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Pictured: How I Know I’m Here 1985-2000 • The Vitreous Body 2001
Kiki Smith, who was born in Nuremberg, Germany, in 1954, grew up in New Jersey and has lived in New York City since 1976. In the late 1970s and early 1980s she was associated with the artist’s collective Collaborative Projects, Inc. (Colab). During that period she began to focus on the constituent parts of the human anatomy, a subject that continues to figure in her art.
The Museum of Modern Art features work from her 2003 exhibition Kiki Smith: Prints, Books, and Things. An interactive website (using the incredibly cool “zoomify” technology) showcases the scope of Smith’s printed art and present it thematically, focusing on such topics as anatomy, self-portraiture, nature, and female iconography.