EDUCATION
BA, Colorado College, 1973
Whitney Museum Independent Study Program, 1970 and 1973
FELLOWSHIPS AND GRANTS
2007 Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation Award
2007 NYFA Cross Disciplinary/Performative Work
2006-05 Fellow, Center for Advanced Visual Studies, MIT
2005-02 University of Texas Research Grants
1998 Marie Walsh Sharpe Foundation Studio Program
1996 Art Matters Fellowship
1992, 85 NEA Interarts Grants
1991, 83, 82, 78 NEA Fellowships in New Genres
1991 New York Foundation for the Arts Fellowship
1990 Art Matters 1990, 1987
1987 New York Foundation for the Arts Fellowship
1985 John Simon Guggenheim Fellowship
1985, 83, 82 NYSCA Video Production Grants
1985, 81 NEA Video Production Grants
Solo Exhibitions
2009
Galleria Emi Fontana, Milan, Italy
2008
Mike’s World: Michael Smith and Joshua White, ICA, Philadelphia, PA
Schoolwork, Hales Gallery, London, England
Ellen de Bruijn Projects, Amsterdam
2007
Mike,Survey, Blanton Museum, Austin, TX (w/ Joshua White)
2006
Take Off Your Pants!, Dunn and Brown Contemporary, Dallas, TX (w/ Joshua White)
2005
Christine Burgin Gallery, New York City, NY (w/ Joshua White)
2004
Ellen de Bruijn Projects, Amsterdam
Dunn and Brown Contemporary, Dallas, TX
Art Metropole, Toronto, Canada (w/ Joshua White)
2003
Galleria Emi Fontana, Milan (w/ Seth Price)
Art Metropole, Toronto, Canada (w/ Joshua White)
Suburban, Oak Park, IL
2002
Hales Gallery, London NYC (w/ Joshua White)
CAN, Neuchatel, Switzerland (w/ Seth Price)
Christine Burgin, New York NYC (w/ Joshua White)
2000
Video Survey, Magasin, Grenoble, France *
Video, Performance and other Stuff, Recent Works/Jacob Fabricius, Copenhagen, Denmark
1999
Open House, The New Museum, NYC (w/ Joshua White)
1997
Musco 1969-1997, Lauren Wittels, NYC (w/ Joshua White)
1996
Drawings, Video, Performance, Pierogi, Brooklyn, NY
1986
Drawings, Notebooks, and Storyboards, Atelier Ste., Anne, Brussels
1983
Government Approved Home Fallout Shelter/Snackbar, (installation with video game), Castelli Graphics, NYC; Contemporary Arts Center, Cincinnati; New York State Museum; Amherst University Art Gallery
1982
Mike's House, (installation with videotape), Whitney Museum, NYC; Pittsburgh Center for the Arts; Herron Gallery, Indianapolis
* Denotes Catalog with Exhibition
SOLO VIDEO SCREENINGS
2007
Meet Mike, New York Underground Film Festival, New York
Selected videos by Michael Smith, UN Plaza, Berlin
Portal Excursion, PS1 Contemporary Art Center, Long Island City, NY
2006
Portal Excursion, Center for Advanced Visual Studies, MIT
2000
Video Survey, INOVA, Milwaukee
1994
Kunstlerhaus, Stuttgart, Germany; Kunstwerke, Berlin
1986
International Cultural Center, Antwerp, Belgium
1985
High Museum of Art, Atlanta, Georgia
1984
Leo Castelli Gallery, New York
1983
Museum of Modern Art, New York
1980
Western Front, Vancouver, Canada
Group Exhibitions
2009
The Pictures Generation, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
2008
Atelier 2008, Blanton Museum of Art, University of Texas Austin
The Puppet Show, touring show
RESET/PLAY, Arthouse, Austin, TX
Whitney Biennial, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY
Television Delivers People, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY
Peripheral Vision and Collective Body, Museion, Balzano, Italy
Deep Comedy, Marianne Goodman Gallery, New York, NY
2007
Nexus Texas, Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston, TX
Pawnshop, E-flux, New York, NY
The Price of Nothing, EFA Gallery, New York, NY
Land Grab, ApexArt, New York, NY
Neo-Integrity, Derek Eller, New York, NY
Everybody Dance, EFA Gallery, New York, NY
On the Collective for Living Cinema, Wilkinson Gallery, London, England
Real Life, Artists Space, New York, NY
Ceci n’est pas, Sara Meltzer Gallery, New York, NY
Pull My Finger, Allston Skirt Gallery
Deep Comedy, Ballroom, Marfa, TX
I drank the Kool Aid, Anna Kustera Gallery, New York, NY
2006
Two Friends and So on, Andrew Kreps Gallery, NYC
New York, New York, Grimaldi Forum Monaco
Situation Comedy, Touring Exhibition arranged by ICC
2005
Perfroma05, Anthology Film Archives, NYC
Artists to Artists: A Decade of the Space Program, An Exhibition of works of 161 Artists from the Space Program, Ace Gallery, NYC
Time-Share, Sara Meltzer Gallery, New York City
Art Unlimited, Basel Art Fair, Switzerland (w/ Joshua White)
Let’s Entertain, Miami Art Museum, Miami
Fantastique, Printemps de Septembre, Toulouse, France
Tele(vision), Vienna Kunsthalle, Vienna (w/ Joshua White)
Tokyo TV, Palais de Tokyo, Paris
Artist’s World, CCAC Institute, San Francisco
Contemporary Burlesque, Jeu de Paume, Paris
Post No Bills, White Colums, NYC
Hunch and Flail, Artists Space, NYC
Alibis & Aliases, Fries Museum Leeuwarden, The Netherlands
Voodoo Shit, Hales Gallery, London
2004
5th Anniversary Exhibition, Dunn and Brown Contemporary, Dallas, TX
Cynical Culture, Galerie Schuppenhauer, Cologne, Germany
Last Chance Salon, Hales Gallery, London, England
The Sneeze, Gazon Rouge Gallery, Athens, Greece
SPACEMAKERS, Lothringer Dreizen, Munich, Germany
RADIO RADIO, Internation 3 Gallery, Manchester, Trade Apartment, London, England
Good Humor, Pollux, Berlin, Germany
Standby, No Technical Difficulties, Museum of Modern Art, New York City, NY
Drunk vs. Stoned, Gavin Brown Enterprise, New York City, NY
Video X, Momenta Art, Brooklyn, NY
A More Perfect Union, Max Fish, New York City, NY (sponsored by Downtown for Democracy)
Group Show, Pennsylvania Gallery
Some Things Happening: 25 Years of Gallery Exhibitions, Indiana, State Museum, Indianapolis
Five x Seven, Arthouse, Austin, TX; Dunn and Brown Contemporary, Dallas, TX
2003
UT Faculty Exhibition, Fall 2003, Creative Research Lab, Austin, TX
Christine Burgin Gallery, New York City, NY
Dallas Video Festival, Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas, TX
To Whom it may Concern, CCAC Wattis For Contemporary Arts, San Francisco, CA
B-List, Hallwalls, Buffalo, NY
Five x Seven, Arthouse, Austin, TX
Videodrome, Cosmic Gallery, Paris, France
Surrealist Routes to Kiasma Collection, Museum of Contemporary Art, Kiasma, Helsinki
Institut Francais d’Instnabul, Instanbul, Turkey
2002
To whom it may concern, Wattis Institute, CCAC, San Francisco
The First Decade, MOMA, NYC
American Tableaux, Walker Art Center, Brooklyn, NY
Momenta Art Benefit, Momenta, Brooklyn, NY
Enough about me, Momenta Art, Brooklyn, NY
Five by Seven by X, Texas Fine Arts Association, Austin, TX
2001
