Kasey Smith

Social Practice, Performance, and Site Specific Artist

 

PROJECTS

San Francisco Ghost Sign Mapping Project

Ongoing

Social practice and interactive storytelling project to identify, research, and map San Francisco’s hand painted historical signage. Site.

Everyhere Logistics  - Co-Founder

2014-2015

Co-founded an off growth of the Lost Horizon Night Market art event. Everyhere Logistics  sent artists from San Francisco and New York on an interactive cross country art road trip with the mission of collaborating on art events with local  communities. Site.

EXHIBITIONS

BART Basel

December 2022

Performance breaking the final Fauxberge Egg

Bulb Lab

Canceled due to Covid

Social practice citizen science project to catalogue the contents of the Albany Bulb.

You Are Here: California Stories on the Map, OCMA

Feb 2020-2022

A hand drawn map of Oakland ghost signs will be featured in this show at OCMA

Shaken & Stirred: Remembering the Loma Prieta Earthquake, Engine 43 Gallery

October 2019 

Set of three textile maps depicting the 1906 earthquake and fire

Bulbfest 2019, Albany Bulb

Bulbfest 2019

Site specific installation about the Gold Rush and water contamination in the San Francisco Bay

TifFAUXny Snails - a Tale of Gold and Glass, Space Gallery

March 2019

A social practice storytelling piece about the history of the Gold Rush and how it shaped the ecology of San Francisco

Museum of Glitter, FIGMENT Oakland

October 2017

A one-day pop up selfie museum dedicated to glitter.

Sunday Streets with SFMOMA 

Spring 2015

Produced a four-part series of interactive box truck installations on behalf of SFMOMA. An anarchic engineering school, a VR game about brain viruses, a fanciful park ranger association for the Mission district, and a Japanese opera performance. Sunday Streets, spring of 2015. 

Gods of San Francisco, Fallen Cosmos

February 2015

A solo performance imagining a trio of gods dictating the fate of San Francisco. Part of the Fallen Cosmos interactive art event. 

FAUXberge Revealed, site specific performance

October 2014

Guerrilla art show and performance  on the streets of Fruitvale. Twelve paintings were displayed on street corners and then destroyed before a small audience of viewers.

Cult Of Emperor Norton, All World’s Fair

February 2013

Collaboration with game designer Christopher Ory

Part role playing game  and part performance installation. Ensemble cast created a performative game involving a cult working to resurrect Emperor Norton. Part of the All World’s Fair interactive art event. 

Life Support - Group Show at Rock Paper Scissors

August 2009

Historiography - Group Show at Root Division

November 2008

CURATION

Everyhere Logistics

2014-2015

Co-founded the cross-country box truck art event, curating the artists involved in the West Coast portion of the event.

Lost Horizon Night Market - Organizer

2013-2014

Part of a four person organization and curation team for the underground interactive box truck event Lost Horizon Night Market.

FIGMENT Oakland - Curation Lead

2014, 2018

Lead Curator for the first FIGMENT Oakland arts festival. Responsible for a curation and outreach team of ten. Brought 70+ artists and musicians together for a one-day free interactive art event. 



Talks

  • Death, Dying and Disposal 16 (Sept 2023)

  • UCSC, degree in Fine Art, 1999-2003