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Keith Smith
Rochester, NY
b. 1938

Keith Smith is an artist, teacher, writer, and publisher based in Rochester, New York, where he has lived and worked quietly since 1974. His textbooks on books and bookbinding are well known, loved, and readily available. Keith has received two Guggenheim Fellowships, a National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) individual artist grant, and most recently the Pollock/Krasner Foundation Pilot Fine Art Still Photography Grant in 2002. His work is in the collections fo the Museums of Modern Art of New York, San Francisco, and London; The National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa; Bibliotheque Nationale, Paris; and the Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography.

Keith  Smith's work was exhibited in
Keith Smith -- Books Since 2000
Acrobats
(2002) Book 212. Small version. Inkjet, quarter kangaroo leather binding.
Back and Forth
(1985) Book 108. Poetry.
Balthus Book, The
(2002) Book 208. Inkjet, single sheet coptic sewing.
Behind the Scenes
(2001) Book 205. Inkjet, Coptic sewing.
Chest-of-drawers/lamp/landscaped walls
(2003) Inkjet print mounted on BFK paper
Double windows with KitKat kitchen clock
(2003) Inkjet print mounted on BFK paper
Drawn From Reality
(1988) Book 123
Drawn From Reality
(1988) Book 123.
Drawn From Reality
(1988) Book 123.
Numb
(2002) Book 210. Large version. Inkjet, coptic sewing.
Out of Sight
(1985) Book 107. Poetry.
Redhead
(2003) Book 221. Inkjet, thread, single sheet sewing.
Reminiscences
(2003) Book 216. Display copy. Coptic sewing.
Reminiscences
(2003) Book 216. Indigo print, long stitch variation binding.
Spaces
(2003) Book 219. Quarter kangaroo leather binding.
Spaces
(2003) Book 219. Single sheet Coptic sewing.
Staircase
(2003) Inkjet print mounted on BFK paper
Table/lamp/tomatoes
(2003) Inkjet print mounted on BFK paper
Untitled
(2003) Book 203. Inkjet, Basingwerk etching paper.
Untitled
(1999) Book 179. Inkjet, Stonehenge paper, coptic sewing.
Coptic and Collage: Ancient Technique, Modern Application
 a survey of contemporary implementations of one of the first binding structures
Keith Smith With It
(1996) Basingwerk etching paper and Mohawk Superfine, digital photography and watercolor.

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