A.W. Smith is a multidisciplinary visual artist originally based in San Diego, California. He studied film and visual art at the University of San Diego under the mentorship of artist Victoria Fu. After graduating, he deepened his engagement with visual culture through work in photography, film, and live sound, spending several years as a concert stage manager. During this time, he also worked closely with abstract painter Chris Rodeno, further expanding his approach to color, form, and materiality.
Smith’s practice explores the disorientation and detachment of contemporary life in an era dominated by corporate structures and digital mediation. His work examines the absurdity of non-life, where routine becomes alienating, memory becomes fragmented, and identity is held at an arm’s length. Through this lens, daily experience is rendered both familiar and estranged.
Working across video, photography (both analog and digital), painting, sound, drawing, writing, and printmaking, Smith constructs layered visual and sonic environments that reflect the psychological and cultural fractures of our existence.
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