13 Facts About Cauleen Smith

Cauleen Smith was born on September 25,1967 and is an American born filmmaker and multimedia artist.

Cauleen Smith is best known for her feature film Drylongso and her experimental works that address the African-American identity, specifically the issues facing black women today.

Cauleen Smith was, after some struggles, able to complete the film, and it got a significant amount of attention at the Sundance Film Festival, and took home several Best Film awards from other festivals, mentioned below.

Cauleen Smith has held consecutive residencies in Chicago at ThreeWalls, the Black Metropolis Research Consortium, and the Experimental Sound Studio in addition to an artist residency at the University of Chicago Arts Incubator.

In 2012, Cauleen Smith installed overlapping shows at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago and ThreeWalls, and was named Outstanding Artist by the National Alliance for Media Arts and Culture.

Cauleen Smith has been a Visiting Artist at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago while exploring the intersection of art, protest, commerce, and community on Chicago's South Side.

Cauleen Smith was one of 63 artists whose work was exhibited as part of the 2017 Whitney Biennial.

Cauleen Smith's elaborately designed hand-stitched banners were hung from the ceiling.

Cauleen Smith's "Human_3.0 Reading List" was exhibited at the Art Institute of Chicago in 2017.

Cauleen Smith's "Give It or Leave It" was exhibited at the Institute of Contemporary Art, Philadelphia in 2018, with support provided by an Ellsworth Kelly Award from the Foundation for Contemporary Arts.

Cauleen Smith exhibited her ongoing multimedia work, Black Utopia LP, as a part of the International Film Festival Rotterdam in 2019.

In 2019, Cauleen Smith's work was included in the exhibit "Loitering Is Delightful," at the LA Municipal Gallery in the Barnsdall Art Park.

Cauleen Smith is a player in the movement of Afrofuturism, an emergent literary and cultural aesthetic that combines elements of science fiction, historical fiction, fantasy, Afrocentricity, and magic realism with non-Western cosmologies in order to critique not only the present-day dilemmas of people of color, but to revise, interrogate, and re-examine the historical events of the past.