Born
1961, Oakland, California
Education
1988
M.F.A. University of California, Berkeley
1987
M.A. Painting, University of California, Berkeley
1984
B.A. Practice of Art, University of California, Berkeley
B.A. History of Art, University of California, Berkeley
Awards
2002-03
Fellowship Award for the Visual Arts, California Arts Council
Solo Exhibitions
2022
The center is the edge of the threshold, Anglim/Trimble, San Francisco, CA
2016
Entrance, Anglim Gilbert Gallery, San Francisco, CA
2012
Three Manifestations of Anaglyphic Space, Gallery Paule Anglim, San Francisco, CA
2009
Dean Smith: thought forms 2003-2009, Gallery Paule Anglim, San Francisco, CA
2007
thought forms, Fringe Exhibitions, Los Angeles, CA
2006
Dean Smith: Works on Paper, Gallery Paule Anglim, San Francisco, CA
thought forms, Meridian Gallery, San Francisco, CA
Dean Smith: Drawings, Christopher Grimes Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
2004
Dean Smith: Drawings, 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, Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive, University of California, Berkeley
Dean Smith: New Work, Gallery Paule Anglim, San Francisco, CA
2001
Dean Smith: Drawings, Christopher Grimes Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
2000
Dean Smith: Drawings, Christopher Grimes Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
1999
Dean Smith: 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
Two Person Exhibitions
2016
Haunted Formalism: Nicole Phungrasamee Fein and Dean Smith, VOLUME & Del Vaz Projects, Los Angeles, CA
2014
Annabeth Rosen and Dean Smith, Gallery Paule Anglim, San Francisco, CA
2011
Mark Sheinkman and Dean Smith, Gallery Joe, Philadelphia, PA
1992
Robert Howard and Dean Smith, Terrain, San Francisco, CA
Selected Group Exhibitions
2022
Holding Pattern, The Holland Project, Reno, NV
2021
Anne Appleby, Xylor Jane, Dean Smith and Andy Vogt, Eli Ridgway Gallery, Bozeman, MT
2020
Represent 001—Muddy the Waters, Anglim/Trimble, San Francisco, CA
2019
Shapeshifter, Gregory Lind Gallery, San Francisco, CA
2018
Way Bay 2, Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive, University of California, Berkeley
Visual Anthology: Artworks and the Book, Anglim Gilbert Gallery, CA
2017
The Future Eve, Fellows of Contemporary Art (FOCA), Los Angeles, CA
Drawing: The Beginning of Everything, Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, NY
2015
Retrospective: A Tribute to Paule Anglim, Gallery Paule Anglim, San Francisco, CA
Bye Bye Old City: The Last Picture Show, Gallery Joe, Philadelphia, PA
2014
un•bound•ed, Root Division, San Francisco, CA
Four Faces, Marc Selwyn Fine Arts, Beverly Hills, CA
Summer in Black and White …And Color, Gallery Paule Anglim, San Francisco, CA
Sightlines, American University Art Museum, Katzen Center for the Arts, Washington, DC
2013
Unseen, Aimee Friberg Exhibitions/Cult, San Francisco, CA
Space: 1999, Incline Gallery, San Francisco, CA
Afterglow: Rethinking California Light and Space Art, Saint Mary's College Museum of Art, Moraga, CA
2012
DocumentO, Krowswork, Oakland, CA
2011
Afterglow: Rethinking California Light and Space Art, University Library Art Gallery, California
State University, Sacramento, CA
Absence/Presence: Contemporary Abstraction, University Art Gallery, California State University, Sonoma, CA
Better A Live Ass Than A Dead Lion, Eli Ridgway Gallery, San Francisco, CA
Abstract Now and Then, Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive, University of California, Berkeley
2010
Afterglow: Rethinking California Light and Space Art, Wiegand Gallery, Notre Dame de Namur University, Belmont, CA
