Anj Smith

Biography

Born

Kent, UK, 1978

Education

BA Fine Art (Painting), Slade School of Fine Art, UCL, London, UK, 2002

Postgraduate Diploma, Fine Art, Goldsmiths College, University of London, UK, 2003

MA Fine Art, Goldsmiths College, University of London, UK, 2005

Selected Solo Exhibitions

2023

Hauser & Wirth, 'Anj Smith. Drifting Habitations', New York NY

2022

The Perimeter, 'Anj Smith. Where the Mountain Hare has Lain', London, UK

Selected Group Exhibitions

2025

The Fitzrovia Chapel, The Roberts Institute of Art, 'In Attendance. Paying Attention in a Fragile World at the Fitzrovia Chapel', London, UK

Jan Shrem and Maria Manetti Shrem Museum of Art, 'Through Their Eyes: Selections from the Sandretto Re Rebaudengo Collection', Davis CA

2024

Hauser & Wirth, 'Surreal Legacies', Monaco

Hastings Contemporary / The Robert Institute of Art / The Ingram Collection of British Art, 'Immortal Apples, Eternal Eggs', Hastings, UK

Grimm, 'Self-Portraits', Amsterdam, The Netherlands

Awards and Grants

2004

BUAG, Residency and Solo Exhibition, Bangkok, Thailand

2002

Arts and Humanities Research Board Award, UK

Bibliography

Monographs

2023

Bennet, Claire-Louise, Smith, Anj, Guralnik, Orna, 'Anj Smith. Drifting Habitations', Zurich: Hauser & Wirth Publishers, 2023 ill. (exh. cat.)

2022

Smith, Anj, Norton, Yates, 'Anj Smith. Where the Mountain Hare has Lain', London: The Perimeter, 2022, ill. (exh. cat.)

Publications

2018

Kreuzer, Stefanie, ‘Der Flexible Plan: Das Rokoko In Der Gegenwartskunst’, Dortmund: Verlag Kettler, 2018

Rideal, Liz, Soriano, Kathleen, 'Madam & Eve. Women Portraying Women', London: Laurence King Publishing Ltd, 2018

2017

Paparoni, Demetrio (ed.), 'Le nuove frontiere della pittura', Milan/IT: Skira, 2017 (exh. cat.)

Articles

2022

Barbetti, Ginevra, 'La Pittura Visionaria di Anj Smith al Museo Stefano Bardini di Firenze', in: Artribune, Rome, 6 January 2022, ill.

Piccoli, Cloe, 'Ofelia Non é Pazza', in: La Repubblica, Rome, 15 January 2022, ill.

Lombardi, Laura, 'Il Perturbante di Smith e l’Utopia Salvifica di Berti', in: Il Giornale dell’Arte, Turin, 27 January 2022, ill.

Farrell, Jane, 'Stefano Bardini Museum: Anj Smith exhibition', in: The Florentine, Florence, 1 February, 2022, ill.

Gestri, Carolina, 'Anj Smith. A Willow Grows Aslant the Brook', in: Flash Art, Milan, 22 March, 2022, ill.

__, 'Anj Smith. Where the Mountain Hare Has Lain', in: Art Plugged, London, 12 September 2022, ill.

Summers, Seb, 'Eight Exhibitions to See During London’s Frieze Week', in: The Art Newspaper, London, 10 October 2022, ill.

2021

Wahlich, Maximilian, 'Shortly before 12 – between morning, dew and sunset. Sun Rise | Sun Set in the 'Schinkel Pavillon', in: Art in Berlin, Berlin, 26 March 2021

Azzarello, Nina, 'Schinkel Pavillon surveys surreal landscapes and futuristic scenarios that reflect on today’s ecocatastrophe', in: Designboom, Milan, 7 May 2021, ill.

__, 'Stretching the Body', in: Artribune, Rome, 4 November 2021

Celi, Lia, 'Mamma, l’ultima a sapere', in: La Stampa, Turin, 14 November 2021, ill.

Farrell, Jane, 'Anj Smith. A Willow Grows Aslant the Brook', in: The Florentine, Florence, 16 December 2021, ill.

Ficicchia, Loredana, 'Sogni e Animali Nel Mondo Lento di Anj Smith', in: Il Corriere della Sera, Milan, 18 December 2021, ill.

Berti, Elisabetta, 'I Mondi Fantastici di Anj Smith al Museo Bardini', in: La Repubblica, Rome, 18 December 2021, ill.

Cornaz, 'Al Museo Stefano Bardini le Opere di Anj Smith', in: Corriere Nazionale, 29 December 2021, ill.