Timothy Taylor announces the representation of Paul Anthony Smith in London. The gallery will present an exhibition of new work by the artist at Frieze London this October. Smith will continue to be represented by Jack Shainman Gallery in New York.

Smith has garnered acclaim for his radical engagement with painting and photography in works that explore his own history as well as aspects of identity in the Caribbean. The Jamaica-born, New York-based artist documents candid scenes of friends, family, and community in New York and during travels to London and the Caribbean, reflecting on routes of migration, travel, and cultural memory. Across his work, Smith refers to borders, fences, barriers, and masks, alluding to the ways in which such forms variably serve to conceal, obfuscate, foreclose, and protect. As critic Seph Rodney observes, Smith belongs to a generation of artists who “carefully calibrate how and under what conditions [the black body] is seen”.

photo: Andre D. Wagner