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Vivian Sming (she/they) is an artist-publisher based in the Bay Area, who produces a wide range of artists' books through her publishing studio Sming Sming Books. Formed in 2017, the studio experiments with books as art, discourse, exhibition, and archive, working in collaboration with artists whose works and ideas inform design, material, and printing choices. Sming is invested in creating books from practices that are challenging to represent on paper, and is committed to promoting critical discourse and advancing cultural equity through the format of publishing.
She is the former Editor in Chief at Art Practical, and co-founding editor of nonsensical. She holds an BA in Art from UCLA, an MFA from CalArts, and was a 2016-17 Fellow at Yerba Buena Center for the Arts. In 2018, Sming Sming Books received the Shannon Michael Cane Memorial Award from Printed Matter. Her books have been collected by over eighty libraries, museums, and universities, nation- and worldwide, including the Getty, Whitney, Met, MoMA, SFMOMA. Past workshops and lectures have been held at ArtCenter, Asia Art Archive in America, California College of the Arts, Columbia University, UC Berkeley, Vancouver Art Book Fair. | ||