SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2024 Peaceable Kingdom, Spillman Blackwell Gallery, New Orleans, LA
2022 Ed Smith Recent Work, Spillman Blackwell Gallery, New Orleans, LA
2021 Common Struggle, Spillman Blackwell Gallery, New Orleans, LA
2020 Ed Smith Recent Work, Soren Christensen Gallery, New Orleans, LA
2018 Dark Matter, Soren Christensen Gallery, New Orleans, LA
2017 Promised Land II, Soren Christensen Gallery, New Orleans, LA
2016 Promised Land, Soren Christensen Gallery, New Orleans, LA
2015 Manifest Destiny, Prospect III, Soren Christensen Gallery, New Orleans, LA
2013 Avian Dreams, Cape Cod Museum of Art, Dennis, MA
2012 The Nature of Things, Appleton Museum of Art, Ocala, FL
2012 Belle Terre, Soren Christensen Gallery, New Orleans, LA
2011 Sportsman’s Paradise, Soren Christensen Gallery, New Orleans, LA
2010 Kingdom, Whitney Art Works, Portland, ME
2009 Bad Nature, Soren Christensen Gallery, New Orleans, LA
2008 End of Eden, Soren Christensen Gallery, New Orleans, LA
2008 Gap in Nature, Baton Rouge Center for Contemporary Art, BR, LA
2007 Land of Plenty, Soren Christensen Gallery, New Orleans, LA
2006 Natural Defenses, Soren Christensen Gallery, New Orleans, LA
2006 Fly Way, Baton Rouge Center for Contemporary Art, Baton Rouge, LA
2005 Strange Ornithology, Baton Rouge Gallery, Baton Rouge, LA
2004 Birds, Soren Christensen Gallery, New Orleans, LA
2004 Louisiana Landscapes, North Carolina Museum of Natural History, Raleigh, NC
2003 Second Nature, Baton Rouge Gallery, Baton Rouge, LA
2003 Gulf Coast, Sylvia Schmidt Gallery, New Orleans, LA
2002 Spanish Lake, Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH
2002 Recent Paintings, Whitney Art Works, Greenport, NY
2001 New Work, Foster Gallery, Baton Rouge, LA
2001 Paintings, Baton Rouge Gallery, Baton Rouge, LA (two-person)
2000 Flight Maps, Sylvia Schmidt Gallery, New Orleans, LA
1999 Recent Paintings, Sylvia Schmidt Gallery, New Orleans, LA
1999 Baton Rouge, Whitney Art Works, Greenport, NY
1998 North, Sylvia Schmidt Gallery, New Orleans, LA
1997 New Paintings, Klapper Gallery, Queens College, NY, NY
1995 Paintings, Charles Street Gallery, NY, NY
1993 Paintings, Kiely Gallery, Queens College, NY, NY
1992 Recent Paintings, Westbeth Gallery, New York, NY
1992 Brave Men & Worthy, Charles Street Gallery, New York, NY
1991 Strange, Ridge Street Gallery, NY, NY
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2024 Selections from the Roster, Spillman Blackwell Gallery, New Orleans, LA
2024 Birds, Louisiana State University Museum of Art, Baton Rouge, LA
2023 NOLA, Spillman Blackwell Gallery, New Orleans, LA
2021 Preservative Force–Recent Acquisitions, Ogden Museum, New Orleans, LA
2021 Gallery Artists, Spillman Blackwell Fine Art, New Orleans, LA
2020 Summer Exhibition; Gallery Artists, Soren Christensen Gallery, New Orleans, LA
2019 Recent Work, Soren Christensen Gallery, New Orleans, LA
2018 AAF Metropolitan Pavilion Art Fair, Decorazon Gallery, NY, NY
2018 Reveal Art Fair, Decorazon Gallery, Saratoga Springs, NY
2018 Gallery Artists, Erdrich White Fine Art, Boston, MA
2018 White Linen Night, Soren Christensen Gallery, New Orleans, LA
2017 London Battersea Art Fair, Decorazon Gallery, London, England
2017 Palm Springs Art Fair, Decorazon Gallery, Palm Springs, CA
2017 Profligate Beauty, Selections from the collection, Ogden Museum, New Orleans, LA
2017 Prospect IV, Gallery Artists, Soren Christensen Gallery, New Orleans, LA
2017 Summer, Ambergris Gallery, Block Island, RI
2016 Stockholm Art Fair, Decorazon Gallery, Stockholm, Sweden
2016 Gallery Artists, Decorazon Gallery, Dallas, TX
2015 Louisiana Contemporary, Ogden Museum of Art, New Orleans, LA
