Iver Smith

a multidisciplinary artist curious about the possibilities of healing through ephemeral states of light, colour, in-between spaces, and temporality.

Iver Smith is an uninvited settler residing on and between the stolen, unceded, traditional, ancestral, and occupied territories of the hən̓q̓əmin̓əm̓ , Halq̓eméylem and Sḵwx̱wú7mesh sníchim speaking peoples. This includes the xʷməθkʷəy̓əm, səlilwətaɬ, sc̓əwaθən, Stó:lō, and Sḵwx̱wú7mesh peoples, respectively.

Smith investigates extraordinary forms of communication through obliteration to indirectly disclose difficult personal experiences. As a multidisciplinary artist, they engage in oil pastel drawing, textiles, new media, performance, and installation. With a research-based practice delving into archaeological records as often as theoretical physics, Smith is interested in connections between themselves, the world around them, and the hidden spaces in between.

Medicine bag on cairn (details), 2024

CV:

Solo Exhibitions:

Cannery REcollections, Gulf of Georgia Cannery National Historic Site, 2025

Group Exhibitions:

Taking up Space, James Black Gallery, 2024

Dream Safely, Audain Gallery at Goldcorp Centre for the Arts, 2023

Flower Moon, 611 Studios, 2023

Everyone Is Happening Always, Audain Gallery at Goldcorp Centre for the Arts, 2022

Education:

Fine Arts Diploma, Langara College, 2021

Bachelor of Fine Arts, Simon Fraser University, 2024

Academic Awards:

Bob Rennie Undergraduate Award in Visual Arts, 2023
Simon Fraser University

Dr. Tashakkor Undergraduate Award in Contemporary Arts, 2022
Simon Fraser University

Memberships:

Member, Canadian Artists’ Representation/Le Front des artistes canadiens (CARFAC)

Member, Craft Council of BC

Member, Greater Vancouver Weaver and Spinners Guild

Iver Smith Shamemail, ongoing Nightlights & Arrived, 2025 Fortunate, 2023 The stars are projectors yeah, 2022 for iver forever ago, 2022 CRAZY HOT, 2020 About Email ©2024 Iver Smith

Iver Smith

Shamemail, ongoing
Nightlights & Arrived, 2025
Fortunate, 2023
The stars are projectors yeah, 2022
for iver forever ago, 2022
CRAZY HOT, 2020

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