Kasey Smith
Social Practice, Performance, and Site Specific Artist
PROJECTS
Memory Seed Bombs - Ongoing
Social practice painting series where I collect memories about those lost to Alzheimers and dementia, recreate them as photorealistic seed bombs, and return them to families to plant. Site.
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
UPCOMING Vol. 7 Fleeting Whispers
January 2025
Nine artist group show at Chassé Dance Studios featuring the Pixelated Pearl Vermeers
UPCOMING Echoes of Memory online show, DRIFTI.space
January 2025
Group online show featuring the Memory Seed Bomb project
Holy Art Amsterdam
January 2025
Group show/sale featuring one Pixelated Pearl Vermeer
Solitude Online Show, 34Gallery.org
January 2025
Online group show featuring one of the Pixelated Pearl Vermeers
Game of Shrooms
June 2023
A once a year world-wide art scavenger hunt.
BART Basel
December 2022
Performance breaking the final Fauxberge Egg at a guerilla art show on the Bay Area’s BART transit system.
Virtual Tenderloin Walking Tour
May/June 2020
A collaboration with SFNeon and the Tenderloin Museum. A series of virtual talks structured as a “walking tour” through San Francisco’s Tenderloin neighborhood
Bulb Lab
CANCELED DUE TO COVID
Three month long experimental collaboration incubator between five professional artists and environmental architecture students from UCB
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 collaboration with the artist Diane Kopperl 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)
Nerd Nite SF (August 2021)
Virtual Tenderloin Walking Tour with SFNeon, Neon Speaks (September 2020 )
Roll Over Easy - Ghost Signs! (July 2020)
Clutter Coach - Podcast 139: Artist Kasey Smith on managing creative and work time (March 2020)
San Francisco Library Connect With Tech Week (May 2019)
San Francisco History Days (March 2018 & 2019)
RiotCON (2018)
FIGMENT Oakland Summer Arts Program (2016)
Obscura Day (2016)
CCA, Mobile and Geolocated Storytelling Class (2014)
Nerd Night (2014)
Publications
101 Art Book: Animal Edition, edited by Arts to Hearts Project, 2024
Shelter: An Atlas, edited by Guerilla Cartography, 2023
Encyclopedia of Craft Studies (Abridged), edited by Rena Tom, 2023
Press and Interviews
A Secret Night Market of Art is Going On a Cross Country Tour
Art-Filled Box Truck Will Caravan Across the US This August!
Ghost Signs Of San Francisco: Forgotten Treasures Hiding in Plain Site
The Best Walking Tours in San Francisco For All Types of People
East Bay's historic ghost signs: How some recent discoveries led to a new urban exploration project
Nerd Nite SF returns to Rickshaw Stop with guerilla gardening and lots of cursing
Education
UCSC, degree in Fine Art, 1999-2003