Radical Acts of Care: Act II

Cauleen Smith

August 27 – September 27, 2020

Covid Manifesto

  Cauleen Smith | USA | graphite on paper > digitized to JPEG | 2020 Cauleen Smith produced this series of images that debuted on her Instagram account (@cauleen_smith) during the increasing anxiety surrounding the global pandemic. Executed as a compilation manifesto in twenty-three editions, each piece is a trenchant critique of the status quo in the United States under a social and economic crisis. Sketched onto post-it notes and photographed with a smartphone, the COVID Manifesto is a piercing, rapid-response artistic intervention. —Greg de Cuir Jr.  Artwork courtesy of Cauleen Smith. Portrait (previous slide): Dustin Aksland

Cauleen Smith

Cauleen Smith’s films, objects, and installations have been featured in group exhibitions at the Studio Museum of Harlem (New York), Yerba Buena Center for the Arts (San Francisco), the New Museum (New York), and the Museum of Contemporary Art (Chicago). She has had solo shows at The Kitchen (New York), the Art Institute of Chicago, and the Institute of Contemporary Art (Philadelphia). Smith is the recipient of multiple awards and fellowships including the inaugural Ellsworth Kelly Award of the Foundation for Contemporary Arts, and the Herb Alpert Award. She has received a Creative Capital grant, a Rauschenberg Residency; the Black Metropolis Research Consortium Research Fellowship, and the Director’s Grant at the University of California Institute for Research in the Arts. Smith teaches at CalArts in Los Angeles. Portrait of Cauleen Smith (above): 3Arts