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The idea of a library, of sorts, at present. Unique and limited edition artist books available for acquisition, exhibition and research.
Please contact us for a private viewing, and additional titles.
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Keith Smith
Keith Smith (b. 1938) is a pioneering book artist whose practice blends photography, printmaking, drawing, and unconventional materials to expand the possibilities of the book form. Over more than five decades, he has created more than 300 unique artist’s books that often resist traditional structures. Smith’s books are stitched, folded, unbound or pierced with holes, transforming sequence and structure into essential elements of meaning. His works explore memory, desire, poetry and identity in ways that unfold across time.
Born in Tipton, Indiana in 1938, Smith studied at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago (B.A.E., 1967) and earned an M.S. in Photography from the Institute of Design at the Illinois Institute of Technology in 1968. While still a student, he held his first solo exhibition at the Art Institute of Chicago. Smith has since exhibited internationally with major solo exhibitions at the Museum of Modern Art, New York (1975), the Minnesota Center for Book Arts (1988), the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology (2000), and the Philadelphia Museum of Art, which presented the retrospective Keith Smith at Home in 2018.
Smith’s work is represented in the permanent collections of leading institutions, including the Museum of Modern Art, New York, the Philadelphia Museum of Art, the Art Institute of Chicago, George Eastman Museum, Rochester, NY, the National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, and the Victoria & Albert Museum in London. He has been recognized with numerous awards, among them two Guggenheim Fellowships (1972 and 1980), a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship (1978), New York Foundation for the Arts support (1985), and a Pollock-Krasner Foundation grant (2002).
Keith Smith is represented by Bruce Silverstein Gallery.
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Keith Smith
Book Number 300 (Half a Century of Making Books), 2016
Coptic bound artist book housed in a handmade archival box with printed cover; dedicated to Liam van Loenen
11.5 x 9 inches
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Keith Smith
Book Number 306 (The Postcards: 1965 to Present), 2017
Coptic bound artist book
11.5 x 8.75 inches
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Keith Smith
Book Number 324 (Mentors and Memories), 2020
Coptic bound artist book housed in a handmade archival box with red ribbon; dedicated to Richard and Ronay Menschel, and Scott McCarney
10.5 x 8.75 inches
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Keith Smith
Book Number 335 (In Mixtures of Pictures), 2021
Coptic bound artist book
11.5 x 9 inches
Dedicated to Harold Allen
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Keith Smith (b. 1938) is a pioneering book artist whose practice blends photography, printmaking, drawing, and unconventional materials to expand the possibilities of the book form. Over more than five decades, he has created more than 300 unique artist’s books that often resist traditional structures. Smith’s books are stitched, folded, unbound or pierced with holes, transforming sequence and structure into essential elements of meaning. His works explore memory, desire, poetry and identity in ways that unfold across time.
Born in Tipton, Indiana in 1938, Smith studied at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago (B.A.E., 1967) and earned an M.S. in Photography from the Institute of Design at the Illinois Institute of Technology in 1968. While still a student, he held his first solo exhibition at the Art Institute of Chicago. Smith has since exhibited internationally with major solo exhibitions at the Museum of Modern Art, New York (1975), the Minnesota Center for Book Arts (1988), the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology (2000), and the Philadelphia Museum of Art, which presented the retrospective Keith Smith at Home in 2018.
Smith’s work is represented in the permanent collections of leading institutions, including the Museum of Modern Art, New York, the Philadelphia Museum of Art, the Art Institute of Chicago, George Eastman Museum, Rochester, NY, the National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, and the Victoria & Albert Museum in London. He has been recognized with numerous awards, among them two Guggenheim Fellowships (1972 and 1980), a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship (1978), New York Foundation for the Arts support (1985), and a Pollock-Krasner Foundation grant (2002).
Keith Smith is represented by Bruce Silverstein Gallery.
Keith Smith
Book Number 300 (Half a Century of Making Books), 2016
Coptic bound artist book housed in a handmade archival box with printed cover; dedicated to Liam van Loenen
11.5 x 9 inches
Inquire
Keith Smith
Book Number 306 (The Postcards: 1965 to Present), 2017
Coptic bound artist book
11.5 x 8.75 inches
Inquire
Keith Smith
Book Number 324 (Mentors and Memories), 2020
Coptic bound artist book housed in a handmade archival box with red ribbon; dedicated to Richard and Ronay Menschel, and Scott McCarney
10.5 x 8.75 inches
Inquire
Keith Smith
Book Number 335 (In Mixtures of Pictures), 2021
Coptic bound artist book
11.5 x 9 inches
Dedicated to Harold Allen
Inquire