A-Z: Kiki Smith

  Kiki Smith is a German American artist. Her work includes themes of birth and regeneration. Her figurative work of the late 1980s and early 1990s didn’t work with the cultural opinion on bodily functions. Early on in her career, her pieces looked at subjects such as AIDS, gender and race, while recent works have depicted the human condition in relationship to nature. Smith was an active member of the artists' group Colab in the late 1970s and early 1980s. She works in media including sculpture, printmaking, drawing and jewellery. She has developed a unique lineage of mythological imagery over her 40 years as an artist.