Sable Elyse Smith

Sable Elyse Smith is a multidisciplinary artist and writer based in New York whose work examines the intersections of incarceration, queerness, trauma, and desire through video, sculpture, and text. Her practice often draws on personal and political narratives, using the aesthetics of the carceral system to interrogate intimacy, longing, and the ways structural violence shapes everyday life. Smith has exhibited widely at major institutions and is recognized as a significant voice in contemporary American art addressing systemic inequality.