Tuesday Smillie

Smillie holds a BFA from Oregon College of Art and Craft with a concentration in Book Arts.{{Cite web|title=Announcing MOTHA Resident Artist TUESDAY SMILLIE|url=http://www.sfmotha.org/post/97758155025|website=Museum of Trans Hirstory & Art|access-date=2018-08-11}}

Many of Smillie's collections take inspiration from feminist science fiction author Ursula K. Le Guin, primarily her novel The Left Hand of Darkness about gender-fluid inhabitants of the planet Gethen.{{cite web |last1=Rubin |first1=Caitlin Julia |title=Tuesday Smillie: To build another world |url=https://www.brandeis.edu/rose/exhibitions/2018/smillie.html |publisher=Rose Art Museum |access-date=3 March 2019}} Smillie has held solo exhibitions at the Rose Art Museum,{{Cite web |url=https://www.brandeis.edu/rose/exhibitions/index.html |title=Upcoming Exhibitions {{!}} Exhibitions {{!}} Rose Art Museum {{!}} Brandeis University |website=www.brandeis.edu |access-date=2018-08-04}} Participant Inc,{{Cite web |url=http://participantinc.org/seasons/season-16/reflecting-light-into-the-unshadow |title=PARTICIPANT INC {{!}} Reflecting Light into The Unshadow |website=participantinc.org |access-date=2018-08-04}} and her work has been included in group exhibitions at the Rubin Museum of Art, Artists Space, Brooklyn Museum,{{Cite web |title=Nobody Promised You Tomorrow: Art 50 Years After Stonewall |url=https://www.brooklynmuseum.org/exhibitions/stonewall |access-date=2024-01-06 |website=www.brooklynmuseum.org |language=en}} and the New Museum.{{Cite web |url=http://www.artnews.com/2017/09/06/fall-preview-museum-shows-and-biennials-around-the-world/ |title=Fall Preview: Museum Shows and Biennials Around the World |author=((The Editors of ARTnews ))|date=2017-09-06 |website=ARTnews |access-date=2018-08-04}}{{Cite web|url=https://www.vulture.com/2017/09/new-museum-trigger-gender-as-a-tool-and-a-weapon.html#_ga=2.10494964.1580735204.1553028439-488585878.1550698436|title=This New Museum Exhibit Wants to Challenge Everything You Think You Know About Gender|last=Swanson|first=Carl|website=www.vulture.com|date=21 September 2017|access-date=2019-03-19}} She led a Study Session at the Whitney Museum of American Art.{{Cite web |url=https://whitney.org/Events/StudySessionsTuesdaySmillie |title=Study Sessions: Tuesday Smillie {{!}} Whitney Museum of American Art |website=whitney.org |language=en |access-date=2018-08-04}} Smillie's work has been featured in several news sources of prestige including Artforum,{{Cite web|title=Tuesday Smillie Wins Rose Art Museums 2018 Pearlmutter Artist-In-Residence Award|url=https://www.artforum.com/news/tuesday-smillie-wins-rose-art-museums-2018-perlmutter-artist-residence-award-76098"|date=26 July 2018|website=Artforum|access-date=14 May 2020}} ARTnews, Wall Street International Magazine{{Cite web|title=Tuesday Smillie: 7 Sep-9 Dec at the Rose Art Museum in Waltham, United States|url=https://wsimag.com/art/45129-tuesday-smillie|date=1 November 2018|website=Wall Street International Magazine|access-date=14 May 2020}} and The Boston Globe.{{Cite web|title=Fall Arts Preview: Art Picks|url=https://www.bostonglobe.com/arts/2018/09/06/fall-arts-preview-critics-picks/VgzklgbhCbbS0yJ6XWfi2M/story.html|date=6 September 2019|website=The Boston Globe|access-date=14 May 2020}} She was the first resident artist of the Museum Of Transgender Hirstory & Art (MOTHA).{{Cite web|title=MOTHA Residency Program|url=https://www.motha.net/residency|website=The Museum of Transgender Hirstory & Art (MOTHA)|access-date=14 May 2020}}

In 2016 a series of watercolor paintings inspired by LeGuin’s novel were displayed at Haverford College. The exhibition was organized by the Haverford College Libraries in conjunction with the exhibition “Bring Your Own Body: transgender between aesthetics and archives," an exhibit curated by Jeanne Vaccaro and Stamatina Gregory at the 41 Cooper Gallery in New York.

