Dean Smith

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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