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'''Cauleen Smith''' (born September 25, 1967) is an American born filmmaker and multimedia artist. She is best known for her experimental works that address the African-American identity, specifically the issues facing black women today. Smith is best known for her feature film ''Drylongso''.<ref>Borelli, Christopher, [http://www.chicagotribune.com/entertainment/ct-ae-cauleen-smith-0820-20170819-column.html "The complicated exodus of art world star Cauleen Smith"], ''[[Chicago Tribune]]'', August 18, 2017.</ref> Smith currently teaches in the School of Art at the [[California Institute of the Arts]].<ref name="icaphila.org">[https://icaphila.org/exhibitions/cauleen-smith-give-it-or-leave-it/ "Cauleen Smith: Give It or Leave It"]</ref>
'''Cauleen Smith''' (born September 25, 1967) is an American born filmmaker and multimedia artist. She is best known for her feature film ''[[Drylongso (film)|Drylongso]]'' and her experimental works that address the African-American identity, specifically the issues facing black women today.<ref>Borelli, Christopher, [http://www.chicagotribune.com/entertainment/ct-ae-cauleen-smith-0820-20170819-column.html "The complicated exodus of art world star Cauleen Smith"], ''[[Chicago Tribune]]'', August 18, 2017.</ref> Smith is currently a professor in the Department of Art at the [[University of California - Los Angeles]].<ref>{{cite web | url=https://www.arts.ucla.edu/single/cauleen-smith-joins-the-faculty-of-uclas-department-of-art/ | title=UCLA Arts: School of the Arts and Architecture }}</ref>


== Education ==
== Education ==
In 1991 Smith completed her B.A in Cinema at [[San Francisco State University]].<ref name=":0">{{Cite news|url=http://www.cauleensmith.com/bio|title=Bio|work=Cauleen Smith|access-date=2017-03-08}}</ref> While a student there, she completed several films, two of which received a lot of attention: ''Daily Rains'', which was completed in 1990, and ''Chronicles of a Lying Spirit by Kelly Gabron'', which was fully completed in 1993.<ref>{{cite book|last1=Juhasz|first1=Alexandra|title=Feminism and Documentary|date=1999|publisher=Univ. of Minnesota Press|location=Minneapolis|isbn=0-8166-3006-2|pages=113–114|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=8XQR2onsHVwC&lpg=PA113&dq=Cauleen%20Smith&pg=PA113#v=onepage&q&f=false|chapter=Bad Girls Come and Go, But a Lying Girl Can Never Be Fenced In}}</ref>
In 1991, Smith completed her B.A in Cinema at [[San Francisco State University]].<ref name=":0">{{Cite news|url=http://www.cauleensmith.com/bio|title=Bio|work=Cauleen Smith|access-date=2017-03-08|archive-date=May 6, 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190506022217/http://www.cauleensmith.com/bio|url-status=dead}}</ref> While a student there, she completed several films, including ''Daily Rains'', which was completed in 1990, and ''Chronicles of a Lying Spirit by Kelly Gabron'', which was fully completed in 1993.<ref>{{cite book|last1=Juhasz|first1=Alexandra|title=Feminism and Documentary|date=1999|publisher=Univ. of Minnesota Press|location=Minneapolis|isbn=0-8166-3006-2|pages=113–114|chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=8XQR2onsHVwC&q=Cauleen%20Smith&pg=PA113|chapter=Bad Girls Come and Go, But a Lying Girl Can Never Be Fenced In}}</ref>


Once she finished her B.A., Smith was accepted into M.F.A. program at [[UCLA]].<ref name=":0" /> Her work there gained worldwide recognition. In her second year of the program, Smith decided to shoot a feature-length film titled ''Drylongso''. However, it was against UCLA’s rules for film students to shoot feature-length films, "and for good reason, you don’t know what you are doing!" as Smith has said. She 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. In 1998, Smith graduated from UCLA with her M.F.A. and a growing reputation as an up-and-coming force in the film industry.
Smith was accepted into M.F.A. program at [[UCLA]] in 1994.<ref name=":0" /> In her second year of the program, Smith decided to shoot a feature-length film titled ''Drylongso''. However, it was against UCLA's rules for film students to shoot feature-length films, "and for good reason, you don’t know what you are doing!" as Smith has said. She 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. In 1998, Smith graduated from UCLA with her M.F.A. and a growing reputation as an up-and-coming force in the film industry.


In 2007, she attended the [[Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture]] in Maine.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.skowheganart.org/alumni-search|title=Alumni & Faculty Database|website=Skowhegan School of Painting & Sculpture|language=en-US|access-date=2017-03-08}}</ref>
In 2007, she attended the [[Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture]] in Maine.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.skowheganart.org/alumni-search|title=Alumni & Faculty Database|website=Skowhegan School of Painting & Sculpture|language=en-US|access-date=2017-03-08}}</ref>


