Cauleen Smith

(American, b. 1967) Cauleen Smith is an interdisciplinary artist whose work reflects upon the everyday possibilities of the imagination. Drawing from structuralism, Third World Cinema, and science fiction, she makes things that deploy the tactics of these disciplines, while offering a phenomenological experience for spectators and participants.

Smith earned her BA in Creative Arts from San Francisco State University and her MFA from the University of California, Los Angeles’s School of Theater, Film, and Television. The artist’s solo exhibition Cauleen Smith: Give It or Leave It was organized by the Institute of Contemporary Art, Philadelphia and traveled to the Frye Art Museum (June 1 – Sept. 1, 2019). Her work was also included in Recent Acquisitions in Contemporary Art (Sept. 11, 2021 – Jan. 23, 2022).