The daughter of sculptor Tony Smith, Kiki Smith is known for her clinical depictions of anatomy, specifically organs that secrete fluids and expose the inner parts of the body.

Kiki Smith was born in Nuremberg, Germany in 1954 and lives and works in New York City. Her works have been exhibited in many galleries and museums worldwide, and may be found in major public collections as well. A monograph was published on the artist in 1998.

Smith is a feminist*, politically oriented, conceptual* artist deeply involved with intellectual activities combined with sentimental and theoretical formulations of human and natural life. Because of her obsession with the human body for itself and as a metaphor for political and lif...