Solo Exhibitions

 

2009

Gallery Paule Anglim, San Francisco, CA "thought forms 2003-2009"

 

2007

Fringe Exhibitions: Media Project, Los Angeles, CA "thought forms"

 

2006

Gallery Paule Anglim, San Francisco, CA

Meridian Gallery, San Francisco, CA "thought forms"

Christopher Grimes Gallery, Santa Monica, CA

 

2004

Marvelli Gallery, New York, NY

 

2003

Christopher Grimes Gallery, Santa Monica, CA "Transmission"

San Jose Museum of Art, San Jose, CA "Random Encounters: Dean Smith"

 

2002

Berkeley Art Museum, University of California, Berkeley "Dean Smith/MATRIX 201b"

Gallery Paule Anglim, San Francisco, CA

 

2001

Christopher Grimes Gallery, Santa Monica, CA

 

2000

Christopher Grimes Gallery, Santa Monica, CA

 

1999

Gallery Paule Anglim, San Francisco, CA

 

1995

Terrain, San Francisco, CA "Growth Chamber: New Paintings"

 

1993

Terrain, San Francisco, CA "Senex and Puer: New Paintings"

 

1992

Turn of the Century Fine Arts, Berkeley, CA "The Second Day: Works on Paper"

 

 

Two Person Exhibitions

2011

Gallery Joe, Philadelphia, PA "Dean Smith and Mark Sheinkman"

1992

Terrain, San Francisco, CA, "Robert Howard and Dean Smith"

 

SELECTED Group Exhibitions

 

2011

Eli Ridgway Gallery, San Francisco, CA "Better A Live Ass Than A Dead Lion"

University Art Gallery, Sonoma State University, "Absence/Presence: Contemporary Abstraction"

Berkeley Art Museum, University of California, Berkeley "Abstract Now and Then"

 

2010

Wiegand Gallery, Notre Dame de Namur University, Belmont, CA "Afterglow: Rethinking California

                Light and Space Art"

Baer Ridgway Exhibitions, San Francisco, CA "Paper!Awesome!"

 

2009

Museolaboratorio ex manifattura tabacchi, Cittá Sant'Angelo, Italy "Sight 09/10"

Judi Rotenburg Gallery, Boston, MA "microwave, seven"

 

2008

Josée Bienvenu Gallery, New York, NY "microwave, six"

Meridian Gallery, San Francisco, CA "Form +"

 

2007

di Rosa Preserve, Napa, CA "Graphic: New Bay Area Drawing"

 

2005

Pulliam Deffenbaugh Gallery, Portland, OR "Bay Area Bazaar"

The Lab, San Francisco, CA "Hairy Bodies"

 

2004

Weatherspoon Art Museum, Greensboro, NC "Art on Paper 2004"

 

2003

Marvelli Gallery, New York, NY "Works on Paper"

Gallery Joe, Philadelphia, PA "Graphite on Paper"

 

2002

Marvelli Gallery, New York, NY "Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore - New Art from LA"

Berkeley Art Museum, University of California, Berkeley "Fast Forward II"

Oakland Museum of California "Being There: 45 Oakland Artists"

 

2001

Im N Il Gallery, Brooklyn, NY "Different Strokes"

 

1999

Curt Marcus Gallery, New York, NY "Invitational Exhibition"

 

1998

Schirn Kunsthalle, Frankfurt, Germany "Freie Sicht aufs Mittlemeer"

Kunsthaus Zürich, Switzerland "Freie Sicht aufs Mittlemeer"

Gallery Paule Anglim, San Francisco, CA "Six Painters"                                                                                          

 

1997

IDRIA Cultural Association, Città Sant'Angelo, Italy "Città Aperta Ed. 1997"

Foundation Binz39, Zürich, Switzerland "Entfernte Bekannte"

 

1996

Mills College Art Gallery, Oakland, CA "Abstraction Absolved: 10 Bay Area Painters"

 

1995

Terrain, San Francisco, CA "Status Report: Seven Years of Artists' Projects"

 

1994

Terrain, San Francisco, CA "Recent Paintings: Robert Davis, Suzann Dunaway, Dean Smith"

 

1993

Terrain, San Francisco, CA "Filler"

TransAmerica Pyramid Gallery, San Francisco, CA "Fresh Paint"

 

1992

Terrain, San Francisco, CA "Five Painters"

 

1991

Terrain, San Francisco, CA "Buying The Magazine For The Ads"

Bedford Gallery: Regional Center for the Arts, Walnut Creek, CA "Bedford Biennial'

 

1990

Crocker Art Museum, Sacramento, CA "65th Crocker-Kingsley Exhibition"

Nexus Gallery, Berkeley, CA "A Boar's Head"

 

1989

University Art Museum, University of California, Berkeley "MFA/UCB/1989"

San Francisco State University, San Francisco, CA "Bay Area M.F.A. Exhibition"

 

1988

Worth Ryder Gallery, University of California, Berkeley "M.A. Thesis Exhibition"

 

 

Education

 

1988      

MFA, University of California, Berkeley

 

1984      

BA [Double] History of Art / Practice of Art, University of California, Berkeley

 

 

Awards

 

2002

California Arts Council, Fellowship Award for Visual Arts

 

 

SELECTED Bibliography

 

