| 1954 | Born in Nuremberg, Germany Lives and works in New York |
| 2000 | Skowhegan Medal for Sculpture |
| 2005 | Elected a member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters, New York Recipient of the Athena Award for Excellence in Printmaking, Rhode Island School of Design (RISD) |
| 2006 | Medal Award from the School of the Museum of Fine Arts Boston Honorary Degree from Bowdoin College, Maine |
| 2012 | Visionary Sugar, Neuberger Museum of Art, Purchase, NY I Myself Have Seen It: Photography in the Work of Kiki Smith, Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art |
| 2011 | I Myself Have Seen It: Photography in the Work of Kiki Smith, Mary and Leigh Block Museum of Art, Evanston, IL, USA |
| 2010 | I Myself Have Seen It: Photography in the Work of Kiki Smith, Henry Art Gallery, Seattle, USA Kiki Smith: Sojourn, Brooklyn Museum, New York, USA Color Still, Under Museum of Contemporary Art, Colle di Val d"Elsa, Italy |
| 2009 | Kiki Smith. Her Memory, Fundació Joan Miró Foundation, Barcelona, Spain |
| 2008 | Kiki Smith: The Touch of the Eye / The Look of the Hand, Weatherspoon Art Museum, Greensboro, NC Kiki Smith: Her Memory, Fondación Joan Miró, Barcelona, Spain Kiki Smith: Her Home, Kunsthalle Nürnberg, Germany Kiki Smith: Her Home, Haus Lange, Krefeld, Germany |
| 2007 | Kiki Smith: Constellation, Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, Missouri, USA Kiki Smith: A Gathering, 1980-2005, Whitney Museum, New York, USA |
| 2006 | Kiki Smith: A Gathering, 1980-2005, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, California, USA; Walker Art Center, Minneapolis USA; Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston, USA |
| 2006 | Kiki Smith, Galerie Mirchandani + Steinruecke, Mumbai, India Kiki Smith: A Gathering, 1980-2005, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, California, |
| 2005 | Homespun Tales, Storie di occupazione domestica, Fondazione Querini Stampalia, Venice, Italy |
| 2004 | Kiki Smith: Near, Barbara Krakow Gallery, Boston, USA |
| 2003 | Kiki Smith: Prints, Books and Things, The Museum of Modern Art, New York, USA |
| 2013 | Nur Skulptur!, Kunsthalle Mannheim, Germany |
| 2012 | Alice im Wunderland der Kunst, Kunsthalle Hamburg, Germany Postcards from the edge. 14th annual, Cheim & Read Gallery, New York, USA |
| 2011 | Natur. Sammlung der Altana Kunststiftung, Karl Ernst Osthaus-Museum, Hagen, Germany Memories of the Future: The Olbricht Collection, La Maison Rouge, Paris, France 9. Frieze Art Fair 2011, London, UK The Luminous Interval, Guggenheim, Bilbao Paradise Lost, Istanbul Modern |
| 2010 | LEBENSZEICHEN - Altes Wissen in der zeitgenössischen Kunst, Kunstmuseum Luzern, Switzerland Lebenslust und Totentanz, Kunsthalle Krems, AT Keeping It Real - Act 1, Whitechapel Art Gallery, London, UK An die Natur, Langen Foundation, Neuss, Germany Pictures by Women: A History of Modern Photography, Museum of Modern Art, New York, USA Eröffnung in Neuen Räumen, Barbara Gross Galerie, Munich, Germany Elles@centrepompidou: Artistes femmes dans les collections du Centre Pompidou, Centre national d"art et de culture Georges Pompidou, Paris, France Pictures by Women: A History of Modern Photography, MOMA, New York, USA Philagrafika 2010: The Graphic Unconscious, Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, Philadelphia USA Strictly Death: Selected Works from the Richard Harris Collection, Slought Foundation, Philadelphia, USA |
| 2009 | (Des) Accords Communs, FRAC, Haute Normandie, Sotteville-lés-Rouen, France Six Artists, John Berggruen Gallery, San Francisco, USA Kiki Smith/Nancy Spero/Nalili Malni, Estiarte, Madrid, Spain |
| 2008 | The Puppet Show, ICA Philadelphia, USA ZEICHNUNGEN, Barbara Gross Galerie, Munich, Germany |
| 2007 | Traum und Trauma, Kunsthalle Wien, AT Kiss Kiss, Bang Bang, 45 years of art and feminism, Museo de Bellas Artes Bilbao, Spain |
| 2006 | Contemporary Voices: Works from the UBS Art Collection, The Fondation Beyeler, Basel |
| 2005 | Exhibition of Work by Newly Elected Members and Recipients of Honors and Awards, The American Academy of Arts and Letters, New York, USA Two by Two for AIDS and Art, Dallas Museum of Art, Texas, USA< br />National Association of Women Artists Sculpture Exhibition, Mason Murer Fine Art, Atlanta, Georgia, USA Drawing 1945 to Now, Russell Bowman Art Advisory, Chicago, USA National Association of Women Artists Sculpture Exhibition, Mason Murer Fine Art,Atlanta, USA Contemporary Voices: Works from the UBS Art Collection, The Museum of Modern Art, New York, USA |
| 2004 | Making the Body in Contemporary Sculpture, Allen Memorial Art Museum, Oberlin College, Ohio, USA East Village USA, New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York, USA |
| 2003 | Art of the 1990s from the Logan Collection, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, California, USA Otherworlds: the Art of Nancy Spero and Kiki Smith, Baltic Centre for Contemporary Art |
| 1993 | PROSPECT 93, Frankfurter Kunstverein, Frankfurt, Germany |
| 1992 | Deichtorhallen Hamburg, Germany |
| 1984 | Modern Masks, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, USA |