In 2018, she had two solo exhibitions and one group exhibition: "Reflecting Light into The Unshadow," which ran from 1 July until 5 August at Participant Inc. located in New York, "To build another world," which ran from 7 September through 9 December at the Rose Art Museum, and “Face of the Future," which ran through 4 November at The Rubin Museum of Art. Taking the Le Guin novel The Left Hand of Darkness as inspiration, Smillie displayed an array of textile collages and banners as well as prints and works on paper including several watercolor paintings. In "Face of the Future," contemporary artists were challenged to create artwork taking inspiration from the classical sci-fi genre as well as their own imaginings of the future. Smillie’s work was presented alongside works by Maia Cruz Palileo, Tammy Nguyen, Sahana Ramakrishnan and Anuj Shrestha.{{Cite web|title=Face of the Future|url=https://rubinmuseum.org/spiral/face-of-the-future|website=The Rubin Museum of Art|access-date=14 May 2020}}

• Rose Art Museum's Ruth Ann and Nathan Perlmutter Artist-in-Residence Award
• Grant from Art Matters{{Cite web |url=https://artmattersfoundation.org/grantees/a0mi0000007jggg |title=Art Matters Foundation |website=Art Matters Foundation |access-date=2018-08-04}}

• Kala Art Institute
• Freehold Art Exchange in New York{{Cite web |url=http://freeholdartexchange.org/past-artists/ |title=Past Artists |publisher=Freehold Art Exchange |access-date=2018-08-11}}
• The Museum of Transgender Hirstory and Art's inaugural artist residency

Selected solo exhibitions

• Reflecting Light Into The Unshadow, Participant Inc. (2018){{Cite web|url=http://participantinc.org/seasons/season-16/reflecting-light-into-the-unshadow|title=PARTICIPANT INC {{!}} Reflecting Light into The Unshadow|website=participantinc.org|access-date=2019-03-19}}
• To build another world, Rose Art Museum at Brandeis University (2018){{Cite web|url=http://www.artnews.com/2018/10/31/tuesday-smillie-rose-art-museum-waltham-massachusetts/|title=Tuesday Smillie at Rose Art Museum, Waltham, Massachusetts|last=The Editors of ARTnews|date=2018-10-31|website=ARTnews|language=en-US|access-date=2019-04-27}}
• The Right Brain of Darkness, Haverford College (2016){{Citation|chapter=Haverford College|publisher=Palgrave Macmillan|isbn=9780230360341|doi=10.1057/9780230360341|title=The Shakespeare First Folios: A Descriptive Catalogue|year=2011 |editor-last1=West |editor-last2=Rasmussen |editor-first1=Anthony James |editor-first2=Eric }}

Selected group exhibitions

• Nobody Promised You Tomorrow, Brooklyn Museum (2019){{Cite web|url=https://www.bkreader.com/2019/02/25/art-50-years-after-stonewall-new-exhibit-to-explore-legacy-of-stonewall-riots/|title=Art 50 Years After Stonewall: New Exhibit to Explore Legacy of...|last=Leonhardt|first=Andrea|date=2019-02-25|website=BK Reader|language=en-US|access-date=2019-03-19}}
• Feminist Histories, São Paulo Museum of Art (2019){{cite web |url=https://masp.org.br/en/exhibitions/feminist-histories |title=Feminist Histories |website=masp.org |access-date=12 October 2019}}
• Face of the Future, Rubin Museum (2018){{Cite web|url=http://rubinmuseum.org/spiral/face-of-the-future|title=Face of the Future {{!}} Rubin Museum of Art|website=rubinmuseum.org|language=en|access-date=2019-03-19}}
• Trigger: Gender As A Tool And A Weapon, New Museum (2017){{Cite web|url=http://www.newmuseum.org/exhibitions/view/trigger-gender-as-a-tool-and-as-a-weapon|title=Trigger: Gender as a Tool and a Weapon|website=www.newmuseum.org|language=en|access-date=2019-03-19}}

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• [https://tuesdaysmillie.com/home.html Artists' website]
• [https://img-cache.oppcdn.com/fixed/13363/assets/w4lnp3kYPaD_G4xO.pdf Tuesday Smillie, "Seized by the Left Hand," chapbook (2019/2020)].

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