Collection: Mickey Smith
New Zealand-based conceptual artist Mickey Smith has throughout her career been working in public libraries all over the world, documenting bound periodicals as her subject matter. The finished images are powerful and striking and capture the randomness of naturally occurring compositions, through bold use of color and scale. The subject matter of books as an aesthetic form, demands as much attention for the moment caught in a continuous and repetitive row, as the insistence of the titled subject imprinted on the cover. An instant between silence and listening.
Mickey has exhibited throughout the United States, in China, Russia and New Zealand. Her works are held in numerous public and private collections, including the Museum of Modern Art Library, Sheldon Museum of Art and Weisman Art Museum. She has received awards from the McKnight Foundation, CEC ArtsLink, Americans for the Arts and Creative New Zealand. Mickey holds a Bachelor of Arts Degree in Photography from Minnesota State University Moorhead (1994) and a Diploma in Jewellery Design from Hungry Creek Art & Craft School in New Zealand (2019).