Michael Smith, Visiting Lecturers Series, Spring 2008
Tuesday, January 1, 2008
Michael Smith and Joshua White, Quin Quag, 2001, video still
Michael Smith, April 9, Meadows Museum, 6:30 PM
Michael Smith has made some 30 years of videos, installation environments, and other performance-related materials detailing the adventures of his alter ego “Mike,” a sweet but hapless Everyman character created by Smith, and his hilariously awkward and ineffectual search for a piece of the American Dream. Smith received his B.A. from The Colorado College and attended The Whitney Museum Independent Study Program in New York City and has taught at numerous art schools and universities including University of California at Los Angeles, California Institute of the Arts, Cranbrook, Art Center, University of Illinois at Chicago, The Royal Danish Academy, Pratt Institute, and Yale University. He has exhibited extensively around the US, Canada and Europe at a variety of venues from museums and galleries to nightclubs and television. His works are in the permanent collections of the Walker Art Center, the Museum of Modern Art, the Centre Georges Pompidou and the Museum of Radio and Television in New York City. Since 1997 he has collaborated with Joshua White on several large-scale installations that were shown at The New Museum and the Christine Burgin Gallery in New York City, The Vienna Kunsthalle, Art Metropole in Toronto, the Hales Galley in London and at the Basel Art Fair. In addition to his collaborative work with Joshua White, Smith has had recent solo exhibitions at Dunn and Brown Contemporary in Dallas, Galleria Emi Fontana in Milan and at Ellen de Bruijn Projects in Amsterdam and was recently selected for the 2008 Whitney Biennial at the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York.
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