Selected Education
2016 Master of Fine Arts, Sculpture, Bard College Annandale-on-Hudson, NY
2012 Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture Skowhegan, ME
2003 Bachelor of Arts, Fine Arts Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN
Selected Awards
2021 New York Foundation for the Arts City Artist Corps Grant, NY, NY
Mayer Foundation Grant, NY, NY
2020 FST StudioProjects Fund Grant, NY, NY
2019 The Peter S. Reed Foundation Individual Artist Grant, NY, NY
2018 Art Purchase Award, American Academy of Arts and Letters, NY, NY
2017 Women to Watch, nominee, National Museum of Women in the Arts and the Museum of Arts and Design, NY, NY
2016 Joseph Hartog Fellowship Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, NY
2013 Bard College MFA Fellowship Annandale-on-Hudson, NY (through 2016)
2012 Skowhegan School for Painting and Sculpture Fellowship New York, NY
2011 New York Foundation for the Arts Fellowship in Sculpture New York, NY
New York Foundation for the Arts MARK Program, CPW and Byrdecliffe Guild, Woodstock, NY
2010 Solo exhibition award, Dr. Ruth Tan Project Room Mesa Art Center, Mesa, AZ
2009 Research and Creative Projects Award SUNY-New Paltz, New Paltz, NY
2006 Individual Artist Program Grant Indiana Arts Commission, Indianapolis, IN
Solo Exhibitions
2020 Cradle The Essex Flowers Window Box, curated by Mónica Palma, Essex Flowers, NY, NY
2019 Mother Tongue Fine Arts Center Gallery, University of Arkansas, Fayetteville, AK
2018 Gravity Forgiveness Step Sister, NY, NY
2017 Cup 315 Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
2016 Strike-slip Páramo, Guadalajara, México
2012 Unexpired Time Museum of Contemporary Art Project Room, Mesa Art Center, Mesa AZ
2005 Apperception Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN
Two Person Exhibitions
2019 Present Perfect Continuous, with Kara Hearn, Grizzly Grizzly, Philadelphia, PA
2016 Barb Smith + Ezra Tessler: New Proposals with Páramo, Zona Maco, Mexico City, México
2011 Commonplace: Objects by Barb Smith and Ryan Takaba HCCC, Houston, TX
2010 In their invisibility they escape Sienna Gallery, Lenox, MA
Projects
2021 The Ambassadors, a collaborative installation with Michele Abramowitz and H.A. Halpert
21 W 39th St, Unit 2A, NY, NY
Events: poetry reading with Daisy Atterbury, Dan Rosenberg, Marianne Shaneen, Mel Elberg, Rachel Abramowitz
Printed Matter: Newsprint publication including poetry and photographs
Selected Group Exhibitions and Screenings
2023 Cover Band, curated by Gabriela Vainsencher, Asya Geisberg Gallery, NY, NY (forthcoming)
In Absentia, curated by Eliana Blechman, 601Artspace, NY, NY
2022 Plantasia Vol. 1, Millenium Film Workshop, Brooklyn, NY
Open Screening, Millenium Film Workshop, Brooklyn, NY
Art Work: Artists Working at The Met, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, NY, NY
Video Art Social, organized by Hyperreal Film Club + VLM, The LINE Austin, Austin, TX
2021 Latent Memory; Dust on my Tongue, curated by Jacklyn Dooner, Miriam, Brooklyn, NY
Float, fly, transcend, curated by Amy Pleasant and Pete Schulte, Alabama Contemporary, Mobile, AL
2020 The Backroom, curated by Humberto Moro, Museo Tamayo, CDMX (link)
Tiny Things, curated by Kristen Dodge, SEPTEMBER, Hudson, NY
2019 Moving Image Matters: Documenting and Performing Craft in Video, curated by Jennifer-Navva Milliken, The Center for Art in Wood, Philadelphia, PA
The Space Itself, curated by Aimee Odum and Trevor King, The Boiler Pierogi, Brooklyn, NY
Scores for a Black Hole, performance for Ander Mikalson, Art in General, Brooklyn, NY
Tactile Hallucinations, curated by Meaghan Kent, Marymount University, Arlington, VA
Nesting Habits, curated by Ilana Savdie, ltd Los Angeles @ VACATION, NY, NY
Gallery Gallerie Gallería, curated by Jack Barrett and Haynes Riley, Jack Barrett, NY, NY
2018 Recognize you when she sees you, Give you the thing she has for you, curated by Kristen Dodge, SEPTEMBER, Hudson, NY
MAD Collects:The Future of Craft Part 1, curated by Shannon R. Stratton, Museum of Arts and Design, NY
Prima Materia, curated by Viridiana Mayagoitia, LaCasaPark, NY
Ceremonial Exhibition: Work by New Members and Recipients of Awards, American Academy of Arts and Letters, NY
Warm Feet, curated by Dylan Languell, Parallelogram, Tampa, FL
Invitational Exhibition of Visual Arts, curated by Souhad Rafey, American Academy of Arts and Letters, NY, NY
2017 You are here, curated by Adrián S. Bara, Peana Projects, Monterrey, México
Spectral Imprints, curated by Alexis Wilkinson, A.I.R. Gallery, Governor’s Island, NY
Mis, curated by Donna Cleary,184 Project Space, Brooklyn, NY
Personals, Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, NY, NY
