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Mark Addison Smith is a queer artist whose design specialization is typographic storytelling: allowing illustrative text to convey a visual narrative through printed matter, artist books, and site installations. 

With his on-going, text-based archive, You Look Like The Right Type, he has been drawing snippets of overheard conversations every day since 2008 and assembling the works into larger conversations between strangers who haven't officially met or exchanged words. You Look Like The Right Type has been featured in Deadline, Goodtype, Hyperallergic, PRINT Magazine’s The Daily Heller, Queerty, and MAGMA Brand Design’s Slanted Magazine, among others. His artist’s books and typographic specimens have been accessioned into permanent collections and special collections archives worldwide, including the Brooklyn Museum Artists’ Books Collection, Center for Book Arts in New York City, Getty Research Institute, Guggenheim Museum Library and Archives, Joan Flasch Artists' Book Collection, Kinsey Institute, Leslie-Lohman Museum of Gay and Lesbian Art, Library of Congress, MoMA Franklin Furnace, the Smithsonian American Art and National Portrait Gallery Artists’ Book Collection, Tate Library, and Watson Library at The Met. He currently lives in New York City and serves as Associate Professor and Program Director of Design within the Art Department at The City College of New York (CUNY).

Mark Addison Smith, artist, drawing overheard quotes on the NYC subway, 2015. Drawings from You Look Like The Right Type: The gown opens to the front. (May 25, 2016); I’m deleting him. (July 11, 2016); We tried so many things (March 17, 2016).

Website: www.markaddisonsmith.com

Instagram: @markaddisonsmith