Education
Master of Fine Arts, Sculpture, Yale University, 2020
Bachelor of Arts, Art Practice, University of California, Berkeley, 2013
Solo Exhibitions
2025 West Follies, Caravan Gallery, Fort Worth, TX
2021 Melon Skin, M23 Projects, New York, NY
2019 Chocolate, Sometimes Gallery, The Wrong Biennale
Group Exhibitions
2026 Upcoming exhibition: Looking For America, Ogunquit Museum of American Art, Ogunquit, ME
2025 As beautiful as a chance encounter with a sewing machine, Hesse Flatow, New York, NY
2025 Veronica, Veronica, Hesse Flatow, New York, NY
2023 Small Works Show, 400h Gallery, Fort Worth, TX
2023 Shapeshifting: Or, Synonyms for Skin, CCS Hessel Museum of Art, Annandale-on-Hudson, NY
2022 Viscera, Simone Subal Gallery, New York, NY
2022 Augurhythms, Hesse Flatow, New York, NY
2021 Girl You Want, ArtYard, Frenchtown, NJ
2021 The Red Wedding, RUSCHMAN, Chicago, IL
2021 Straight Lick, Online Exhibition, Ebony Haynes
2020 Yale Sculpture MFA 2020, Online Exhibition, M23 Projects, New York, NY
2020 No Deep Kissing, MFA Thesis Exhibition, Yale University, New Haven, CT
2019 Reading Silences, Forest City Gallery, London, Ontario
2018 Generation - The 2018 UC Berkeley Art Alumni Group Exhibition, Worth Ryder Gallery, Berkeley, CA
Awards, Residencies, Fellowships
2025 Anderson Ranch Visiting Artist Residency
2023 Sundance Square Artist-in-Residence
2021 Connecticut Office of the Arts Emerging Recognition Award
2020 Black Womxn & GNC Artists Grant, Topical Cream
2020 Visual Arts Fund recipient, West Collection
2020 Dean's Critical Practice Research Grant, School of Art, Yale University
2019 Fannie B. Pardee Scholarship for Excellence in Sculpture, Yale University
2019 Artist Collective Summer School, Institute of Contemporary Arts, London, UK
Bibliography
“Exploring the Unique Use of Collagen in Karinne Smith’s Practice,” Artsy Scoop, March 10, 2025.
“Karinne Smith in Conversation with Samuel Staples,” Samuel Staples, CODE Magazine, May 20, 2023.
“Art in Transit with Karinne Smith,” Andrew Woolbright, The Brooklyn Rail, October 5, 2021.
“Interview with Karinne Smith,” Justice Thelot, Sometimes.gallery, May 23, 2020.
“Lipstick Effects,” Matt Morris, Trestle Gallery, May 30, 2020.