2015 Selections from the Collection, Cape Cod Museum of Art, Dennis, MA
2015 Palm Springs Art Fair, Decorazon Gallery, Palm Springs, CA
2015 Roster Artists, Soren Christensen Gallery, New Orleans, LA
2014 Paintings, Erdreich White Fine Art, Boston, MA
2014 AAF Metropolitan Pavilion Art Fair, Decorazon Gallery, NY, NY
2014 Gallery Artists, Soren Christensen Gallery, New Orleans, LA
2014 50 Years of Collecting; Recent Acquisitions, Cape Cod Museum of Art, MA
2012 Uniquely Louisiana, Louisiana State University Museum of Art, Baton Rouge, LA
2012 Gallery Artists, Soren Christensen Gallery, New Orleans, LA
2012 Reclamation, Landfill Project, Philadelphia, PA
2010 New acquisitions to the permanent collection, LSU Museum of Art, Baton Rouge, LA
2010 Wild, Soren Christensen Gallery, New Orleans, LA
2010 Gallery Artists, Erdreich White Fine Art, Boston, MA
2009 Salon D’Automne, Tulane University, New Orleans, LA
2009 Flight, Whitney Art Works, Portland, ME
2009 Spring, Soren Christensen Gallery, New Orleans, LA
2008 Prospect 1; Invitational, LA Artworks, New Orleans, LA
2008 Gallery Artists, Soren Christensen Gallery, New Orleans, LA
2007 Uncertain Territory; Losing Louisiana, Delgado College, New Orleans, LA
2007 Modern Physics, Shaw Center for the Arts, Baton Rouge, LA
2007 Summer, Soren Christensen Gallery, New Orleans, LA
2006 Rain, New Orleans Contemporary Art Center, New Orleans, LA
2006 Audubon Pilgrimage, St. Francisville, LA
2006 Baton Rouge Artists, Nicholls State University, Thibodeaux, LA
2006 Gallery Artists, Soren Christenson, New Orleans, LA
2006 New Orleans Painters, Soren Christenson, Dallas, TX
2005 Faculty Exhibition, SAG/Shaw Center for the Arts, Baton Rouge, LA
2005 Southeastern Exhibition, Mobile Museum of Art, Mobile, AL
2005 Annual Survey, Masur Museum of Art, Monroe, LA
2004 Benefit Exhibition, Victor D’Amico Institute of Art, Amagansett, NY
2004 In the Garden, The Imperial Calcasieu Museum, Lake Charles, LA
2004 Small Works on Paper, Contemporary Art Center, New Orleans, LA
2004 Gallery Artists, Soren Christenson, New Orleans, LA
2004 Gallery Artists, Baton Rouge Gallery, Baton Rouge, LA
2004 Garden Party, Caffery Gallery, Baton Rouge, LA
2003 Small Landscapes, Redbud Gallery, Houston, TX
2003 The Gulf Coast, Texas Artists’ Museum, Port Arthur, TX
2003 Southern Currents, Contemporary Art Center, Mobile, AL
2003 Hayground, Lizan Tops Gallery, East Hampton, NY
2003 Recent Paintings, Soren Christensen Gallery, New Orleans, LA
2003 Grand Isle, Grand Isle Center, Grand Isle, LA
2003 New Landscapes, Clark House Gallery, Bangor, ME
2003 Art with a Southern Drawl, University of Mobile, Mobile, AL
2003 Gallery Artists, Baton Rouge Gallery, Baton Rouge, LA
2003 New Works, Soren Christensen Gallery, New Orleans, LA
2002 The American Landscape, Clark House Gallery, Bangor, ME
2002 Gallery Artists, Sylvia Schmidt Gallery, New Orleans, LA
2002 H20, Whitney Art Works, Greenport, NY
2002 La Grange National, Chattahoochee Museum of Art, La Grange, GA
2002 Louisiana Artists, Baton Rouge Gallery, Baton Rouge, LA
2002 Holiday, Whitney Fine Arts, Greenport, NY
2002 Faculty Invitational, Southeastern Louisiana University, Hammond, LA
2001 Benefit Show, The Victor D’Amico Institute of Art, Amagansett, NY
2001 Environmental Injustices, Gallery for Social & Political Art, Boston, MA
2001 Traces of Thoreau, Franklin Pierce College, Rindge, NH
2001 The Great River, Pioneer Valley Institute, Greenfield, MA
2001 Art with a Southern Drawl, University of Mobile, Mobile, AL
2001 Louisiana Painters, University of Houston, Houston, TX
2001 Gallery Artists, Baton Rouge Gallery, Baton Rouge, LA
