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Artists›Cauleen Smith

Cauleen Smith

1967

WA-00000670

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WikidataQ5054501

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3 cross-verified · 3 single-source

Birth yearWikidata + Duplicate Merge+1· 92%✓
NationalityArtsy + Duplicate Merge+1· 85%✓
WebsiteWikidata· 92%✓
LocationGallery Generic· 72%
BiographyUnknown· 20%
DeceasedUnknown· 20%

Source Registry (3)

Sean-Kellyhttps://www.artsy.net/artist/cauleen-smith
Tier 3 · Scraped/inferred100%
Corbett-Dempseyhttps://www.artsy.net/artist/cauleen-smith
Tier 3 · Scraped/inferred100%
Aic Exhibitions
Tier 3 · Scraped/inferred70%

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Art Institute of Chicago Whitney Museum of American Art

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Artworks (73)

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Firespitters

2020 · Opaque watercolor, graphite pencil, and acrylic ink on paper

Ten sheets, each 12 × 9 in. (30.5 × 22.9 cm)

Whitney Museum of American Art

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Sojourner

2018 · Video, color, sound, 22:41 min.

Whitney Museum of American Art

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No Wonder I Go Under

2017 · Satin, poly-satin, wool felt, indigo-dyed silk-rayon velvet, embroidery floss, acrylic fabric paint, satin cord, polyester fringe, cotton batting, and sequins

Overall: 66 1/8 × 55 × 1 in. (168 × 139.7 × 2.5 cm)

Whitney Museum of American Art

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The Comedians

2017 · Satin, poly-satin, wool felt, silk-rayon velvet, embroidery floss, metallic thread, acrylic fabric paint, satin cord, polyester fringe, poly-silk tassels, and sequins

Overall: 72 3/4 × 51 3/16 × 3/4 in. (184.8 × 130 × 1.9 cm)

Whitney Museum of American Art

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I'm So Black That I Blind You

2017 · Satin, poly-satin, wool felt, silk-rayon velvet, embroidery floss, metallic thread, acrylic fabric paint, poly-silk tassels, and sequins

Overall: 67 × 51 7/8 × 1 3/8 in. (170.2 × 131.8 × 3.5 cm)

Whitney Museum of American Art

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Black Flesh

2017 · Rayon velvet, rayon-polyester ribbon, and sequins

Overall: 67 1/8 × 55 3/8 × 1/4 in. (170.5 × 140.7 × 0.6 cm)

Whitney Museum of American Art

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I Have Nothing Left

2017 · Satin, poly-satin, quilted pleather, upholstery, wool felt, embroidery floss, metallic thread, satin cord, and sequins

Overall: 74 × 51 5/8 × 1 1/2 in. (188 × 131.1 × 3.8 cm)

Whitney Museum of American Art

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Pilgrim

2017 · Video, color, sound, 7:41 min.

Whitney Museum of American Art

Weather, from Human_3.0 Reading List

2016 · Graphite and watercolor with touches of brush and colored inks and acrylic paint on wove graph paper

30 × 21.5 cm (11 13/16 × 8 1/2 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

Flyboy in the Buttermilk, from Human_3.0 Reading List

2016 · Graphite and brush and colored inks with watercolor on wove graph paper

30 × 21.5 cm (11 13/16 × 8 1/2 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

Out of Order, Out of Sight, from Human_3.0 Reading List

2016 · Graphite and brush and colored inks on wove graph paper

30 × 21.5 cm (11 13/16 × 8 1/2 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

Starfish, Sea Urchin, and their Kin, from Human_3.0 Reading List

2016 · Graphite and brush and colored inks and watercolor with touches of opaque watercolor on wove graph paper

30 × 21.5 cm (11 13/16 × 8 1/2 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

Young British & Black, from Human_3.0 Reading List

2016 · Graphite and bush and colored inks and watercolor on wove graph paper

30 × 21.5 cm (11 13/16 × 8 1/2 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

Conduct Your Blooming

2016 · Seven banners: polyester, sequin-dot fabric, felt, cotton, and thread

142.3 × 381 cm (56 × 150 in.); 106.7 × 96.6 cm (42 × 38 in.); 73.7 × 142.3 cm (29 × 56 in.); 106.7 × 94 cm (42 × 37 in.); 73.7 × 142.3 cm (29 × 56 in.); 106.7 × 94 cm (42 × 37 in.); 139.7 × 279.4 cm (55 × 110 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

Orlando, from Human_3.0 Reading List

2016 · Graphite and brush and colored inks on wove graph paper

30 × 21.5 cm (11 13/16 × 8 1/2 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

Citizen: An American Lyric, from Human_3.0 Reading List

2016 · Graphite and watercolor with touches of acrylic paint and black glitter on wove graph paper

30 × 21.5 cm (11 13/16 × 8 1/2 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

Inferno, from Human_3.0 Reading List

2016 · Graphite and brush and colored inks on wove graph paper

30 × 21.5 cm (11 13/16 × 8 1/2 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

Grapefruit, from Human_3.0 Reading List

2016 · Graphite and brush and colored inks and watercolor on wove graph paper

30 × 21.5 cm (11 13/16 × 8 1/2 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

Harriet Tubman, from Human_3.0 Reading List

2016 · Graphite and and brush and colored inks with touches of acrylic paint on wove graph paper

30 × 21.5 cm (11 13/16 × 8 1/2 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

25 Kites that Fly, from Human_3.0 Reading List

2016 · Graphite and brush and colored inks on wove graph paper

30 × 21.5 cm (11 13/16 × 8 1/2 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

The Black Jacobins, from Human_3.0 Reading List

2016 · Graphite and watercolor with touches of brush and colored inks and acrylic paint on wove graph paper

30 × 21.5 cm (11 13/16 × 8 1/2 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

Ain't I a Woman, from Human_3.0 Reading List

2016 · Graphite and watercolor with traces of glitter glue on wove graph paper

30 × 21.5 cm (11 13/16 × 8 1/2 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

The Wretched of the Earth, from Human_3.0 Reading List

2016 · Graphite and watercolor on wove graph paper

30 × 21.5 cm (11 13/16 × 8 1/2 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

Open Veins of Latin America, from Human_3.0 Reading List

2016 · Graphite and brush and colored inks and watercolor with touches of opaque watercolor on wove graph paper

30 × 21.5 cm (11 13/16 × 8 1/2 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

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73 published of 73 catalogued · 65 with image

Art Institute Chicago
65 published65 img
Whitney
8 published

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Art Institute of Chicago Whitney Museum of American Art David Zwirner

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David Zwirner

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Art Institute of Chicago

In collection

Whitney Museum of American Art

Background

Education

UCLA School of Theater, Film and Television

Master of Fine Arts · 1998

San Francisco State University

Bachelor of Arts · 1991

Record

Exhibitions and timeline

Group Exhibition California Light and Space (The 21st Century Version)

2026