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Ali Smith’s work illustrates the existential plight the artist has in finding new, personal meaning and direction within the field of abstract painting.
About Ali Smith
Ali Smith, born 1976, lives and works in Long Beach, CA. Since earning her MFA in Drawing and Painting at California State University, Long Beach in 2003, Smith has exhibited her work widely. Known for her large scale, multi-layered canvases, she has had numerous solo exhibitions in the US, including at Mindy Solomon Gallery, Miami, Mark Moore Gallery in Los Angeles, Freight and Volume Gallery in New York City, as well as a recent collaborative exhibition at Vanderbilt University with musical composer Michael Alec Rose in 2020.
Included in the article on “45 painters under 45” by Christopher Knight in the Los Angeles Times, Smith has work in numerous private collections in the United States and abroad, and has been reviewed in the LA Times, the Boston Globe, Art Us, artillery, Art Week, Timeout New York, Beautiful Decay, and the OC Weekly, among others. Upcoming shows include a large-scale painting in a group show at the Long Beach Museum of Art and a solo show at Mindy Solomon Gallery in Miami, FL.
Ali Smith CV
EDUCATION
2003
M.F.A. in Drawing and Painting, California State University, Long Beach, Long Beach, CA
1998
B.S. in Studio Art, minors in French and Art History, Skidmore College, Saratoga Springs,
New York
1997
Skidmore College, Academic Year in Paris, France
SELECTED SOLO AND TWO-PERSON EXHIBITIONS
2023
Mindy Solomon Gallery, Miami, FL, Splintered: Ali Smith And Virginia Leonard
2022
A Confluence of Coastal Creativity, Albertz Benda, New York, NY
2020
Dream for Light Years, Exhibition of new paintings, with music by Michael Alec Rose, Vanderbilt Fine Arts Gallery, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN
2019
Mindy Solomon Gallery, Miami, FL, A Taste for Plums, Two-person exhibition with David Hicks
2017
Mindy Solomon Gallery, Miami, FL, Electric Prism
2015
Mindy Solomon Gallery, Miami, FL, Fever Pitch
2012
Mark Moore Gallery, Culver City, CA
2011
Freight and Volume, NY, NY
2009
Freight and Volume, NY, NY
McClain Gallery, Houston, TX
2008
Mark Moore Gallery, Santa Monica, CA, We Find Ways
2007
Mark Moore Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
Finesilver Gallery, Houston, TX
2005
Greenleaf Gallery, Whittier College, Whittier, CA, She Fell and She Missed the Ground
2004
University of Montana, Missoula, Montana
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2024
A Risky Business Too, S-Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Risky Business, Torrance Art Museum, Torrance, CA
2023
Impulse of An Era, Albertz Benda, New York, NY
Colorfields, Long Beach Art Museum, Long Beach, CA
2021
Unearthed by JC, Mindy Solomon Gallery, Miami, FL
2017
Carnegie Art Museum, Oxnard, CA, Art for Art’s Sake: Selections from the Frederick R. Weisman Foundation
2015
Wilding Cran Gallery, Los Angeles, CA, Here Now, Six Works by 6 LA Artists
Ringling College of Art, Sarasota, FL, Defining Abstraction
2011
Mark Moore Gallery, Culver City, CA, Open
Carl Berg Projects, Los Angeles,CA, About Paint
2010
Laguna Art Museum, Laguna, CA, The OScene
Freight and Volume Gallery, Pulse Miami
Contemporary Art Center, New Orleans, Elements of Nature: Selections from the R. Weisman Foundation
2009
Torrance Art Museum, Torrance, CA, Zoom
Freight and Volume Gallery, Pulse New York
Carnegie Art Museum, Oxnard, CA, Elements of Nature:
Selections from the R. Weisman Foundation
2008
Freight and Volume, NY, NY, Accident Blackspot 2
Orange Coast College, Costa Mesa, CA, Luscious Abstraction
