SIEVA SMITH
Interdisciplinary Artist & Researcher
ExExploring memory, resilience, and cultural presence through pigment, writing, and dialogue with communities
Sieva Smith is an interdisciplinary artist and researcher exploring the tensions between presence and erasure, fragility and permanence, resilience and vulnerability. Working across painting, installation, writing, and pigment-based research, Smith creates experiences that generate artifacts which are works that endure as memory while inviting dialogue.
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Her practice bridges rigorous inquiry with accessibility, cultivating spaces where art functions as both record and conversation. By connecting personal experience with cultural memory, Smith seeks to expand local projects into global dialogue, positioning art as a framework for resilience, reflection, and transformation.
SIEVA SMITH
ARTIST STATEMENT
"My work explores the intersection of presence and erasure, fragility and resilience, and the cycles that shape memory. Through painting, pigment research, textiles, and writing, I create layered works that both reveal and withhold, asking what endures and what is forgotten. Each piece becomes a site of resistance against silence, offering resilience and beauty in tension. By working across galleries, civic spaces, and community contexts, I aim to lower barriers, expand accessibility, and align my practice with collective memory and transformation."
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