Krista Louise Smith

Krista Louise Smith (b. 1986, Ontario) is a Canadian-born artist living and working in Brooklyn. She received her BFA from OCAD University (formerly the Ontario College of Art and Design) in Toronto in 2010, and in 2014 an MFA in Painting from the New York Academy of Art, where she was a NYAA Merit Scholarship recipient. Smith has conducted residencies at the Leipzig International Artist in Residence in Leipzig, Germany, at Byrdcliffe Artist Colony in Woodstock, New York, and at the Art Students League Residency at VYT, Sparkhill, New York. She is a three-time recipient of the Elizabeth Greenshields Foundation for the Arts Grant, and has also been awarded the Ruth Katzman Prize.

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