Melanie Smith
b. 1965, United Kingdom
Melanie Smith (b. 1965, UK) lives and works between London and Mexico City and in 2011 represented Mexico at the 54th Venice Biennale. Selected recent solo exhibitions include Tickled Pink, Green with Envy, Parafin, London (UK, 2023) and Remain Detached, Sicardi, Houston (USA, 2022). Institutionally, she has exhibited at PS1 and MOMA, New York; Hammer Museum, Los Angeles; Tate Britain, Tate Liverpool and Tate Modern, London; Hamburger Bahnhof, Berlin; Museo Tamayo, and MUCA Campus UNAM, Mexico City; Museo Amparo, Puebla; The Modern, Fort Worth; SITE Santa Fe Biennial, Santa Fe. A panoramic exhibition of her work was shown at Milton Keynes Gallery, Milton Keynes (UK, 2014) travelling to the CAC, Vilnius and the Museum Boijmans, Rotterdam. In 2018 she was included in the Liverpool Biennial. Melanie Smith: Farce and Artifice a panoramic survey, was presented at MACBA Museu d’Art Contemporani de Barcelona (Spain, 2018), MUAC Museo Universitario Arte Contemporáneo, UNAM, Mexico City, Museo Amparo, Puebla (both Mexico 2019) and MARCO Monterrey (Mexico, 2020).