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Sam Smith


Solo Exhibitions
Objects and Slides 2011
Special Effects 2009
Scale Set 2007

Group Exhibitions
Wilson HTM National Art Prize 2008
End of Year Group Show 2007
Brainstorms: Momentary Psychological Disturbances 2005

Offsite Exhibitions
Hong Kong International Art Fair 2010

Curriculum Vitae
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Born: Sydney, Australia, 1980
Lives and works in Sydney, Australia

Solo Exhibitions
2011 Objects and Slides, Grantpirrie Gallery, Sydney
Cameraman, Contemporary Project, Art Gallery of NSW, Sydney
Into The Void, 24HRArt, Darwin
2010 Permutation Set, Artspace, Sydney
2009 Special Effects, GRANTPIRRIE, Sydney, Australia
TROVE, Birmingham, UK
2007 Slimer, Chalk Horse, Sydney, Australia
Scale Set, GRANTPIRRIE, Sydney, Australia
2006 Passage, Raw Space, Brisbane, Australia
2005 Tokyo Exercises Suite, Youkobo Art Space, Tokyo, Japan
Tokyo Exercises Suite, BlackLab, Brisbane, Australia
2004 Set Piece, Room 35, Gitte Weise Gallery, Sydney, Australia
2002 New Landscapes, Imperial Slacks, Sydney, Australia

Selected Group Exhibitions
2011 Motion/Pictures, former Paramount Building, Sydney
Awfully Wonderful: Science Fiction in Contemporary Art, Performance Space, Sydney
2010 Hong Kong International Art Fair, Grantpirrie Gallery, Hong Kong
2009 Come Hither Noise, Fremantle Arts Centre, Fremantle
2008 Premier of Queensland’s National New Media Art Award, Gallery of Modern Art, Brisbane, Australia
Wilson HTM National Art Prize, Sophie Gannon Gallery, Melbourne, GRANTPIRRIE, Sydney and Jan Manton Art, Brisbane, Australia
Looking Out, Macquarie University Art Gallery, Sydney, Australia
2007 End of year group show, GRANTPIRRIE, Sydney, Australia
Between you and me, Firstdraft, Sydney, Australia
Keep Going, Hazelhurst Regional Gallery & Arts Centre, Gymea, Australia
The Helen Lempriere Travelling Art Scholarship 2007, ARTSPACE, Sydney, Australia
Projector, Broadstone Gallery and Studios, Dublin, Ireland
Projector, Fremantle Arts Center, Fremantle, Australia
2006 Video Easy, Chiang Mai University Art Museum, Chiang Mai, Thailand
Video Easy, The Hart Center For Arts, Beijing, China
The Helen Lempriere Travelling Art Scholarship 2006 ARTSPACE, Sydney, Australia
Space Invaders, 4A Asia Australia Arts Center, Sydney, Australia The Late Sessions, About Studio, Pomprab, Bangkok, Thailand
The Late Sessions, Melbourne Art Fair 2006 Project Room, Melbourne, Australia
The Late Sessions, Greater Union George Street Cinemas, Sydney, Australia Approaching Intimacy, Contemporary Miniatures, Ivan Dougherty Gallery, Sydney, Australia Gang: Australian Video Art,Pelt, Sydney, Australia
2005 Beograd Nekad I Sad, Prodajna Galerija Beograd, Belgrade, Serbia
Terminus 2005, Public video art project in Sydney, Australia
Room 35 turns 8, Room 35, Gitte Weise Gallery, Sydney, Australia
Brainstorms: Momemtary Psychological Disturbances, GRANTPIRRIE, Sydney, Australia
Fantastical..., Gertrude Contemporary Art Spaces, Melbourne, Australia
GANG Festival, Bahasa, Indonesia
Turning Tricks: Old-School Magic by New School Artists, Firstdraft, Sydney, Australia
2004 Vista Tracking, HSP Gallery, Christchurch, New Zealand
Impermanent.Projection, Performance Space, Sydney, Australia
The Helen Lempriere Travelling Art Scholarship 2004, ARTSPACE, Sydney, Australia
Hatched 04, Perth Institute of Contemporary Arts, Perth, Australia
2003 h.phone, Performance Space, Sydney, Australia
The Helen Lempriere Travelling Art Scholarship 2003, ARTSPACE, Sydney, Australia
How Long is a Piece of String, Phatspace, Sydney, Australia
The Sydney Affordable Art Show, Royal Hall of Industries, Fox Studios, Sydney, Australia
Ulterior, Firstdraft, Sydney, Australia
2002 Slacking Off, Imperial Slacks, Sydney, Australia

Performances
2004
Res Artis Conference 2004, Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney, Australia
Hatched 04, Perth Institute of Contemporary Arts, Perth, Perth, Australia
2003
Impermanent.Audio, The Frequency Lab, Sydney, Australia
The Point of View Project Performance, The Helen Lempriere Travelling Art Scholarship 2003, Artspace, Sydney, Australia
2002
This is Not House, Kudos Gallery, Sydney, Australia
Slacking Off, Imperial Slacks, Sydney, Australia
Impermanent.Audio, The Frequency Lab, Sydney, Australia

Collections
Artbank
Wilson HTM
Private Collections

Residencies
2007
Tape Projects, Melbourne, Australia
2005
Youkobo Art Space, Tokyo, Japan