== ''Drylongso'' ==
== ''Drylongso'' ==
''[[Drylongso (film)|Drylongso]]'' was a highly acclaimed film that gained Smith much attention and popularity. Smith made the movie while completing film school at the University of California, Los Angeles. The film takes place in [[Oakland, CA]], and follows a young African-American woman named Pica, on her quest to photograph her concept of a dying breed, referring to African-American men. The movie follows Pica through the attrition of the young black men around her and how she balances this with her dysfunctional family's struggles. The film brings up the topic of gang violence that took place in Oakland which claimed the lives of many innocent African-American young men. "Drylongso" is an old African-American term meaning "same old" or "everyday". ''Drylongso'' was well received at many film festivals, most notably [[Sundance Film Festival]]. in 2000,''[[Drylongso (film)|Drylongso]]'' also won best feature at the Urbanworld Festival, Los Angeles Pan-African Film Festival, and the Philadelphia International Film Festival. [[Yusuf Bey|Yusuf Bey's]] son Sayyed Yusuf Bey had a minor acting role in the film, he was photographed by the main character Pica.<ref>{{Cite news|url=http://www.hollywood.com/celebrities/sayyed-y-bey-57880610/|title=Sayyed Y Bey {{!}} Biography and Filmography|last=Staff|first=Hollywood.com|date=2014-05-23|newspaper=Hollywood.com|language=en-US|access-date=2017-01-29}}</ref>
''[[Drylongso (film)|Drylongso]]'', shot during Smith's time in graduate school at [[UCLA]], takes place in [[Oakland, CA]] and follows a young African-American woman named Pica on her quest to photograph what she believes to be the dying breed of African American men. Throughout the film, Pica struggles to balance her project, her dysfunctional home life, and new friendships, all while a serial killer, whose victims include some of her own photography subjects, is terrorizing her neighborhood. The film brings up the topic of gang violence that took place in Oakland which claimed the lives of many innocent African-American young men. "Drylongso" is an old African-American term meaning "same old" or "everyday". ''Drylongso'' was well received at many film festivals, including [[Sundance Film Festival]]. In 2000, ''Drylongso'' also won best feature at the [[Urbanworld Festival]], the [[Los Angeles Pan-African Film Festival]], and the [[Philadelphia International Film Festival]].

In November, ''[[Drylongso (film)|Drylongso]]'' will be included as part of the "Cinematic Legacy" series at the 2018 [[AFI Fest]], screened on a new 16mm print issued by the [[Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences]].


==Chicago==
==Chicago==
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.<ref>{{Cite news|url=http://www.chicagomag.com/Chicago-Magazine/May-2014/Afrofuturism-Under-the-Sun-Ra/|title=Why Sun Ra Is Dominating Chicago’s Culture Scene|work=Chicago magazine|access-date=2018-10-03|language=en}}</ref> In 2012, 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. Smith has also 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.<ref>{{cite web
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.<ref>{{Cite news|url=http://www.chicagomag.com/Chicago-Magazine/May-2014/Afrofuturism-Under-the-Sun-Ra/|title=Why Sun Ra Is Dominating Chicago's Culture Scene|work=Chicago magazine|access-date=2018-10-03|language=en}}</ref> In 2012, 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. Smith has also 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.<ref>{{cite web
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Smith's site-specific installation, "17," ran from March 10, 2013, to July 7, 2013, both at Hyde Park Art Center and on the corner of East Garfield Boulevard and Prairie Avenue on the South Side. "17" features approximately 260 feet of hand screen-printed wallpaper. The title of this exhibition materialized from Smith’s "meditations on the number’s spiritual significance as a marker of immortality"<ref>[http://www.hydeparkart.org/exhibitions/cauleen-smith-em17em Cauleen Smith: ''17'' | March 10, 2013 – July 7, 2013] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130506020220/http://www.hydeparkart.org/exhibitions/cauleen-smith-em17em# |date=2013-05-06 }}, Hyde Park Art Center</ref> and further alludes to numerous aspects of art and culture spanning from ancient history to modern day. "17" was also inspired by Smith's research of the life and legacy of [[Sun Ra]].<ref>{{cite journal|last1=Snodgrass|first1=Susan|title=Cauleen Smith|journal=Art in America|date=December 11, 2012|url=http://www.artinamericamagazine.com/reviews/cauleen-smith/}}</ref> Sun Ra, a student of numerology, was interested in a kind of "cultural immortality” for which the number "17" has been said to carry significance.
Smith's site-specific installation, "17," ran from March 10, 2013, to July 7, 2013, both at the [[Hyde Park Art Center]] and on the corner of East Garfield Boulevard and Prairie Avenue on the South Side. "17" features approximately 260 feet of hand screen-printed wallpaper. The title of this exhibition materialized from Smith's "meditations on the number’s spiritual significance as a marker of immortality"<ref>[http://www.hydeparkart.org/exhibitions/cauleen-smith-em17em Cauleen Smith: ''17'' | March 10, 2013 – July 7, 2013] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130506020220/http://www.hydeparkart.org/exhibitions/cauleen-smith-em17em# |date=2013-05-06 }}, Hyde Park Art Center</ref> and further alludes to numerous aspects of art and culture spanning from ancient history to modern day. "17" was also inspired by Smith's research of the life and legacy of [[Sun Ra]].<ref>{{cite journal|last1=Snodgrass|first1=Susan|title=Cauleen Smith|journal=Art in America|date=December 11, 2012|url=http://www.artinamericamagazine.com/reviews/cauleen-smith/}}</ref> Sun Ra, a student of numerology, was interested in a kind of "cultural immortality” for which the number "17" has been said to carry significance.


Smith was one of 63 artists whose work was exhibited as part of the 2017 Whitney Biennial. Her elaborately designed hand-stitched banners were hung from the ceiling. The banners are in response to the artist's "disgust and fatigue" from having watched videos of police violence against black people.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://whitney.org/Exhibitions/2017Biennial#artists-50|title=Whitney Biennial 2017|website=whitney.org|language=en|access-date=2018-09-20}}</ref> Smith and artist [[Aram Han Sifuentes]] facilitated a workshop in conjunction with the Biennial called Protest Banner Lending Library a project Sifuentes had initiated in Chicago.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://whitney.org/Events/ProtestBannerLendingLibrary|title=Protest Banner Lending Library with Aram Han Sifuentes and Cauleen Smith|website=whitney.org|language=en|access-date=2018-09-20}}</ref>
Smith was one of 63 artists whose work was exhibited as part of the 2017 Whitney Biennial. Her elaborately designed hand-stitched banners were hung from the ceiling. The banners are in response to the artist's "disgust and fatigue" from having watched videos of police violence against black people.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://whitney.org/Exhibitions/2017Biennial#artists-50|title=Whitney Biennial 2017|website=whitney.org|language=en|access-date=2018-09-20}}</ref> Smith and artist [[Aram Han Sifuentes]] facilitated a workshop in conjunction with the biennial called Protest Banner Lending Library a project Sifuentes had initiated in Chicago.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://whitney.org/Events/ProtestBannerLendingLibrary|title=Protest Banner Lending Library with Aram Han Sifuentes and Cauleen Smith|website=whitney.org|language=en|access-date=2018-09-20|archive-date=September 20, 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180920195541/https://whitney.org/Events/ProtestBannerLendingLibrary|url-status=dead}}</ref>


