyn, New York, NY
Mystic Picnic - SPRING/BREAK Art Show, New York, NY
Throned at Photoville presented by SVA CE Department, New York, NY
2021 Other Side of the Pentaprism - Tern Gallery, Nassau, Bahamas
Floating Rib - National Art Gallery of the Bahamas, Nassau, Bahamas
Caribbean Revisited: Works by Joiri Minaya and Tiffany Smith - Online Screening, Microscope Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
Black Refractions Short Film Screening - Frye Art Museum, Seattle, WA
2020 Bite the Hand - Monaco, St. Louis, MO
Bathing in Blackness - SoMad, New York, NY
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
Subject / Object - Longwood Art Gallery at Hostos, Bronx, NY
2018 NE9: The Fruit and the Seed - National Art Gallery of the Bahamas, Nassau, Bahamas
In the Future When... - Welancora Gallery, Brooklyn, 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
Predator, Twilight, Edible - Fjord Gallery, Philadelphia, PA
Bronx Calling: The Fourth AIM Biennial - Bronx Museum of the Arts, Bronx, NY
A Dark Rock Surged Upon - Garner Arts Festival, Garnerville, NY
2017 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
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
Flux Art Fair, Harlem - Marcus Garvey Park, Harlem, NY (Public Project)
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
MFA Photo/Video 2015 Thesis, SVA Chelsea Gallery, New York, NY
2014 Jamaica Biennial 2014, National Gallery of Jamaica, Kingston, Jamaica
SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY
- Sherae Rimpsey, “Tiffany Smith: Back Home” Art Papers, Summer 2024
- Seph Rodney, “Pulling the Caribbean into Conceptual Focus” hyperallergic.com, September 29, 2021
- Jon Feinstein in conversation with Amanda Coulson, “A New Exhibition of Caribbean Photography Inverts the Tourist’s Lens”,
Humble Arts Foundation, August 30, 2021
- Interlocutor “Exhibition Feature - The Other Side of the Pentaprism at Tern Gallery” September 2021
- 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
- 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
- Brittany Britto, “Baltimore couple draw on 'Golden Girls' as inspiration for art exhibit, and their wedding'” The Baltimore Sun,
baltimoresun.com, October 6, 2017
- 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
PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES
2024 The Laundromat Project Create Change Fellow, Brooklyn, NY
2022 - 2023 Staff Photographer, R and Company, New York, NY
2019 - 2022 Co-Director, Ortega y Gasset Projects, Brooklyn, NY
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
AWARDS / HONORS / GRANTS
2020 We Women Grant - to produce The Fourth Ward Photo Parlor 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 RESIDENCIES / FELLOWSHIPS
2024 The Laundromat Project Create Change Fellow, Brooklyn, NY
2022 TILT Institute for the Contemporary Image / Photo Green Book Artist in Residence, Philadelphia, PA
2021 Bronx Museum Artist in Residence New York, NY
2019 Cameron Visiting Artist, Middlebury College, Middlebury, VT
2018 Recess Assembly, Recess Art, Brooklyn, NY
2017 Bronx AIM Program, Bronx Museum, NY
Malba Arts Project, Malba, Queens, NY
2016 Wassaic Artist Residency, Wassaic, NY
TEACHING
2018 - 2023 Assistant Professor, Photography Department, Pratt Institute Brooklyn, NY
2021 - 2023 Visiting Assistant Professor, Photography Department, F.I.T., New York, NY
2020 - 2022 Visiting Faculty, International Center of Photography, New York, NY
2019 Teaching Artist, Recess Assembly, New York, NY
Visiting Artist, University of Bahamas SAI Program, Nassau, Bahamas
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