A digital scan of his damaged, decades old 35mm slide of an African sculpture he collected both continues and updates the artist’s longstanding investigation into the generative capacity of photographic imagery. His 2016 photographic edition entitled Night, grows out of a large personal archive.
The jurors stated: “Smith is perhaps the least known of the five artists included in Douglas Crimp’s 1977 Artists Space exhibition Pictures. Beal Senior Curator of Contemporary Art and Interim Chair, Linde Family Wing for Contemporary Art, Museum of Fine Arts Boston-and Jacob Proctor-Curator, the Neubauer Collegium for Culture and Society-selected Smith for the award, which acknowledges innovative voices working in contemporary art today. A jury comprising renowned curators Jen Mergel-Robert L. Philip Smith has been awarded the 2016 Miami Beach NADA Artadia Award, a $5,000 unrestricted, merit-based award granted to one artist exhibiting at the fair.
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