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==Career== ==Career==
Ross Smith uses identity and community concepts to study and deconstruct notions of beauty, value, and reciprocity. Additionally, he examined how identity and community form the basis of human interactions and social systems.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Bayete Ross Smith |url=https://www.presidentialleadershipscholars.org/scholar/brosssmith/ |access-date=2022-04-25 |website=Presidential Leadership Scholars |language=en-US}}</ref> His work critiques preconceived notions, bias, and unconscious bias.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Civic Life Today // Listen & Learn // Points of Light by pointsoflight - Issuu |url=https://issuu.com/pointsoflight/docs/civic_circle_-_listen___learn_-_magazine_final |access-date=2022-04-25 |website=issuu.com |language=en}}</ref> A key point of reflection is questioning who controls the images and media that define people and cultures globally, domestically, and locally, and what role limited notions of history play in these representations.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Behind the Lens with Bayeté Ross Smith |url=https://www.catchlight.io/news/2022/2/2/behind-the-lens-with-bayete-ross-smith |access-date=2022-04-25 |website=CatchLight |language=en-US}}</ref>
Ross Smith is a ], known for exploring issues and preconceived notions of identity and beauty, cultural traditions and anthropology.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://franconia.org/artistpages/bayete/index.html |title=Bayete Ross Smith |publisher=Franconia.org |accessdate=2014-06-29 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140223014527/http://franconia.org/artistpages/bayete/index.html |archive-date=2014-02-23 |url-status=dead }}</ref> Recent videos and photographs have been described as two of the same person, dressed as opposing stereotypes, facing each other, usually one of them the corporate sell-out version.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.artfagcity.com/bayete-ross-smith-a-supplementary-biography/ |title=Bayeté Ross Smith, a Supplementary Biography |publisher=Artfagcity.com |date= |accessdate=2014-06-29}}</ref>


Ross Smith began his career as a photojournalist with the ] working for the ], ], and ]. He later began working with video, audio, multimedia, found objects, archival imagery, and installations.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Bayeté Ross Smith |url=https://www.catchlight.io/bayete-ross-smith |access-date=2022-04-25 |website=CatchLight |language=en-US}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |title=Visualizing Violence: Bayeté Ross Smith Exhibition Opens at Jerome L. Greene Hall |url=https://www.law.columbia.edu/news/archive/visualizing-violence-bayete-ross-smith-exhibition-opens-jerome-l-greene-hall |access-date=2022-04-25 |website=www.law.columbia.edu |language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |date=2014-02-23 |title=Bayete Ross Smith |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140223014527/http:/franconia.org/artistpages/bayete/index.html |access-date=2022-04-25 |website=web.archive.org}}</ref> His work takes on elements of documentary and non-fiction storytelling woven with imagination and experimental visual representation.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Inc |first=POV {{!}} American Documentary |title=POV and The New York Times Select Three Multimedia Storytellers to Create New Interactive Conversations About Race |url=http://archive.pov.org/blog/pressroom/2016/08/three-multimedia-storytellers-selected-race-related-nytimes-pov-digital/ |access-date=2022-04-25 |website=POV's Documentary Blog |language=en-US}}</ref> His work is in the collections of ], the ], the ], the ], and ].<ref>{{Cite web |date=2018-10-19 |title=Bayeté Ross Smith |url=https://pen.org/user/bayete-ross-smith/ |access-date=2022-04-25 |website=PEN America |language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |title=An Evening with Bayeté Ross Smith – Jefferson School |url=https://jeffschoolheritagecenter.org/events/an-evening-with-bayete-ross-smith/ |access-date=2022-04-25 |website=jeffschoolheritagecenter.org}}</ref> Ross Smith’s work has been exhibited in other countries including the Goethe Institute (Ghana), Foto Museum (Belgium), the Lianzhou Foto Festival (China), and America House (Ukraine), among others. His work has been published in numerous, media publications, books, and magazines, including The ], ], ], ], as well as Question Bridge: Black Males in America, "Dis:Integration: The Splintering of Black America" by ]; "Posing Beauty: African American Images from the 1890s to the Present" and "Black: A Celebration of A Culture" by ], "The Spirit of Family" by Al Gore and Tipper Gore, among others.
Ross Smith began his career as a ] with the ] Newspaper Corporation. He has exhibited at a number of Art Museums and venues such as the ] in ]; ], the ] of Contemporary Art, and the ] in ]; the ] in ]; the ] in ], the ] National Gallery of Art in ], among others.<ref>''Brooklyn Museum Question Bridge: Black Males'' ()</ref>


