Anj Smith

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Anj Smith (born 1978) is a British artist. She was born in Kent and studied at the Slade School of Fine Art and at Goldsmiths College in London. Her intricately rendered paintings explore issues surrounding gender, ecology, anxiety, and eroticism. [1] [2] [3]

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Smith has exhibited at institutions around the world, including Museo Stefano Bardini, Florence, Italy; The New Art Gallery Walsall, UK; Mostyn, Llandudno, UK; Sara Hildén Art Museum, Tampere, Finland; Bluecoat, Liverpool, UK; Knoxville Museum of Art, Knoxville TN, and La Maison Rouge, Paris.

In 2006, she was short-listed for the MaxMara Award for Women at the Whitechapel Art Gallery in London. [4] Smith is represented by Hauser & Wirth gallery. [5]

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  1. Karen Wright (17 March 2016). "Anj Smith, artist:'I get through a brush a day. By the end of the day they are knackered'" . The Independent. Archived from the original on 7 May 2022. Retrieved 25 March 2018.
  2. Martha Schwendener (6 April 2007). "Art in Review; Anj Smith". The New York Times. Retrieved 25 March 2018.
  3. Naef, Maja (June 2018). "Maja Naef on Anj Smith". www.artforum.com. Retrieved 7 September 2023.
  4. Charlotte Jansen (22 March 2018). "Anj Smith: making sense of desire and anxiety through a painter's forensic language". Wallpaper*. Retrieved 26 March 2018.
  5. "Anj Smith". Hauser & Wirth. Retrieved 7 September 2023.