Sming Sming Books

LONG LIVE BOOKS!

Presented in conjunction with ICA LA’s Bookshelf Residency with Sming Sming Books, LONG LIVE BOOKS! is a salon-style installation of papercuts created by artist Kate Laster with texts by Vivian Sming.

On view November 7, 2026–February 28, 2027.

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New Releases ✨

Anna Martine Whitehead: FORCE! an opera in three acts

Anna Martine Whitehead: FORCE! an opera in three acts

from $20.00
Johanna Hedva: My Knife Collection and Other Subjects of Desire — PREORDER

Johanna Hedva: My Knife Collection and Other Subjects of Desire — PREORDER

from $11.99
ProMomme: A Sex Worker’s Guide to Parenting - Vol. 2

ProMomme: A Sex Worker’s Guide to Parenting - Vol. 2

from $9.99
Helen Shewolfe Tseng: Trickster at the End of a World

Helen Shewolfe Tseng: Trickster at the End of a World

$27.00
Adam YEO: Bété Typeface

Adam YEO: Bété Typeface

$15.00
Kourosh Beigpour: Jin

Kourosh Beigpour: Jin

$15.00
Manuel López Rocha: Tuki

Manuel López Rocha: Tuki

$15.00
SILICON × Sming Sming Books Type Bundle

SILICON × Sming Sming Books Type Bundle

$40.00
Our Eyes as Commonly Tender: Visual Justice in the Filmmaking of Pratibha Parmar

Our Eyes as Commonly Tender: Visual Justice in the Filmmaking of Pratibha Parmar

$30.00
Sold out

Saif Azzuz: Keet Hegehlpa’ (the water is rising)

Saif Azzuz: Keet Hegehlpa’ (the water is rising)

~~Sold out~~
Perry Doane: Carbonarc

Perry Doane: Carbonarc

$45.00
Conscious Tether: Art and the Internet in Los Angeles

Conscious Tether: Art and the Internet in Los Angeles

$40.00
Sholeh Asgary: آبـان (Aban)

Sholeh Asgary: آبـان (Aban)

from $10.00
Michael Ned Holte × Sming Sming Books: Good Listener Hat

Michael Ned Holte × Sming Sming Books: Good Listener Hat

$35.00
Michael Ned Holte: Good Listener: Meditations on Music and Pauline Oliveros

Michael Ned Holte: Good Listener: Meditations on Music and Pauline Oliveros

from $17.99
Michael Ned Holte × Sming Sming Books: Good Listener Bundle (Book & Hat)

Michael Ned Holte × Sming Sming Books: Good Listener Bundle (Book & Hat)

$60.00
Brian Bartz & Kelley O'Leary: To Hear a Shadow

Brian Bartz & Kelley O'Leary: To Hear a Shadow

$20.00
Freedom Time: Dancing Through Prison Walls

Freedom Time: Dancing Through Prison Walls

from $20.00
Patrick Michael Ballard: Ottodokki

Patrick Michael Ballard: Ottodokki

$30.00
Deborah LeFalle: Diamonds Among Us

Deborah LeFalle: Diamonds Among Us

$10.00

Sming Sming Books

Formed in 2017, Sming Sming Books is a publishing studio that experiments with books as art, discourse, exhibition, and archive. Each project is created in close collaboration with artists and writers, whose works and ideas inform design, material, and printing choices.

Vanessa Holyoak: I See More Clearly in the Dark

Vanessa Holyoak: I See More Clearly in the Dark

from $9.99
Johanna Hedva: Minerva the Miscarriage of the Brain

Johanna Hedva: Minerva the Miscarriage of the Brain

from $9.99
Al-An deSouza: Ark of Martyrs

Al-An deSouza: Ark of Martyrs

$16.00
Anuradha Vikram: Decolonizing Culture

Anuradha Vikram: Decolonizing Culture

from $9.99
Artists’ Writing Bundle

Artists’ Writing Bundle

~~Regular price$92.00~~ Sale price$75.00
Jaymee Martin: Of Making Many Books There Is No End

Jaymee Martin: Of Making Many Books There Is No End

$16.00
ProMomme: A Sex Worker’s Guide to Parenting - Vol. 1

ProMomme: A Sex Worker’s Guide to Parenting - Vol. 1

from $9.99
Julia Schlosser: Alex (Alex's body)

Julia Schlosser: Alex (Alex's body)

$20.00
Ian Byers-Gamber: If They Can Do It, Why Can’t We? Poster

Ian Byers-Gamber: If They Can Do It, Why Can’t We? Poster

$10.00
Chandler McWilliams: Practice (Constraint)

Chandler McWilliams: Practice (Constraint)

$30.00
Johanna Hedva: Black Moon Lilith in Pisces in the 4th House

Johanna Hedva: Black Moon Lilith in Pisces in the 4th House

from $8.00
Jimena Sarno + Axel Krygier: taracatá trabaja

Jimena Sarno + Axel Krygier: taracatá trabaja

$27.00

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