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, particularly in an era where technology increasingly mediates our perception of the world.

Smith’s work has been shown in California, Texas, New York, and Pennsylvania. She was recently included in exhibitions at Ivester Contemporary (Austin, TX), The Museum of Human Achievement (Austin, TX), The Wrong Biennale, DORF (Austin, TX), Louise Hopkins Underwood Center for the Arts (Lubbock, TX), Art Room (Fort Worth, 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 whose practices engage in speculative fiction and worldbuilding at the artist-run space Goodluckhavefun — and co-curated the summer group exhibition Infinite Scroll at Ivester Contemporary in Austin, TX. Since 2022, she has been a regular contributor to Concept Animals — an artist-run publication that fosters dialogue about contemporary art in Austin through programming, art guides, and exhibition coverage. She is currently pursuing an MFA in transmedia at the University of Texas at Austin.

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