Kenneth Coutts-Smith

Bio:

Kenneth Coutts-Smith was a British artist, writer, curator, and art historian born in Copenhagen, Denmark. Alongside his artistic practice, which focused on painting, Coutts-Smith wrote and published poetry, essays, fiction, criticism, and journalistic articles on art and society. In the 1970s, he emigrated to Canada and held teaching positions at the University of Calgary, University of Manitoba, York University, and Nova Scotia College of Art and Design. During this time, Coutts-Smith’s practice developed to include film and video, mail art, and text-based paintings. As a researcher, he took considerable interest in contemporary art of Eastern Europe, collecting works by Yugoslav artists; and traveled also to study Canadian Inuit artists, and Australian aboriginal communities.