When Shinique Smith moved into a new Los Angeles studio last year, she didn’t go for just a light-flooded space with towering ceilings. Instead, she opted for a studio with those qualities, and that ...

Visitors to The Ringling’s Museum of Art have the extraordinary opportunity to experience the work of contemporary artist Shinique Smith (b. 1971) in conversation with The Ringling’s collection of ...

Even the homeless find ways of making themselves at home. The so-called encampments comprised of tents, sleeping bags, piles of clothes, plastic crates and lanterns are evidence of each individual’s ...

When I spoke with Shinique Smith in late March, she was feeling a bit like a displaced person. She sold her house in New York in January and moved to Los Angeles at the beginning of February. A ...

Fascinated with the personal and social significance of objects that are consumed and discarded, New York-based artist Shinique Smith incorporates found materials in her multimedia works that recall ...

Shinique Smith was filling her car’s gas tank late one night in February when she noticed a vase and a child’s pink, plastic scooter sitting atop a garbage can. As an artist who works with found ...

Call it activist assemblage. Shinique Smith has set up a “Donation Center” in one corner of her stirring show at the California African American Museum. Bins of travel-size toiletries, pillows, tarps, ...

NEW YORK -- In honor of his 90th anniversary, Mickey Mouse is getting his own art exhibition. When it opens in New York in November, "Mickey: The True Original Exhibition" promises to let fans ...

Shinique Smith is surveying her first solo museum show and, of course, sweating the details. Born in Baltimore in 1971, she began her career as a stylist/wardrobe assistant for films and opera — her ...