ED SMITH

Ed Smith was born in Naples Italy and raised on Cape Cod. He received a BFA for the University of Massachusetts and an MFA from Brooklyn College CUNY. In 1979 Smith was hired as the first crew member on the conservation ship “Sea Shepheard” and environmental concerns have been important to his work ever sense. Smith moved to New York in 1985 and worked as an artist assistant for Mierle Laderman Ukeles, Vito Acconci, Tom Doyle, Benny Andrews and at PS1 and The Clocktower Gallery as a preparator. He also spent ten years in the art department at Queens College CUNY as Senior Studio Supervisor and Adjunct Lecturer before moving to Baton Rouge to take a teaching position at LSU. He has had over thirty solo exhibitions at various venues including Spillman Blackwell Gallery in New Orleans, Dartmouth College, The Appleton Museum, The Cape Cod Museum of Art, The North Carolina Museum of Natural History, Sylvia Schmidt Gallery, Whitney Art Works, Foster Gallery Queens College, Soren Christensen Gallery and many other. His work has also been included in numerous group exhibitions and Art Fairs including the Ogden Museum of Southern Art, Palm Springs Art Fair, Stockholm Art Fair, Tulane University, New Orleans Contemporary Art Center, Decorazon Gallery, Erdreich White Fine Art, Elaine Benson Gallery, Walter Anderson Museum, Lizan Tops Gallery, Mobile Museum of Art, PS1 and many others. He also has been awarded many grants including the Louisiana Division for the Arts, Individual Artist Fellowship Grant. Ed Smith is a Professor at Louisiana State University and divides his time between Louisiana and Maine.