Smith's "Human_3.0 Reading List" was exhibited at the Art Institute of Chicago in 2017.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.artic.edu/exhibition/cauleen-smith-human30-reading-list|title=Cauleen Smith: Human_3.0 Reading List {{!}} The Art Institute of Chicago|website=The Art Institute of Chicago|language=en|access-date=2018-09-20}}</ref> The project conceived in 2015 consists of 57 drawings—each produced on 8½ × 12-inch graph paper in watercolor over graphite, occasionally elaborated with acrylic of 14 books. Smith describes these books as such: "These are some of the books that literally changed my life, saved my life and sustain my life, but also, (fair warning) make it difficult for me to go along, get along, look the other way, and gets mines."<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://readinglisthumanthreepointo.wordpress.com/2015/06/15/june-16-2015/|title=June 16, 2015|date=2015-06-15|work=Human_3.o Reading List|access-date=2018-09-20|language=en-US}}</ref>
Smith's "Human_3.0 Reading List" was exhibited at the Art Institute of Chicago in 2017.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.artic.edu/exhibition/cauleen-smith-human30-reading-list|title=Cauleen Smith: Human_3.0 Reading List {{!}} The Art Institute of Chicago|website=The Art Institute of Chicago|date=May 27, 2017 |language=en|access-date=2018-09-20}}</ref> The project conceived in 2015 consists of 57 drawings—each produced on 8{{frac|1|2}} × 12-inch graph paper in watercolor over graphite, occasionally elaborated with acrylic of 14 books. Smith describes these books as such: "These are some of the books that literally changed my life, saved my life and sustain my life, but also, (fair warning) make it difficult for me to go along, get along, look the other way, and gets mines."<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://readinglisthumanthreepointo.wordpress.com/2015/06/15/june-16-2015/|title=June 16, 2015|date=2015-06-15|work=Human_3.o Reading List|access-date=2018-09-20|language=en-US}}</ref>


==Los Angeles==
==Los Angeles==
[[File:May 2019 Artforum Cover.jpg|thumb|Cauleen Smith and ''Sojourner'' featured in the cover art of ''[[Artforum]]'' magazine (May 2019)]]
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<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.foundationforcontemporaryarts.org/recipients/icaphila|title="Cauleen Smith: Give It Or Leave It" :: Foundation for Contemporary Arts|website=www.foundationforcontemporaryarts.org|access-date=2019-06-13}}</ref> from the [[Foundation for Contemporary Arts]].<ref name="icaphila.org" /> The description of the exhibit reads, "Through films, objects, and installation, Give It or Leave It offers an emotional axis by which to navigate four distinct universes: Alice Coltrane and her ashram, a 1966 photo shoot by Bill Ray at Simon Rodia’s Watts Towers, Noah Purifoy and his desert assemblages, and black spiritualist Rebecca Cox Jackson and her Shaker community. These locations, while not technically utopian societies, embody sites of historical speculation and radical generosity between artist and community. In reimagining a future through this mix, Smith casts a world that is black, feminist, spiritual, and unabashedly alive.<ref name="icaphila.org" />
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<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.foundationforcontemporaryarts.org/recipients/icaphila|title="Cauleen Smith: Give It Or Leave It" :: Foundation for Contemporary Arts|website=www.foundationforcontemporaryarts.org|access-date=2019-06-13}}</ref> from the [[Foundation for Contemporary Arts]].<ref name="icaphila.org">[https://icaphila.org/exhibitions/cauleen-smith-give-it-or-leave-it/ "Cauleen Smith: Give It or Leave It"]</ref> The description of the exhibit reads, "Through films, objects, and installation, Give It or Leave It offers an emotional axis by which to navigate four distinct universes: Alice Coltrane and her ashram, a 1966 photo shoot by [[Bill Ray (photojournalist)|Bill Ray]] at Simon Rodia’s Watts Towers, Noah Purifoy and his desert assemblages, and black spiritualist Rebecca Cox Jackson and her Shaker community. These locations, while not technically utopian societies, embody sites of historical speculation and radical generosity between artist and community. In reimagining a future through this mix, Smith casts a world that is black, feminist, spiritual, and unabashedly alive.<ref name="icaphila.org" />


Smith exhibited her ongoing multimedia work, ''Black Utopia LP'', as a part of the [[International Film Festival Rotterdam]] in 2019. According to [[Hyperallergic]], "The performance was primarily part of a program of Smith’s work that included a screening of her recent shorts, a new 16mm restoration of her much acclaimed, rarely seen 1988 feature film ''Drylongso,'' and a previously unscreened short film, ''Sojourner,'' in the festival’s Tiger Short Film Competition."<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://hyperallergic.com/483433/cauleen-smith-black-utopia-lp/|title=Cauleen Smith Projects a Futuristic Black Utopia|last=|first=|date=|website=|archive-url=|archive-date=|access-date=}}</ref>
Smith exhibited her ongoing multimedia work, ''Black Utopia LP'', as a part of the [[International Film Festival Rotterdam]] in 2019. According to ''[[Hyperallergic]]'', "The performance was primarily part of a program of Smith's work that included a screening of her recent shorts, a new 16mm restoration of her much acclaimed, rarely seen 1988 feature film ''Drylongso,'' and a previously unscreened short film, ''Sojourner,'' in the festival's Tiger Short Film Competition."<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://hyperallergic.com/483433/cauleen-smith-black-utopia-lp/|title=Cauleen Smith Projects a Futuristic Black Utopia|last=|first=|date=February 7, 2019|website=|archive-url=|archive-date=|access-date=}}</ref>

