Alix Smith graduated in 2005 with an MFA from the School of Visual Arts in New York. In the same year she was selected by ArtReview magazine as one of the best emerging photographers internationally. In September 2004 she was chosen for the Art + Commerce Festival of Emerging Photographers. In 2005, she received a Marie Walsh Sharpe Studio Grant and in 2006, she was chosen for the Tina B. Prague Contemporary Art Festival for a show entitled "Our Generation." In 2007 she was invited to participate in the Artist Pension Trust managed by Pamela Auchincloss. In 2008, Saatchi magazine's Critic's Choice, chose her to exhibit at the Pulse Art Fair in New York. Smith lives and works in New York City. Her work has been shown in exhibitions in New York, Naples, Milan and Prague.