Author and visual artist Amalie Smith
I work with text and image in the form of exhibitions, video, audio and books. I am broadly interested in how idea and matter are interwoven entities and this interest has led me to work on diverse subjects such as the Greek sponge divers dance, woven textile as the fabric of the digital, uploading and the colour of ancient sculpture.
I got my Master of Fine Arts degree from The Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts in 2015 and my BFA from the same school in 2012. In 2009 I graduated from The Danish Academy of Creative Writing.
My visual work has been shown in Denmark at Kunsthal Charlottenborg, ARoS, The Museum of Contemporay Art in Roskilde and The National Gallery of Denmark among other places, and abroad in Melbourne, London, Leeds, Reykjavik, Riga and Kunstmuseum Bonn in Germany. In October 2021 my 3D film Clay Theory was part of the New Museum Triennial Soft Water Hard Stone.
Since 2010 I have published eight hybrid fiction books in Danish. Three of the titles have been translated into Swedish and/or Norwegian. My novels Marble and Thread Ripper are both translated into English by Jennifer Russell and published by the London based publishing house Lolli Editions in 2020 and 2022.
Marble and Thread Ripper
in English:
I also give lectures and teach.
I have held workshops at The Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts, The Danish Academy of Creative Writinf, Funen Art Academy, Jutland Art Academy, LungA School (IS) among other places.
Here I am talking about Hybrid Energy at Vallekilde Folk High School in 2018:
Grants, awards and nominations:
2025: Albert Dams Mindelegat, honorary grant
2025: Grosserer L.F. Foghts Fond, honorary grant
2023: Looming awarded as Exhibtion of the Year 2022 by AICA Denmark
2023: Awarded the N. L. Høyen Medal from the Royal Academy of Fine Arts, Akademiraadet
2022: Ole Haslunds Kunstnerfonds Artist Grant
2022: Thread Ripper awarded The Danish Book Design Award
2020: Thread Ripper nominated for Weekendavisen's Literature Prize
2020: Clay Theory selected for CPH: DOX's New Vision Award
2019: Diploma from Forening for Boghaandværks for great bookcraft
2019: Awarding of group exhibition Parterre by Statens Kunstfond
2017: Essay collection Et hjerte i alt nominated for the Montana Literature Prize
2017: Three-year work grant from the Danish Art Foundation
2016: Niels Wessel Bagges Kunstfonds honorary grant
2015: The Crown Prince Couple's Shooting Star Award
2015: The Charlottenborg Scholarship - awarding of graduation work
2012: Morten Nielsen's memorial grant
2011: Munch-Christensen's Cultural Grant for the hybrid novel De næste 5000 dage
2011: Bukdahl's Bet for the chapbook Fabrikken falder
In addition, work grants from The Danish Art Foundation 2011-2023