In 2019, Smith's work was included in the exhibit "Loitering Is Delightful," at the LA Municipal Gallery in the [[Barnsdall Art Park]].<ref>{{cite web |last1=Ferguson |first1=Eraina |title=Loitering is Delightful |url=https://culture.lacity.gov/wp-content/uploads/2020/01/Loitering-is-Delightful.pdf |website=Los Angeles Department of Cultural Affairs |access-date=29 September 2024}}</ref>


==Solar Flare Arkestral Marching Band Project==
==Solar Flare Arkestral Marching Band Project==
Marking Smith's entrance onto the Chicago art scene was her work in creating the Solar Flare Arkestral Marching Band Project, the yield from her residency with Threewalls. Composed of members of the Rich South High School (Richton Park, Illinois) marching band and occasionally the South Shore Drill Team as well, the Solar Flare Arkestral Marching Band descended like a flash mob on various parts of Chicago that had been hit with waves of youth violence, including Chinatown and the meatpacking district, a few times throughout the fall of 2010, playing and dancing to an orchestration of Sun Ra’s "Space is the Place" led by music director Y. L. Douglas. Smith coupled the militant undertones of marching bands with the Sun Ra-style of free jazz in an attempt to combat youth violence with music.<ref>{{cite web|last=Smith|first=Cauleen|title=Solar Flare Arkestral Marching Band #1|url=https://vimeo.com/15678607|publisher=Vimeo}}</ref>
Marking Smith's entrance onto the Chicago art scene was her work in creating the Solar Flare Arkestral Marching Band Project, the yield from her residency with Threewalls. Composed of members of the [[Rich South High School]] (Richton Park, Illinois) marching band and occasionally the South Shore Drill Team as well, the Solar Flare Arkestral Marching Band descended like a flash mob on various parts of Chicago that had been hit with waves of youth violence, including Chinatown and the meatpacking district, a few times throughout the fall of 2010, playing and dancing to an orchestration of [[Sun Ra]]'s "Space is the Place" led by music director Y. L. Douglas. Smith coupled the militant undertones of marching bands with the Sun Ra-style of free jazz in an attempt to combat youth violence with music.<ref>{{cite web|last=Smith|first=Cauleen|title=Solar Flare Arkestral Marching Band #1|url=https://vimeo.com/15678607|publisher=Vimeo}}</ref>


==Afrofuturism==
==Afrofuturism==
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 also to revise, interrogate, and re-examine the historical events of the past.
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 also to revise, interrogate, and re-examine the historical events of the past.


In an interview with ''[[BOMB Magazine]]'' in 2011, Smith noted: "There’s the strand of my work that is Afrofuturist. Afrofuturism, for me, is about speculating on the potentiality of what is known about technology and physics to create metaphors that allow me to explore an African diasporic past and generate possible narratives for the future. Dark Matter is part of this. I had constructed an alien narrative—not an alien-abduction story, but one about alien assimilation. Aliens are never caught. Nobody ever notices them. The conflict is that the world that they land in doesn’t work for them; it’s toxic for them. But Afrofuturism is also a rumination on memories to which I have no access. My investment in it as a production strategy has run its course; Afrofuturism provides a way to investigate trauma very explicitly. But we only reenact traumas, don’t we? We don’t reenact prom night, or our favorite birthday party. This is a problem—it doesn’t seem to fix things; it amplifies them. There’s gotta be something else, the after-the-trauma."<ref>{{cite web|last=Hewitt|first=Leslie|title=Cauleen Smith|url=http://bombsite.com/issues/116/articles/5111|work=BOMB Magazine |number=116|date=Summer 2011}}</ref>
In an interview with ''[[BOMB Magazine]]'' in 2011, Smith noted: "There’s the strand of my work that is Afrofuturist. [[Afrofuturism]], for me, is about speculating on the potentiality of what is known about technology and physics to create metaphors that allow me to explore an African diasporic past and generate possible narratives for the future. Dark Matter is part of this. I had constructed an alien narrative—not an alien-abduction story, but one about alien assimilation. Aliens are never caught. Nobody ever notices them. The conflict is that the world that they land in doesn’t work for them; it’s toxic for them. But Afrofuturism is also a rumination on memories to which I have no access. My investment in it as a production strategy has run its course; Afrofuturism provides a way to investigate trauma very explicitly. But we only reenact traumas, don’t we? We don’t reenact prom night, or our favorite birthday party. This is a problem—it doesn’t seem to fix things; it amplifies them. There’s gotta be something else, the after-the-trauma."<ref>{{cite web|last=Hewitt|first=Leslie|title=Cauleen Smith|url=http://bombsite.com/issues/116/articles/5111|work=BOMB Magazine |number=116|date=Summer 2011}}</ref>


