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Kiki Smith

キキ・スミス　/　きき・すみす

Sculptor from Germany

January 18, 1954 (age 72)　・　Nuremberg, Middle Franconia, Germany

Middle Franconia
sculptor
painter
photographer

My Take

Kiki Smith is an artist I find genuinely formidable. German-born in Nuremberg and American by life, she refuses to be boxed in, moving freely between sculpture, painting, photography, and illustration. From the late 1980s she confronted AIDS, feminism, sex, and regeneration head-on, and her recent work probes the human body's bond with nature, so across decades she has kept digging at the same root: what it means to be alive in a fragile body. Her Fellowship of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences is no mere decoration. I deeply respect artists who chase their own questions instead of the market's.

Overview

Kiki Smith (born January 18, 1954) is a German-born American artist whose work has addressed the themes of sex, birth and regeneration. Her figurative work of the late 1980s and early 1990s confronted subjects such as AIDS, feminism, and gender, while recent works have depicted the human condition in relationship to nature.

Summary adapted from Wikipedia, licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0.

1. Profile

Name (English): Kiki Smith
Name (Japanese): キキ・スミス
Reading: きき・すみす
Born: January 18, 1954 (age 72)
Zodiac / Chinese zodiac: Capricorn / Horse
Origin: Nuremberg, Middle Franconia, Germany
Blood type: Private
Height: Private
Agency: Private
Occupation: sculptor / painter / photographer / illustrator / artist

2. Background

Elementary school: Private
Junior high: Private
High school: Columbia High School
University: Private

Awards & achievements

2015 Women's Caucus for Art Lifetime Achievement Award
Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences

3. Relationships

Spouse: Private
Children: Private
Parents: Private
Siblings: Private

4. Personality

Motto

Private

5. Works & records

Category	Title	Role	Year
Notable work	River Light; The Presence; The Spring; The Sound; The Water's Way	—

6. Links

Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%82%AD%E3%82%AD%E3%83%BB%E3%82%B9%E3%83%9F%E3%82%B9

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