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Vivian Sming

Women to Watch 2027 Artist

Website:

https://www.smingsming.com/

A Bit About Vivian

Vivian Sming (she/they) is an artist-publisher who experiments with books as art, discourse, exhibition, and archive. Since 2017, Sming published a wide range of artists’ books through their studio Sming Sming Books. They work in close collaboration with artists whose works and ideas inform design, material, and printing choices. Sming is
committed to promoting critical discourse, advancing cultural equity, and creating alternative sites of knowledge production through publications and public programs.

A selection of Sming Sming Books’s titles are publicly accessible in over 150 libraries worldwide, and have been featured in aperture, Art in America, BOMB Magazine, Hyperallergic, and the New York Times. Sming Sming Books has received Printed Matter’s Shannon Michael Cane Memorial Award, a San Francisco Art Book Fair Publishing Grant, and Southern Exposure’s Alternative Exposure Grant. Sming was previously a Fellow at YBCA, Curatorial Fellow at the Letterform Archive, Guest Curator for the Vancouver Art Book Fair’s programs, and was a 2023 YBCA 100 Honoree. They hold a BA in Art from UCLA and an MFA from CalArts.

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