== Filmography ==
== Filmography ==
*'''2019'''
*'''2019'''
**Black Utopia LP at the [[International Film Festival Rotterdam]]<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://hyperallergic.com/483433/cauleen-smith-black-utopia-lp/|title=Cauleen Smith Projects a Futuristic Black Utopia|date=2019-02-07|website=Hyperallergic|language=en-US|access-date=2019-03-01}}</ref>
**''Black Utopia LP'' at the [[International Film Festival Rotterdam]]<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://hyperallergic.com/483433/cauleen-smith-black-utopia-lp/|title=Cauleen Smith Projects a Futuristic Black Utopia|date=2019-02-07|website=Hyperallergic|language=en-US|access-date=2019-03-01}}</ref>
*'''2010'''
*'''2010'''
**''Remote Viewing''. 4K digital Video. TRT: 15:00. Funded by Creative Capital.
**''Remote Viewing''. 4K digital Video. TRT: 15:00. Funded by Creative Capital.
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**''Not the Black''. MiniDV. TRT: 1:39.
**''Not the Black''. MiniDV. TRT: 1:39.
*'''2008'''
*'''2008'''
**''ENTITLED'' Super-8. TRT: 6:30”
**''Entitled'' Super-8. TRT: 6:30”
**''THE FULLNESS OF TIME'' MiniDV. Single Channel. TRT: 50:00”
**''The Fullness of Time'' MiniDV. Single Channel. TRT: 50:00”
*'''2007'''
*'''2007'''
**''NEBULAE'' – Austin. 16mm film installation with sculptural component.
**''Nebulae'' – Austin. 16mm film installation with sculptural component.
**''Right Hand Only Left Hand Lonely'' Two Channel Video Installation
**''Right Hand Only Left Hand Lonely'' Two Channel Video Installation
*'''2006'''
*'''2006'''
**''(Afro)Galactic Postcards from M94'' Three 20MB Video Podcasts and Website
**''(Afro)Galactic Postcards from M94'' Three 20MB Video Podcasts and Website
**''I Want To See My Skirt'' Multi-Channel Video with sculptural component. In Collaboration with poet, AaronVan Jordan.
**''I Want to See My Skirt'' Multi-Channel Video with sculptural component. In Collaboration with poet, AaronVan Jordan.
**''Marriage Is For White People'' Two Channel Video and 3D Installation.
**''Marriage Is for White People'' Two Channel Video and 3D Installation.
**''Cantata for Salamanders and Twelve Choirs'' In Collaboration with artist, Daniel Bozhkov. S-16.
**''Cantata for Salamanders and Twelve Choirs'' In Collaboration with artist, Daniel Bozhkov. S-16.
**''Dark Matter and The Post Card'' Video Experimental Narrative. DV. 8 and 2.5 minutes.
**''Dark Matter and the Post Card'' Video Experimental Narrative. DV. 8 and 2.5 minutes.
**''The Carbonist School Study Hall'' Commissioned documentary featuring the founding members of The Carbonist School. MiniDV. 12.
**''The Carbonist School Study Hall'' Commissioned documentary featuring the founding members of The Carbonist School. MiniDV. 12.
*'''2005'''
*'''2005'''
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**''Sapphire'' Tape #1: The Message VHS video.
**''Sapphire'' Tape #1: The Message VHS video.
**''Memory Poison Bones'' Site-specific installation.
**''Memory Poison Bones'' Site-specific installation.
**''Chronicles of A Lying Spirit'' by Kelly Gabron 16mm 5.5 minutes.
**''Chronicles of a Lying Spirit by Kelly Gabron'' 16mm 5.5 minutes.
*'''1990'''
*'''1990'''
**''Daily Rains''. 16&nbsp;mm. 12 minutes.
**''Daily Rains''. 16&nbsp;mm. 12 minutes.
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== Grants and awards ==
== Grants and awards ==
*
*'''1992'''
*1993
**Film Arts Foundation Personal Works Grant.
:*Special Merit Award, [[National Black Programming Consortium]]
*'''1994'''
*1998
**Rockefeller Inter cultural Media Arts Fellowship.
**Honorable Mention, [[Hamptons Film Festival]]
**American Film Institute Film and Videomaker Grant.
*1999
**National Black Programming Consortium Funding.
**Honorable Mention Best Feature Film, [[Hamptons Film Festival]]
**Western States Regional Fellowships.
*2000
**Graduate Opportunity Fellowship, UCLA.
**Nomination for Independent Spirit Award Best Debut Performance (Toby Smith in [[Drylongso (film)|Drylongso]])
*'''1995/6'''
**[[Independent Spirit Award]], [[Someone to Watch Award]].
**Graduate Student Support, Academic Affairs.
**Best Feature Film at [[Los Angeles Pan-African Film Festival]], [[Drylongso (film)|Drylongso]]
*'''1999'''
*2001
**Honorable Mention Best Feature Film. Hamptons Film Festival.
**Best Feature Film at [[Urbanworld Film Festival]], [[Drylongso (film)|Drylongso]]
*'''2000'''
*2008
**Nomination. Independent Spirit Award Best Debut Performance.
**Jury Award: Best Film, [[New Orleans Human Rights Film Festival]]
**Winner. [[Independent Spirit Award]] Movado [[Someone to Watch Award]].
**[[James D. Phelan]] Art Award in Film, Video, and Digital Media
*'''2001'''
**[[San Francisco Foundation]] Creative Capital Award
**Urbanworld Film Festival. Best Feature Film.
*2012
**Participant. Sundance Institute Writer’s Lab. Winter.
**Outstanding Artist Award, [[National Alliance for Media Arts and Culture]]
**Participant. Sundance Institute Writer’s Lab. Summer.
*2015
**Participant. Sundance Institute Director’s Lab. Participant.
**[[Artadia]] Award
*'''2002'''
**Danish Jukniu First Prize Award, [[Tirana Open 1]]
**Texas Exes Teacher of the Year.
* 2016
*'''2004 '''
** [[Herb Alpert]] Award in the Arts, Film and Video.
**Tribeca All-Access Participant.
** Ellsworth Kelly Award, [[Foundation for Contemporary Arts]]<ref name=":1">{{Cite web|url=https://www.foundationforcontemporaryarts.org/recipients/icaphila|title=Ellsworth Kelly Award: Cauleen Smith: Give it or Leave It|last=|first=|date=|website=www.foundationforcontemporaryarts.org|publisher=Foundation for Contemporary Arts|archive-url=|archive-date=|access-date=2018-01-22}}</ref>
*'''2005'''
*2020
**Rockefeller Technical Support Grant.<ref name=":1" />
**[[Joyce Alexander Wein]] Artist Prize, [[Studio Museum]], [[Harlem, New York]]
**Texas Filmmaker Production Fund Grant.
*2022
**University of Texas Office of Research Special Research Grant.
** 27th Annual [[Heinz Awards|Heinz Award]] for the Arts<ref>{{Cite web|title=Heinz Awards - Cauleen Smith|url=http://www.heinzawards.org/pages/cauleen-smith}}</ref>
*'''2006'''
*2022
**University of Texas Dean’s Fellowship.
** [[Anonymous Was A Woman Award|Anonymous Was a Woman]] Award<ref>{{Cite web |last=Durón |first=Maximilíano |date=2023-12-14 |title=Anonymous Was A Woman Names 2023 Winners, Including Artists Dindga McCannon, Carolina Caycedo, Barbara Kasten, Amanda Ross-Ho |url=https://www.artnews.com/art-news/news/anonymous-was-a-woman-2023-winners-1234689903/ |access-date=2023-12-24 |website=ARTnews.com |language=en-US}}</ref>
**University of Texas Summer Research Grant.

