Kaitlyn Jo Smith

Kaitlyn Jo Smith is an interdisciplinary artist who received her MFA in Photography, Video and Imaging from the University of Arizona School of Art. Her studio research seeks to understand her relationship to people through an in-depth exploration of place. Inspired by a rural upbringing, Smith’s practice explores the intersections between work and worship by considering the implications of automation on labor and religion in relation to America’s working class. Through both traditional photographic means and the implementation of automated technologies and machine learning, her work challenges the authority of algorithms while fostering a dialogue around future applications of artificial intelligence.

Smith’s work has been shown nationally and internationally. She is the 2023 recipient of the Alice C. Cole ’42 Fellowship in Studio Art, was longlisted for the 2021 Lumen Prize in Art and Technology (London) and received the College Art Association’s Services to Artists Committee Award for her video Lights Out. Smith has been featured in PDNedu, Art IDEAL, and Al-Tiba9 Magazine (Barcelona). She has presented her work at FEMeeting: Women in Art, Science & Technology (Windsor), Technarte International Conference on Art and Technology (Barcelona, virtual), and Homecoming, Society for Photographic Education Annual National Conference (Denver).