His project "Question Bridge: Black Males", created in collaboration with ], Kamal Sinclair, and ], aims to represent and redefine black male identity in America through a video-mediated question and answer exchange that addresses the economic, political, geographic and generational divisions for Black men.
Created by Chris Johnson and ], Bayeté Ross Smith and Kamal Sinclair, Ross Smith was a collaborator on "Question Bridge: Black Males", a transmedia art project that aims to represent and redefine black male identity in America through a video-mediated question and answer exchange that addresses the economic, political, geographic and generational divisions for black men. This innovative five-channel multimedia video installation was launched at five venues simultaneously in 2012: The Brooklyn Museum, the ], the Utah Museum of Contemporary Art (UMOCA) in ], the ], and the Chastain Art Center in ].<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.abladeofgrass.org/blog/artistfiles/2012/jul/23/bayete-ross-smith-and-will-sylvester/ |title=Bayeté Ross Smith and Will Sylvester |publisher=a blade of grass |date= |accessdate=2014-06-29 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140221143939/http://www.abladeofgrass.org/blog/artistfiles/2012/jul/23/bayete-ross-smith-and-will-sylvester/ |archive-date=2014-02-21 |url-status=dead }}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.thedrvibeshow.com/vibe-and-vegas-show-chris-johnson-and-bayete-ross-smith-of-the-question-bridge/ |title=Chris Johnson And Bayete Ross Smith Of The "Question Bridge" |publisher=The Dr.Vibe Show |date= |accessdate=2014-06-29}}</ref> Ross Smith also has installed multiple site-specific sculptures, including a giant tower of boomboxes at the Alabama School of Fine Arts in ] for a community project that incorporates music selected by students, teachers and staff of the school.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://blog.al.com/spotnews/2013/02/artist_bayete_ross_smith_insta.html |title=Artist Bayeté Ross Smith installs giant wall of boomboxes in exhibit &#124; al.com |publisher=Blog.al.com |date=2013-02-08 |accessdate=2014-06-29}}</ref>


Ross Smith’s ongoing series of site-specific sculptures constructed from vintage boomboxes, entitled “Got The Power: Boomboxes”, combines music and oral history to create portraits of diverse communities around the world. These sculptures have been installed at multiple locations across the United States.
Ross Smith’s photographs have been published in numerous books and magazines, including "Dis:Integration: The Splintering of Black America" by ];<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.amazon.com/Disintegration-The-Splintering-Black-America/dp/0767929969 |title=Disintegration: The Splintering of Black America: Eugene Robinson: 9780767929967: Amazon.com: Books |publisher=Amazon.com |date=2011-10-04 |accessdate=2014-06-29}}</ref> "Posing Beauty: African American Images from the 1890s to the Present"<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.amazon.com/Posing-Beauty-African-American-Present/dp/0393066967 |title=Posing Beauty: African American Images from the 1890s to the Present: Deborah Willis: 9780393066968: Amazon.com: Books |publisher=Amazon.com |date= |accessdate=2014-06-29}}</ref> and "Black: A Celebration of A Culture" by ],<ref>{{cite web|author=Deborah Willis (Author) |url=https://www.amazon.com/Black-Celebration-Culture-Deborah-Willis/dp/1592580513 |title=Black: A Celebration of a Culture: Deborah Willis: 9781592580514: Amazon.com: Books |publisher=Amazon.com |date=2003-12-31 |accessdate=2014-06-29}}</ref> "The Spirit of Family" by ] and ],<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.amazon.com/The-Spirit-Family-Al-Gore/dp/0805068945 |title=The Spirit of Family: Al Gore, Tipper Gore: 9780805068948: Amazon.com: Books |publisher=Amazon.com |date= |accessdate=2014-06-29}}</ref> among others.<ref>{{cite web|title=Lecture with Artist Bayeté Ross Smith|url=http://tyler.temple.edu/events/lecture-artist-bayeté-ross-smith|date= 22 October 2013}}</ref>

Other works by Ross Smith include Our Kind of People, a series of large-scale photographs and videos and a social media campaign that examines perception based on appearance and deconstructs how clothing, race, gender, and class signifiers affect our daily interactions and social systems.

In the Spring of 2021, Ross Smith began producing and publishing “Red Summers VR” with writer Jimmie Briggs and The Guardian US. Red Summers is a 360 immersive video series that examines the untold and under-told history of racial terrorism in America from 1917-1921 thorugh testimonials from and descendants of survivors and local community members.


== Awards and other projects == == Awards and other projects ==

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Bayeté Ross Smith
Born1976
Greenfield, Massachusetts
EducationBachelor of Fine Arts in Photography Master of Fine Arts in Photography
Occupation(s)Contemporary interdisciplinary artist, photographer, filmmaker and educator

Bayeté Ross Smith (born 1976) is a contemporary African American multi-media artist, film maker and educator, working at the intersection of photography, film & video, visual journalism, 3D objects and new media. He currently lives and works in Harlem. He is represented by Guido Maus, beta pictoris gallery / Maus Contemporary in Birmingham, AL.

Early Life

Ross Smith was born in Greenfield, Massachusetts and was raised in New York City in Manhattan.

