1988 M.F.A. Painting, University of California, Berkeley
1987 M.A. Painting, University of California, Berkeley
1984 B.A. Art, University of California, Berkeley
1984 B.A. History of Art, University of California, Berkeley
AWARDS
2002-03 California Arts Council, Fellowship Award for the Visual Arts
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2006
Gallery Paule Anglim, San Francisco, CA
thought forms, Meridian Gallery, San Francisco, CA
Drawings, Christopher Grimes Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
2004
Thought forms, 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 and Pacific Film Archive
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
Terrain, San Francisco, CA
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
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, University of North Carolina, 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 / Schirn Kunsthalle, Frankfurt, Germany
Six Painters, Gallery Paule Anglim, San Francisco, CA
Then and Now: Terrain’s Tenth Anniversary Celebration, Terrain, San Francisco, CA
1997
Cittá Aperta Ed. 1997, IDRIA Cultural Association, Cittá 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 Lobby 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
1989
MFA/UCB/1989, University Art Museum, University of California, Berkeley, CA
Bay Area M.F.A. Exhibition, San Francisco State University, San Francisco, CA
1988
M.A. Thesis Exhibition, Worth Ryder Gallery, U.C. Berkeley, Berkeley, CA
PUBLIC FILM/VIDEO SCREENINGS
2005
aliengnosis, a film in collaboration with Robert Glück in the program, Apocalypse Poof, The 19th London Lesbian/Gay Film
Festival, National Theater, London and the Clarke Centre, Montreal, Canada
2004
aliengnosis, a film in collaboration with Robert Glück in the program, Moving Picture Poetics 3: Collaborations,
San Francisco Cinematheque, CA
2003
here we are now in the program, Graphic Sonic: Music Made Cinema, San Francisco Cinematheque, CA
BIBLIOGRAPHY:
2006
"Visual Arts: Opening / Dean Smith: Drawings," Flavorpill – Los Angeles, Issue #163, April 11-17, 2006,
http:/beta.la.flavorpill.net
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, 2023
Magnus, Susan, "East Coast Blog," www.stretcher.org, September 24, 2023
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, 2023
Johnson, Ken, "Art Guide, Galleries: Chelsea, ‘Works on Paper’," The New York Times, June 27, 2023
Ollman, Leah, "Motion, mind and mystery," Los Angeles Times, November 14, 2022
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, 2022
2002
Bonetti, David, "There is a ‘there’ at Oakland show," San Francisco Chronicle, March 27, 2023
Bonetti, David, "Wide array of talents, price tags at art fair," San Francisco Chronicle, January 19, 2023
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, 2002
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, 2002
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, 2023
2001
Glück, Robert, "Many Infinities," Dean Smith, Drawings 2001, Exhibition Catalog, Christopher Grimes Gallery, 2001
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, 2023
Knight, Christopher, "Art Reviews: Dean Smith," Los Angeles Times, May 12, 2023
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, 2023
Johnson, Ken, "Art Guide, Galleries: SoHo, ‘Invitational Exhibition’" The New York Times, July 2, 2023
1998
"Documentation 1996/97," Catalog, Foundation Binz39, Zürich, 1998
"Freie Sicht aufs Mittlemeer," Exhibition Catalog, Kunsthaus Zürich, Scalo Verlag, 1998
Martino, Adriana, "Spotlight: Cittá Aperta e La Bella Addormentata," Flash Art (Italy Ed.), Dicembre/Gennaio 1998
1996
Bonetti, David, "Return of the Abstract at Mills College," The San Francisco Examiner, December 6, 2022
Lachowicz, Keith, "Abstraction Absolved: 10 Bay Area Painters," Exhibition Catalog, Mills College Art Gallery, 1996
1995
Bonetti, David, "The Year in Review," The San Francisco Examiner, December 29, 2022
1994
Baker, Kenneth, "Rising Spirits," ARTnews, May 1994
Rapko, John, "Schematization: Abstract Painting at Terrain and Stephen Wirtz Gallery," Artweek, July 21, 2023
1992
Roche, Harry, "Critic's Choice: Art," The San Francisco Bay Guardian, February 26, 2023
1991
Baker, Kenneth, "Perils in Selecting Juried Exhibitions," The San Francisco Chronicle, March 30, 2023
1990
"Bay Arts '90," Exhibition Catalog, Arts Council of San Mateo, 1990
"65th Crocker-Kingsley Exhibition," Exhibition Catalog, Crocker Art Museum, 1990
PUBLIC COLLECTIONS
Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, NY
Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive
The British Museum, London
The Hammer Museum, Los Angeles
Los Angeles County Museum of Art
Oakland Museum of California
University of California, San Francisco, Mission Bay Campus
CORPORATE COLLECTIONS
Colette and Erickson, San Francisco
Howard, Rice, Nemerovski, Canady, Robertson & Falk, San Francisco
Microsoft Corporation
J P Morgan Chase Art Collection
The Progressive Corporation
Swiss Re Capital Partners, Inc.
Copyright Gallery Paule Anglim
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