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Ming Smith

Ming Smith

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  • American Photography: unforgettable images of the beauty and brutality of a nation

    The Guardian, 12 February 2025
  • Me as Marilyn, 1991 by Ming Smith. Photograph: Courtesy of the artist and Pippy Houldsworth Gallery, London.

    Black Venus review – female bodies reclaimed in spectacular style

    Charlotte Jansen, The Guardian, 18 July 2023
  • Rina Banerjee, Black Noodles, 2023

    Ming Smith, Wangechi Mutu, Richard Avedon, and More Must-See Shows in New York

    Pearl Fontaine, WHITEWALL, 8 May 2023
  • On Ming Smith

    Adam Shatz, London Review of Books, 2 March 2023
  • Ming Smith’s Radical Intuition

    Jenny Wu, ArtReview, 20 February 2023
  • Ming Smith’s Poetic Blur

    Holland Cotter, The New York Times, 16 February 2023
  • Ming Smith and Thelma Golden on the Art of Placemaking

    Mara Veitch, Cultured, 16 February 2023
  • Vanguard Spotlight: Ming Smith Comes Full Circle at MoMA

    Olivia Horn, Artsy, 9 February 2023
  • ‘New York was a big, bad city’: the hazy, radical photography of Ming Smith

    Alex Rayner, The Guardian, 8 February 2023
  • Pioneering Photographer Ming Smith on How She Found Freedom in Her Art, and the Power of Drawing on ‘Goddess Energy’

    William Van Meter & Cadillac, Artnet News, 6 February 2023
  • HEROES: MING SMITH

    V Magazine, 4 February 2023
  • Podcast: Ukraine museum collections: kept safe or looted? Plus, Okwui Enwezor’s Sharjah Biennial and Ming Smith at MoMA

    Hosted by Ben Luke. With guest speakers Martin Bailey and Nadine Khalil. Produced by David Clack and Aimee Dawson, The Art Newspaper, 3 February 2023
  • The Ecstatic, Elusive Art of Ming Smith

    Lovia Gyarkye, The New York Times Style Magazine, 3 February 2023
  • Ming Smith, Untitled (Grace Jones Ballerina), 1975

    International Center of Photography Infinity Awards Go to Ming Smith for Lifetime Achievement and Rising Artist Zora J M

    Victoria L. Valentine, The Culture Type, 16 January 2023
  • Explore Art’s Past, Present and Future in Elephant’s Autumn Winter 2022 Issue

    Elephant, 5 September 2022
  • The Best 5 Shows in the UK this April

    Frieze, 8 April 2022
  • How Ming Smith Follows the Light

    Frieze, 4 April 2022
  • Ming Smith – interview: ‘Photography’s the only thing I know’

    Joe Lloyd, Studio International, 1 April 2022
  • Ming Smith: A Dream Deferred, Pippy Houldsworth Gallery review - snapping the Blues

    Bill Knight, The Arts Desk, 30 March 2022
  • The T List: Poetic Photographs by Ming Smith

    The New York Times Style Magazine, 24 March 2022
  • Ming Smith on jazz, spirituality and how photography saved her

    Marielle Ingram, ID Magazine, 16 November 2021
  • Ming Smith

    The New Yorker, 4 June 2021
  • Nengi Omuku in her studio

    June Sarpong on the Power of Black Art and Visual Storytelling

    June Sarpong, Vanity Fair, 25 May 2021
  • Ming Smith: An Aperture Monograph

    The Brooklyn Rail, 7 April 2021
  • Feminine Mystique: Six Powerhouse Females from the Cultured Archives

    Cultured, 8 March 2021
  • The Big Review—Working Together: the photographers of the Kamoinge Workshop

    The Art Newspaper, 19 February 2021
  • On Ming Smith: A Life of Magical Thinking

    Nicola Vassell, Gagosian Quarterly, 18 February 2021
  • This Is Not a Fashion Photograph. Ming Smith

    Vogue Italia, 14 February 2021
  • Black Art Matters: the enduring legacy of the Kamoinge photography collective

    The New York Times - Critic's Pick, 13 January 2021
  • The Kamoinge legacy: the black photographers who changed the game

    The Guardian, 7 January 2021
  • Ming Smith Shook Up Photography in the ’70s. Now, She Is Coming into Full View.

    ARTnews, 16 November 2020
  • These Artworks Perfectly Subvert Modern America

    Elephant, 9 November 2020
  • SNAPSHOT: Ming Smith’s Hazy Image Unravels Centuries of Institutional Racism

    Elephant, 28 October 2020
  • Ming Smith on Befriending Grace Jones, and a Lifetime of Artistry

    W Magazine, 19 October 2020
  • Another Country: Emmanuel Iduma on the Kamoinge Workshop

    Artforum, 1 October 2020
  • On View: ‘Painting with Light: The Photography of Ming Smith’ at Pippy Houldsworth Gallery in London

    Culture Type, 30 June 2020
  • How Ming Smith's Powerful Photographs Documented an Ongoing Struggle

    LOVE Magazine, 23 June 2020
  • Photographer Ming Smith's Dreamlike Portraits of Everyday Life from Harlem to Ethiopia

    Artnet News, 23 June 2020
  • Ming Smith: “Light is everything”

    British Journal of Photography, 11 June 2020
  • Artforum Critics' Picks: Ming Smith

    Artforum, 5 June 2020
  • FT Snapshot: ‘Painting with Light: The Photography of Ming Smith'

    Financial Times, 29 May 2020
  • Ming Smith: Painting with Light - in pictures

    The Observer, 17 May 2020
  • Ming Smith: 'I've always had to break boundaries'

    The Observer, 17 May 2020
  • 'Untitled (Self-Portrait with Camera), New York City, NY' (1975) © Jenkins Johnson Gallery

    Ming Smith: 'Being a black woman photographer was like being a nobody'

    Financial Times, 6 August 2019
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