Rhys Gallery, Boston, MA, Darren Foote and Ali Smith
Rhys Gallery, Scope New York,
Mark Moore Gallery, Pulse New York,
Cypress College Art Gallery, Cypress, CA, icandy: Current Abstraction in Southern California
Markus Winter Gallery, Berlin, Accident Blackspot,
White Box, NY, NY, Petri Dishes
2007
Mark Moore Gallery, Pulse Miami
Rhys Gallery, Aqua Miami
Rhys Gallery, Berliner Liste Art Fair
Orange County Museum of Art, Auction 2007
Newport Beach, CA
Galerie Brunnhofer, Linz, Austria, Mark Moore Gallery Group Show
Mark Moore Gallery, Art Chicago
Mark Moore Gallery, Pulse New York
2006
Mark Moore Gallery, Pulse Miami
Mark Moore Gallery, Santa Monica, CA, Ultrasonic International 1
Irvine Fine Art Center, Irvine, CA, Scapes
City of Brea Gallery, Brea, CA, Urban Impression/ism
2005
Riverside Museum, Riverside, CA, Painting’s Edge
The Armory Northwest, Pasadena, CA, CAGED
The Office, Huntington Beach, C, Saratoga Semblance, with Megan Bogonovich
2004
SCA Gallery, Pomona, CA, Inverse
Ginza Kyubidou Gallery, Tokyo, Japan, LA Driveby #1
Raid Projects Gallery, Los Angeles, CA, Unscenery
Gallery De Parel, Amsterdam, Network
2003
Raid Projects Gallery, Los Angeles, CA, Vanitas,
Standard Gallery, The Pond and 1/2, Raid Projects at Standard Quarter, Chicago, Illinois Gallery
The Office, Huntington Beach, CA, Brush
Acuna-Hansen Gallery, Chinatown, CA, Dog Days
Raid Projects Gallery, Los Angeles, CA, Unnatural
AWARDS
2008
Professional Artist Fellowship, City of Long Beach
2006
Artist’s Residency at Stichting Kaus Australis, Rotterdam, The Netherlands,
2005
Painting’s Edge Workshop, Idyllwild Arts, Idyllwild, CA
2003
Marilyn Werby Memorial Fine Arts Scholarship recipient, California State University, Long Beach
PUBLICATIONS
2023
Artist Ali Smith: Printing East London’s urban landscape, Roman Road London, January 2023
2008
Anderson Kempe, Elizabeth, Ali Smith at Mark Moore Gallery, Artillery Magazine, September/October 2008
Lee, Sasha, Profile: Ali Smith at Mark Moore Gallery, Beautiful Decay, July 2008
Taft, Catherine, Round-Up of the Best Shows in L.A, Saatchi Online Daily Magazine, July 8, 2008
2007
Barnes, Friere, Fifteen Young Masters of Oil, Bon Magazine International, Winter 2007
Knight, Christopher, 45 Painters under 45: Painting gets a broader brush, The Los Angeles Times, December 2, 2007
Markle, Leslie, Ben Weiner/Ali Smith at Mark Moore Gallery, art US, October, 2007
Ruiz, Alma, New American Paintings No. 73, Pacific Coast Edition, 2007
Zimmerman, Aaron, New York Art Fair Roundup, March 10, 2007, crowndozen.com
2006
Cline, Elizabeth, Ultrasonic International 1, NY Arts, November/December 2006
Chu, Ingrid, Accident Blackspot at Freight and Volume, Time Out New York/ Issue 673, August 20-25, 2006
Ollman, Leah, International art with a youthful edge, from“Around the Galleries,”The Los Angeles Times, July 28, 2006
Zimmerman, Aaron, Miami Art Fair Roundup, Crown Dozen, December 11, 2006, crowndozen.com
2005
Schoenkopf, Rebecca, The (Not So) Odd Couple, OC Weekly, March 11, 2005
2003
DiMichele, David,Unnatural at Raid Projects, Art Week, April 2003
Splintered: Ali Smith and Virginia Leonard
June 10–July 29, 2023
Unearthed by JC
August 8 - September 4, 2021
Ali Smith at Vanderbilt University Fine Arts Gallery
February 13, 2020/by Frances TromblyAli Smith interview with Create Like a Mother
December 11, 2019/by Frances TromblyA Taste for Plums
September 7-October 19, 2019
Ali Smith:Electric Prism
September 9 - October 7, 2017
Center Gallery
Center Gallery
Ali Smith featured at Carnegie Art Museum
December 22, 2016/by Frances TromblyAli Smith:
Fever Pitch
September 12-October 16, 2015
Center Gallery
Center Gallery
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