Michael E. Smith (born 1977) is an American artist whose minimal sculptures often juxtapose appropriated, discarded everyday items found in urban decay and on eBay. His works have been shown in MoMA PS1, SculptureCenter, the Eli and Edythe Broad Art Museum and the 2019 Venice Biennale. Selected exhibitions Solo 2018: Atlantis, Marseille 2018: David Ireland House, San Francisco 2017:Stedelijk Museum voor Actuele Kunst, Ghent 2016: pig, Capri, Düsseldorf Group 2022 Whitney Biennial 2019: Venice Biennale 2017: "All Watched Over by Machines of Loving Grace", Palais de Tokyo References External links Further reading 1977 births Artists from Detroit Artists from Providence, Rhode Island Yale School of Art alumni College for Creative Studies alumni Sculptors from Michigan Living people