Anj Smith

Anj Smith’s work negotiates the space between the genres of portraiture, landscape, and still-life. In her interrogation and celebration of the medium of painting, alluring flora and fauna—from vines, flowers, and ivy to ambiguous creatures and human figures—populate ecologically devastated landscapes. Refusing fast consumption, her work explores issues of gender, ecology, anxiety, and eroticism.

Born in 1978 in Kent, UK, Anj Smith studied at Slade School of Fine Art and at Goldsmiths College in London. Smith has exhibited at institutions around the world, including Museo Stefano Bardini, Florence, Italy; The New Art Gallery Walsall, UK; Mostyn, Llandudno, UK; Sara Hildén Art Museum, Tampere, Finland; Bluecoat, Liverpool, UK; Knoxville Museum of Art, Knoxville TN, and La Maison Rouge, Paris, France. Smith’s work is also displayed in the collections of many leading international museums including The Victoria and Albert Museum, London; MOCA The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles CA; The Roberts Institute of Art, London, and the Sara Hildén Art Museum, Tampere, Finland.

Selected Artworks

Left to My Own Devices

2023

Artist's Tools II

2023

Installation view, 'Anj Smith. Drifting Habitations', Hauser & Wirth, New York NY, 2023

Artists Tools

2022

Misleading Like Lace

2022

Decoy

2022

Octopia

2022

Installation view, ‘Anj Smith. Where the Mountain Hare has Lain’, The Perimeter, London, UK, 2022

2022

Installation view, ‘Anj Smith. Where the Mountain Hare has Lain’, The Perimeter, London, UK, 2022

2022

Installation view, ‘Anj Smith. Where the Mountain Hare has Lain’, The Perimeter, London, UK, 2022

2022

Installation view, ‘Anj Smith. Where the Mountain Hare has Lain’, The Perimeter, London, UK, 2022

2022

Within the Rose, its Opposite

2022

Source, Sender, Channel, Message

2020

The Lover

2020

False Steward

2019

Flowerings of the Chocolate Cosmos

2020

The Deliquescence

2019

Names of the Hare

2017

Cosmic Call 3

2019

Hidden Activities (of the Midnight Zone)

2019

Installation view, ‘Anj Smith’, MOSTYN, Llandudno, UK, 2019-2020

2019-2020

Installation view, ‘The Contemporary at Poldi Pezzoli: Anj Smith. The Mountain of the Muse’, Museo Poldi Pezzoli, Milan, Italy

2019

This Knot Intrinsicate

2018

Wreath

2018

Installation view, 'Anj Smith. Sea Lily, Feather Star', Sara Hildén Art Museum, Tampere, Finland

2018

Landscape with Lagerstätte

2017

Excretia (In Varying Forms)

2016

S.O.S

2016

Taste

2017

Landscapes of Arboreality

2017

Trope Disco

2017

Rhinoceros

2016

Leaf Relic With Fruits

2015

Hedgerow Living

2015

Performing the Levade

2015

Mathematisation and the Lifeworld

2015

Letters of the Unconscious

2015

Museum Tree

2015

Elimination of a Picture

2014

The Excreted

2014

Night Life Galaxy

2014

The Hunt for Butterflies

2014

Scrapping Skulls

2014

Portrait of a Boy in Glass

2013

Chorus

2012

Ziggy

2012

New Blooms At The Ossuary

2012

Portrait of a Girl in Glass

2012

Biography

Selected Solo Exhibitions

Selected Group Exhibitions

Awards and Grants

Bibliography

Monographs

Publications

Articles

Exhibitions

Gallery Exhibitions

Museum Exhibitions

Anj Smith

DRIFTING HABITATIONS

9 November 2023 – 13 January 2024

New York, 22nd Street

Anj Smith

If Not, Winter

16 March – 19 May 2018

Zurich, Limmatstrasse

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Films

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Events

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Talks

In Conversation: Anj Smith with Alexander V. Petalas and Yates Norton

Wed 2 November 2022

6.30 – 7.30 pm

London

Screenings

Artist’s Choice Summer Film Series: ‘The Mirror’ selected by Anj Smith

Thu 5 July 2018

6 pm

New York, 22nd Street

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News

Gallery News

‘Art for Better’ Auction in Support of UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency

3 November 2022

Hauser & Wirth Editions

23 October 2018

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Book Labs

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London

Anj Smith Book Lab

22 September 2021 – 21 November 2015

London

Anj Smith Book Lab

22 September 2021 – 21 November 2015

Phyllida Barlow

Firelei Báez

Rashid Johnson

Anj Smith

Selected Artworks

Biography

Bibliography

Exhibitions

Anj Smith

Anj Smith

Films

Events

In Conversation: Anj Smith with Alexander V. Petalas and Yates Norton

Artist’s Choice Summer Film Series: ‘The Mirror’ selected by Anj Smith

News

‘Art for Better’ Auction in Support of UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency

Hauser & Wirth Editions

Ursula

The Artist’s Library: Anj Smith on Vladimir Nabokov’s ‘Speak Memory’

Curious Items From Home and Abroad

Book Labs

Anj Smith Book Lab

Anj Smith Book Lab