Smith has exhibited her photographs at the Visual Studies Workshop, Gulf and Western Gallery, International Center of Photography, Cantor Film Center, Fort Mason Center, Root Division, San Francisco City Hall, MarinMOCA, Cordon|Potts Gallery, Diego Rivera Gallery, RayKo Photo Center, Inclusions Gallery, The Bascom, Berkeley Art Center, Upstream Gallery, and with Fraction Magazine. Her work is part of the collections at the Museum of Fine Arts in Houston, TX, the Pilara Foundation in San Francisco, CA, and of private individuals. Smith has been an artist-in-residence at Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, Penland School of Craft, The Hambidge Center, Vyt - Art Students League of New York, The Rensing Center, and the Lillian E. Smith Center. In 2020, Smith was awarded a Martha Boschen Porter Fund grant for her photography work though the Berkshire Taconic Community Foundation.
She has held teaching positions with Putney Student Travel’s Excel programs, Academy of Art University, and Good For Kids Foundation, for which she also served as program manager. In 2008, Smith joined staff at The Oxbow School in Napa, CA, first as faculty for Oxbow Summer Art Camp and then as director of the program from 2011-2020. Smith also co-founded Green Art Workshop in 2010, a San Francisco based nonprofit (est. 2012) for which she acted as co-director and a lead facilitator of programs for a decade. In 2019, Smith founded Second Nature Arts, an organization which aims to ignite creativity that fosters mindful connections with art, nature, and community.
Smith was raised in the Greater Boston Area and currently resides in Western Massachusetts. She holds a BFA in Photography & Imaging from New York University - Tisch School of the Arts and a MFA in Photography from San Francisco Art Institute.