Barb Smith is a Queens-based artist born in Kokomo, Indiana. She holds an MFA in Sculpture from Bard College. Her work invites reflection on one’s relationship to the material world by mining the tension between seeing, touching, and recalling. Solo exhibitions include Mother Tongue at the Fine Arts Center Gallery, University of Arkansas, Fayetteville, AR; Gravity Forgiveness at Stepsister, NY, NY; Cup at 315 Gallery, Brooklyn, NY; Strike-Slip at Páramo, Guadalajara, Mexico; Unexpired Time at the Mesa Contemporary Arts Museum, Mesa, Arizona; and Apperception at Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana. Recent group exhibitions include Tiny Things, September, Hudson, NY; Moving Image Matters: Documenting and Performing Craft in Video, The Center for Art in Wood, Philadelphia, PA; The Space Itself, The Boiler Pierogi, Brooklyn, NY; the Invitational Exhibition of Visual Arts, American Academy of Arts and Letters, New York; In Practice: Material Deviance, SculptureCenter, New York; Queens International, Queens Museum, New York. Her work has been featured in such publications as Less than Half, Cream Magazine, The Brooklyn Rail, The Washington Post, and Hyperallergic. Smith was awarded a Peter S. Reed Foundation Individual Artist Grant in 2019, an Art Purchase Award from The American Academy of Arts and Letters in 2018, and a New York Foundation for the Arts Fellowship in Sculpture in 2011. She attended the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture in 2012 and is currently an artist in residence in Ceramics and Hunter College in New York. Her writing has been featured in The Shawangunk Review, No, Dear magazine, The Saint Lucy, Makhzin, and The Brooklyn Rail.