"Sable Elyse Smith's America" Justsmile, Qingyuan Deng
July 8, 2025
"The Carceral Sublime: An Interview with Sable Elyse Smith" Berlin Art Link, William Kherbek
May 16, 2025
"Sable Elyse Smith’s Opera Inhabits the Storm" Frieze, review by Cassie Packard
July 22, 2024
"These 5 Artists Are Redefining New York’s Art Scene" artnet, feature by Annikka Olsen
February 14, 2024
"Sable Elyse Smith Reveals the Carceral as Carnivalesque" Frieze, review by Claudia Ross
October 3, 2023
"The Disorienting Vibrancy of Sable Elyse Smith’s Work" Elephant, interview by Karla Méndez
September 20, 2023
"With 'FAIR GROUNDS,' Sable Elyse Smith Lays Bare the Darkness of American Leisure Culture Cultured, feature by John Ortved
September 11, 2023
"What can a coloring book reveal about the absurdity of carceral logic?" Los Angeles Times, interview by Allison Noelle Conner
September 8, 2023
"Sable Elyse Smith’s 'FEAR TOUCH POLICE'" Art Agenda, review by Natasha Marie Llorens
January 22, 2021
"Sable Elyse Smith Responds to the Rigged Logic of the US Criminal Justice System" Frieze Magazine, article by Matthew McLean
January 28, 2020
"Critics' Picks: Sable Elyse Smith" Artforum, review by Lizzie Homersham
December 14, 2019
"The Weight of Objects" MoMA Magazine, interview by Hanna Girma
July 17, 2019
"Vanishing Points" Mousse Magazine, interview by Sara O’Keeffe
Summer 2019
"Sable Elyse Smith Uses a Coloring Book for Kids in Court To Critique the Violence of Social Control" Vulture, review by Tiana Reid
December 13, 2018
"Sable Elyse Smith: BOLO: Be on (the) Lookout" The Brooklyn Rail, article by Amber Jamilla Musser
December 11, 2018
"FIRSTHAND AT ARM’S LENGTH" Art in America, article by Diana Hamilton
June 1, 2018
"Sable Elyse Smith" Aperture, feature by Jessica Lynne
Spring 2018
"Who Is More Guilty? Sable Elyse Smith’s Ordinary Violence" BOMB Magazine, article by Rabia Ashfaque
January 11, 2018
"30 Young Artists to Watch in 2018" Cultured, article by Jessica Lynne
November 29, 2017
"An Artist’s Bond with Her Imprisoned Father" Hyperallergic, review by Cora Fisher
November 11, 2017
"What to See in New York Art Galleries This Week: Sable Elyse Smith" The New York Times, feature by Martha Schwender
August 25, 2017
"Sable Elyse Smith Rewrites the Prison Narrative" Cultured, article by Kat Herriman
August 22, 2017
"Critics' Picks: Sable Elyse Smith" Artforum, review by Nicole Kaack
June 23, 2017
