Seton Smith (born 1955) is an American artist photographer.

Early life and education

Smith was born in 1955 in

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. Her father was artist Tony Smith and her mother was actress and opera singer

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.Roberta Smith
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nytimes.com; accessed April 1, 2015. Although Seton's work takes a very different form than that of her father, early exposure to his process of making

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sculptures allowed her to experience minimalist and formal issues in art firsthand. She had a twin sister who died of AIDS, actor Beatrice "Bebe" Smith, and is also the sister of

Kiki Smith Kiki Smith (born January 18, 1954) is a German-born American artist whose work has addressed the themes of sex, birth and regeneration. Her figurative work of the late 1980s and early 1990s confronted subjects such as AIDS, feminism, and gender ...

, who is also an artist. Seton Smith went to public school in

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. She subsequently attended

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and

Bennington College Bennington College is a private liberal arts college in Bennington, Vermont, United States. Founded as a women’s college in 1932,

, moving to

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in 1979

Public collections

Smith is in the collections of the

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, New York,

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, Paris; The Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; Los Angeles County Museum, L.A.; the Musee d’Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris

References

External links

Official website
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