Post-Election, curated by Kristen Dodge and Kate Gilmore, SEPTEMBER, Hudson NY
In Practice: Material Deviance, curated by Alexis Wilkinson, SculptureCenter, NY (catalogue)
2016 Blue Jean Baby, curated by Kristen Dodge and Amber Esseiva, SEPTEMBER, Hudson, NY
It/Ego, curated by Nick Irzyk, Brennan & Griffin, NY, NY
Everybody! Come stand on the altar! PSSST, Los Angeles, CA
Though You’ve Hit a Bump 315 Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
SUPERNATURAL Falcon’s Nest, Los Angeles, CA (catalogue)
Queens International, curated by Hitomi Iwasaki and Lindsey Berfond, Queens Museum, Queens, NY (catalogue)
Material Pressure, curated by Andrea McGinty, Spring/Break: Copy⌘Paste, NY, NY
PreMaco, Páramo, Guadalajara, México
2015 Bard College Thesis Exhibition, curated by Humberto Moro, Red Hook, NY (catalogue)
Surf Club, Vox Populi, Philadelphia, PA
Function, curated by Amanda Knowles, North Seattle College, Seattle, WA
Memory Palace, curated by Elizabeth Johnson, Annelie McGavin, Becky Chipkin, Cedar Crest College, Allentown, PA
2014 It is a door and a window that make a room useful, curated by Tia Kramer, SOIL Gallery, Seattle WA
2013 Skowhegan Performs Socrates Sculpture Park, Queens, NY
Limit(less) Urban Institute for Contemporary Arts, Grand Rapids, MI
2012 Sidespace: A New Contemporary Video Series, curated by Justin Plakas, Athens Institute for Contemporary Art, Athens, GA
36 Cats and one stripe pussy, curated by Ingrid Schaffner, A.I.R. Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
If/Then, curated by Elizabeth Erlewine, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN
Making Mends, curated by Nora Atkinson, Bellevue Arts Museum Bellevue, WA
2011 Person: Place and Things The Matthewis Persen House, Kingston, NY
make•shift Dorsky Gallery Curatorial Programs, Long Island City, NY
Relatives Galerie Guyomarc'h, Montréal, Québec, Canada
2010 Optimism Packs at King's Inn (A public project by Rena Leinberger) Sullivan Gallery, SAIC, Chicago, IL
Extremities: Exploring the Margins of the Human Body Museum of Fine Arts- Houston, TX
In the presence of absence Alice and Horace Chandler Gallery, SUNY-New Paltz, NY
2009 Decorative Resurgence Rowan University Gallery, Glassboro, NJ
2008 Lineage and Legacy, curated by Gail M. Brown, SCAD, Savannah, GA
Collect, Connect, Protect, Display, curated by Ellen Lupton, Contemporary Craft Museum, Portland, OR
2005 Center on Contemporary Art Annual, curated by Ernesto Pujol, CoCA Seattle, WA
2004 Perform/Document/Project, curated by Cheryl Yun, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN
2001 Inside/Outside: Installations, curated by Louis Cicotello, Tri Lake Center for the Arts, Palmer Lake, CO
Residencies
2021 Open Studio Residency, Haystack Mountain School of Crafts, Deer Isle, ME
2020 LaCasaPark Artist Residency, Gardiner, NY
Ceramics Area Residency, Hunter College, NY, NY
2019 Offshore Residency, Sardinia, Italy and Corsica, France
2018 Artists-Invite-Artists Residency, Watershed Center for the Ceramic Arts, Newcastle, ME
2017 A.I.R. Gallery Summer Residency, Governor's Island, NY
Selected Bibliography
2020 Barb Smith, No Strangers in Crit, January 3. (link)
2019 Rockefeller, Hall. Interviews with female artists. Less than half, volume 1, pgs 23-27.
Jenkins, Mark. In the galleries: Where the celestial meets the nitty-gritty, The Washington Post, May 10 (link)
Alatorre, Jocely. Prima Materia. Cream Magazine, issue #36.
2018 Rockefeller, Hall. Beauty and the Mess. Less than half, November 30 (link)
You are here. Terremoto, January 14 (link)
2017 Beal, Adam. Barb Smith: Cup. The Brooklyn Rail, November 7 (link)
Willis, Dave. Mis. Medium.com, October 27 (link)
In Practice: Material Deviance (catalogue link)
Rodney, Seph. When the Language Meant to Prop Up Art Makes It Fall Over. Hyperallergic, March 14 (link)
Martín del Campo, Nayeli. Fetiches en Tiempos Modernos. Más por Más GDL, November 23 (link)
Minero, María. Conexiones subyacentes. Mural, January issue.
2016 Muñoz, Gabriela. Interés en el proceso. Ocio, pg 6. November 18.
Berardini, Andrew. Everybody! Come stand on the altar! Artforum Critics' Picks (link)
Queens International (catalogue link)
Meet the New Proposals. Milenio.com, Feb 4. (link)
Gottschalk, Molly. The 10 Best Booths at Zsona Maco. Artsy Editorial, Feb 4. (link)
2015 Grave, Romanov. Three Curators, One Office Visit. April 23. (link)
2013 Seesman, Suzanne. In the Studio: Barb Smith The St. Clare, Issue XIV: Summer Session (link)
2012 Chronogram, April 2012, p. 62 (illus.)
Marion Platt, Frances. A little Madness in the Spring, Alm@nac, issue 13, p.8
Ross, Deborah. Editorial Recommendations: Barbara Smith at Mesa Contemporary Arts. (link)