Ka'ila Farrell-Smith is a contemporary Klamath Modoc visual artist, writer and activist based in Modoc Point, Oregon. The conceptual framework of her studio practice focuses on channeling research through a creative flow of experimentation and artistic playfulness.

She has work in the permanent collections of the Portland Art Museum, Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art, The Portland Building, the Seattle Convention Center Summit Building and Missoula Art Museum. Her work has been on view at Tacoma Art Museum, Out of Sight, Boise Art Museum, Smithsonian American Art Museum and the National Gallery of Art.

Farrell-Smith is a 2021 Hallie Ford Fellow and an inaugural 2019-2020 Fields Artist Fellow with Oregon Humanities. She received a BFA in painting from Pacific Northwest College of Art and an MFA in contemporary art practices studio from Portland State University. She is represented by Russo Lee Gallery in Portland, Oregon.

She has been a community organizer for over 20 years and participated in successful creative resistance to the Jordan Cove LNG projects. She continues to work on the front lines fighting resource extraction projects in Southern Oregon.

Farrell-Smith is the lead plaintiff suing the State of Oregon Department of Justice’s Titan Fusion Center for illegally surveilling her, violating her First Amendment rights to free speech.

"I explore the space that exists in between the Indigenous and western worlds, examining their cultural interpretations of aesthetics, symbols, and place.”