Kasey Smith

Mixed Media * Social Practice * Performance * Site Specific Work

 

PROJECTS

Memory Seed Bombs - Ongoing

Social practice painting series where I collect memories about those lost to Alzheimers and dementia, recreate them as photorealistic seed bombs, and return them to families to plant. Site.

San Francisco Ghost Sign Mapping Project - Ongoing

Social practice and interactive storytelling project to identify, research, and map San Francisco’s hand painted historical signage. Site.

Everyhere Logistics  - Co-Founder - 2014-2015

Co-founded an off growth of the Lost Horizon Night Market art event. Everyhere Logistics  sent artists from San Francisco and New York on an interactive cross country art road trip with the mission of collaborating on art events with local  communities. Site.

EXHIBITIONS

Muze of Meester? | 2026 | Middelburg, NL

Upcoming
Group show at De Engelse Kerk featuring Pixelated Pearl Woman Reading A Letter and Lady Writing A Letter

Draden Van Verbeelding | 2026 | Gouda, NL

September 2026
Group show of textile art at Unit4Art featuring The Storm On The Sea Of Galilee 1

Small Worlds III | 2026 | Aabenraa, DK

June, 2026
Group show at Aabenraa Miniart featuring seven micro Vermeer mixed media collages

Kantine | 2026 | Groningen, NL

February 2026
Group show at Kunstkantine, Eindhoven featuring one pearl embroidery

Vrij Paleis Open | 2025 | Amsterdam, NL

September 2025
Group show at Vrij Paleis, Amsterdam featuring four of the Pixelated Pearl Vermeers

Zomersalon | 2025 | Amsterdam, NL

July -August 2025
Group show at CBK Zuidoost, Amsterdam featuring one Pixelated Pearl Vermeer

Fresh Legs Berlin | 2025 | Berlin, DE

June 2025
Group show at Inselgalerie, Berlin featuring one Pixelated Pearl Vermeer

Vol. 7 Fleeting Whispers | 2025 | Amsterdam, NL

January 2025
Nine artist group show at Chassé Dance Studios, Amsterdam featuring the Pixelated Pearl Vermeers

Echoes of Memory | 2025 | DRIFTI.space

January 2025
Group online show featuring the Memory Seed Bomb project

Holy Art Amsterdam | 2025 | Amsterdam, NL

January 2025
Group show/pop-up in Amsterdam featuring one Pixelated Pearl Vermeer

Solitude Online Show |2025 | 34Gallery.org

January 2025
Online group show featuring one of the Pixelated Pearl Vermeers

Game of Shrooms | 2023 | Uitgeest, NL

June 2023
A once a year world-wide art scavenger hunt.

BART Basel | 2022 | San Francisco, CA, USA

December 2022
Performance breaking the final Fauxberge Egg at a guerilla art show on the Bay Area’s BART transit system.

Virtual Tenderloin Walking Tour | 2020 | Online

May/June 2020
A collaboration with SFNeon and the Tenderloin Museum. A series of virtual talks structured as a “walking tour” through San Francisco’s Tenderloin neighborhood

Bulb Lab | 2020 | Albany, CA, USA

CANCELED DUE TO COVID
Three month long experimental collaboration incubator between five professional artists and environmental architecture students from UCB

You Are Here: California Stories on the Map | 2020-2022 | Oakland, CA, USA

Feb 2020-2022
A hand drawn map of Oakland ghost signs comissioned by at the Oakland Musrum of California Art (OMCA).

Shaken & Stirred: Remembering the Loma Prieta Earthquake | 2019 | San Francisco, CA, USA

October 2019 
Group show at Engine 43 Gallery featuring three textile maps depicting the 1906 earthquake and fire

Bulbfest 2019 | 2019| Albany, CA, USA

March 2019
Site specific installation about the Gold Rush and water contamination in the San Francisco Bay

TifFAUXny Snails - a Tale of Gold and Glass | 2019| San Francisco, CA, USA

March 2019
A social practice storytelling piece about the history of the Gold Rush and how it shaped the ecology of San Francisco installed at SPACE in SOMA.

Museum of Glitter | 2017 | Oakland, CA, USA

October 2017
A collaboration with the artist Diane Kopperl one-day pop up selfie museum dedicated to glitter at the FIGMENT Oakland art festival.

Sunday Streets with SFMOMA | 2017 | San Francisco, CA, USA

Spring 2015
Produced a four-part series of interactive box truck installations on behalf of SFMOMA. An anarchic engineering school, a VR game about brain viruses, a fanciful park ranger association for the Mission district, and a Japanese opera performance. Sunday Streets, spring of 2015. 

Gods of San Francisco, Fallen Cosmos | 2015 | San Francisco, CA, USA

February 2015
A solo performance imagining a trio of gods dictating the fate of San Francisco. Part of the Fallen Cosmos interactive art event. 

FAUXberge Revealed | 2014 | Oakland, CA, USA

October 2014
Guerrilla art show and performance  on the streets of Fruitvale. Twelve paintings were displayed on street corners and then destroyed before a small audience of viewers.

CURATION

Everyhere Logistics — 2014-2015

Co-founded the cross-country box truck art event, curating the artists involved in the West Coast portion of the event.

Lost Horizon Night Market - 2013-2014

Part of a four person organization and curation team for the underground interactive box truck event Lost Horizon Night Market.

FIGMENT Oakland -2014, 2018

Lead Curator for the first FIGMENT Oakland arts festival. Responsible for a curation and outreach team of ten. Brought 70+ artists and musicians together for a one-day free interactive art event. 



TALKS

  • BLAG Meet: Inside Issue 06 (May 2025)

  • Death, Dying and Disposal 16 (Sept 2023)