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PAUL ANTHONY SMITH

St. Ann’s Bay, Jamaica

Lives and Works in Brooklyn, NY

 

EDUCATION

Kansas City Art Institute, Kansas City, MO

New World School of the Arts, Miami, FL

 

SOLO EXHIBITION

2017

(Forth Coming) Atlanta Contemporary, Atlanta, GA

Procession, ZieherSmith, New York, NY

2016

Blurred Lines, Brand New Gallery, Milan, IT

Untitled: More Heat, Bahamas Biennale Gallery Pop-up, Mukwonago, WI

On the Wall: Paul Anthony Smith, Providence College, Providence, RI

Miart, ZieherSmith & Horton, Milan, IT

2015

Expo Chicago, ZieherSmith & Horton, Chicago, IL

Yellow Tail Never Kick Rocks, ZieherSmith & Horton, New York, NY

2014

Paul Anthony Smith, Real Art Ways, Hartford, CT

Mangos and Crab, Carrie Secrist Gallery, Chicago, IL

2013

Walk Bout, The Mckinney Avenue Contemporary ( The MAC), Dallas, TX

Transience, ZieherSmith Gallery, New York, NY

SELECTED  GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2017 

Andre Bradley And Paul Anthony Smith, curated by Nathaniel M. Stein, Philadelphia Photo Arts Center, Philadelphia, PA

Politicizing Space, Anya and Andrew Shiva Gallery, John Jay College of Criminal Justice, New York, NY

2016

Victory Garden, Planthouse, New York, NY

The 50 West Artist-In-Construction Residency Exhibition, Metropolitan College of New York, New York, NY

2016 Next Wave Art: New Photography, curated by Holly Shen, Brooklyn Academy of Music, Brooklyn, NY

Jamaican Pulse: Art and Politics from Jamaica and the Diaspora, Royal West Academy, Bristol, England, UK

Disguise: Masks and Global African Art, Brooklyn Museum of Art, Brooklyn, NY

Every Semester, Belger Arts Center, Kansas City, MO

Shelflife, curated by Jay Davis, The Gallery at Ace Hotel, New York, NY

2015

Reality of my surroundings: The Contemporary Collection, Nasher Museum of Art, Durham, NC

Between History and the body, The 8th Floor, New York, NY

Summer Reading, ZieherSmith & Horton- pop up, Nashville, TN

Disguise: Masks and Global African Art, Seattle Museum of Art, Seattle, WA

Concealed, The Studio Museum Harlem, New York, NY

A Curious Blindness, Wallach Art Gallery, Columbia University, New York, NY

2014

Untitled Art Fair, Zieher Smith & Horton, Miami, FL

Prophetic Diagrams II, Cheymore Gallery, Tuxedo Park, NY

Phenomena: The Material Image, The Epsten Gallery, Overland Park, KS

9, Haw contemporary, Kansas City, MO

The Center is a Moving Target, Kemper Museum, Kansas City, MO

Dallas Biennial 2014, Oliver Francis Gallery, Dallas, TX

2013

Charlotte Street Foundation Visual Artist Award, Grand Arts, Kansas City, MO

New Work From Kansas City, Carrie Secrist Gallery, Chicago, IL

Thanks for the Warning, Dolphin Gallery, Kansas City, MO

Untitled, Dolphin Gallery, Kansas City, MO

2012

Untitled, Dolphin Gallery, Kansas City, MO

Kansas City Flatfile Biennial, H&R Block Artspace, Kansas City, MO

Beyond the Body, LIV Aspen Art, Aspen, CO

Artist in Residence, Anderson Ranch Arts Center, Snowmass Village, CO

(NO) Vacancy, Carrie Secrist Gallery, Chicago, IL

2011

From to After, President Gallery, Harold Washington College, Chicago, IL

Lush, Spray Booth Gallery, Kansas City, MO

Beyond Bounds, Brilliants, Nerman Museum of Contemporary Art, Overland Park, KS

5×7 project, Art House, Austin, TX

America: Now and Here, Leedy-Voulkos Art Center, Kansas City, MO

Red Star Studios, NCECA Gallery Exposition, Tampa Bay, FL

Exchange: Show me the Money, Greenlease Gallery, Kansas City, MO

Six, Spray Booth Gallery, Kansas City, MO

2010

Natural Selection, CGAF Gallery, Coconut Grove, FL

KCAI in 3D, Belger arts Center, Kansas City, MO

(Re)Form, KCAI 125th Celebration H&R Block Artspace, Kansas City, MO

The Kansas City Flatfile Biennial, H&R Block Artspace, Kansas City, MO

Young Blood: New Wave Alumni Exhibition, at the Art Seen Gallery, Miami, FL

Duality, The Kansas City Art Institute, Kansas City, MO

2009

Object Lesson: Recent work from KCAI, Craft in America Study Center, Los Angeles, CA


