BIO

 

Lynne Smith is a post-disciplinary artist, designer, and educator. Through sustained attention to landscape, Smith explores complex ecologies and themes of fragility and resilience. Using provisional strategies and material poetics, narratives unfold and are retold through weavings, archives, sculptures, and public gardens. Her current work at the National Building Arts Center transforms a loading dock into a wetland oasis for amphibians and interspecies engagement.

 

Research and relational activity are central to Smith’s practices, in which materials serve as conduits for embodiment, connection, and knowledge. Smith teaches in the Sam Fox School of Design & Visual Arts at Washington University in St. Louis, facilitates workshops for the Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum and community-based non-profits, and develops independent educational programming.

Smith received grants from the IMSE Lab at WashU, the Luminary Futures Fund, a regranting initiative of the Andy Warhol Foundation, and the Regional Arts Council. She is one of 47 artists selected for Counterpublic’s 2026 triennial exhibition Coyote Time, which opens September 10th.​​