Matt Smith is a visual artist who works with museums, galleries and historic houses exploring how their collections can be reframed using alternative perspectives.
Solo exhibitions include Losing Venus at the Pitt Rivers Museum, Flux: Parian Unpacked at the Fitzwilliam Museum, Who Owns History? at Hove Museum and Queering the Museum at Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery. In 2015/16 he was artist in residence at the Victoria and Albert Museum in London.
His work is held in the collections of the Victoria and Albert Museum, the Walker Art Gallery, Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery, the National Museums of Scotland, the National Museums of Northern Ireland and the Crafts Council collection.
He holds a PhD in Queer Craft from the University of Brighton and was Professor at Konstfack University, Stockholm. In 2024 he was appointed to the Acceptance in Lieu Panel and is Honorary Visiting Fellow at the School of Museum Studies at the University of Leicester.