2001 Baton Rouge Artists, Terrebonne Museum, Houma, LA
2001 Dishman Competition, Lamar University, Beaumont, TX
2000 Red Clay Survey, Huntsville Museum of Art, Huntsville, AL
2000 Cross Currents, Walter Anderson Museum, Ocean Springs, MS
2000 Small Works, Sylvia Schmidt Gallery, New Orleans, LA
2000 Group Show, Albert Blue Gallery, Baton Rouge, LA
2000 Baton Rouge Green, State Capitol Building, Baton Rouge, LA
2000 Fins, Feathers & Fur: Animal Imagery in Contemporary Southern Art, The Swan Coach House Gallery, Atlanta, GA
2000 Annual, Masur Museum of Art, Monroe, LA
2000 Mardi Gras Show, Sylvia Schmidt Gallery, New Orleans, LA
2000 Dishman Competition, Lamar University, Beaumont, TX
1999 Small Works, Sylvia Schmidt Gallery, New Orleans, LA
1999 Faculty Show, Foster Gallery, LSU Art Department, Baton Rouge, LA
1999 Footfalls, Invitational Exhibit, Greenport, NY
1999 Louisiana Open, Contemporary Art Center, New Orleans, LA
1999 Spring, Sylvia Schmidt Gallery, New Orleans, LA
1999 Benefit Show, Museum of Orient & East Marion History, Orient, NY
1998 North Fork, Elaine Benson Gallery, Bridgehampton, NY
1997 East End, Clark Gallery, Southampton, NY
1996 Still Life, Islip Museum, Islip, New York
1995 The Environmental Show, Hera Gallery, Westerly, Rhode Island
1994 Paintings, Brooklyn Artists’ Coalition, Brooklyn, NY
1994 1000 Drawings, Artists’ Space, New York, NY
1993 Long Island Painters, Elaine Benson Gallery, Bridgehampton, NY
1993 Prints, Dome Gallery, New York, NY
1992 Brave Men & Worthy, Charles Street Gallery, New York, NY
1991 Nervous Order, Ridge Street Gallery, New York, NY
1991 Painters, Brooklyn College Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
1988 Project X, P.S. 1, Long Island City, New York
1988 New Paintings, Zone Gallery, Springfield, MA
REVIEWS, CATALOGUES & OTHER PUBLICATIONS
Ed Smith: A Common Struggle, Exhibition Catalogue, Spillman Blackwell Gallery. 2021
LSU Research Magazine, Cover Artist. 2019
LBP, “Art Rocks” Episode #414 May 29th
2018 LSU Research Magazine, “Creativity”
2017 Rebecca Lee Reynolds, NOLA-New Orleans Art Review.
“Right Here Right Now” Exhibition Catalogue, LSU Museum of Art, 2014
“Louisiana Contemporary” Fall 2015 Cover Artist, McNeese Review, Vol. 51 2013
Andre Van Der Wende, “Ed Smith: Avian Dreams,” Cape Cod Times Magazine, 2/15/13
Susan Vaughn, “A Dazzling Vision,” Register magazine, 1/17/13
Robert Whitcomb, “Avian Angst,” Providence Journal, 2/1/13
Mike Grudowski, “Out on a Limb,” Garden and Gun magazine, 8/12/12
Ed Smith: Sportsman’s Paradise, Exhibition Catalogue, 2011
Lee Cutrone, “French Twist,” Gambit CUE magazine, 6/1/11
Featured Artist, The Southern Review, Spring 2011
Christopher Gray, “Kingdom; Works by Ed Smith” Portland Phoenix, 7/2/2010
Nicholas Schroeder, “Wild animals at Whitney Art Works” Portland Phoenix, 7/16/2010
Robin Miller, “Color, Concepts Drive Faculty Work” Advocate 1/24/2010
Ed Smith at Soren Christensen, New Orleans Art Review, Nov/Dec, 2009
Carl Little, “Balancing Acts and Brinksmanship: Ed Smith’s Avian End Times. Catalog Essay, Bad Nature 2009
Debra Krooowitz, “ The Struggle to Survive” Art New Orleans, Spring 2009
Doug MacCash, “Extinction with a smile,” Times Picayune, 1/11/08
William Osborne, “Collectors Needed,” Country Roads Magazine, 11/08
Doug MacCash, “Feeling at sea,” Times Picayune, 9/21/07
Claiborne Collection, Catalogue, Louisiana Percent for the Arts, 2005
Whitney Art Works, Suffolk Times, Denise Civiletti, 2005
Red Clay Survey, Huntsville Museum of Art, Catalogue, Benny Andrews, 2004
Southern Currents, Exhibition Catalogue, Mobile Contemporary Art Center. 2003
New Exhibit Shows Diverse Blend, Franklin Pierce College, Steve Sherman, The Companion.