Paper!Awesome!, Baer Ridgway Exhibitions, San Francisco, CA
2009
Sight 09/10, Museolaboratorio ex manifattura tabacchi, Cittá Sant'Angelo, Italy
microwave: seven, Judi Rotenburg Gallery, Boston, MA
My Certain Fate, Pharmaka, Los Angeles, CA
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
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
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, Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive, University of California, Berkeley
Being There: 45 Oakland Artists, Oakland Museum of California, 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
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
Fresh Paint, TransAmerica Pyramid Gallery, San Francisco, CA
1992
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
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
Bay Area M.F.A. Exhibition, San Francisco State University, San Francisco, CA
1988
M.A. Thesis Exhibition, Worth Ryder Gallery, University of California, Berkeley
Public Film/Video Screenings
2017
My Walks with Bob, Communal Presence: New Narrative Writing Today (screened: aliengnosis: a film in collaboration with Robert Glück), University of California, Berkeley
2013
Thinking Like the Universe (screened: video mandalas III, IV and V), Hatch Gallery, Oakland, CA
2009
Reflections (screened: thought forms), Gallery Paule Anglim, San Francisco, CA
2007
Projections on Lake (screened: labyrinth), City of Pasadena Public Art Programs and Wasserman Real Estate Capital, LLC, Pasadena, CA
2005
Apocalypse Poof (screened: aliengnosis: a film in collaboration with Robert Glück), The 19th London
Lesbian/Gay Film Festival, National Theater, London
2004
Moving Picture Poetics 3: Collaborations, (screened: aliengnosis: a film in collaboration with Robert
Glück), San Francisco Cinematheque, San Francisco Art Institute, CA
2003
Graphic Sonic: Music Made Cinema, (screened: here we are now), San Francisco Cinematheque, San Francisco Art Institute, CA
Selected Bibliography
Porges, Maria, Dean Smith: An Appreciation, wordsaboutart.com, 2017
Baxter, Jared, The Future Eve, Catalog, Fellows of Contemporary Art, 2016
Baxter, Jared, Haunted Formalism, Catalog, VOLUME at Del Vaz Projects, 2016
Glück, Robert, "Many Infinities," Communal Nude, Semiotext(e)/Active Agents, 2016
Baker, Kenneth, "Cult Objects," San Francisco Chronicle, November 17, 2013
Baker, Kenneth, "Space: 1999 at Incline Gallery in S.F.," San Francisco Chronicle, November 1, 2013
Geary, Linda, Studio Visit, Edition One, 2013
Lutz, Leora, "SFAQ Review: "SPACE: 1999" group exhibition at Incline Gallery, San Francisco," SFAQ, November, 29, 2013
Dreishpoon, Douglas, Grachos, Louis, and Pesanti, Heather, “Decade: Contemporary Art Collecting 2002-2012, Albright-Knox Art Gallery, 2012
Fazzolari, Bruno, "Interview with Dean Smith," www.artpractical.com, Issue 2.17, 2011
Newhall, Edith, "Infusing useful objects with unexpected identities," The Philadelphia Inquirer, April 17, 2011
Berkson, Bill, "Dean Smith in Action," For the Ordinary Artist: Short Reviews, Occasional Pieces & More, BlazeVOX [books], 2010
Berkson, Bill, "Dean Smith in Action," thought forms 2003-2009, Catalog, Gallery Paule Anglim, 2009
Buckwalter, Timothy, "Critic's Choice: Art," The East Bay Monthly, v.39, no.7, April, 2009
Huston, Johnny Ray, "Dean Smith: thought forms 2003-2009," San Francisco Bay Guardian, v.43, no.31, April 29 - May 5, 2009
Thomas, Elizabeth, Matrix/Berkeley: A Changing Exhibition of Contemporary Art, University of
California, Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive, 2009
