Teresa Kirby Smith was born in Peru and raised in Chile, Panama and Argentina. She studied at the Visual Studies Workshop in Rochester, New York, and received an MA in Photography and Fine Arts Administration from New York University. Her photography can be neatly split into two discrete categories: black-and-white film shot exclusively at night and later developed and printed in her studio; and, abstract color imagery created during daylight hours using a digital camera. Her work has been shown in Bermuda and the United States, and has appeared in online exhibitions. She was the recipient of the 2013 Charman Grand Prize at the Masterworks Museum of Bermuda Art, and has been a participant in the Bermuda National Gallery Biennial exhibitions in 2012, 2014, 2016 and 2018.