**National Black Programming Consortium. New Media Initiative.
==Preservation==
*'''2007'''
Smith's film ''Chronicles of a Lying Spirit by Kelly Gabron'' was preserved by the [[Academy Film Archive]] in 2016.
**Artmatters Foundation.
<ref>{{cite web|title=Preserved Projects|url=https://www.oscars.org/academy-film-archive/preserved-projects?title=chronicles+of+a+lying&filmmaker=&category=All&collection=All|website=Academy Film Archive}}</ref>
*'''2008'''
**[[Creative Capital]] Film/Video Grant.
**James D. Phelan Art Award in Film, Video, and Digital Media. San Francisco Foundation.
**Nominated for the Alpert Awards in the Arts.
*'''2012'''
**National Alliance for Media Arts and Culture Artist Award.
*'''2013'''
**3Arts Chicago Artist Award.
*'''2014'''
**Foundation for Contemporary Arts Grants to Artists award.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.foundationforcontemporaryarts.org/recipients/cauleen-smith|title=Cauleen Smith :: Foundation for Contemporary Arts|website=www.foundationforcontemporaryarts.org|access-date=2019-06-13}}</ref>
*'''2015'''
**[[Artadia]] / Chicago Expo Artist Award.
* '''2016'''
** Herb Alpert Awards in the Arts, Film and Video.
** Ellsworth Kelly Award.<ref name=":1">{{Cite web|url=https://www.foundationforcontemporaryarts.org/recipients/icaphila|title=Ellsworth Kelly Award: Cauleen Smith: Give it or Leave It|last=|first=|date=|website=www.foundationforcontemporaryarts.org|publisher=Foundation for Contemporary Arts|archive-url=|archive-date=|access-date=2018-01-22}}</ref>
*'''2017'''
** United States Artist Fellowship.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.unitedstatesartists.org/fellow/cauleen-smith/|title=United States Artists » Cauleen Smith|access-date=2019-06-13}}</ref>


== References ==
== References ==
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== External links ==
== External links ==
* {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20101202005257/http://www.cauleensmith.com/CAULEEN_SMITH/Welcome..html|date=December 2, 2010|title=Official website}}
* {{IMDb name|807646|Cauleen Smith}}
* {{IMDb name|807646|Cauleen Smith}}
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20110720083614/http://visarts.ucsd.edu/node/view/491/454 "Cauleen Smith Biography"] University of California, San Diego.
* {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110720083614/http://visarts.ucsd.edu/node/view/491/454|date=July 20, 2011|title=Cauleen Smith Biography}} at the University of California, San Diego
*[https://moranmorangallery.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/12/CS-CV_01-27.pdf/ Cauleen Smith curriculum vitae] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240609164042/https://moranmorangallery.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/12/CS-CV_01-27.pdf |date=June 9, 2024 }}
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20101202005257/http://www.cauleensmith.com/CAULEEN_SMITH/Welcome..html Welcome] page. Cauleensmith.com
* [http://mediaartists.org/content.php?sec=artist&sub=detail&artist_id=108 "Cauleen Smith : ''Drylongso (Ordinary)'' (1998)"] Tribeca Film Institute
* [http://www.sistersincinema.com/ Sisters in Cinema] website
* [http://www.wmm.com/ Women Make Movies]
* [http://vimeo.com/kellygabron/videos Kelly Gabron videos] at Vimeo
* [http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/solarflare/the-solar-flare-arkestral-marching-band-project Solar Flare Arestral Marching Band] at Kickstarter.

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Cauleen Smith
Born (1967-09-25) September 25, 1967 (age 57)
Riverside, CA
NationalityAmerican
Other namesKelly Gabron
Occupation(s)Filmmaker, artist
Known forFilm
Notable workDrylongso
AwardsUnited States Artists Fellowship

Cauleen Smith (born September 25, 1967) is an American born filmmaker and multimedia artist. She 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.[1] Smith is currently a professor in the Department of Art at the University of California - Los Angeles.[2]

Education

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In 1991, Smith completed her B.A in Cinema at San Francisco State University.[3] While a student there, she completed several films, including Daily Rains, which was completed in 1990, and Chronicles of a Lying Spirit by Kelly Gabron, which was fully completed in 1993.[4]

Smith was accepted into M.F.A. program at UCLA in 1994.[3] In her second year of the program, Smith decided to shoot a feature-length film titled Drylongso. However, it was against UCLA's rules for film students to shoot feature-length films, "and for good reason, you don’t know what you are doing!" as Smith has said. She 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. In 1998, Smith graduated from UCLA with her M.F.A. and a growing reputation as an up-and-coming force in the film industry.

