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lo smith

@losmithstudios

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Performing in Legs @allways_cabaret_club 9/24. + @its_hush_puppy
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📸: @jessicasabogal I’ve got some new followers so I thought I’d reintroduce myself. My name Lo, my pronouns are they/them and I’m an artist, curator and educator who is both aggressively Midwestern and unapologetically black In my practice, I’m a multi disciplinary memory worker. I currently in process of launching a small independent press ( keep an eye out ✨.) I believe collaboration is at the root of liberation, let’s print stuff together. This is a pro-Black, pro-queer, pro-hoe space. I splash around in the radical uses of anger, pleasure and rest. Free 🍉 and DRC and all seeking justice + freedom by @losmithstudios
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3 years ago
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So excited to be back on New Orleans, I’ll be performing at @allways_cabaret_club this Thursday 9/24! Doing some light research @pharmacymuseum to get ready 👀✨ by @losmithstudios
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25 days ago
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LO SMITH Ya, I Miss You Too Ceramic, glaze, and wool 3D print, and vinyl pouch 10 x 24 inches Artist Book: “Notes on Blue: Observing Indigo” Paper (second and third image) Lo Smith Born and raised in Cleveland Ohio, Lo Smith is a multi-disciplinary performance artist, printmaker, and curator who is both unapologetically Black and aggressively midwestern.Their work engages with reproductive justice, revisionist history, and Black joy. Through prints on paper and textiles, they explore histories of medical experimentation on Black bodies, untold stories of Black American life, and their own queer positionality and future.They are also interested in the racial democratic possibility of print. Their work has been shown at SPACES, Rubelle and Norman Schafler Gallery, The Brooklyn Fine Art Print Fair, The Cleveland Institute for Art, and The Morgan Conservatory, and Riffe Gallery. Their curatorial work has been presented at / published by New York University, Cleveland Museum of Art, and the Sculpture Center in Cleveland. I often say my practice mimics two types of animals; crows and dolphins. In my crow phase, I'm collecting shiny bits of research that interest me and making a horde. Artist Statement: I'm experimenting with materials and the cultural contexts that are assigned to them. Notes on Blue (2025) is the product of this research completed during my Indigo Research Fellow with the Pratt Dye Garden X Tatter Library in the summer of 2025. Initially serving as a container for my experiments dying paper with indigo, it became a mediation on how humans try to mimic nature in extractive ways, as well as the social political history of indigo. Ya, I Miss You Too(2025) is a product of my dolphin phase, where I'm rolling around in a novel technique or process, then breaching the surface to make something necessary. I made a polyjet printed avatar of myself, which I call my 'son', to attend events with family and loved ones who aren't immediately accessible by structural or casual inconvenience. On view at The IW Gallery as part of the current exhibition, Elemental Effervescence, curated by Yasmeen Abdallah. Photo: Shawn Punch by @losmithstudios
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2 months ago
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Graduation Photo Dump, what a privilege to be surrounded by this much love 💕✨🎓 1. The Print Studio: sometimes, I was there all the time 2. Sitting by the Fountain 🕶️ 3. My mom properly organizing my regalia aka putting that shit on 4. Fam Bam on the steps 5. 🎶Young, Gifted and Black 🎶 MFA grads 6. 1/2 of the Township 💕 7. Happy Hour with the homies 8. Midday break with the bestie 9. Bed Stuy has been so good to me ✨ 10. Cubby Hole loves to see us coming 11. My absolute favorite picture cause it looks haunted 12. Unofficial Monti Thesis Class Photo v1 13. How long were we at Cubby Hole? 14. Fam Bam pt2 15. 🎓👴🏽✨ by @losmithstudios
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5 months ago
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Two truths and a lie: 1. I’m thrilled to have graduated from Pratt with my MFA in Printmaking with honors and outstanding merit 2. This is the last post I’ll make about graduation/ finishing this terminal degree 3. I bought these photos equal parts for the memories and cause my makeup ate down by @losmithstudios
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5 months ago
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I’m a semifinalist for the 100th Annual International Competition @theprintcenter! So excited to share my work, check out my winning portfolio of print + performance at the link in bio! From the center : The Print Center ANNUAL is one of the most prestigious and oldest juried competitions in the United States. The 100th ANNUAL features works by 35 of the finest international artists currently using photography or printmaking as critical components in their work. The 100th ANNUAL was juried by Anders Bergstrom, Artist and Director of Editions, Hauser & Wirth, New York, NY, Joshua Chuang, Director of Photography, Gagosian, New York, NY and Lesley A. Martin, Executive Director, Printed Matter, Inc., New York, NY. Bergstrom, Chuang, and Martin reviewed over 3,500 images and videos submitted by 725 artists. Submissions came from 46 states and 24 countries across the globe. We are pleased to present an online exhibition of portfolios from the 10 Finalists and 25 Semifinalists.“ by @losmithstudios
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5 months ago
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I’ll be joining @metrotransauthority and some absolute train loving baddies on the Broadway-Lafayette Mezzanine from 4-6 this Saturday May 9th ! Come check us out! by @losmithstudios
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5 months ago
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outside of celebrating my baby (book 🥹📚) one of the most thrilling things about touring is getting to engage my truly brilliant friends & collaborators in conversation about the themes SOULMATE AS A VERB seeks to interrogate: love | kinship | politics of the body | masculinity | the material conditions of modernity | us 💭 i’m so hype to be joined in conversation by my incredibly talented friend @losmithstudios at my nyc tour stop, hosted by @bgsqd on may 17th. join ya boy in the big apple ! i hope these poems find you x taken in NYC by @losmithstudios
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5 months ago
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my favorite shot of @losmithstudios from a performance of their final thesis work titled, “It’s Only a Game(show)” by @losmithstudios
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6 months ago
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Me skirting (picking out vegetable matter and sheep poop) this fleece (sheared-sheep’s wool) go together real bad (the sheep is fine) by @losmithstudios
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6 months ago
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📸: @dylanboschphotography Some sneak peaks of opening night of my MFA thesis performance “It’s Only a Game(show).’ Lots of love, lots of laughter, lots of work. Thank you @oaklandtone for running my sound and big install help, @tadsmith13 for my makeup , my mother for wardrobe help and my generational face card , and my cohort and classmates for your invaluable feedback and support! by @losmithstudios
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6 months ago
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My Final Thesis Performance is Thursday April 9th at 5pm, link in bio ✨ by @losmithstudios
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