Two drawings are included in the group exhibition, Absence/Presence: Contemporary Abstraction at Sonoma State University Art Gallery which runs through December 11, 2011.


The exhibition, Better a Live Ass Than a Dead Lion, curated by David Kasprzak, at Eli Ridgway Gallery, San Francisco, October 8 - November 5, 2011, featured three photogravures from the series, steganographic memories.


steganographic memories, a suite of six photogravures was published by New West Editions in an edition of 10, with 3 AP, 1 PP and 1 archive proof.


intooutof #5, 2009 was included in the exhibition, Chase The Tear, curated by Timothy Buckwalter at NIAD in Richmond, CA, June 20 through August 19, 2011.


Dean Smith was a guest speaker at the San Francisco Art Institute's Summer 2011 Graduate Lecture Series.


The online arts journal, Art Practical, Issue 2.17: Stored Energy features, Interview with Dean Smith by Bruno Fazzolari .


Gallery Joe presented a two-person show of drawings by Mark Sheinkman and Dean Smith from March 19 through April 30, 2011. The exhibition was reviewed in both the Philadelphia Inquirer and the Philadelphia Weekly. The show was also selected as Editor's Pick in the April edition of New American Paintings Blog.


thought form #11, 2005 was on display in the exhibition, Abstract Now and Then at the Berkeley Art Museum from February 16 - April 17, 2011.


Gallery Joe of Philadelphia featured works from the accumulation series at Pulse Art Fair, Miami, December 2-5, 2010.


The essay Dean Smith in Action is included in poet and critic, Bill Berkson's latest collection of art criticism, For the Ordinary Artist: Short Reviews, Occasional Pieces & More.


The drawings focusing #3, 2008 and sunspot, 2006, and recent videos from the series, video mandalas were presented in the group exhibition, Afterglow: Rethinking California Light and Space Art curated by Melissa Feldman at the Wiegand Gallery, Notre Dame de Namur University in Belmont, CA, September 23 - October 20, 2010. The exhibition was reviewed by Kenneth Baker in the San Francisco Chronicle.


Three drawings were included in the group exhibition, Paper!Awesome! curated by Brion Nuda Rosch at Baer Ridgway Gallery, San Francisco that ran from February 20 - March 27, 2010. ARTtslant, San Francisco Review.


The drawings, thought form #11, 2005 and untitled (a2), 2007 were recently acquired by the University of California, Berkeley Art Museum and the Achenbach Foundation for Graphic Arts, Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco respectively.


The project Dean Smith / MATRIX 201b (black hole sun #3 - x-ray vision) is featured in the recent publication, MATRIX/Berkeley: A Changing Exhibition of Contemporary Art, edited by Elizabeth Thomas, with contributions by Bill Arning, Jens Hoffmann, Michael Auping, Jordan Kantor, Constance Lewallen, and Lawrence Rinder.


Smith's latest video, three video mandalas, 2007-2009 premiered in the program, TRANS l Optic: an exploration of abstraction in experimental film spanning the 1920's to the present that featured German and Bay Area filmmakers at Meridian Gallery in San Francicso in December 2009.