Buckwalter, Timothy, “Spiritualized: Lawrence Rinder at Meridian Gallery,” KQED: Arts & Culture, Apr 21, 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, 2008
Rinder, Lawrence, New Exercises, Dhyãna, Form +, Catalog, Meridian Gallery, 2008
Zyzzyva, Issue 82, Spring, 2008
Hamilton, Roxanne Power, ed., "Screen: A Multiplex, Robert Glück and Dean Smith: aliengnosis," Viz. Inter-Arts - Event: A Trans-Genre Anthology, 2007
Le Duc, Aimee, "Gay Outlaw and Dean Smith at Gallery Paule Anglim," Artweek, v.38, Issue 1, February, 2007
Baker, Kenneth, "Art marked by holes, yet pregnant with meaning," San Francisco Chronicle, December 16, 2006
Tanchelev, Gloria, "West Coast Blog," www.stretcher.org, December 12, 2006
“Weatherspoon Art Museum...Features Exhibition of Works on Paper," Carolina Arts, January, 2005
Helfand, Glen, "Critic's Choice: Hairy Bodies," Artforum.com, February, 2005
Emerling, Susan, "Reviews/National - Dean Smith," ARTnews, February, 2004
Jana, Reena, "Exhibition Reviews: 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
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
Zyzzyva, vol. XIX, no. 3, Winter, 2003
Worman, Alex, "L.A. Confidential," artnet.com, December 2, 2003
Bonetti, David, "There is a 'there' at Oakland show," San Francisco Chronicle, March 27, 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), Brochure, Berkeley Art Museum, 2002
Helfand, Glen, "Critic's Choice: Barry McGee/Dean Smith," Artforum.com, May, 2002
Linhares, Philip, Being There: 45 Oakland Artists, Catalog, Oakland Museum of California, 2002
Glück, Robert, "Many Infinities," Dean Smith: Drawings 2001, Catalog, Christopher Grimes Gallery, 2001
Youens, Rachel, "Different Strokes @ Im N Il," The Brooklyn Rail, May/June, 2001
Knight, Christopher, "Art Reviews: Dean Smith," Los Angeles Times, May 12, 2000
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
Documentation 1996/97, Catalog, Foundation Binz39, 1998 Freie Sicht aufs Mittlemeer, Catalog, Kunsthaus Zürich/Scalo Verlag, 1998
Martino, Adriana, "Spotlight: Cittá Aperta e La Bella Addormentata," Flash Art (Italy Ed.), Dicembre/Gennaio, 1998
Cittá Aperta, Catalog, IDRIA Cultural Association, 1997
Kraft, Martin, "Im Trüben Sehen," Tages-Anzeiger - Züritip Edition, May 16-22, 1997
Bonetti, David, "Return of the Abstract at Mills College," San Francisco Examiner, December 6, 1996
Lachowicz, Keith, Abstraction Absolved: 10 Bay Area Painters, Catalog, Mills College, 1996
Bonetti, David, "The Year in Review," San Francisco Examiner, December 29, 1995
Baker, Kenneth, "Rising Spirits," ARTnews, May, 1994
Rapko, John, "Schematization: Abstract Painting at Terrain and Stephen Wirtz Gallery," Artweek, July 21, 1994
Roche, Harry, "Critic's Choice: Art," San Francisco Bay Guardian, February 26, 1992
Baker, Kenneth, "Perils in Selecting Juried Exhibitions," San Francisco Chronicle, March 30, 1991
Public And Corporate Collections
Achenbach Foundation for the Graphic Arts, Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco
Albright-Knox Art Gallery
The Art Institute of Chicago
Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive
The British Museum
The Capital Group Companies, Inc.
Colette and Erickson, San Francisco
Fidelity Investments
The Hammer Museum
JPMorgan Chase Art Collection
Los Angeles County Museum of Art
The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Microsoft Corporation
Oakland Museum of California
Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts
The Progressive Corporation
Swiss Re Capital Partners, Inc.
University of California, San Francisco, Mission Bay Campus