shannon garden-smith
Leaf, recueil de cartes I (marbles)

Shannon Garden-Smith is an artist based in Tkaronto/Toronto, Canada. She completed an MFA at the University of Guelph (2017) and is currently pursuing a PhD in Visual Art at York University. 

Primarily working across sculpture and installation, Garden-Smith engages with the mutability and poetics of the lithic environment. She seeks to unsettle naturalized relationships to its extraction, drawing on sand and stone’s ability to hold complex possibilities for time, memory, and different futures. 

She has exhibited nationally and internationally with projects at MKG127 (Tkaronto/Toronto, ON), OCAD University’s Onsite Gallery (Tkaronto/Toronto, ON), Nuit Blanche (Tkaronto/Toronto, ON), The Goldfarb Gallery at York University (Tkaronto/Toronto, ON), Centre Clark (Tiohtià:ke/Mooniyang/Montreal, QC), Patel Brown (Tkaronto/Toronto, ON), among others. Her practice has been supported by the Canada Council for the Arts, Ontario Arts Council, Toronto Arts Council, SSHRC Doctoral Fellowship, and Ontario Graduate Scholarship. She was a 2025 finalist for the Toronto Friends of the Visual Arts Artist Prize.

Artwork courtesy of the artist.