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DEAN SMITH

b. Oakland, CA

Education

1988 MFA University of California, Berkeley
1984 BA [Double: Practice of Art/History of Art] University of California, Berkeley

Solo Exhibitions

2009
thought forms 2003-2009, Gallery Paule Anglim, San Francisco, CA
2007
thought forms, Media Project, Fringe Exhibitions, Los Angeles, CA
2006
Works on Paper, Gallery Paule Anglim, San Francisco, CA
thought forms, Meridian Gallery, San Francisco, CA
Christopher Grimes Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
2004
Marvelli Gallery, New York, NY
2003
Transmission, Christopher Grimes Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
Random Encounters: Dean Smith, San Jose Museum of Art, San Jose, CA
2002
Dean Smith/MATRIX 201b, University of California, Berkeley Art Museum
Gallery Paule Anglim, San Francisco, CA
2001
Christopher Grimes Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
2000
Drawings, Christopher Grimes Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
1999
Drawings, Gallery Paule Anglim, San Francisco, CA
1995
Growth Chamber: New Paintings, Terrain, San Francisco, CA
1993
Senex and Puer: New Paintings, Terrain, San Francisco, CA
1992
The Second Day: Works on Paper, Turn of the Century Fine Arts, Berkeley, CA
Paintings, Terrain, San Francisco, CA

Selected Group Exhibitions

2011
Dean Smith and Mark Sheinkman, Gallery Joe, Philadelphia, PA (upcoming)
2010
Paper!Awesome!, Baer Ridgway Exhibitions, San Francisco, CA
2009
Sight 09/10, Museolaboratorio ex manifattura tabacchi, Città Sant'Angelo, Italy
My Certain Fate, Pharmaka, Los Angeles, CA
microwave, seven, Judi Rotenburg Gallery, Boston, MA
2008
microwave, six, Josée Bienvenu Gallery, New York, NY
Form +, Meridian Gallery, San Francisco, CA
2007
Graphic: New Bay Area Drawing, di Rosa Preserve, Napa, CA
2005
Drawing, Christopher Grimes Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
Bay Area Bazaar, Pulliam Deffenbaugh Gallery, Portland, OR
Hairy Bodies, The LAB, San Francisco, CA
2004
Art on Paper 2004, Weatherspoon Art Museum, Greensboro, NC
25th Anniversary Exhibition: The L.A. Years Part II, Christopher Grimes Gallery, Santa Monica, CA 2003
Works on Paper, Marvelli Gallery, New York, NY
Graphite on Paper, Gallery Joe, Philadelphia, PA
2002
Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore - New Art from LA, Marvelli Gallery, New York, NY
Fast Forward II, University of California, Berkeley Art Museum, Berkeley, CA
Julia Fish, Pia Fries, David Ireland, Dean Smith: Works on paper, Christopher Grimes Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
Being There: 45 Oakland Artists, Oakland Museum of California, Oakland, CA
Orange, !hey!, Oakland, CA
2001
Different Strokes, IM N IL Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
1999
Invitational Exhibition, Curt Marcus Gallery, New York, NY
1998
Freie Sicht aufs Mittlemeer, Kunsthaus, Zürich, Switzerland, and the Schirn Kunsthalle, Frankfurt, Germany
Six Painters, Gallery Paule Anglim, San Francisco, CA
Then and Now: Terrain’s Tenth Anniversary, Terrain, San Francisco, CA
1997
Città Aperta Ed. 1997, IDRIA Cultural Association, Città Sant'Angelo, Italy
Entfernte Bekannte, Foundation Binz39, Zürich, Switzerland
1996
Abstraction Absolved: 10 Bay Area Painters, Mills College Art Gallery, Oakland, CA
1995
Status Report: Seven Years of Artists' Projects, Terrain, San Francisco, CA
1994
Recent Paintings: Robert Davis, Suzann Dunaway, Dean Smith, Terrain, San Francisco, CA
1993
Filler, Terrain, San Francisco, CA
Terrain in Newport III: The Painters, Hydrangea House Gallery, Newport, RI
Fresh Paint, TransAmerica Pyramid Gallery, San Francisco, CA
1992
Terrain in Newport, Hydrangea House Gallery, Newport, RI
Five Painters, Terrain, San Francisco, CA
1991
Buying The Magazine For The Ads, Terrain, San Francisco, CA
Bedford Biennial, Bedford Gallery, Regional Center for the Arts, Walnut Creek, CA
1990
Bay Arts '90, Arts Council of San Mateo, Belmont, CA
65th Crocker-Kingsley Exhibition, Crocker Art Museum, Sacramento, CA
A Boar's Head, Nexus Gallery, Berkeley, CA

