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Jack Smith was born in 1950 in Fremont, Michigan. At age 16, he began his training at Interlochen Arts Academy in Michigan before moving to Ohio to attend Columbus College of Art and Design, the Instituto de Allende, at San Miguel de Allende, Guanajuato, Mexico and Thomas Jefferson College. He now resides in Taos, New Mexico. Reflecting a profound knowledge of art history and an alchemist’s sense of the painting craft, contemporary painter Jack Smith has forged his own place amongst the most powerful of contemporary painters working in America.
Jack Smith recently received a prestigious Past Achievement Award from the Peter and Madeleine Martin Foundation for the Creative Arts in San Francisco, California, following an important solo exhibition titled, Jack Smith: The Taos Portraits at the Harwood Museum of Art at the University of New Mexico in 2004. The exhibition featured fifty portraits of Taos, New Mexico residents, executed between 2000 and 2003. The series was intended as a visual biography of this unique artistic community at the turn of the century. Smith’s subjects range from the famous to the infamous — including artists, writers, art patrons, Native peoples, and street peoples. He recently commissioned a number of private commissions for Sullivan Goss – An American Gallery in Santa Barbara, California.
III. Exhibitions
Selected Solo Exhibitions (selected list):
2009 Cornell Museum, Winter Park, FL Portraits of American Poets
2008 Anomaly; Recent Paintings by Jack Smith-Sullivan Goss, Santa Barbara, California
2008 Reynolds Gallery – Westmont College, Montecito, CA Portraits of American Poets
2006 Jack Smith Recent Paintings, Sullivan Goss, Santa Barbara, CA
2004 Parks Gallery, Taos, NM, Recent Paintings
2004 Harwood Museum, Taos, NM, Taos Portraits with Wayne Theilbauld City/Country
2000 Jaquelin Loyd Contemporary, Ranchos de Taos, NM
1999 Las Casas de los Valles, Mongerson Wunderlich Galleries, Chicago, IL
1998 Mongerson Wunderlich Galleries, Chicago, IL
1992 The Print Gallery, Southfield, MI Nudes and Food
1992 Dennos Museum, Traverse City. MI The Triumph of Light
1992 Muskegon Museum of Art, Muskegon, MI A Light from Within
# 1991 Sutton Bay Galleries, Suttons Bay, MI
1988 University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, OH
Group Exhibitions (selected list):
2008 Art of the Human Canvas Museum of Contemporary Candadian Art (MOCCA) Toronto, Candada
2008 Figure North, Figure South, Lofts Galleria, Puerto Vallarta, Mexico
2006 “Spirited Expressions”, Gerald Peters Gallery, Santa Fe, New Mexico
2006 Cornell Museum, Winter Park, Florida Eye to Eye
2005 “Scenes of American Labor”, Sullivan Goss, Santa Barbara, CA
2004, 2005 “Face to Face: Selected American Portraits”, Sullivan Goss, Santa Barbara, CA
2003, 2004 “Eighth Annual Small Images Show”, Sullivan Goss, Santa Barbara, CA
2003, 2004 “The History of the Nude in the Art of California”, Sullivan Goss, Santa Barbara, CA
1994 Bunting Gallery, Royal Oak, MI
1993 MCC Gallery, Muskegon, MI
1993 Perception Gallery, Grand Rapids, MI
1991 Muskegon Museum of Art, Muskegon, MI
1990 Perception Gallery, Grand Rapids, MII
1985 Muskegon Museum of Art, Muskegon, MI
1983 Max Siegel Fine Art, Taos, NM
1981 La Fonda de Taos Gallery, Taos, NM
IV. Collections
Salm Collection, New York/Los Angles, California
Peralta Ramos Collection, New York, New York
Gerber Collection, Santa Ynez, California
Morris Collection, New York, New York
Brown Private Collection, Glasgow, Scotland
Crosby Collection, Santa Barbara, California
Stockwell Collection, Taos, New Mexico
De Pauw University, Greencastle, Indiana
Dharma Properties Collection, Del Rey Beach, Florida
Harwood Museum of Art, Taos, New Mexico
Harrison Collection, Livingston, Montana
Berkus Collection, Santa Barbara, California
Bell Collection, Taos, New Mexico/ Venice Beach, California
Jacobson Collection, Antigua, Guatemala.
Wiener/Cooke Collection, Los Angeles, California
Brown Collection Boulder, Colorado
Muskegon Museum of Art, Muskegon, Michigan
Libert Private Collection, London England
Goss Collection, Santa Barbara, California
Peter & Madeline Martin Foundation for the Creative Arts, San Francisco, California
Siegel Collection, San Diego, California
Meredith Collection, Austin, Texas
Richardson Collection, San Diego, California
Allan Collection, Los Angeles, California
Williams-Meyer Collection, Corn Close, North Cumbria, England
V. Selected Portrait Subjects and Commissions:
Dennis Hopper and Henry Lee Hopper
Robert Dean Stockwell, Sophia Stockwell and Austin Stockwell
Derek Walcott, Nobel Laureate, St. Lucia
W.S. Merwin, Pulitzer Prize recipient, Haiku, Hawaii
United States Poet Laureates;
Billy Collins, New York
Donald Hall, Wilmot, New Hampshire
Ted Koozer, Kearney, Nebraska
Michael Brown, Director/Producer, Serac Films, Boulder, Colorado
David Crosby, Musician, Santa Barbara, California
Ed Healy, Philanthropist, Taos, New Mexico
Tom and Lynn Merridith, Philanthropists, Austin, Texas
Portraits of Texas Musicians/Texas Music Hall of Fame, Tom and Lynn Merridith, Austin, Texas
David Brown, Film Maker, Glasgow, Scotland
Quincy Troope, Poet, Harlem, New York