Alix Smith is a photographer based in New York City. She shoots a diverse range of subjects for artistic series and editorial clients.

Alix Smith lives and works in New York City.  She graduated from the School of Visual Arts with a Masters in Photography and Related Media in 2005, and has been exhibited internationally.

Smith first attracted critical attention with her project Constructed Identities.  In a full page, article on the project, the New York Times described, “the modulated, lighting and elegant surroundings that recall traditional painted portraits.“  Art Review Magazine named Smith as one of the best new voices in photography, and New Yorker critic Vince Aletti praised the work as “gently subversive and brilliantly layered.”

For her project States of Union, which explored themes of identity, family, and sexual orientation, Smith received fiscal sponsorship from The New York Foundation for the Arts. She was awarded the Stonewall honor for the project by the Stonewall Foundation, and a selection of the works were exhibited in both public and private spaces across the nation.

Smith is in the collections of some of the foremost photography collectors in the world including Beth Rudin DeWoody, Jean Pigozzi and Sir Elton John.  She is also in Progressive’s Corporate Art Collection and Fidelity’s Corporate Art Collection.

Major Collections

· Sir Elton John Photography Collection, Atlanta, GA
· Progressive Art Collection, Mayfield Village, Ohio
· Fidelity Investments Corporate Art Collection, Boston, MA
· Beth Rudin DeWoody Collection, New York, NY
· Jean Pigozzi Collection, New York, NY
· Christiane Fischer Collection, New York, NY
· Susan Shin Collection, New York, NY
· Roger Szmulewicz Collection, Antwerp, Belgium
· Patrick McMullan Collection, New York, NY
· MOBIA Museum Collection, New York, NY

Grants/Awards

· Top 50 - Critical Mass 2014
· Review Santa Fe 2011
· Review Santa Fe 2010
· 2009 Stonewall Honor
· Marie Walsh Sharpe Art Foundation: Space Program 2005 – 2006
· Art Review Magazine's Best Emerging Photographers of 2005
· Artist Pension Trust, New York, NY
· Art + Commerce Festival Of Emerging Photographers 2004