Group Exhibitions
2023 |
Institutional Kink. Shed Shows, Austin, TX
2021 |
making home here. The Mattress Factory Museum, Pittsburgh, PA
2021 |
Finished. Yale School of Art, New Haven, CT
2020 |
Full House. Local Host, Online
2020 |
BFA Show 2020. Serving the People, Online
2019 |
Unfinished. Yale School of Art, New Haven, CT
Selected Bibliography
2022 |
"Museums Have a Responsibility to Their Neighbors." Sylvia Rhor Samaniego, Hyperallergic.
2022 |
"How an Art Exhibit Led to a Housing Discrimination Complaint." Brentin Mock, CityLab, Bloomberg.
2022 |
"Art exhibit results in federal housing-bias complaint." Bill O'Driscoll, Weekend Edition, WESA.
2022 |
"Two home appraisals, 3 days and $36,000 apart, spur a housing bias complaint." Rich Lord, Public Source.
2022 |
"An Artist Tackles the Racial Wealth Gap, and Then Tries to Close It." Brentin Mock, CityLab, Bloomberg.
2022 |
"A Pa. museum is paying Black residents back on their overtaxed and undervalued homes." Bill O'Driscoll, Weekend Edition, NPR.
2022 |
"An artist takes on the racial tilt of aging property assessments." Rich Lord, Public Source.
2021 |
"At The Door: Placemaking and Memory at The Mattress Factory." Jurgis Viningas, The Bunker Review.
2020 |
"Harrison Kinnane Smith." Mary Truong, Art-Discontent.
Public Speaking and Screenings
2023 |
The Loophole of Critique. The Pittsburgh Commons Conference. Pittsburgh, PA
2023 |
Critical Art Practice, Race, and the Law. Darryl Chappel Foundation. Pittsburgh, PA
2023 | 2x4x Guest Lecture Series. 2x4. New York, NY
2022 |
From Art to Enforcement. National Fair Housing Alliance Conference. Washington, DC
2022 |
Land, Law, and the Loophole. Trinity College. Hartford, CT
2022 |
Overcharged and Undervalued. Mattress Factory Museum, Pitt UAG & Homewood CEC. Pittsburgh, PA
2021 |
Sed Valorem. Methods, Research and Scholarship, The University of Pittsburgh. Pittsburgh, PA
2021 |
Sed Valorem. Art, Making & Anti-Racism, Northwestern University. Evanston, IL
Publications
2023 |
"The Loophole of Critique." Dark Forest Theory, Salim Green at SculptureCenter NY.
2021 |
"Justin Emmanuel Dumas in Conversation with Harrison Kinnane Smith." The Bunker Review.
2021 |
"Rejection, Redaction, Redirection." Sustainable Futures, The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum.
2021 |
"Bunker Talks: Nick Drain and Harrison Kinnane Smith in Conversation." The Bunker Review.
2020 |
"Monadology." The Bunker Review.
2019 | "Artist Portrait: Krystal DiFronzo,"
with Matt Reiner. The Yale Herald.
2019 | "Artist Portrait: Peyton Peyton,"
with Matt Reiner. The Yale Herald.
2019 | "Artist Portrait: Kevin Hernández Rosa." The Yale Herald.
Residencies
2019 |
Shell House Arts Summer Session. Roxbury, NY
Curation
2022 |
Divine Theory. Austin Arts Center, Trinity College. Hartford, CT
Education
2025 | M.F.A. Interdisciplinary Studio, University of California Los Angeles
2020 | B.A. Art and Ecology & Evolutionary Biology, Yale University
2020 | Guggenheim Summer Practicum
2019 | Yale Norfolk School of Art
Awards
2022 | Advancing Black Arts Award. The Pittsburgh Foundation and The Heinz Endowments
2020 | Advancing Black Arts Award. The Pittsburgh Foundation and The Heinz Endowments
2020 | Ethel Childe Walker Prize. Yale School of Art
2019 | Ezra Stiles Richter Summer Fellowship. Ezra Stiles College
2019 | John E. Linck and Alanne Headland Linck Fellowship. Yale College
2019 | Creative and Performing Arts Award. Ezra Stiles College
2018 | Mary Hotchkiss Williams Travel Fellowship. Yale University Art Gallery
2018 | Creative and Performing Arts Award. Ezra Stiles College