Image: Ming Smith, New Year's Eve with Betty Carter at The Bottom Line (painted), 1978, c. 2000, hand tinted vintage gelatin silver print, unique, paper: 50.5 x 40.3 cm, 19 7/8 x 15 7/8 in, courtesy the artist and Pippy Houldsworth Gallery, London. © Ming Smith 2023
Pippy Houldsworth Gallery is thrilled to announce that Ming Smith: Projects opens this Saturday at MoMA, New York. The exhibition offers a critical reintroduction to Smith's artistic practice, highlighting her lived experience in New York City in the 1970s, when she mingled with the avant-garde Black art scene, leading her to join The Kamoinge Workshop. Organized by Thelma Golden, Director and Chief Curator, The Studio Museum in Harlem, and Oluremi C Onabanjo, Associate Curator, MoMA, the exhibition will run until 29 May 2023.
Smith is also being honoured with the prestigious Lifetime Achievement Award 2023 by the International Center of Photography (ICP), New York.
Ming Smith was born in Detroit, Michigan and lives and works in New York. Her work has been presented in seminal exhibitions including Soul of Nation: Art in the Age of Black Power, Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, Bentonville, touring from Tate Modern, London (2017); We Wanted a Revolution: Black Radical Women 1965-85, Brooklyn Museum, New York (2017); Arthur Jafa: A Series of Utterly Improbably, Yet Extraordinary Renditions (Featuring Ming Smith, Frida Orupabo, and Missylanyus), Serpentine Galleries, London (2017); Pictures by Women: A History of Modern Photography, MoMA, New York (2010); and Working Together: The Photographers of the Kamoinge Workshop at the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York (2020-21).
Upcoming projects include Ming Smith: Feeling the Future, at the Contemporary Arts Museum Houston, TX, as well as group exhibitions at Spelman College Museum of Fine Art, Atlanta, GA and Mechanical Hall, Newark, DE (2023).
Her work is held in the collections of the Brooklyn Museum, New York; Detroit Institute of Arts, MI; J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles; Philadelphia Museum of Art, PA; National Gallery of Art, Washington DC; Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto; Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, New York; Smithsonian National Museum of African American History & Culture, Washington DC; MoMA, New York; Virginia Museum of Fine Arts; Baltimore Museum of Art; and the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, among others.
To accompany the exhibition, MoMA has produced a new catalogue, Ming Smith: Invisible Man, Somewhere, Everywhere, as part of their One to One series, with an essay by Oluremi C. Onabanjo. This is available to purchase via the the MoMA store.
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Smith is also being honoured with the prestigious Lifetime Achievement Award 2023 by the International Center of Photography (ICP), New York.
Ming Smith was born in Detroit, Michigan and lives and works in New York. Her work has been presented in seminal exhibitions including Soul of Nation: Art in the Age of Black Power, Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, Bentonville, touring from Tate Modern, London (2017); We Wanted a Revolution: Black Radical Women 1965-85, Brooklyn Museum, New York (2017); Arthur Jafa: A Series of Utterly Improbably, Yet Extraordinary Renditions (Featuring Ming Smith, Frida Orupabo, and Missylanyus), Serpentine Galleries, London (2017); Pictures by Women: A History of Modern Photography, MoMA, New York (2010); and Working Together: The Photographers of the Kamoinge Workshop at the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York (2020-21).
Upcoming projects include Ming Smith: Feeling the Future, at the Contemporary Arts Museum Houston, TX, as well as group exhibitions at Spelman College Museum of Fine Art, Atlanta, GA and Mechanical Hall, Newark, DE (2023).
Her work is held in the collections of the Brooklyn Museum, New York; Detroit Institute of Arts, MI; J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles; Philadelphia Museum of Art, PA; National Gallery of Art, Washington DC; Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto; Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, New York; Smithsonian National Museum of African American History & Culture, Washington DC; MoMA, New York; Virginia Museum of Fine Arts; Baltimore Museum of Art; and the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, among others.
To accompany the exhibition, MoMA has produced a new catalogue, Ming Smith: Invisible Man, Somewhere, Everywhere, as part of their One to One series, with an essay by Oluremi C. Onabanjo. This is available to purchase via the the MoMA store.
Read more
4 February – 29 May 2023
