Emily Mae Smith was born in 1979 in Austin, Texas. She currently lives and works in Brooklyn, New York. Recent solo exhibitions include: Simone Subal Gallery, New York, NY (2020, 2017); SCAD Museum of Art, Savannah, GA (2020); Marion Art Gallery, Rockefeller Arts Center, SUNY Fredonia, NY (2020); Perrotin, Tokyo (2019); Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art, Hartford, CT (2019); Le Consortium, Dijon, France (2018); CFA, Berlin, Germany (2018); Galerie Perrotin (two-person with Genesis Belanger), New York, NY (2018); SALTS (two-person exhibition with Adam Henry), Basel, Switzerland (2017); Rodolphe Janssen, Brussels, Belgium (2016); Mary Mary, Glasgow, Scotland, UK (2016); and Laurel Gitlen, New York, NY (2015). Select group exhibitions include: Petzel Gallery, New York, NY (2020); Hauser & Wirth, New York, NY (2019); Peter Freeman Inc., curated by Ugo Rondinone, New York, NY (2018); Tanya Bonakdar Gallery, New York, NY (2018); Lumber Room, Portland, OR (2017); König Galerie (St. Agnes), Berlin, Germany (2016); Simone Subal Gallery, New York, NY (2016); The Moore Building, organized by Jeffrey Deitch and Larry Gagosian, Miami, FL (2015); and Skirball Museum, Cincinnati, OH (2014).