Upcoming Events
C. Rose Smith, Untitled no. 17, Pacific Mills, Lawrence, MA, 2022, Gelatin Silver Print
Photo Credit: C. Rose Smith
November 5, 2025
7 p.m. in the Liberman-Miller Lecture Hall, WSRC
Rose Smith will be joined in conversation by Dr. Nikki Greene to discuss C. Rose Smith: A Silent Rage and Smith’s practice at large.
NIKKI GREENE is a tenured professor of Art History at Wellesley College and an advisor to the ICA Boston for the 59th Venice Biennale presenting the work of Simone Leigh for the United States Pavilion in 2022. She has written for numerous art museums, including The Studio Museum in Harlem, The Guggenheim Museum, The Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, and Smithsonian Institution’s National Portrait Gallery. Her forthcoming book Grime, Glitter, and Glass: The Body and The Sonic in Contemporary Black Art features María Magdalena Campos-Pons’s performances prominently.
ROSE SMITH is a visual artist examining the role of photography in constructing the layers of identity and individuality. Using fashion, site-specificity, and elements gleaned from studio portraiture, their photographs engender a subversive performance that gestures a critique of social norms. Born in Memphis, TN and raised in Atlanta, GA, Smith grew up learning the value of representation and record-keeping of images from watching their father take up the role of both photographer and videographer, and their two grandmothers assist in portrait studios.
Their work has been exhibited in solo and group exhibitions at venues and festivals throughout the U.S. and Europe, including Autograph ABP (London, UK), the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (Boston, MA), FotoFest Biennial (Houston, TX), Tempe Centre for the Arts (Tempe, AZ), and PhotoBrussels (Brussels, Belgium), among others. Their work is held in the Wedge Collection and various private collections.
Smith earned an MFA in Photography from Rochester Institute of Technology and a BFA in Photography from Savannah College of Art and Design. They are an Artist Scholar in Residence at Brandeis University’s Women’s Studies Research Center, and currently serves as the Assistant Curator of Photography at Memphis Brooks Museum of Art in Memphis, TN. Smith is based between Memphis, TN and Providence, RI.
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