Public Film/Video Screenings

2009
three video mandalas, "TRANS l Optic," Meridian Gallery, San Francisco, CA
thought forms, "Reflections," Gallery Paule Anglim and kino21 present, Gallery Paule Anglim, San Francisco, CA
2008
labyrinth, "Projections," Projections on Lake, Pasadena, CA
2007
aliengnosis, "The Cabaret of Hybrid Vigor," The Poetry Center and kino21 present, ATA: Artists Television Access, San Francisco CA
2005
aliengnosis, "Apocalypse Poof," The 19th London Lesbian/Gay Film Festival, National Theatre, London and the Clarke Centre, Montreal, Canada
2004
aliengnosis, "Moving Picture Poetics 3: Collaborations," San Francisco Cinematheque, CA
2003
here we are now, "Graphic Sonic: Music Made Cinema," San Francisco Cinematheque, CA

Awards

2002-03 Fellowship Award for Visual Arts, California Arts Council

Public Collections

Albright-Knox Art Gallery
Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive
The British Museum
The Hammer Museum
Los Angeles County Museum of Art
Oakland Museum of California
University of California, San Francisco, Mission Bay Campus

Corporate Collections

The Capital Group Companies, Inc.
Colette and Erickson, San Francisco
Howard, Rice, Nemerovski, Canady, Robertson & Falk, San Francisco
Microsoft Corporation
JPMorgan Chase Art Collection
The Progressive Corporation
Swiss Re Capital Partners, Inc.

