About this Event
Thursday, October 22, 6-8 PM; The conversation will begin at 6:30.
About:
Sable Elyse Smith (b. 1986, Los Angeles, CA) is an interdisciplinary artist and writer based in New York. Her creative practices span across video, performance, and the visual and literary arts. She has built a practice tracing the threads of violence and power embedded within systems of belief, infrastructure, language, intimacy, the quotidian, and beyond. She was recently included on the 2024 TIME100 Next—the magazine's annual list of 100 individuals shaping the future of their fields and defining the next generation of leadership. Her work has been featured at the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA), New York; MoMA PS1; New Museum; The Studio Museum in Harlem; Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum; Institute of Contemporary Art Boston; and numerous others. In 2022, she was included in both the Whitney Biennial and the 59th Venice Biennale. Smith has received awards from the Joan Mitchell Foundation, Creative Capital, Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation, Fine Arts Work Center, Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, and Art Matters, among others. In 2025, she was an artist-in-residence at the Rauschenberg Residency on Captiva, as well as BOFFO Fire Island.
Johanna Fateman is chief art critic and editor of The Critics Table for CULTURED magazine. Previously, she wrote regularly for 4Columns, The New Yorker, and Artforum, where she was a contributing editor. She was nominated for a 2026 National Magazine Award in the Reviews and Criticism category for three stories she wrote for The Critics’ Table, including an essay on the work of Cameron Rowland and a dispatch from New York Art Week. She is also an essayist for the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s catalogue “Krasner and Pollock: Past Continuous,” published in conjunction with this fall’s landmark Lee Krasner and Jackson Pollock exhibition, and for “Jody Pinto: Body/Land,” the first monograph on the artist, which accompanies her current MoCA Cleveland exhibition.
Image: Portrait of Sable Elyse Smith. Photograph by Tommy Kha.
Event venue & nearby stays
The FLAG Art Foundation, 545 West 25th Street, New York, United States
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