Artists

MICHAEL SMITH

Michael Smith's 30-year artistic career includes live performance, video works, commercial and cable television skits, puppet shows, exhibition installations, comic publications, and drawings.

Smith has an impressive exhibition and performance history that began in the late 1970s, with venues as varied as Franklin Furnace, The Kitchen, Randolph St. Gallery, DTW, Cinemax, the Whitney, the Corcoran, the New Museum, the Pompidou Centre, and, in recent years, sites as far-flung as São Paolo, Copenhagen, Milan, London, and Cambridge.

Direct and accessible, Smith's exquisite use of humour as a strategy for empathy and identification is rooted in the artist/audience relationships of performance. Yet the work's amplification and variation owes much to its visual, conceptualist sources.