Art Unlimited, Basel Art Fair, Switzerland (w/ Joshua White)*
To Market To Market, Rotunda Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
Printemps de Septembre, Toulouse, France*
Tele(vision), Vienna Kunsthalle, Vienna (w/ Joshua White)*
Tokyo TV, Palais de Tokyo, Paris*
Artist’s World, CCAC, San Francisco California*
Brooklyn, Palm Beach Institute of Contemporary Art
2000
Duchamp’s Suitcase, Arnolfini, Bristol, England
Let’s Entertain, Walker Art Center, Pompidou Center*
The Brooklyn Zoo, 16 Artists from Brooklyn, Staatsgallerie, Stuttgart
XN99, Espace des Arts, Bourgogne, France
1999
Arrested Ambition, Apex Art, New York City, NY
1999 –98
Selections from the Permanent Collection, Walker Art Center, Minneapolis
1998
Out of Actions Visitor’s Series, MOCA, Los Angeles
Super Freaks, GREENE NAFTALI, Inc. NYC (w/ Joshua White)
1997 - 2000
do it, Traveling Exhibition, Curated by Hans-Ulriche Obrist; circulated by ICI, NYC *
1997
Current Undercurrent: Working in Brooklyn, Brooklyn Museum of Art
1996
The Baseball Show, Curt Marcus Gallery, NYC
1995
Heart of Darkness, (installation with 3 brochures), Kröller-Muller Museum, Otterlo, Holland
Smells Like Vinyl, Roger Merians Gallery, New York
Wheel of Fortune, Lombard Freid Fine Arts, New York
1995
Faculty work on paper, Yale University, New Haven
1994
The Winter of Love, P.S. 1, New York
1992
37 Rooms, Kunstwerke, Berlin
1990
Laughing Matters, Long Beach Museum of Art, Long Beach, CA
The Decade Show, The New Museum, New York *
1987
Documenta 8, Kassel, Germany *
La Passion: Aspectes de l’art d’aujourdhui 1977-1987, Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris *
1983
The End of the World, The New Museum, New York *
3-d Photographs, Castelli Graphics, New York
1982
A Fatal Attraction, Art and the Media, Renaissance Society, Chicago
1981
Love is Blind, Castelli Graphics, NYC
1980
Robert Adams, Eve Arnold, Michael Smith, Castelli Photographs, NYC
1979
Groningen Summer Festival, Corps de Garde, Groningen, Holland
1977
Notebooks/Workshops/Scripts/Scores, Franklin Furnace, New York
* Denotes Catalog with Exhibition
GROUP VIDEO SCREENINGS
2005
Alter Egos, The Kitchen, NYC
2000
World Wide Video Festival, Amsterdam
Impakt Video Festival, Utrecht, Holland;
Videorama, Malmo, Sweden
1998
Videonale, Bonn, Germany
1994
Courage, New Museum, NYC
Men, Male, Masculinity, ExitArt, NYC
Public Figures, Herron Gallery of Art, Indianapolis
1993
Into the Lapses, Royal Danish Academy; Palais de Beaux Arts, Brussels; Friesenwall 120, Cologne
1992
Choice Encounters, Long Beach Museum of Art; 1301 Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
1990
Image World, Whitney Museum, New York
Video and Dreams, Museum of Modern Art, New York
Video Drive-In, Central Park, NYC
1989
Video Drive-In, IVAM, Valencia
Videonale, Bonn
1987
Fake, New Museum, NYC
Surveillance, LACE, Los Angeles
1986
World Wide Video Festival, The Hague; Salso Maggiori Festival, Italy; San Francisco Video Festival; First Australian Video Festival; ICP, NYC; Dallas Museum; Cleveland Museum
TELEVISION
1992
World of Photography, WNET, NYC
1990
World of Photography and On Sundays, Tokyo
Mike, TV Ontario, Canada
1989
Mike's Talent Show, CINEMAX
1986
World of Photography, PBS, Nationwide