Bobby Joe Smith III

Bobby Joe Smith III is a Black and Lakota (Hunkpapa and Oohenumpa) graphic designer and media artist whose work spans design, computation, performance, writing, and image-making. Rooted in decolonial and abolitionist movements across Indigenous and Black communities, his practice develops “unsettling grammars”—methods that disrupt settler-colonial systems and imagine decolonial futures. He holds MFAs in Media Arts (UCLA) and Graphic Design (RISD), and his work engages communities through art, design, and research.

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