ABOUT

Alexandria Smith was born in the Bronx, New York and earned her BFA in illustration from Syracuse University, New York; MA in art education from New York University; and MFA from Parsons The New School for Design. Smith was a public and charter school art teacher in Harlem and the South Bronx for over a decade. Smith is the recipient of many awards, fellowships and residencies such as the Queens Museum/Jerome Foundation and Fine Arts Work Center Fellowships, Skowhegan, MacDowell, Yaddo and LMCC residencies and a Pollock-Krasner Grant. Her work has been exhibited nationally and internationally and is in many public collections such as The Studio Museum in Harlem, Mt. Holyoke College Art Museum, Longlati Foundation and the K Museum of Contemporary Art.

Smith lives and works in New York and is Director of Undergraduate Studies in Studio Art and Assistant Professor in Painting and Printmaking at Yale University in New Haven, Connecticut. Alexandria has an upcoming solo exhibition in October entitled, “in this here place, we flesh” at David Castillo Gallery in Miami, FL.