Tiffany Smith (born 1988 in Los Angeles, CA) is a media artist and educator whose work examines the fragility of contemporary life in America—whether physical, emotional, or systemic—through video, installation, and video games. She investigates hyperreality or the collapse of real and simulated worlds, constructing immersive environments that evoke fantasy, entropy, and agency. By merging physical and digital materials, she aims to reimagine how we navigate shifting realities.

Smith’s work has been shown throughout the United States. She was recently included in exhibitions at Easyside (Dallas, TX), Northern-Southern (Austin, TX), Ivester Contemporary (Austin, TX), The Museum of Human Achievement (Austin, TX), The Wrong Biennale, Louise Hopkins Underwood Center for the Arts (Lubbock, TX), and The Wende Museum (Los Angeles, CA). In 2023, her personal experience and work about school gun violence was featured in a campaign for the organization Teachers Unify to End Gun Violence founded by teachers who survived mass shootings at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, CT, and Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, FL.

In 2024, Smith curated New Suns — an interactive multimedia exhibition of 13 Austin artists working with speculative fiction and worldbuilding — at Goodluckhavefun, and co-curated the summer group show Infinite Scroll at Ivester Contemporary. She is also a regular contributor to Concept Animals, an artist-run publication supporting contemporary art dialogue in Austin. She is currently pursuing an MFA in studio art at the University of Texas at Austin.

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