ryan everett smith (b. 2003 maine, usa) is a furniture/object designer and writer that lives and works in providence, ri. he is a bfa candidate in the furniture design program at the rhode island school of design.
in his work, he emphasizes wood’s sensitivities and prefers simpler processes, elemental geometries — table and hand saws, a set of chisels, a hammer, and nails constitute the toolage of his process. with them, he questions how craft processes manifest abstract ruminations on positionality, mortality, and aspiration.
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in his work, he emphasizes wood’s sensitivities and prefers simpler processes, elemental geometries — table and hand saws, a set of chisels, a hammer, and nails constitute the toolage of his process. with them, he questions how craft processes manifest abstract ruminations on positionality, mortality, and aspiration.
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education —
rhode island school of design (bfa furniture design, 2025)
brown university (cross-registration urban studies, archaeology, english)
columbia university (creative writing summer program, art history)
exhibitions —
(counter)cosmogonies, beb gallery (rhode island school of design) 2024
landscape as, memorial hall (rhode island school of design) 2024
chipwich, memorial hall (rhode island school of design) 2024
in the palms of our hands, list gallery (brown university) 2023
writing & publications —
no me mates con tomate, matame con bacalao (risd thesis) 2024