George Smith

 

PROFESSION :

Sculptor

Emeritus Professor of Art, Rice University,

Houston, Texas

 

BIRTH PLACE

Buffalo, NY

 

EDUCATION

M.A. Degree in Sculpture,

Hunter College, New York, NY

 

B.F.A. Degree in Sculpture

San Francisco Art Institute, CA

 

SOLO EXHIBITIONS

 

2018

George Smith

Nicole Longnecker Gallery

Houston, TX

 

2016

Journey to Sirius: A Survey of Works by George Smith

University of Houston/Downtown Art Gallery,

Houston, TX

 

2014

George Smith Printed Words and Sculptures,

Featured Artist-Houston Open Studio Tours,

Project Row Houses,

Houston, TX

 

2011

Power Objects,

M Architects, exhibition space,

Houston, TX

 

2009

G Gallery,

Houston TX

 

2007

Africa/America, The Station Museum of Contemporary Art,

Houston TX

 

2006

Wilmer Jennings Gallery,

New York, NY

 

2005

The Station Museum of Contemporary Art,

Houston TX

 

2001

Burchfield-Penny Art Center, the Museum of Western New York Arts,

Buffalo, NY.

 

2000

Joan Wich & Co. Gallery,

Houston, TX

 

1999

Wilmer Jennings Gallery,

New York, NY

 

Fleming Museum of Art,

Burlington, VT

 

1987

Graham Gallery,

Houston, TX

 

1983

Sewell Art Gallery, Houston,

Rice University, Houston, TX

 

1980

Studio Museum in Harlem, Ten-Year Retrospective Exhibition,

New York, NY

 

1979

Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art,

Ithaca, NY

 

1972

Everson Museum of Art,

Syracuse, NY

 

1970

Reese Palley Gallery,

New York, NY

 

GROUP EXHIBITIONS:

 

2007

Nexus Texas,

Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston, TX

 

Camp Marfa,

Marfa, TX

 

Casa de Carton,

Ingalls & Associates, Miami, FL

 

2006

Chance Encounters,

Menil Collection Museum, Houston, TX

 

American Vision: African American Sculptors 19th -20th Century,

African American Museum, Dallas, Texas

 

Texas Uprising, Indoor & Outdoor Sculpture,

Blue Star Contemporary Art

Center, San Antonio, TX

 

2000

African American Arts 2000,

Rockland County Center for the Arts, West Nyack, NY

 

1999

Response Time,

Art Car Museum, Houston, TX

 

Legacy,

Galveston Art Center, Galveston, TX

 

1996

Texas Artists, Modern and Post Modern,

Museum of Fine Arts, Houston,

Houston, TX

 

1995

The Listening Sky,

Inaugural Exhibition of the Studio Museum in Harlem,

Sculpture Garden, New York, NY

 

Changing Perspectives,

Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston, TX

 

Project Row House,

Site-specific Shotgun House Sculpture, Houston, TX

 

1992

Contemporary Sculpture,

Kenkeleba Gallery, New York, NY

 

Ancestral Legacy,

Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas, TX;

High Museum, Atlanta,

Milwaukee Art Museum, Milwaukee, WI

 

The Blues Aesthetic,

Blaffer Gallery,

University of Houston, Houston, TX

 

In the Public Eye, Beyond the Statue in the Park,

Deanza College, Euphrat Gallery,

Cupertino, CA

 

1989

New Visions: Ten African American Sculptors,

United States Information Agency,

Washington, DC

 

100 Years of Texas Sculpture,

Huntington Art Gallery, University of Texas,

Austin, TX

 

30th Annual Invitational Exhibition,

Longview Museum of Art, Longview, TX

 

Traditions and Transformation Afro-American Sculpture,

Bronx Museum, NY

 

Ancestral Legacy: The African Impulse in African American Art,

Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas, TX

 

1988

The Museum of African American Art,

Art in Public Places Competition and Exhibition,

Los Angeles, CA

 

Selections from the Permanent Collection,

Studio Museum in Harlem, New York, NY

 

New Directions in Public Art,

Sculpture Symposium, Dallas, TX

 

1984

Art in Public Places, Diverse Works, Inc.,

installed at Market Square Park,

Hyatt Regency Hotel, Houston, TX

 

Houston Artists ’84,

Two Houston Place, Houston, TX

 

The Houston Art Festival, Environmental Sculpture Project,

Houston, TX,

Huntsville, TX

 

Ritual and Myth, Studio Museum in Harlem,

(A Survey of African American Art),

New York, NY

 

1981

Arnot Museum of Art,

CAPS Sculpture Exhibition, Elmira, NY

 

1977

Roosevelt Art Workshop and Museum, Invitational Documentary Exhibition

on Environmental Sculpture,Long Island, NY

 

Hallwalls,

Buffalo, NY

 

1973

Nine Artists of Western New York, Traveling Exhibition,

Charles Burchfield Center, Buffalo, NY;

Performing Arts Center, Saratoga, NY;

St. Lawrence University, Canton, NY;

State University of New York at Alfred, NY

 

Contemporary American Artists,

Arnot Museum of Art, Elmira, NY

 

Enviro Vision,

New York Cultural Center, New York, NY

 

Two Generations of Black Art,

Newark Museum, Newark, NJ

 

1971

Three Environmental Sculptors,

Rutgers University, NJ

 

Exhibition of Drawings,

Galerie Ricke, Cologne, West Germany

 

1970

Contemporary Black American Artists,

Hudson River Museum, Yonkers, NY

 

Sculpture Biennial,

Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY