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Index

2023-current

no wisdom, no feeling, no form change

Future Memoria,
Surrey Art Gallery

Variations on Idiorrhythmy
“Pawing the Ground in Place” Exhibition

2019-2021
Eden Grove

Archival Routes
Collaborative Work w/Carmen Papalia

Pandemic is a Portal

Open Access: Claiming Visibility

2017-2018
Resonant Forms
Blue is the Distance Encampments

Other Projects #tearitdown
Leaning out of Windows

2016-2017
If Tomorrow is Yesterday

2015
Animation

About
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“no wisdom, no feeling, no form change”
Works in Progress, 2025

HEATHER KAI SMITH
Pawing the Ground in Place, with Ali Feser,
Logan Center Exhibitions Gallery, Reva and David Logan Center, The University of Chicago, Chicago IL. Jan.20th - Mar.5th, 2023
Photos by Robert Chase Heishman




Jan.20th, Pawing the Ground in Place Reception Photos by Sarah Elizabeth Larson
Resonant Forms (2017-18)
Encampments
Installation view, Beginning with the 70’s: Collective Acts (September 4 – December 2, 2018), at the Morris and Helen Belkin Art Gallery, The University of British Columbia. Left to right: Attributed to Adeline Lorenzetto, Untitled (weaving), 1950–1970. Courtesy of the Chilliwack Museum and Archives, 2016.070.002.; and Heather Kai Smith, Encampments series, 2017– ongoing. Courtesy of the artist. Photo: Rachel Topham Installation view: Beginning with the 70’s: Collective Acts (September 4 – December 2, 2018), at the Morris and Helen Belkin Art Gallery, The University of British Columbia Photo: Rachel Topham

Resonant Forms (2017-2018)

Blue is the Distance

Installation view, Beginning with the 70’s: Collective Acts (September 4 – December 2, 2018), at the Morris and Helen Belkin Art Gallery, The University of British Columbia.Photo: Rachel Topham Installation view, Beginning with the 70’s: Collective Acts (September 4 – December 2, 2018), at the Morris and Helen Belkin Art Gallery, The University of British Columbia.Photo: Rachel Topham Installation view, Beginning with the 70’s: Collective Acts (September 4 – December 2, 2018), at the Morris and Helen Belkin Art Gallery, The University of British Columbia.Photo: Rachel Topham Installation view, Beginning with the 70’s: Collective Acts (September 4 – December 2, 2018), at the Morris and Helen Belkin Art Gallery, The University of British Columbia.Photo: Rachel Topham Installation view, Beginning with the 70’s: Collective Acts (September 4 – December 2, 2018), at the Morris and Helen Belkin Art Gallery, The University of British Columbia.Photo: Rachel Topham Installation view, Beginning with the 70’s: Collective Acts (September 4 – December 2, 2018), at the Morris and Helen Belkin Art Gallery, The University of British Columbia.Photo: Rachel Topham

All works copyright Heather Kai Smith, 2025
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