Shanice Smith was born in 1991 in Port-of-Spain, Trinidad & Tobago. Her mixed-media pieces centre around deconstructing and examining violence, objectification and commodification. Smith first completed her certificate qualifications in Social Work and Psychology at the University of the West Indies (UWI) Open Campus, before going on to pursue her bachelor’s in Fine Art at the UWI, St. Augustine Campus.

Her work has been on display at Alice Yard, Port-of-Spain; the National Museum of Trinidad and Tobago; Toronto Urban Film Festival; The Fresh Milk Art Platform, Barbados; Caribbean Linked IV, Aruba; Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions; and The Project Space, Deakin University, Australia as well as taken part in residencies at Vermont Studio Center and Caribbean Arts Initiative (collaboration with Residency Unlimited).