2011

Fazzolari, Bruno, "Interview with Dean Smith," www.artpractical.com, Issue 2.17

Newhall, Edith, "Infusing useful objects with unexpected identities," The Philadelphia Inquirer, April, 17

2010

Berkson, Bill, "Dean Smith in Action," For the Ordinary Artist: Short Reviews, Occasional Pieces & More,                     BlazeVOX [books]

                   

2009

Berkson, Bill, "Dean Smith in Action," thought forms 2003-2009, Catalog, Gallery Paule Anglim

Buckwalter, Timothy, "Critic's Choice: Art," The East Bay Monthly, v.39, no.7, April

Huston, Johnny Ray, "Dean Smith: thought forms 2003-2009," San Francisco Bay Gaurdian,

                v.43, no.31, April 29 - May 5

Thomas, Elizabeth, Matrix/Berkeley: A Changing Exhibition of Contemporary Art, University of California,

                Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive

 

2008

Coburn, Jesse, "microwave, six," Time Out New York, Issue 675, Sept. 4-10

Eshoo, Amy, ed., 560 Broadway: A New York Drawing Collection at Work, 1991-2006, Fifth Floor

                Foundation/Yale University Press

Rinder, Lawrence, New Exercises, Dhyãna, Form +, Catalog, Meridian Gallery

Zyzzyva, Issue 82, Spring

 

2007

Hamilton, Roxanne Power, ed., "Screen: A Multiplex, Robert Glück and Dean Smith: aliengnosis,"

                Viz. Inter-Arts - Event: A Trans-Genre Anthology

Le Duc, Aimee, "Gay Outlaw and Dean Smith at Gallery Paule Anglim," Artweek, v.38, Issue 1, February

 

2006

Baker, Kenneth, "Art marked by holes, yet pregnant with meaning," San Francisco Chronicle, December 16

Tanchelev, Gloria, "West Coast Blog," www.stretcher.org, December 12

 

2005

"Weatherspoon Art Museum...Features Exhibition of Works on Paper," Carolina Arts, January

Helfand, Glen, "Critic's Choice: Hairy Bodies," Artforum.com, February

 

2004

Emerling, Susan, "Reviews/National - Dean Smith," ARTnews, February

Jana, Reena, "Exhibition Reviews: Dean Smith at Marvelli Gallery," Art on paper, November/December

Johnson, Ken, "Art Guide, Galleries: Chelsea, 'Dean Smith'," The New York Times, September 24

 

2003

Fallon, Roberta, "Pencil Pushers," Philadelphia Weekly, May 28

Johnson, Ken, "Art Guide, Galleries: Chelsea, 'Works on Paper'," The New York Times, June 27

Ollman, Leah, "Motion, mind and mystery," Los Angeles Times, November 14

Stich, Sidra, art-Sites San Francisco, art-Sites Press

Zyzzyva, vol.XIX, no.3, Winter

Worman, Alex, "L.A. Confidential," artnet.com, December 2

 

2002

Bonetti, David, "There is a 'there' at Oakland show," San Francisco Chronicle, March 27

Cash, Stephanie, "Report from San Francisco: Surviving and Thriving," Art in America, November

Consey, Kevin, Dean Smith/MATRIX 201b, black hole sun #3 (x-ray vision), Brochure, Berkeley Art Museum

Helfand, Glen, "Critic's Choice: Barry McGee/Dean Smith," Artforum.com, May

Linhares, Philip, Being There: 45 Oakland Artists, Catalog, Oakland Museum of California

 

2001

Glück, Robert, "Many Infinities," Dean Smith, Drawings 2001, Catalog, Gallery Paule Anglim

Youens, Rachel, "Different Strokes @ Im N Il," The Brooklyn Rail, May/June

 

2000

Knight, Christopher, "Art Reviews: Dean Smith," Los Angeles Times, May 12

 

1999

Baker, Kenneth, "Sculptures with Delayed Punch Lines," San Francisco Chronicle, February 6

Johnson, Ken, "Art Guide, Galleries: SoHo, 'Invitational Exhibition'" The New York Times, July 2

 

1998

Documentation 1996/97, Catalog, Foundation Binz39

Freie Sicht aufs Mittlemeer, Catalog, Kunsthaus Zürich/Scalo Verlag

Martino, Adriana, "Spotlight: Cittá Aperta e La Bella Addormentata," Flash Art (Italy Ed.), Dicembre/Gennaio

 

1997

Cittá Aperta, Catalog, IDRIA Cultural Association

Kraft, Martin, "Im Trüben Sehen," Tages-Anzeiger - Züritip Edition, May 16-22

 

1996

Bonetti, David, "Return of the Abstract at Mills College," San Francisco Examiner, December 6

Lachowicz, Keith, Abstraction Absolved: 10 Bay Area Painters, Catalog, Mills College

 

1995

Bonetti, David, "The Year in Review," San Francisco Examiner, December 29

 

1994

Baker, Kenneth, "Rising Spirits," ARTnews, May

Rapko, John, "Schematization: Abstract Painting at Terrain and Stephen Wirtz Gallery," Artweek, July 21

 

1992

Roche, Harry, "Critic's Choice: Art," San Francisco Bay Guardian, February 26

 

1991

Baker, Kenneth, "Perils in Selecting Juried Exhibitions," San Francisco Chronicle, March 30

 

 

Public Collections

 

Albright-Knox Art Gallery

Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive

The British Museum

Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco

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.