Carrie Mae Smith

Carrie Mae Smith lives and works in Upstate New York. Her paintings are often depictions of items from particular museum collections, acquired from estate sales, or ingredients that she will cook herself. Influenced by her life in the Northeastern United States, including having worked as a private chef on Martha’s Vineyard, Smith’s works serve as symbols of class, labor, friendship, tradition, love, and utility. She earned an MFA in Visual Arts from the University of Delaware (2013). Smith has received numerous awards and grants including the Clowes Fellowship Full Scholarship, Vermont Studio Center, Johnson, VT; Barbara Deming Memorial Fund, Inc. Artist Grant; and the Ruth and Harold Chenven Foundation, Artist Grant. She has exhibited her work internationally and nationally, with recent solo exhibitions at Lowell Ryan Projects in Los Angeles, the Locust Grove Estate, Poughkeepsie, NY, and The Berman Museum, Collegeville, PA.