In 2007, she attended the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture in Maine.[5]

Drylongso

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Drylongso, shot during Smith's time in graduate school at UCLA, takes place in Oakland, CA and follows a young African-American woman named Pica on her quest to photograph what she believes to be the dying breed of African American men. Throughout the film, Pica struggles to balance her project, her dysfunctional home life, and new friendships, all while a serial killer, whose victims include some of her own photography subjects, is terrorizing her neighborhood. The film brings up the topic of gang violence that took place in Oakland which claimed the lives of many innocent African-American young men. "Drylongso" is an old African-American term meaning "same old" or "everyday". Drylongso was well received at many film festivals, including Sundance Film Festival. In 2000, Drylongso also won best feature at the Urbanworld Festival, the Los Angeles Pan-African Film Festival, and the Philadelphia International Film Festival.

Chicago

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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.[6] In 2012, 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. Smith has also 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.[7][8]

Smith's site-specific installation, "17," ran from March 10, 2013, to July 7, 2013, both at the Hyde Park Art Center and on the corner of East Garfield Boulevard and Prairie Avenue on the South Side. "17" features approximately 260 feet of hand screen-printed wallpaper. The title of this exhibition materialized from Smith's "meditations on the number’s spiritual significance as a marker of immortality"[9] and further alludes to numerous aspects of art and culture spanning from ancient history to modern day. "17" was also inspired by Smith's research of the life and legacy of Sun Ra.[10] Sun Ra, a student of numerology, was interested in a kind of "cultural immortality” for which the number "17" has been said to carry significance.

Smith was one of 63 artists whose work was exhibited as part of the 2017 Whitney Biennial. Her elaborately designed hand-stitched banners were hung from the ceiling. The banners are in response to the artist's "disgust and fatigue" from having watched videos of police violence against black people.[11] Smith and artist Aram Han Sifuentes facilitated a workshop in conjunction with the biennial called Protest Banner Lending Library a project Sifuentes had initiated in Chicago.[12]

Smith's "Human_3.0 Reading List" was exhibited at the Art Institute of Chicago in 2017.[13] The project conceived in 2015 consists of 57 drawings—each produced on 81⁄2 × 12-inch graph paper in watercolor over graphite, occasionally elaborated with acrylic of 14 books. Smith describes these books as such: "These are some of the books that literally changed my life, saved my life and sustain my life, but also, (fair warning) make it difficult for me to go along, get along, look the other way, and gets mines."[14]

Los Angeles

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Cauleen Smith and Sojourner featured in the cover art of Artforum magazine (May 2019)

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[15] from the Foundation for Contemporary Arts.[16] The description of the exhibit reads, "Through films, objects, and installation, Give It or Leave It offers an emotional axis by which to navigate four distinct universes: Alice Coltrane and her ashram, a 1966 photo shoot by Bill Ray at Simon Rodia’s Watts Towers, Noah Purifoy and his desert assemblages, and black spiritualist Rebecca Cox Jackson and her Shaker community. These locations, while not technically utopian societies, embody sites of historical speculation and radical generosity between artist and community. In reimagining a future through this mix, Smith casts a world that is black, feminist, spiritual, and unabashedly alive.[16]

Smith exhibited her ongoing multimedia work, Black Utopia LP, as a part of the International Film Festival Rotterdam in 2019. According to Hyperallergic, "The performance was primarily part of a program of Smith's work that included a screening of her recent shorts, a new 16mm restoration of her much acclaimed, rarely seen 1988 feature film Drylongso, and a previously unscreened short film, Sojourner, in the festival's Tiger Short Film Competition."[17]

In 2019, Smith's work was included in the exhibit "Loitering Is Delightful," at the LA Municipal Gallery in the Barnsdall Art Park.[18]

Solar Flare Arkestral Marching Band Project

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Marking Smith's entrance onto the Chicago art scene was her work in creating the Solar Flare Arkestral Marching Band Project, the yield from her residency with Threewalls. Composed of members of the Rich South High School (Richton Park, Illinois) marching band and occasionally the South Shore Drill Team as well, the Solar Flare Arkestral Marching Band descended like a flash mob on various parts of Chicago that had been hit with waves of youth violence, including Chinatown and the meatpacking district, a few times throughout the fall of 2010, playing and dancing to an orchestration of Sun Ra's "Space is the Place" led by music director Y. L. Douglas. Smith coupled the militant undertones of marching bands with the Sun Ra-style of free jazz in an attempt to combat youth violence with music.[19]

Afrofuturism

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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 also to revise, interrogate, and re-examine the historical events of the past.

In an interview with BOMB Magazine in 2011, Smith noted: "There’s the strand of my work that is Afrofuturist. Afrofuturism, for me, is about speculating on the potentiality of what is known about technology and physics to create metaphors that allow me to explore an African diasporic past and generate possible narratives for the future. Dark Matter is part of this. I had constructed an alien narrative—not an alien-abduction story, but one about alien assimilation. Aliens are never caught. Nobody ever notices them. The conflict is that the world that they land in doesn’t work for them; it’s toxic for them. But Afrofuturism is also a rumination on memories to which I have no access. My investment in it as a production strategy has run its course; Afrofuturism provides a way to investigate trauma very explicitly. But we only reenact traumas, don’t we? We don’t reenact prom night, or our favorite birthday party. This is a problem—it doesn’t seem to fix things; it amplifies them. There’s gotta be something else, the after-the-trauma."[20]

