Greg Smith (artist)

Smith was born in DeKalb, Illinois in 1970.[1] He received a Bachelor of Arts from Amherst College in 1993, a Doctor of Philosophy in Physics from Harvard University in 2000, and a Master of Fine Arts from Hunter College in 2005.[1]

Greg Smith stages exhibitions that often include a combination of installation art, sculpture, and video.[2] John Yau, in an article for Hyperallergic, described Smith as “an absurdist inventor, a performer attracted to risk, a scientist (he did get a PhD in Physics from Harvard, by the way), an analytical storyteller who refuses to settle for easy parodies, and, perhaps most importantly, an artist who is too self-respectful to take shortcuts or feints.”[3] Reviews of his work have also appeared in The New York Times, New York Magazine, Paper, The Brooklyn Rail, Hyperallergic, and Studio International.[2][4][5]

Smith has exhibited widely with solo shows at the Museum of Fine Arts, St. Petersburg; the McNay Art Museum, San Antonio; Cress Gallery of Art at the University of Tennessee, Chattanooga; and the Faulconer Gallery at Grinnell College, Iowa.[1] He has also participated in group exhibitions at national institutions such as the John Michael Kohler Arts Center, Sheboygan; Atlanta Contemporary Art Center; Weatherspoon Art Museum, Greensboro; and, the Hudson Valley Center for Contemporary Art in Peekskill, New York.[6] Screenings of the artist's video works have been held at the Museum of Modern Art in New York City and Galapagos Art Space in Brooklyn, New York.[1]

Greg Smith is represented by Susan Inglett Gallery, NYC.[1]

• “Greg Smith- John Simone Guggenheim Fellow Profile"