
Installation view of Studio Sound: Sable Elyse Smith
The Museum of Modern Art, New York
July 03 – July 14, 2024
Photo: Jonathan Dorado

Performance still from If you unfolded us a part of Studio Sound: Sable Elyse Smith
The Museum of Modern Art, New York
July 03 – July 14, 2024
Photo: Jonathan Dorado

Performance still from If you unfolded us a part of Studio Sound: Sable Elyse Smith
The Museum of Modern Art, New York
July 03 – July 14, 2024
Photo: Jonathan Dorado

Installation view of Sable Elyse Smith
FAIR GROUNDS
Regen Projects, Los Angeles
September 9 – October 21, 2023

Installation view of Sable Elyse Smith
FAIR GROUNDS
Regen Projects, Los Angeles
September 9 – October 21, 2023

Installation view of Sable Elyse Smith
FAIR GROUNDS
Regen Projects, Los Angeles
September 9 – October 21, 2023

Installation view of Sable Elyse Smith
FAIR GROUNDS
Regen Projects, Los Angeles
September 9 – October 21, 2023

Landscape VII
2023
Neon
Installed Dimensions:
70 3/4 x 226 1/4 x 2 1/4 inches (179.7 x 574.7 x 5.7 cm)
Edition of 1, 1 AP

BARRICADE
2023
Powder coated aluminum
56 x 56 x 56 inches (142.2 x 142.2 x 142.2 cm)

Coloring Book 140
2023
Screen printing ink, oil pastel, and oil stick on paper
Framed Dimensions:
63 1/4 x 53 1/2 x 2 1/2 inches (160.7 x 135.9 x 6.4 cm)

Coloring Book 132
2023
Screen printing ink, oil pastel, and oil stick on paper
Framed Dimensions:
63 1/2 x 53 1/2 x 2 1/2 inches (161.3 x 135.9 x 6.4 cm)

Coloring Book 129
2023
Screen printing ink, oil pastel, and oil stick on paper
Framed Dimensions, each:
63 3/4 x 53 1/2 x 2 1/2 inches (161.9 x 135.9 x 6.4 cm)

Landscape VI
2022
Neon
87 x 200 x 4 inches (220.98 x 506.73 x 10.16 cm)
Edition of 1, 1 AP
Installation view of The Milk of Dreams
59th Venice Biennale
April 23 – November 27, 2022
Photo: Marco Cappelletti

A Clockwork
2021
Aluminum, steel, and motor
14 ft 7 1/2 inches x 13 ft 9 1/8 inches x 8 ft 1 3/4 inches (445.8 x 419.4 x 248.3 cm)
Installation view of Whitney Biennial 2022: Quiet as It’s Kept
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York
April 6 – September 5, 2022
Photo: Charles Benton

Coloring Book 82
2021
Screen printing ink and oil stick on paper
60 x 50 in (152.5 x 127 cm)

Coloring Book 79
2021
Screen printing ink and oil stick on paper
60 x 50 in (152.5 x 127 cm)

Installation view of Marking Time: Art in the Age of Mass Incarceration
MoMA PS1, New York, NY
September 17, 2020 – April 5, 2021
Photo: Charles Benton

Installation view of Grief and Grievance: Art and Mourning in America
New Museum, New York, NY
February 17 – June 6, 2021
Photo: Dario Lasagni

8401 Nights
2020
Digital c-print, suede, artist frame
48 x 40 in (122 x 101.6 cm)

8423 Days
2020
Digital c-print, suede, artist frame
48 x 40 in (122 x 101.6 cm)

Installation view of or the song spilling out
Carlos/Ishikawa, London, UK
November 8 - December 14, 2019
Photo: Damian Griffiths

Installation view of or the song spilling out
Carlos/Ishikawa, London, UK
November 8 - December 14, 2019
Photo: Damian Griffiths

Installation view of Colored People Time: Banal Presents
ICA Philadelphia, Philadelphia, PA
September 13 – December 22 , 2019
Photo: Constance Mensh

BACKBEND
2019
Powder coated aluminum
56 x 144 x 68 in (142 x 366 x 172.5 cm)
Installation view of SI ONSITE: Sable Elyse Smith, Backbend
Swiss Institute, New York, NY
Photo: Charlie Rubin

ScapeG.O.A.T.
2019
Lightbox
62 x 47 x 4 in (157.5 x 119.5 x 9.5 cm)

C.R.E.A.M.
2018
Aluminum light boxes and steel
140 x 328 in (355.5 x 833 cm)
Installed in Agora, High Line, New York, NY
April 2018 – March 2019
Photo: Timothy Schenck

Installation view of BOLO: be on (the) lookout
JTT, New York, NY
October 28 - December 16, 2018
Photo: Charles Benton

Installation view of BOLO: be on (the) lookout
JTT, New York, NY
October 28 - December 16, 2018
Photo: Charles Benton

Installation view of Ordinary Violence
Queens Museum, Queens, NY
September 17, 2017 - February 18, 2018

Installation view of Ordinary Violence
Queens Museum, Queens, NY
September 17, 2017 - February 18, 2018

Installation view of Ordinary Violence
Queens Museum, Queens, NY
September 17, 2017 - February 18, 2018

Landscape III
2017
Neon
96 x 144 in (244 x 366 cm)
Installation view of Trigger: Gender as a Tool and a Weapon
New Museum, New York, NY
Sep 27, 2017 - Jan 21, 2018
Photo: Maria Hutchinson / EPW Studio