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BIOGRAPHY

Michael Smith

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            Group 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            Solo 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

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