PUBLISHING

Lionel Smit Studio publishing based in Cape Town, South Africa designs art books. Our team has designed artist catalogues and photo books.

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Recent Books & Catalogues

Lionel Smit Studio Publishing is dedicated to creating every publication by working closely with artists to bring their practice to light, commissioning writing to unveil new discourses and rhetoric in the art world and creating resources for understanding artists and their journeys. With the expertise of our in-house design team, who have been at Lionel Smit Studio for nearly 12 years, we direct every creation to completion.

 
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Dr Ernst van der Wal, Ph.D.

Lionel Smit, Manipulated Image, 2019


A booklet for Lionel Smit’s exhibition Manipulated Image at Everard Read Johannesburg. Published by Everard Read Johannesburg.

Essay titled In the Eye of the Beholder by Dr Ernst van der Wal, PhD(Visual Arts), Senior lecturer of Visual Arts at Arts/Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences at Stellenbosch University, Stellenbosch, South Africa.

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Jason Rosenfeld, Ph.D.

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Lionel Smit, Obscura, 2018

An artist book for Lionel Smit, self published to coincide with his exhibition titled Obscura at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Miami.

Exploring how we are shaped — and placed — by our identity. Specifically, the paintings and sculptures included in this exhibition are representative of a group of people who are multiethnic and multicultural, and whose identity is constantly evolving.

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Lionel Smit, State, 2017

A booklet for Lionel Smit’s exhibition State at Everard Read CIRCA. Published by Everard Read Johannesburg.

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