Education

Smith went to Amherst Regional High School in Massachusetts. For his undergraduate studies, he attended Florida A&M University from where he graduated with a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree in Photography in 1999. He obtained his Master of Fine Arts (MFA) degree in Photography from the California College of the Arts.

Career

Ross Smith uses identity and community concepts to study and deconstruct notions of beauty, value, and reciprocity. Additionally, he examined how identity and community form the basis of human interactions and social systems. His work critiques preconceived notions, bias, and unconscious bias. A key point of reflection is questioning who controls the images and media that define people and cultures globally, domestically, and locally, and what role limited notions of history play in these representations.

Ross Smith began his career as a photojournalist with the Knight Ridder working for the Philadelphia Inquirer, Charlotte Observer, and Tallahassee Democrat. He later began working with video, audio, multimedia, found objects, archival imagery, and installations. His work takes on elements of documentary and non-fiction storytelling woven with imagination and experimental visual representation. His work is in the collections of The Smithsonian Institution, the Oakland Museum of California, the Birmingham Museum of Art, the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, and The Brooklyn Museum. Ross Smith’s work has been exhibited in other countries including the Goethe Institute (Ghana), Foto Museum (Belgium), the Lianzhou Foto Festival (China), and America House (Ukraine), among others. His work has been published in numerous, media publications, books, and magazines, including The New York Times, The Guardian, PBS, National Geographic Learning, as well as Question Bridge: Black Males in America, "Dis:Integration: The Splintering of Black America" by Eugene Robinson; "Posing Beauty: African American Images from the 1890s to the Present" and "Black: A Celebration of A Culture" by Deborah Willis, "The Spirit of Family" by Al Gore and Tipper Gore, among others.

His project "Question Bridge: Black Males", created in collaboration with Hank Willis Thomas, Kamal Sinclair, and Chris Johnson, aims to represent and redefine black male identity in America through a video-mediated question and answer exchange that addresses the economic, political, geographic and generational divisions for Black men.

Ross Smith’s ongoing series of site-specific sculptures constructed from vintage boomboxes, entitled “Got The Power: Boomboxes”, combines music and oral history to create portraits of diverse communities around the world. These sculptures have been installed at multiple locations across the United States.

Other works by Ross Smith include Our Kind of People, a series of large-scale photographs and videos and a social media campaign that examines perception based on appearance and deconstructs how clothing, race, gender, and class signifiers affect our daily interactions and social systems.

In the Spring of 2021, Ross Smith began producing and publishing “Red Summers VR” with writer Jimmie Briggs and The Guardian US. Red Summers is a 360 immersive video series that examines the untold and under-told history of racial terrorism in America from 1917-1921 thorugh testimonials from and descendants of survivors and local community members.

Awards and other projects

Bayeté Ross Smith is the recipient of many awards, including the Franconia Sculpture Park Jerome Fellowship, as well as residencies with the McColl Center for Visual Art, Charlotte, North Carolina; the Kala Institute, Berkeley, California; the Laundromat Project, New York; and Can Serrat International Arts Center, Barcelona, Spain. He was a contestant on Season 2 of Bravo’s creative competition series, Work of Art: The Next Great Artist. As an educator, Ross Smith has taught college students, and mentored youth through community-based art programs. He has worked with the International Center of Photography in New York City, the California College of the Arts, and numerous K-12 and college level courses.

References

  1. "Create Change Alumni Interview: Bayeté Ross Smith". The Laundromat Project. 2013-03-12. Retrieved 2022-04-08.
  2. "Bayete Ross Smith". Presidential Leadership Scholars. Retrieved 2022-04-25.
  3. "Civic Life Today // Listen & Learn // Points of Light by pointsoflight - Issuu". issuu.com. Retrieved 2022-04-25.
  4. "Behind the Lens with Bayeté Ross Smith". CatchLight. Retrieved 2022-04-25.
  5. "Bayeté Ross Smith". CatchLight. Retrieved 2022-04-25.
  6. "Visualizing Violence: Bayeté Ross Smith Exhibition Opens at Jerome L. Greene Hall". www.law.columbia.edu. Retrieved 2022-04-25.
  7. "Bayete Ross Smith". web.archive.org. 2014-02-23. Retrieved 2022-04-25.
  8. Inc, POV | American Documentary. "POV and The New York Times Select Three Multimedia Storytellers to Create New Interactive Conversations About Race". POV's Documentary Blog. Retrieved 2022-04-25. {{cite web}}: |last= has generic name (help)
  9. "Bayeté Ross Smith". PEN America. 2018-10-19. Retrieved 2022-04-25.
  10. "An Evening with Bayeté Ross Smith – Jefferson School". jeffschoolheritagecenter.org. Retrieved 2022-04-25.
  11. "Artist Bayete Ross Smith On Bravo'S "Work Of Art" Reality Show". Cause Collective. 2011-10-11. Retrieved 2014-06-29.

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