Colin Smith ° St Albans UK 1953, lives and works in Ghent (BE) and London (UK)
COLLECTIONS
Tate Gallery, London
Arts Council of Great Britain
Contemporary Art Society, London
Frederick R Weisman Art Museum, University of Minnesota, USA
British Council, Buenos Aries,
Museum of Modern Art,Tel Aviv.(Herrmann's Bequest)
Museum of Modern Art, Sharjar UAE
Sir Alfred East Museum, Kettering
Peter and Mimi Haas Collection, San Francisco, USA
Prudential plc, London
O,C & C Corporate Strategy, London
J.R.Sainsbury plc, London
Howden Collection, London
Hutchinson Mainprice, London
NatWest Group, London
Royal Palm Hotel, Phoenix, Arizona, USA
Scottish Equitable, Edinburgh
Head Office , Virgin Communications, London
Wilmer, Cutler and Pickering, Berlin
BML Corporate Management, Frankfurt
Arthur Anderson, Newcastle
Amerivox Scandanavia, Stockholm
The Duke and Duchess of Westminster
Coopers Lybrand, London
Hunting Group Plc
British Airways
Arthur Andersen, London
EMI Worldwide, London
British Standards Institute, London
Pearl Development, London
Pepsi Cola, London
Prudential Holborn, London
Unilever, London
Royal College of Art, London
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2023 ‘Material Culture’,
Villa De Bondt Ghent
2021 ‘The Square Root Of Minus One’
Solo Exhibition, Riverside Arts Centre Gallery,
Hammersmith, London
2019 JGM Gallery London
2018 Retrospective Exhibition ‘ Investigations of a Dog’
Sir Alfred east Museum , Northamptonshire
2015 Carter Presents at ‘Just Mad’, Madrid Arts Fair
2013 Eric Anderson Gallery Stockholm Sweden
2012 Santa Ponza Gallery, Mallorca Spain
2011 Convent Gallery, Barcelona Spain
2008 Primo Alonzo Gallery, London
2006 Centro Cultural Borges, Buenos Aires, Argentina
2005 Carter Presents Gallery, London
2004 The Chelsea Arts Club, London
2004 Rockwell Gallery, London
2001 The Chelsea Arts Club, London
1999 Adair Margo Gallery, El Paso, Texas
1999 Musikpaviljongen Grenadjarstaden, Orebro, Sweden
1998 British Council Art Centre , Buenos Aires, Argentina
1998 6 Chapel Row Contemporary Arts, Bath
1997 VIP Lounge, Virgin Airways, Heathrow Airport, London
1997 Galleri M, Stockholm, Sweden
1996 Arte.X.Arte, Buenos Aries, Argentina
1995 Wilmer, Cutler and Pickering, Berlin, Germany
1995 The University of Northumbria Gallery, Newcastle-upon-Tyne
1995 The Chelsea Arts Club, London
1995 Galleri M, Stockholm, Sweden
1993 Big Paintings for the Barbican, London
1993 Gallery Three Zero, New York
1991 Kunst Europa, Kunstverein Freiberg, Germany
1991 Anderson O`Day Gallery, London
1989 Nicola Jacobs Gallery, London
1987 Nicola Jacobs Gallery, London
1986 Ruth Siegal, New York
1984 Nicola Jacobs Gallery, London
1983 Art Iteinera `83, Volterra, Italy
1982 Nicola Jacobs Gallery, London
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2017 - 23 Georges Berges Gallery, New York City , USA
2016 Es arte Gallery, Marbella, Spain
2015 Group show, Van De Plas Gallery, New York City, USA
2013 ‘Dirty Pop’ 22 British painters , & Modern Gallery, Leeds
2011 8 British Painters, Galleria Cadaques , Cadaques Sapin
2007 ‘Driven’, Fieldgate gallery London.
2006 ‘House in Motion’ Fieldgate Gallery London
2005 ‘Marvels of the World’ Museum of Modern Art, Dunkirk . France
2001 Paradise Valley, The Gallery, Loughborough University
1999 'Figure 8', New Arts Gallery, Bantam, Conecticut, USA
1996 - 7 The Motor Show, Cars in Art Touring.
