Rani Singh is the Director of the Harry Smith Archives. Based in
Santa Monica, CA, Singh focuses on strategic planning and legacy management for artists and artists’ estates. Previously she
worked as Director of Special Projects at Gagosian Gallery and for many years at the Getty Research Institute, Los Angeles in Modern & Contemporary Collections. She met Harry Smith at Naropa
Institute and was his assistant until his passing in 1991, when she
initiated the Harry Smith Archives, a not-for-profit organization
dedicated to the location, preservation and presentation of the
work of Smith. She is the co-curator of Fragments of a Faith Forgotten: The Art of Harry Smith an exhibition organized by the Whitney
Museum of American Art and the Carpenter Center for the Visual
Arts at Harvard University in 2023–24.