Smith is currently the subject of three simultaneous solo exhibitions across Columbus, OH: Jazz Requiem - Notations in Blue, Gund Gallery at Kenyon College; Transcendence,
Columbus Museum of Art; and Wind Chime, Wexner Museum of Art. In 2023 she was the subject of two major solo exhibitions: Projects: Ming Smith, curated by Thelma Golden, The Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY and Ming Smith: Feeling the Future, Contemporary Arts Museum Houston, TX. Recent exhibitions include Going Dark: The Contemporary Figure at the Edge of Visibility, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, NY (2023-4); Black American Portraits, Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA), CA; touring to Spelman College Museum of Fine Art, Atlanta, GA and Mechanical Hall, Newark, DE (2021-23); The Power of Portraiture: Recent Acquisitions, The Nasher Museum of Art, Durham, NC (2023); BLACK VENUS, curated by Aindrea Emelife, Fotografiska New York (2022); Working Together: The Photographers of the Kamoinge Workshop, Virginia Museum of Fine Arts (2020); touring to The Whitney Museum of American Art, NY (2020-21); The J. Paul Getty Museum, LA (2022); Cincinnati Art Museum (2020-22); We Wanted a Revolution: Black Radical Women 1965-85, Brooklyn Museum, NY (2017); Arthur Jafa: A Series of Utterly Improbably, Yet Extraordinary Renditions (Featuring Ming Smith, Frida Orupabo, and Missylanyus), Serpentine Galleries, London (2017); and Pictures by Women: A History of Modern Photography, The Museum of Modern Art (MoMA), NY (2010).
In December 2022, a new book, Ming Smith: Invisible Man, written by Oluremi C. Onabanjo was published as part of MoMA’s One on One series. Ming Smith: An Aperture Monograph, the first comprehensive publication dedicated to Smith, was published in 2020, featuring essays and interviews by Arthur Jafa, Greg Tate, Namwali Serpell, and Hans Ulrich Obrist.
Smith’s work is held in the collections of the Brooklyn Museum, NY; Detroit Institute of Arts, MICH; J. Paul Getty Museum, LA; Philadelphia Museum of Art, PE; National Gallery of Art, Washington; Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto; Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, NY; Smithsonian Anacostia Community Museum, Washington; Smithsonian National Museum of African American History & Culture, Washington; The Museum of Modern Art (MoMA), NY; Virginia Museum of Fine Arts; Baltimore Museum of Art, and the Whitney Museum of American Art, NY.