Amalie Smith works with text and image in the form of exhibitions, video, audio and books. She is broadly interested in how idea and matter are interwoven entities and this interest has led her to work on diverse subjects such as the Greek sponge divers dance, woven textile as the fabric of the digital, uploading and the colour of ancient sculpture. 
She got her Master of Fine Arts degree from The Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts in 2015. In 2009 she graduated from The Danish Academy of Creative Writing.
Her visual work has been shown in Denmark at Kunsthal Charlottenborg, ARoS, The Museum of Contemporay Art in Roskilde and The National Gallery of Denmark among other places, and abroad in Melbourne, London, Leeds, Reykjavik, Riga and Kunstmuseum Bonn in Germany. In October 2021 her work Clay Theory will be part of the New Museum Triennial Soft Water Hard Stone.

Since 2010 she has published eight hybrid fiction books in Danish. Three of the titles have been translated into Swedish and/or Norwegian. Her 2014 novel Marble is translated into English by Jennifer Russell and published by the London based publishing house Lolli Editions in 2020. Thread Ripper will follow in English in 2021.