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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
2025
Despite All, Ali Smith and Andrew Casto, Mindy Solomon Gallery, Miami, FL
2023
Splintered, Ali Smith And Virginia Leonard, Mindy Solomon Gallery, Miami, FL
2022
Human Natures: Highlights from MOAH’s permanent collection, Museum of Art and History, Lancaster, CA
2020
Dream for Light Years, Exhibition of new paintings, with music by Michael Alec Rose, Vanderbilt Fine Arts Gallery, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN
2019
A Taste for Plums, Two-person exhibition with David Hicks, Mindy Solomon Gallery, Miami, FL
2017
Electric Prism, Mindy Solomon Gallery, Miami, FL
2015
Fever Pitch, Mindy Solomon Gallery, Miami, FL
2012
We Find Ways, Mark Moore Gallery, Culver City, CA
2011
Freight and Volume, New York, NY
2009
Freight and Volume, NY, NY
McClain Gallery, Houston, TX
2008
We Find Ways, Mark Moore Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
Finesilver Gallery, Houston, TX
2006
She Fell and Missed the Ground, Greenleaf Gallery, Whittier College, Whittier, CA
2004
University of Montana, Missoula, MT
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2024
Pattern Recognition, Trophy Room, Los Angeles, CA
A Risky Business Two, 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
2022
A Confluence of Coastal Creativity, Albertz Benda, New York, NY
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
Here Now, Six Works by 6 LA Artists, Wilding Cran Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Defining Abstraction, Ringling College of Art, Sarasota, FL
2011
Open, Mark Moore Gallery, Culver City, CA
About Paint, Carl Berg Projects, Los Angeles, CA
2010
The Oscene, Laguna Art Museum, Laguna Beach, CA
Freight and Volume Gallery, Pulse Miami, Miami, FL
Elements of Nature, Selections from the Frederick R. Weisman Foundation, Contemporary Arts Center, New Orleans, LA
2009
Zoom, Torrance Art Museum, Torrance, CA
Pulse New York with Freight and Volume, New York, NY
Elements of Nature: Selections from the Frederick R. Weisman Foundation, Carnegie Art Museum, Oxnard, CA
2008
Accident Blackspot, Freight and Volume, New York, NY
Luscious Abstraction, Orange Coast College, Costa Mesa, CA
Darren Foote and Ali Smith,
Rhys Gallery, Boston< MA
Scope New York, Rhys Gallery, New York, NY
Mark Moore Gallery, Pulse New York, New York, NY
iCandy: Current Abstraction in Southern California, Cypress College Art Gallery, Cypress, CA
Accident Blackspot, Markus Winter Gallery, Berlin, Germany
Petri Dishes, White Box Gallery, New York, NY
2007
Pulse Miami, Mark Moore Gallery, Miami, FL
Aqua MIami, Rhys Gallery, Miami, FL
Berliner Liste Art Fair, Rhys Gallery, Berlin, Germany
Orange County Museum of Art, Auction 2007, Newport Beach, CA
Galerie Brunhofer: Mark Moore Gallery group show, Linz, Austria
Art Chicago, Mark Moore Gallery, Chicago, Il
Pulse New York, Mark Moore Gallery, New York, NY
2006
Pulse Miami, Mark Moore Gallery, Miami, FL
Ultrasonic Internation 1, Mark Moore Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
Scapes, Irvine Fine Art Center, Irvine, CA
Urban Impression/ism, City of Brea Gallery, Brea, CA
2005
Painting’s Edge, Riverside Art Museum, Riverside, CA
CAGED, The Armory Northwest, Pasadena, CA
Saratoga Semblance, collaboration with Megan Bogonovich, The Office, Huntington Beach, CA
2004
Inverse, SCA Gallery, Pomona, CA
LA Drveby #1, Ginza Kyubidou Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
Unscenery, Raid Projects Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Network, Gallery De Perel, Amsterdam, Holland
2003
Vanitas, Raid Projects, Lose Angeles, CA
Standard Gallery, The Pond and 1/2, Raid Projects at Standard Quarter, Chicago, Illinois
Gallery
Brush, The Office, Huntington Beach, CA
Dog Days, Acuna-Hansen Gallery, Chinatown, CA
Unnatural, Raid Projects Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
CURATORIAL
2024
Pattern Recognition, Trophy Room, Los Angeles, CA
2003-2005
Gallery Director, Greenleaf Gallery, Whittier, CA
AWARDS
2021
Professional Artist Fellowship, City of Long Beach
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
Andrew Casto and Ali Smith: Despite All
July 20 - September 6, 2025
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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