Jennifer Smith

Jennifer Smith is a Métis curator, writer and arts administrator from Treaty 1 Territory/Winnipeg. She works as the Executive Director for National Indigenous Media Arts Coalition, alongside her practice as an independent curator and art writer. Jennifer’s research focuses on exploring the ways we make things that range from traditional methods of making to exploring new digital technologies that tell our stories. In 2018 she was the Indigenous Curator in Residence at aceartinc. in Winnipeg, and most recently co-curated the exhibition Sovereign Intimacies with Nasrin Himada for Plug In ICA and Gallery 1C03. Her writing has been published in Studio Magazine, Galleries West, and Paperwait. Jennifer has written about exhibitions for galleries, most recently for Jaime Black’s exhibition between us at the Kniznick Gallery at Brandeis University, and Casey Koyczan’s installation Ełexiìtǫ ; Ehtsʼǫǫ̀ / Connected ; Apart From Each at Urban Shaman.