Melanie Smith

♀ *1965 / United Kingdom

Works

Solo exhibitions

Tickled Pink, Green with Envy

PARAFIN, London (GB)
5 Apr 2023 – 20 May 2023
MARÍA ELENA

Galerie Peter Kilchmann, Zürich (CH)
31 Aug 2018 – 17 Oct 2018
Farce and Artifice

Museu d'Art Contemporani, Barcelona (ES)
18 May 2018 – 7 Oct 2018
Fortlandia

Galeria Nara Roesler, São Paulo (BR)
19 Nov 2014 – 1 Feb 2015
Xilitla

Museum Boijmans Van Beun, Rotterdam (NL)
1 Oct 2014 – 11 Jan 2015
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Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston (US)
22 Mar 2014 – 15 Jun 2014
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Villa Merkel, Esslingen (DE)
22 Apr 2012 – 24 Jun 2012
Red Square Impossible Pink

Venice Biennale - MX, Venezia (IT)
4 Jun 2011 – 27 Nov 2011
wall-eyed

Galeria Nara Roesler, São Paulo (BR)
18 Aug 2011 – 13 Sep 2011
Melanie Smith with Rafael Ortega: Parres Trilogy

Art Museum Miami, Miami (US)
6 Mar 2008 – 29 Jun 2008
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Galerie Peter Kilchmann, Zürich (CH)
23 Feb 2008 – 29 Mar 2008
Art Now Lightbox: Melanie Smith with Rafael Ortega: Parres

Tate Britain, London (GB)
17 Jun 2006 – 13 Aug 2006
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Galerie Peter Kilchmann, Zürich (CH)
16 Apr 2005 – 28 May 2005
Six Steps to Reality, 2003 & Untitled, 2003 (works with no sense)

Galería OMR, Mexico (MX)
22 Sep 2003 – 18 Oct 2003
six steps towards abstraction

Galerie Peter Kilchmann, Zürich (CH)
24 Aug 2002 – 12 Oct 2002

Group

ENCOUNTERS

A MULTIPLICITY OF VIEWS ON CONTEMPORARY PHOTOGRAPHY

Centro de Arte Alcobendas, Alcobendas (ES)
17 Feb 2022 – 16 May 2022

with Pedro Albornoz, Greta Alfaro, Paula Anta, Jose Manuel Ballester, Gabriele Basilico, Luis Baylón, Primoz Bizjak, James Casebere, Juan Manuel Castro Prieto, Chema Conesa, Magdalena Correa, Matias Costa …
Dwelling Poetically: Mexico City, a case study

AUS Centre Contemporary Art, Melbourne (AU)
21 Apr 2018 – 24 Jun 2018

with Francis Alys, Martin Soto Climent, Jaki Irvine
Intra-Action

Women Artists from the Harn Collection

Harn Museum of Art, Gainesville (US)
20 Sep 2016 – 16 Jul 2017

with Eija-Liisa Ahtila, Rineke Dijkstra, Guerrilla Girls, Ana Mendieta, Zanele Muholi, Catherine Opie, Alessandra Sanguinetti, Cindy Sherman, Carrie Mae Weems
WITHOUT RESTRAINT

Werke mexikanischer Künstlerinnen aus der Daros Latinamerica Collection

Kunstmuseum Bern, Bern (CH)
3 Jun 2016 – 23 Oct 2016

with Xinema Cuevas, Claudia Fernandez, Teresa Margolles, Betsabeé Romero, Maruch Santiz Gomez, Teresa Serrano
FASZINATION FOTOGRAFIE

Essl Museum, Klosterneuburg (AT)
13 Nov 2015 – 31 Jan 2016

with Tal Adler, HAI Bo, Serge Bramly, MU Chen, Judy Dater, Thomas Demand, Elger Esser, Guenther Foerg, Guenther Foerg, Dorothee Golz, Andreas Gursky, Axel Huette …
Dark Mirror

Lateinamerikanische Kunst seit 1968

Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg, Wolfsburg (DE)
27 Sep 2015 – 31 Jan 2016

with Mauricio Alejo, Miguel Angel Rios, Miguel Angel Rojas, Luis Camnitzer, Donna Conlon, Nicola Costantino, Mario Cravo Neto, Juan Manuel Echavarria, Ivan Edeza, Paz Errazuriz, Alfredo Jaar, Marcos Lopez …
ARCO Foundation Collection

CA2M, Madrid (ES)
1 Oct 2014 – 1 Feb 2015

with Antoni Abad, Ignasi Aballi, Marina Abramovic, Francis Alys, Pilar Albarracin, Helena Almeida, Christian Boltanski, Filipa Cesar, Cabello & Carceller, Jiri David, Valie Export, Angela Mendes Ferreira …
Fabrications: Landscape Photography from the Collection

MCASD Downtown, San Diego (US)
20 Sep 2014 – 4 Jan 2015

with Lewis Baltz, Bernd & Hilla Becher, Oliver Boberg, Stéphane Couturier, John Divola
Assembly: A Survey of Recent Artists' Film and Video in Britain 2008-2013

Screenings Sun 15h + Mon 19h

Tate Britain, London (GB)
23 Nov 2013 – 15 Mar 2014

with John Akomfrah, Jananne Al-Ani, Anja Kirschner & David Panos, Ed Atkins, Clio Barnard, Duncan Campbell, Steven Claydon, Phil Collins, Shezad Dawood, Tacita Dean, Luke Fowler, Gail Pickering …
México Inside Out: Themes in Art Since 1990

Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, Fort Worth (US)
15 Sep 2013 – 5 Jan 2014

with Eduardo Abaroa, Francis Alys, Edgardo Aragon, Artemio, Gustavo Artigas, Minerva Cuevas, Jonathan Hernandez, Gabriel Kuri, Teresa Margolles, Yoshua Okon, Gabriel Orozco
Great Expectations

Contemporary photography looks at today’s Bitter Years

Casino Luxembourg, Luxembourg (LU)
28 Mar 2009 – 14 Jun 2009

with Vahram Aghasyan, Eric Baudelaire, Frederic Delangle, Martin Eder, Ivan Edeza, Lukas Einsele, Patrick Galbats, Dionisio Gonzalez, Peter Granser, Stanley Greene, Joachim Koester, Laurence Leblanc …
what makes you and I different

Tramway, Glasgow (GB)
24 Feb 2006 – 26 Mar 2006

with Matthew Barney, Beagles & Ramsay, Monica Castillo, Mat Collishaw, John Wood & Paul Harrison, Peter Land, Bjoern Melhus, Cindy Sherman
Beyond Delirious

Architecture in Selected Photographs from the Ella Fontanals Cisneros Collection

Cisneros Fontanals Art Foundation (CIFO), Miami (US)
3 Dec 2005 – 3 Feb 2006

with Atelier Morales, Olivo Barbieri, Uta Barth, Rochelle Costi, Stan Douglas, Olafur Eliasson, Carlos Garaicoa, SHI Guorui, Andreas Gursky, Candida Hoefer, Sabine Hornig, Sze Tsung LEONG …
Indeterminate States

Video in the Ella Fontanals Cisneros Collection

Cisneros Fontanals Art Foundation (CIFO), Miami (US)
3 Dec 2005 – 3 Feb 2006

with Marina Abramovic, Chantal Akerman, Kutluğ Ataman, Sophie Calle, SONG Dong, William Kentridge, Ana Mendieta, Julian Rosefeldt, Fiona Tan, Bill Viola, Robert Wilson, Francesca Woodman
sodium and asphalt

British Contemporary Art in Mexico

Museo Tamayo Arte, México (MX)
15 Jul 2004 – 10 Oct 2004

with Rosalind Nashashibi, Paul Noble, Oliver Payne & Nick Relph, Richard Wright
Made in Mexico

ICA Institute Contemp Art, Boston (US)
21 Jan 2004 – 9 May 2004

with Francis Alys, Claudia Fernandez, Andreas Gursky, Sharon Lockhart, Yasumasa Morimura, Gabriel Orozco, Daniela Rossell, Santiago Sierra, Anton Vidokle
Mexico City: An Exhibition about Exchnage Rates of Bodies and Values

MoMA PS1, New York (US)
6 Sep 2002 – 30 Sep 2003

with Francis Alys, Ivan Edeza, Daniela Rossell
Colored Surfaces . Mexican photography

House of Photography, Praha (CZ)
7 Mar 2003 – 20 Apr 2003

with Claudia Fernandez, Lourdes Grobet, Mariana Yampolsky
Mexico City: Eine Ausstellung über die Wechselkurse von Körpern und Werten

KW Kunst-Werke Berlin, Berlin (DE)
22 Sep 2002 – 19 Jan 2003

with Eduardo Abaroa, Francis Alys, Carlos Amorales, Gustavo Artigas, Jose Davila, Ivan Edeza, Jonathan Hernandez, Gabriel Kuri, Teresa Margolles, Enrique Metinides, Yoshua Okon, Rubén Ortiz-Torres …

Events

LOOP Video Art Fair 2024

LOOP, Barcelona (ES)
19 Nov 2024 – 21 Nov 2024

with Gabriel Abrantes, Andrés Barón, Petra Cortright, Jérémie Danon, Cordula Ditz, Regina Jose Galindo, Jan Ijaes, Daniel Jacoby, Claudia Joskowicz, Takuji Kogo, Ndayé Kouagou, Moshekwa Langa …
Dallas Art Fair 2022

Dallas Art Fair, Dallas (US)
21 Apr 2022 – 24 Apr 2022

with Max Steven Grossman, Romuald Hazoumé, Sky Hopinka, Mustafa Hulusi, Seydou Keita, Karen Knorr, David LaChapelle, Anthony Lepore, Vik Muniz, Malick Sidibe, John Sparagana, Johannes Wohnseifer
LOOP Fair 2019

LOOP, Barcelona (ES)
19 Nov 2019 – 21 Nov 2019

with Gabriel Abrantes, Adam Broomberg & Oliver Chanarin, Olga Chernysheva, Peter Forgacs, Hamza Halloubi, Peyman Hooshmandzadeh, Aapo Huhta, Tao Hui, Polina Kanis, Vendula Knopova, Romain Kronenberg, Basim Magdy …
Liverpool Biennial 2018

Liverpool Biennial, Liverpool (GB)
14 Jul 2018 – 28 Oct 2018

with Madiha Aijaz, Francis Alys, Morehshin Allahyari, Mohamed Bourouissa, Banu Cennetoglu, Shannon Ebner, Inci Eviner, Ryan Gander, Aslan Goisum, Joseph Grigely, Lamia Joreige, Richard Linklater …
Global Photography Now: Latin America

Tate Modern, London (GB)
10 Nov 2006

with Oscar Munoz, Rosangela Renno