Sean Smuda’s work investigates the relationships between the body, environment, cosmology, and socio-economics. Using photography, collage, video, and an extensive background in Contact Improvisation dance, Smuda’s work exposits, softens, and transforms the borders between personal, public, and institutional space. His print work is used in conjunction with performances that have taken place from Wall Street to the Minnesota State Capitol and Berlin. Having lost everything in a fire in George Floyd’s neighborhood in 2018, where he ran a series of non-profit galleries for over a decade, the ideas of resolving social tensions, shelter, sustainability, and community are crucial to his work. Smuda has served as Cultural Liaison to Minneapolis’s Sister City of Tours, France, and has shown extensively throughout the EU and the United States. His work is in the permanent collection of the Walker Art Center.