Filmography

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  • 2019
  • 2010
    • Remote Viewing. 4K digital Video. TRT: 15:00. Funded by Creative Capital.
    • The Grid. 4K digital Video. TRT: 15:00. Funded by Creative Capital.
    • T Minus Two. Digitized 16mm. TRT: 2:00.
    • Good Clean Family Fun. Digitized 16mm. TRT: 5:00.
    • Black and Blue Over You (after Bas Jan Ader for Ishan).TRT: 8:00.
    • Demon Fuzz. (loop) Digitized 35mm. TRT: 7:00
    • Elsewhere. (Installation loop) Digitized 35mm. TRT: 5:30
    • Sine at the Canyon Sine at the Sea. Appropriated 16mm NASA films. TRT: 4:00.
  • 2009
    • Not the Black. MiniDV. TRT: 1:39.
  • 2008
    • Entitled Super-8. TRT: 6:30”
    • The Fullness of Time MiniDV. Single Channel. TRT: 50:00”
  • 2007
    • Nebulae – Austin. 16mm film installation with sculptural component.
    • Right Hand Only Left Hand Lonely Two Channel Video Installation
  • 2006
    • (Afro)Galactic Postcards from M94 Three 20MB Video Podcasts and Website
    • I Want to See My Skirt Multi-Channel Video with sculptural component. In Collaboration with poet, AaronVan Jordan.
    • Marriage Is for White People Two Channel Video and 3D Installation.
    • Cantata for Salamanders and Twelve Choirs In Collaboration with artist, Daniel Bozhkov. S-16.
    • Dark Matter and the Post Card Video Experimental Narrative. DV. 8 and 2.5 minutes.
    • The Carbonist School Study Hall Commissioned documentary featuring the founding members of The Carbonist School. MiniDV. 12.
  • 2005
    • The Green Dress Series Six Channel. 35mm. Color. Sound.14 minutes. Six channel loop.
  • 2003
    • Hollywould If She Could. DV Narrative. 15 minutes.
  • 2001
    • The Changing Same 35mm 9.5 minutes.
  • 1998
    • Drylongso 82 minutes 16mm narrative. Distributed by Video Data Bank.
  • 1997
    • White Suit 16mm 3.5 minutes.
    • Sapphire Tape #2: VHS. Five minutes.
  • 1995
    • A Thousand Words 16mm 14 minutes. 1993
    • Sapphire Tape #1: The Message VHS video.
    • Memory Poison Bones Site-specific installation.
    • Chronicles of a Lying Spirit by Kelly Gabron 16mm 5.5 minutes.
  • 1990
    • Daily Rains. 16 mm. 12 minutes.
  • 1989
    • Wall Doc VHS. 6 minutes.

Grants and awards

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  • 1993

Preservation

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Smith's film Chronicles of a Lying Spirit by Kelly Gabron was preserved by the Academy Film Archive in 2016. [25]

References

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  1. ^ Borelli, Christopher, "The complicated exodus of art world star Cauleen Smith", Chicago Tribune, August 18, 2017.
  2. ^ "UCLA Arts: School of the Arts and Architecture".
  3. ^ a b "Bio". Cauleen Smith. Archived from the original on May 6, 2019. Retrieved March 8, 2017.
  4. ^ Juhasz, Alexandra (1999). "Bad Girls Come and Go, But a Lying Girl Can Never Be Fenced In". Feminism and Documentary. Minneapolis: Univ. of Minnesota Press. pp. 113–114. ISBN 0-8166-3006-2.
  5. ^ "Alumni & Faculty Database". Skowhegan School of Painting & Sculpture. Retrieved March 8, 2017.
  6. ^ "Why Sun Ra Is Dominating Chicago's Culture Scene". Chicago magazine. Retrieved October 3, 2018.
  7. ^ "Arts and Public Life Selects Artists-in-Residence for 2012-13". December 5, 2012. Retrieved March 18, 2013.
  8. ^ "National Alliance for Media Arts + Culture". Retrieved March 18, 2013.
  9. ^ Cauleen Smith: 17 | March 10, 2013 – July 7, 2013 Archived 2013-05-06 at the Wayback Machine, Hyde Park Art Center
  10. ^ Snodgrass, Susan (December 11, 2012). "Cauleen Smith". Art in America.
  11. ^ "Whitney Biennial 2017". whitney.org. Retrieved September 20, 2018.
  12. ^ "Protest Banner Lending Library with Aram Han Sifuentes and Cauleen Smith". whitney.org. Archived from the original on September 20, 2018. Retrieved September 20, 2018.
  13. ^ "Cauleen Smith: Human_3.0 Reading List | The Art Institute of Chicago". The Art Institute of Chicago. May 27, 2017. Retrieved September 20, 2018.
  14. ^ "June 16, 2015". Human_3.o Reading List. June 15, 2015. Retrieved September 20, 2018.
  15. ^ ""Cauleen Smith: Give It Or Leave It" :: Foundation for Contemporary Arts". www.foundationforcontemporaryarts.org. Retrieved June 13, 2019.
  16. ^ a b "Cauleen Smith: Give It or Leave It"
  17. ^ "Cauleen Smith Projects a Futuristic Black Utopia". February 7, 2019.
  18. ^ Ferguson, Eraina. "Loitering is Delightful" (PDF). Los Angeles Department of Cultural Affairs. Retrieved September 29, 2024.
  19. ^ Smith, Cauleen. "Solar Flare Arkestral Marching Band #1". Vimeo.
  20. ^ Hewitt, Leslie (Summer 2011). "Cauleen Smith". BOMB Magazine.
  21. ^ "Cauleen Smith Projects a Futuristic Black Utopia". Hyperallergic. February 7, 2019. Retrieved March 1, 2019.
  22. ^ "Ellsworth Kelly Award: Cauleen Smith: Give it or Leave It". www.foundationforcontemporaryarts.org. Foundation for Contemporary Arts. Retrieved January 22, 2018.
  23. ^ "Heinz Awards - Cauleen Smith".
  24. ^ Durón, Maximilíano (December 14, 2023). "Anonymous Was A Woman Names 2023 Winners, Including Artists Dindga McCannon, Carolina Caycedo, Barbara Kasten, Amanda Ross-Ho". ARTnews.com. Retrieved December 24, 2023.
  25. ^ "Preserved Projects". Academy Film Archive.
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