Lynne Smith

Lynne Smith is an artist, designer, and educator. She uses the poetics of material and space to respond to the specificity of sites, whether developing an installation for an institutional or architectural environment, a user interface for a medical device, or a material and sensory archive of a post-industrial landscape. Smith draws on many mediums and methods for creative expression including fiber, sculpture, painting, poetry, sound, and installation. She also leverages design thinking to help clients deliver industry-changing innovations while finding meaningful opportunities for it to cross-pollinate with her artistic research and pedagogical practice.

Smith holds a Bachelor of Fine Arts in graphic design from the University of Kansas and studied at the Yale University Summer Program in graphic design in Brissago, Switzerland. She is the recipient of several branding awards and is a named inventor on a user interface for a recently FDA-approved medical device (patent pending). Smith earned her Master of Fine Arts in visual art from The Sam Fox School of Design & Visual Arts at Washington University in St. Louis, where she was a Sam Fox Ambassador, the recipient of a Fine Arts Work Center Grant, and a nominee for the Dedalus Foundation MFA Fellowship. Smith is the recipient of a grant from the WashU Institute for Material Science and Engineering for interdisciplinary materials research, and a 2024 Luminary Futures Fund grant supported by the Andy Warhol Foundation