Thew Smoak is an artist working between painting, performance, and political theory. He is the recipient of research fellowships from the Beinecke Rare Book Library, the Yale Center for Collaborative Art and Media, the Yale Norfolk School of Art, and the Vermont Studio Center. He has held solo and two-person exhibitions in Madrid, London, Milan, Berlin, St Moritz, Knoxville, and New York City. He was a resident of Skowhegan School of Painting & Sculpture (2019), studied quilting in Gee’s Bend, Alabama (2021), and received his MFA in Painting and Printmaking from Yale University School of Art (2022).