PRESS

HESTETIKA MAGAZINE (Italy) - Online interview with Ilaria Bochicchio - March 2019

STUDIO ART MAGAZINE - Featured in Volume 41

AVERAGE ART MAGAZINE - Featured in January 2017 issue

HESTETIKA MAGAZINE (Italy) - Interview with Ko published in the October 2014 issue: print and online Featured on the cover of the October 2014 New York Special Edition

RESIDENCIES / AWARDS

NG ARTIST CREATIVE RESIDENCY - Provence, France September 2018

PORTAL RESIDENCY AT CANAL STREET MARKET - New York, NY September 2017

RESIDENCY MILANESE - Hosted by Ilaria Bochicchio Milan / Rivello, Italy August 2016

RESIDENCY AT VERMONT STUDIO CENTER - Johnson, VT April 2012

ARTIST’S GRANT AND FINANCIAL AID AWARD from Vermont Studio Center

WORK

2016 - Present

Garth Greenan Gallery, New York, NY

ARTIST ASSISTANT TO HOWARDENA PINDELL

2013 - 2016

Garth Greenan Gallery, New York, NY

HEAD PREPARATOR

2010 - 2013 

MoMA PS1, New York, NY 

HEAD PREPARATOR

EXHIBITIONS

2020

HOUSE GUESTS  - Atelier Newport, Newport, RI

2019

AMERICAN LANDSCAPE - Atelier Newport, Newport, RI

CONNEXIONS SILENCIEUSES - Hosted by NG Creative Residency at Ancienne Eglise Saint Laurent, Provence, France

2018

SUPER METROPOLIS - Maison 10, New York, NY

AQUA ART FAIR - with ArtHelix and SHIM, Miami FL

2017

SHIM BUSHWICK INVITATIONAL -  ArtHelix, Brooklyn, NY

ARTS IN BUSHWICK SEEKING SPACE 2017 - Beyond Studios, Brooklyn, NY

AMPLIFY -  Creators Collective in collaboration with 100 Bogart, Bushwick Brooklyn, NY

VERSUS - BrooklynWorks at 159, Brooklyn, NY 

A Special Event Organized by Ilaria Bochicchio and Creators Collective

2016 

XMAS FAKE DINNER - Lohmann Studio, Milan, Italy

ITA VS AME - Spazo TID, Milan, Italy

SHOW NO. 1 - 6 Month Space, Lower East Side, NYC

2015 

HESTETIKA COLLECTIVE EXHIBITION #1 -  With Hestetika Magazine Milan, Italy

2014 

DON’T SHOOT Con Artist, Lower East Side NYC

FESTINA LENTE Create Collect + Con Artist, Wynwood, Miami FL

MONEY SHOT Con Artist, Lower East Side NYC

THAW Salon organized at, by Ko Smith Studio, Brooklyn NY 

2013 

LISA G BAUER, MARCELLA GINA NAVARRO, KO SMITH & FRIENDS

 Lisa G Bauer Visuals, Brooklyn NY

2012 

100 PRINTS CELEBRATING 100 YEARS  - Massachusetts State Transportation Building, Boston MA

BURMA EDUCATION, INC. GALLERY NIGHT  - Like the Spice Gallery, Brooklyn NY

ACADEMICS

2006 

THE ART INSTITUTE OF BOSTON - Boston, MA - Bachelor of Fine Arts in Studio Arts

2005

 BEIJING LANGUAGE AND CULTURE UNIVERSITY - Beijing, China - Wushu and Mandarin Chinese 

2000

 LYME ACADEMY OF FINE ART - Old Lyme, CT - Anatomy & Figure Drawing