Visual Arts Professor Sable Elyse Smith Joins Regen Projects

Assistant Professor Sable Elyse Smith has received new representation from LA-based gallery Regen Projects, with a solo show forthcoming in 2023. 

Smith’s work, which incorporates video, sculpture, photography, and text-based artworks, draws attention to American systems of inequality. Her work adopts objects and symbols presumed to be neutral or banal, aligning them with issues surrounding memory, violence, trauma, and systemic inequality. 

Regen Projects President, Shaun Caley Regan, said in a recent press release, “Rarely have I seen work that is so emotive and revelatory of systemic injustice and what that space feels like.” 

As part of her partnership with Regen Projects, Smith’s work will be shown through numerous institutional shows over the next twelve months, and in a solo exhibition at the gallery’s Santa Monica Boulevard site next year.

Sable Elyse Smith is an interdisciplinary artist, writer, and educator based in New York. Using video, sculpture, photography, and text, she points to the carceral, the personal, the political, and the quotidian to speak about a violence that is largely unseen, and potentially imperceptible. Her work has been featured at MoMA Ps1, New Museum, The Studio Museum in Harlem,  Brooklyn Museum, New York; ICA Philadelphia, Philadelphia, PA; and MIT List Visual Arts Centers, Cambridge, MA amongst others. She has received awards from Creative Capital, Fine Arts Work Center, the Queens Museum, Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation, Rema Hort Mann Foundation, the Franklin Furnace Fund, and Art Matters.