Bibliography

2010
Berkson, Bill, "Dean Smith in Action," For the Ordinary Artist: Short Reviews, Occasional Pieces & More, BlazeVOX Baker, Kenneth, “Art review: ‘Afterglow’ inspired rethinking, San Francisco Chronicle, October 7, 2010.
2009
Berkson, Bill, "Dean Smith in Action," thought forms 2003-2009, Exhibition Catalog, Gallery Paule Anglim
Buckwalter, Timothy, "Critic’s Choice: Art; Small Subversions," The Easy Bay Monthly, v. 39, no. 7, April 2009
Huston, Johnny Ray, "Dean Smith: thought forms 2003-2009," San Francisco Bay Gaurdian, v. 43, no. 31, April 29 – May 5, 2009
Klappert, Bridget and Walter, "Review: My Certain Fate," THE Magazine Los Angeles, June 2009
Thomas, Elizabeth, "Matrix/Berkeley: A Changing Exhibition of Contemporary Art," University of California, Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive
Vogel, Traci, "Eye Candy: Dean Smith and Dean Byington," SF Weekly, v. 28, no. 10, April 1-7, 2009
2008
Buckwalter, Timothy, "Spiritualized: Lawrence Rinder at Meridian Gallery," www.kqed.org, April 22, 2008
Coburn, Jesse, "microwave, six," Time Out New York, Issue 675, Sept. 4-10, 2008
Eshoo, Amy, ed., "560 Broadway: A New York Drawing Collection at Work, 1991-2006," Fifth Floor Foundation/Yale University Press
Works on paper originally in b/w, Zyzzyva, Issue #82, Spring 2008
2007
Ascarelli, Brett, "Art imitates design," The North Bay Bohemian, v. 28, January 31- February 6, 2007
Hamilton, Roxanne Power, ed., "Screen: A Multiplex, Robert Glück and Dean Smith: aliengnosis," Viz. Inter-Arts: Event, A Trans-Genre Anthology, 2007
Le Duc, Amiee, "Gay Outlaw and Dean Smith at Gallery Paule Anglim," Artweek, v. 38, Issue 1, February 2007
2006
Baker, Kenneth, "Art marked by holes, yet pregnant with meaning," San Francisco Chronicle, December 16, 2006 Callaway, Bob, "Gay Outlaw & Dean Smith @ Paule Anglim," Art Fever, http://artfever.blogspot.com, November 22, 2006 Tanchelev, Gloria, "West Coast Blog," Stretcher, www.stretcher.org, December 12, 2006 "Visual Arts: Opening / Dean Smith: Drawings," Flavorpill – Los Angeles, http:/beta.la.flavorpill.net, Issue #163, April 11-17, 2006
2005
"Weatherspoon Art Museum in Greensboro, NC, Features Exhibition of Works on Paper," Carolina Arts, January Issue 2005
Helfand, Glen, "Critic’s Choice: Hairy Bodies," Artforum.com, February 2005
2004
Emerling, Susan, "Reviews/National – Dean Smith," ARTnews, February 2004
Jana, Reena, "Exhibition Reviews, New York: Dean Smith at Marvelli Gallery," Art on paper, November/December 2004
Johnson, Ken, "Art Guide, Galleries: Chelsea, ‘Dean Smith’," The New York Times, September 24, 2004
Magnus, Susan, "East Coast Blog," Stretcher, www.stretcher.org, September 24, 2004
2003
Carey, Frances, "Elective Affinities: Collecting Cotemporary Culture in the British Museum,"
Collecting Now: a conference on collecting the modern, lecture delivered at Kingston University, England, April 2003
Dodsworth, Fred, "California Arts Council Gives Coveted Fellowships To Five Berkeley Artists," Berkeley Daily Planet, June 13-16, 2003
Fallon, Roberta, "Pencil Pushers," Philadelphia Weekly, May 28, 2003
Johnson, Ken, "Art Guide, Galleries: Chelsea, ‘Works on Paper’," The New York Times, June 27, 2003
Ollman, Leah, "Motion, mind and mystery," Los Angeles Times, November 14, 2003
Stich, Sidra, "art-Sites San Francisco," art-Sites Press, 2003
Works on paper originally in b/w, Zyzzyva, vol. XIX, no.3, Winter 2003
Worman, Alex, "L.A. Confidential," artnet.com Magazine Reviews, December 2, 2003
2002
Bonetti, David, "There is a ‘there’ at Oakland show," San Francisco Chronicle, March 27, 2002
Bonetti, David, "Wide array of talents, price tags at art fair," San Francisco Chronicle, January 19, 2002
Cash, Stephanie, "Report from San Francisco: Surviving and Thriving," Art in America, November 2002
Consey, Kevin, "Dean Smith/MATRIX 201b, black hole sun #3 (x-ray vision)," Exhibition Brochure, University of California, Berkeley Art Museum
Helfand, Glen, "Critic’s Choice: Barry McGee/Dean Smith," Artforum.com, May 2002
Linhares, Philip, "Being There: 45 Oakland Artists," Exhibition Catalog, Oakland Museum of California
Rodriguez, Juan, "Orange at !hey! Boutique and Gallery," Artweek, v.33, issue 4, May 2002
Shank, Will, "Greatest hits, local luminaries," Bay Area Reporter, January 24, 2002
2001
Glück, Robert, "Many Infinities," Dean Smith, Drawings 2001, Exhibition Catalog, Christopher Grimes Gallery
Youens, Rachel, "Different Strokes @ IM N IL," The Brooklyn Rail, May/June 2001
2000
Coleman, Sara, "Critic's Choice: Art – ‘Knowing You, Knowing Me,’" The San Francisco Bay Guardian, May 17, 2000
Knight, Christopher, "Art Reviews: Dean Smith," Los Angeles Times, May 12, 2000
Morris, Barbara, "‘Knowing You, Knowing Me,’ at The LAB," Artweek, v.31, no. 6, June 2000
1999
Baker, Kenneth, "Sculptures with Delayed Punch Lines," San Francisco Chronicle, February 6, 1999
Johnson, Ken, "Art Guide, Galleries: SoHo, ‘Invitational Exhibition’" The New York Times, July 2, 1999
1998
"Documentation 1996/97," Catalog, Foundation Binz39, Zürich "Freie Sicht aufs Mittlemeer," Exhibition Catalog, Kunsthaus Zürich, Scalo Verlag
Martino, Adriana, "Spotlight: Cittá Aperta e La Bella Addormentata," Flash Art (Italy Ed.), Dicembre/Gennaio 1998
1997
"Cittá Aperta," Exhibition Catalog, IDRIA Cultural Association
Kraft, Martin, "Im Trüben Sehen," Tages-Anzeiger - Züritip Edition, May 16-22, 1997
1996
Bonetti, David, "Return of the Abstract at Mills College," The San Francisco Examiner, December 6, 1996
Lachowicz, Keith, "Abstraction Absolved: 10 Bay Area Painters," Exhibition Catalog, Mills College Art Gallery
1995
Bonetti, David, "The Year in Review," The San Francisco Examiner, December 29, 1995
1994
Baker, Kenneth, "Rising Spirits," ARTnews, May 1994
Rapko, John, "Schematization: Abstract Painting at Terrain and Stephen Wirtz Gallery," Artweek, July 21, 1994
1992
Roche, Harry, "Critic's Choice: Art," The San Francisco Bay Guardian, February 26, 1992
1991
Baker, Kenneth, "Perils in Selecting Juried Exhibitions," The San Francisco Chronicle, March 30, 1991
1990
"Bay Arts '90," Exhibition Catalog, Arts Council of San Mateo
"65th Crocker-Kingsley Exhibition," Exhibition Catalog, Crocker Art Museum