Sable Elyse Smith

Sable Elyse Smith (born 1986) is an interdisciplinary artist, writer and educator based in New York.

[1] Smith works in photography, neon, text, appropriated imagery,[2] sculpture, and video installation connecting language, violence, and pop culture with autobiographical subject matter.

[3] Her work uses common objects from the prison system to question labor, class, and memory with emphasis on the everyday effects of institutional violence.

"[8] She has received several awards from Creative Capital, Fine Arts Work Center, the Queens Museum, Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation, Rea Hort Mann Foundation, the Franklin Furnace Fund, and Art Matter.

[10] Her large-scale sculpture A Clockwork (2021), a motorized rotating ferris wheel made of jet-black tables and chairs designed for prison visitation rooms, was included in Quiet as It's Kept, the 2022 Whitney Biennial.