NADA Miami 2022

Siena Smith (b.1996, New York City) is an artist currently based in Providence, Rhode Island. She works with weaving, drawing and collage to work out the complexities of identity and investigate personal narratives. She earned her BFA from Rhode Island School of Design in Textiles and MFA at School of the Art Institute of Chicago in Fiber and Material Studies. She is interested in how tactility, gesture, color, and texture of textile and 2-D mediums carry the expression and essence of Black Diasporic histories and emotional, spiritual, cultural, and generational knowledges and lived experience