Smith’s films, objects and installations have been featured in group exhibitions at the Studio Museum of Harlem, Houston Contemporary Art Museum, the Blanton Museum of Art, Austin, Sand Diego Museum of Contemporary Art, Yerba Buena Center for Art, and the New Museum, New York. Smith has held solo shows at The Kitchen, MCA Chicago, Threewalls, Chicago, and Women & Their Work in Austin. Smith is the recipient of several grants and awards including the Rockefeller Media Arts Award, Chicago 3Arts Grant, and the Foundation for Contemporary Arts. Smith earned an MFA from the University of California, Los Angeles. She currently lives in Chicago while teaching at California Institute of the Arts and the Vermont College of Fine Art low-residency MFA program.