Working at the genre-collapsing intersection of portraiture, landscape, and still-life, Anj Smith’s striking and intricately detailed canvases are charged with themes of gender, ecology, and eroticism. Smith’s labyrinthine compositions transport the viewer into a transcendental realm steeped in urgent contemporary concerns yet underlined by a Bosch-like and timeless formal patina.
Smith was born in 1978 in Kent, UK. Smith’s work is held in many leading public collections, including The Victoria and Albert Museum, London, and The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles. Recent museum presentations include those at the New Art Gallery, Walsall and the Museo Poldi Pezzoli, Milan. Smith studied at the Slade School of Fine Art and Goldsmiths College, London; she lives and works in London.