Grants, Prizes and Scholarships
2010 Australia Council, Visual Arts Board, new work grant (established)
2008
Finalist, Premier of Queenslands National New Media Arts Award
Winner, Churchie Emerging Art Prize
Winner, Wilson HTM National Art Prize
2007
Winner, The Helen Lempriere Travelling Art Scholarship 2007
2006
Highly Commended, The Helen Lempriere Travelling Art Scholarship 2006
2005
DVD Production Grant, Australia Council, Music Board
2004
Presentation and Promotion Grant, Australia Council, New Media Arts Board
2003
Highly Commended, The Helen Lempriere Travelling Art Scholarship 2003
2001
Basil and Muriel Hooper Scholarship

Education
2000 - 2003
Bachelor of Fine Arts Honours, The University of New South Wales, College of Fine Arts, Sydney, Australia

Selected Bibliography
2010 Jaspers, Anneke, Permutation Set reviewed, art & Australia, vol 48. No 1 Spring
Somerville, Jane, ‘Sam Smith, Artspace Visual Arts Centre’, Artforum, http://artforum.com/picks/section=world&mode=past#picks25158, March
Vickers, Rose, ‘Artist talks at Artspace’ Art Month Sydney, http://artmonthsydneyblog.com
 Bennetts, Angela, ‘The Multiplied filmic moment: Sam Smith’s Permutation Set’, Art Month Sydney
Kidd Courtney, ‘Client Profile: Featuring video art’, Artbank Now, National Contemporary Art Rental, Newsletter, April 2010
2009 ‘Come Hither Noise’, Lia McKnight, Runway Issue 15 Summer 2009-10
Sonic Insights’ Urszula Dawkins, RealTime Arts Issue 92, Aug-Sep 2009
‘Suspended Disbelief’ Ella Mudie, RealTime Arts, Studio, 2009
‘The Premier of Queensland’s National New Media Art Award’, Linda Carroli, eyeline Contemporary Visual Arts, Number 68, 2009
‘Queensland Premier’s National New Media Art Awards’, Greg Hooper, RealTime Issue 88, Dec-Jan 2009
2008 'Premier of Queensland’s National New Media Art Award’, Jose Da Silva, Queensland Art Gallery, 2008
‘Between you and me’, Sarah Hetherington, eyeline Contemporary Visual Arts, Issue 66, 2008
'Helen Lempriere Travelling Art Scholarship artists' pageworks project, Column 1, Artspace, 2008
Jo Skinner, 'Between you and me', un magazine, issue 2.1, 2008
2007 ‘A Year in Images’, Time Out Sydney, Issue 10, 2007
‘Video Art: A Short Guide To Now’, Andrew Frost, Art & Australia, Vol. 45, No. 2, 2007
‘Art City’ Time Out Sydney, Issue 2, 2007
‘Bright Young Things’, Vogue Living, Nov/Dec, 2007
‘Keep Going’, Sally Brand, Catalogue essay, Keep Going, Hazelhurst Regional Gallery & Arts Centre,
Gymea, Australia
‘Between you and me’, Anneke Jaspers, Catalogue essay, Between you and me, Firstdraft, Sydney,
Australia
'Sam Smith: Across the Universe(s)', Interview with Dougal Phillips, Runway Issue 9: Change
'Sam Smith: Artefacts From The Event Horizon', Dan Angeloro, Catalogue essay, Scale Set,
GRANTPIRRIE, Sydney, Australia
'Signal To Noise', The Art Life (www.artlife.blogspot.com), February 2007

2006 1/2 Doz. 2006 Catalogue, 1/2 Doz.
'Potent', Ben Byrne, Exhibition catalogue, Potent, Firstdraft, Sydney, Australia

2005 'How To Pick A Winner', Holly Williams, The Australian Art Market Report, Issue 18 Summer 2005/6
'Hi-tech/Lo-tech: Sydney Gallery Drift', David Teh, Eyeline Contemporary Visual Arts, No. 58, Spring
2005
'Nuke 'em all', Dominique Angeloro, Metro, The Sydney Morning Herald, June 10-16 2005
'Brainstorms', Lenny Ann Low, Spectrum, The Sydney Morning Herald, June 4-5 2005
'Brainstorms: Momemtary Psychological Disturbances', Claire Lewis, Catalogue essay for
Brainstorms: Momemtary Psychological Disturbances, Curated by James Steele and Claire Lewis, GRANTPIRRIE, Sydney, Australia
'Barn Storming', The Art Life (www.artlife.blogspot.com), June 2005
'Turning Tricks: Old-School Magic by New School Artists', Tania Doropoulos, Un Magazine, Issue 13, April -
June 2005
'Turning Tricks: Old-School Magic by New School Artists', COFA Magazine, Issue 5, Spring 2005
2004 'Smart Art', Andrew Frost, Australian Art Collector, Issue 29, July-September, 2004.
'Intervening with the Machine', Ella Barclay, Spinach 7 Magazine, 2004
'The Next Generation', Andrew Frost, Australian Art Collector, Issue 28, April - June 2004
'Vista Tracking', The Package (New Zealand)
'Who to buy', The Sydney Magazine, April 2004
'Blue in the Face', Dominique Angeloro, Metro, The Sydney Morning Herald, April 8-15, 2004
'A no-smoking sign on your cigarette break...', The Art Life (www.artlife.blogspot.com), April 2004
2003 'Travelling Circus', Dominique Angeloro, Metro, The Sydney Morning Herald, August 15-21, 2003
Runway Issue 2, Cover Image, The Invisible Inc.
2002 'Surrealism du Jour', Lenny Ann Low, Metropolitan, The Sydney Morning Herald, June 29-30, 2002
Serial 7's #2 Video Publication, Imperial Slacks,