SELECTED COLLECTIONS

Blanton Museum Of Art, University of Texas at Austin

Belger Arts Center, Kansas City, MO

Ferguson Ceramic Teaching Collection, Kansas City Art Institute, Kansas City, MO

Nasher Museum of Art at Duke University, Durham, NC

Nerman Museum of Contemporary Art, Overland Park, KS

The Pilara Foundation Collection, Pier 24, San Francisco, CA

21c Museum, Louisville, KY

 

RESIDENCIES AND AWARDS

2015

Visiting Artist, Anderson Ranch Arts Center, Snowmass Village, CO

2014

Visiting Artist, Anderson Ranch Arts Center, Snowmass Village, CO

Art In Buildings, New York, NY

2013 

Arts KC Inspiration grant (Fund Art Omi International Residency)

Charlotte Street Foundation Visual Artist Award

Art Omi International Artists Residency, Ghent, NY

2012 

The Kansas City Collection II, Kansas City, MO

A.I.R Program, Anderson Ranch Arts Center, Snowmass Village, CO

Urban Culture Projects Studio Residency, Charlotte Street Foundation Kansas City, MO (since 2010)

2009 Copaken Scholarship, Anderson Ranch Arts Center, Snowmass Village, CO

2008 The Kenneth R. Ferguson Scholarship, Kansas City, MO

 

BIBLIOGRAPHY

Robin Scher, “Face Value: Paul Anthony Smith On His Many Masks,” ARTnews, September 13, 2016.

J Janovy, “Talent Scouting Curators Discover Kansas City Artists”, KCUR, September 26, 2014

Ralph Gardner Jr, “Artist-in-Construction at 50 West St”, Wall Street Journal, September 9, 2014

BrooklynRail, Skin Deep, William Corwin, July 2014

ArtLtd, Paul Anthony Smith:Mangos and Crab, at  Carrie Secrist Gallery, July, 2014

Hyperallergic, Meditations from the Middle, by Alicia Eler,  May 2, 2014

Glasstire, DB14 (Dallas Biennial) at Oliver Francis Gallery, February 24, 2014

Kansas City Star, Charlotte Street Visual Artist Award winners get a lot of things right, January 11, 2014

ArtLtd, New Work From Kansas City at Carrie Secrist Gallery, September, 2013

International Review of African American Art, Vol.24 No.3A, Summer 2013

Outpost Journal Issue03/ Kansas City, MO, August 2013

New American Paintings, New work from Kansas City at Carrie Secrist Gallery, June 25, 2013

Kansas City Star, Three KC Artist receive Charlotte Street awards, and a career boost, April 12, 2013

Kansas City Star, A KC Artist explores his Jamaican roots and finds early career success, April 8, 2013

Jamaica Observer, Two Jamaicans named as top Black Artist, March 3, 2013

Huffington Post, Black Artist: 30 contemporary Art makers under 40 you should know, February 26, 2013

The Pitch, Ayla Rexroth digs into a new art underground with the Subterranean Gallery, November 20, 2012

Temporary art Review, Hidden in Plain Sight: African-American Artists in Kansas City, September 25, 2012

The Kansas City Collection II catalog, June 2012

Eleven Eleven Literary Journal, California College of the Arts, June, 2012

Artist Inc KC, Artist inc Community, Paul Anthony Smith, November, 2011

The Pitch, Spatial Relations, dimensional work from KCAI, November, 2010

Kansas City Start, “Art Institute’s feats of Clay”. October 24 2010

The Pitch, Artspace’s 2010 Flatfiles gather an embarrassment of Riches, July, 2010

PBS Craft in America series “Process”, appearance in KCAI segment, 2010