Marlene Smith

Marlene Smith (born 1964) is a British artist and curator, who was a founding members of BLK Art Group in the 1980s.

Education and career Born in Birmingham, West Midlands, England, in 1964, Marlene Smith studied Art & Design at Bradford College (1983–87). She was director of The Public in West Bromwich. She is UK Research Manager for Black Artists and Modernism, a collaborative research project run by the University of the Arts London and Middlesex University.

In 2023, she was part of the jury for the John Moores Painting Prize along with Alexis Harding, Chila Kumari Singh Burman, The White Pube and Yu Hong.

Exhibitions

Selected solo exhibitions 1983–84: The Pan-Afrikan Connection 1985: The Thin Black Line, Institute of Contemporary Arts 1986: Unrecorded Truths, The Elbow Room 1986: Some of Us Are Brave, The Black-Art Gallery