1996 Wheels of Fire, Cars in Art, Touring Museums
1995 3 British Artists, Galleri M, Stockholm
1995 Painting the City_, Corr Contemporary Art, London
1993 John Moores Liverpool Exhibition
1992 Whitchapel Open Exhibition (invited), London
1992 Back to Painting: Five British Contemporaries,
Stephen Friedman Gallery ,Montreal, Canada
1992 Foregrounds and Distances, Galleria di Serpenti, Rome
1992 Figures in Contemplation, Gallery Three Zero, New York
1990 Micky Donnelly/Colin Smith, Anderson O`Day, London
1990 The London Group[ Exhibition, Royal College of Art, London
1990 Academician’s Choice, Mall Gallery, London
1989 Winter `89, Nicola Jacobs Gallery, London
1988 Winter `88, Nicola Jacobs Gallery, London
1987 Royal Overseas League Annual Exhibition, London
1987 Young Talent, Bernard Jacobson Gallery, New York
1984 The Image as Catalyst, Ashmolean Museum, Oxford
1984 Summer Exhibition, Nicola Jacobs Gallery, London
1984 New Talent, Hal Bromm, New York
1983 Summer Exhibition, Nicola Jacobs Gallery, London
1983 The Figurative Exhibition II, Nicola Jacobs Gallery, London
1983 Tolly Cobbold Eastern Arts 4th National Exhibition (touring)
1982 Subjective Eye, curated by Edward Lucie-Smith and Moira Kelly
Nottingham and touring
1980 Sculpture & Works on Paper, Nicola Jacobs Gallery, London
1979 The First Exhibition, Nicola Jacobs Gallery, London
1979 Royal College of Art, Selected Works,
Minories Gallery, Colchester
1977 Lubiam Award Exhibition, Mantua, Italy
AWARDS AND EDUCATION
2007 Artist in Residence, Domburg Arts Festival, Holland
1999 Artist in Residence,Orebro Konstskola, Sweden.
1996 Abbey scholar to the British School at Rome
1996 Hunting Art Prizes, First Prize-winner
1995 London Arts Board Award
1993, 91, 82 British Council Sponsorship
1987 Royal Overseas League National Exhibition, Joint First Prize-winner
1983 - 85 Yale Faculty of Fine Art (Harkness Research Fellow)
1982 Greater London Arts Association Award
1976 - 79 Royal College of Art, London, MA RCA
BIBLIOGRAPHY
‘Imagery rooted in the everyday world ‘
Colin Smith at the Sir Alfred East Museum Artlyst , June 2018
Radio interview Spanish National Radio Colin Smith At Madrid Art Fair 2015
‘Colin Smith Paintings at Centro Borges’, Buenos Aires Herald, 17 December 2006
El Paso Times,Arts and Culture section, Colin Smith at Adair Margo,
October 17 ` 1999
Richard Wollheim , Essay for Solo Exhibition Catalogue ,Adair Margo Gallery,
El Paso,Texas. 1999
Colin Rhodes,Essay for Solo Exhibition Catalogue ,Adair Margo Gallery,
El Paso,Texas. 1999
William Zimmer ,British Artists at New Arts Gallery,
The New York Times , August 16 1999
Lars Litzen , Colin Smith at Orebro Konstskola-Feature on central Sweden T.V. news,
26 March 1999. Re-broadcast nationaly,12April 1999.
Alex Warwick, Fashioning the Frame - Clothes, The Body and the Boundary, Berg Press, Oxford, 1998
Sacha Craddock,Essay for Solo Exhibition Catalogue,Six Chapel Row,Bath.1998
Stig Johansson, Colin Smith, Svenska Dagbladet, 10 May, 1997
Featured in Multicanal Arts Programme (cable television, several transmissions), Buenos Aries, October, 1996
Noel C. Allen, Colin Smith at Arte.X.Arte, Buenos Aries Herald, 15 October, 1996
Adrian Searle, Essay for Solo Exhibition Catalogue, Arte x Arte ,Buenos Aries, 1996
Augusto Pieroni, Mostra Catalogue, Rome, 1996
Nicholas Usherwood, Vehicles in British Painting, The Motor Show Catalogue, 1996
Ralph Hermanns, Art after Thatcher, Dagans Industri, Stockholm, 5 March, 1996
Juliet Ash, The Aesthetics of Absence, Jim Dine and Colin Smith, National Conference of Art Historians, Victoria and Albert Museum, April, 1995
Donald Kuspit, Essay for Exhibition Catalogue, y for Solo Gallery Three Zero, New York, 1993
Marina Vaizey, Essay for Exhibition Catalogue, Galleria di Serpenti, Rome, 1992
Emannuel Cooper, Colin Smith, Time Out, London, April, 1992
Marjorie Althorpe-Guyton, Essay for Solo Exhibition Catalogue, Anderson O`Day, March, 1991
Mary Rose Beaumont, Micky Donnelly/Colin Smith, Arts Review, 9 February, 1990
Robert MacDonald, Colin Smith, Time Out, London, May, 1989
Mary Rose Beaumont, Colin Smith, Arts Review, 5 May, 1989
40 under 40: Survey of Current British Art, Academy Editions, 1989
Andrew Brighton, Essay for Solo Exhibition Catalogue, Nicola Jacobs Gallery, 1989
Antonio Del Guerico, Arte Dela Thatcher, Aventi Magazine, Rome, 1990
Marjorie Althorpe-Guyton, Colin Smith, Flash Art No. 134, May, 1987
Monica Petzel, Artland, Time Out, London, February, 1987
Monica Petzel, Harkness Fellows at the Air Gallery, Art Monthly, June, 1987
Waldemar Januszczak, Colin Smith, The Guardian, December, 1984
Richard Shone, Colin Smith, Burlington Magazine, December, 1984
Sue Hubbard, Colin Smith at Nicola Jacobs, Alba, December, 1984
Nigel Pollitt, Colin Smith, City Limits, 14 December, 1984
Terence Mullaly, Spirit of New York: Colin Smith_s New Paintings, The Daily Telegraph, 11 December, 1984
Marina Vaizey, Colin Smith, The Sunday Times, 9 December, 1984
Emmanuel Cooper, Colin Smith_s Paintings from New York, Time Out, London, November, 1984
Antonio Del Guerico, Essay for Exhibition Catalogue, Art Itinera, Rome, 1983
Monica Petzel, Colin Smith, Time Out, London, February, 1982
Stephen Lavell, Colin Smith, Arts Review, London, January, 1982
Michael Shepherd, Human Being: Alex Katz and Colin Smith, The Sunday Telegraph, 11 December, 1982
Waldemar Januszczak, Colin Smith, The Guardian, 20 January, 1982
Frances Spalding, Works on Paper, Arts Review, London, April, 1980
Simon Vaughan Winter, A New Conquest of Space, The Evening News, London, 11 May, 1979
Michael Shepherd, Top Hats and Tails, The Sunday Telegraph, 9 December, 1979