William Craig, “A Naturalist’s Eye and a Painter’s Hand,” Valley News,
Hanover, NH 10/24/2002
Lagrange Biennial, Chattahoochee Art Museum, Catalogue, Benny Andrews, 2003
Anne Price, “Public Art,” The Advocate Magazine (Baton Rouge), 5/26/2002
Featured Artist, The New Delta Review, Spring/Summer 2001 Vol. 18, No. 2
Southern Droll, Mobile Register, Thomas Harrison, 2001
C.L. Barber, “The Great River,” The Hampshire Gazette (Greenfield, MA), 7/31/01
Anne Price, “Interesting Contrasts,” The Advocate Magazine, 11/25/01
Tom Harrison, “Southern Drawl,” The Mobile Register, April 1, 2001
Marian S. McLellan, “John Opie and Ed Smith at Sylvia Schmidt Gallery,” New Orleans Art Review, Nov-Dec, 2000
Peter J. Baldaia, Red Clay Survey Catalogue, Huntsville Museum of Art, 11/00
Anne Price, “Odd Man In,” The Advocate Magazine, 6/18/00
Cross Currents, Exhibition Catalogue, Walter Anderson Museum, 2000
Anne Price, “LSU Faculty Show,” The Advocate (Baton Rouge), 10/13/00
Doug MacCash, “Ed Smith’s Paintings,” The Times Picayune, 10/20/00
Masur Museum of Art, 27th Annual, James Surls, Monroe, LA, 2000
Anne Price, “New Century” The Advocate Magazine, 11/5/00
Louisiana Open, Exhibition Catalogue, Debarah Kass, NOLA Contemporary Art Center.
Doug MacCash, “Art for Art’s Sake,” Lagniappe Magazine, 10/6/00
Helen Harrison, “Footfalls 99” The New York Times, August 15, 1999
Marian Mclellan, Ed Smith at Sylvia Schmidt Gallery Nola Art Review, 1999
Doug MacCash, Ed Smith at Sylvia Schmidt, Times Picayune, Oct, 20, 2000
Liz Wood, “Footfalls 99” The Suffolk Times (New York), June 24, 1999
John Paul Ricco, At Sea – Footfalls 99 Catalogue
Carey Lovelace, “A Bounty of Tastes in Still Life,” Newsday (New York), May 26, 1998
COLLECTIONS
Ogden Museum of Art, New Orleans, LA
The Greater New Orleans Foundation, New Orleans, LA
Cape Cod Museum of Art, Dennis, MA
LSU Museum of Art, Baton Rouge, LA
Huntsville Museum of Art, Huntsville, AL
University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA
Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, LA
Claiborne Collection, State of Louisiana, Baton Rouge, LA
North Carolina Museum of Natural Sciences, Raleigh, NC
Dartmouth College, Dartmouth, NH
GRANTS
2024 Louisiana Percent for the Arts Grant.
2023 Provost Grant, Louisiana State University.
2020 LA Council on Research Art Grant.
2019 LSU Faculty Grant.
2017 Louisiana Division of the Arts Grant.
2014 LSU Research Grant.
2013 Office of Cultural Development, Louisiana Division of the Arts, Louisiana Career Advancement Grant
2010 LSU Faculty Travel Grant
2009 Office of Research and Graduate Studies Travel Grant
2008 LSU Faculty Travel Grant
2007 LSU School of Art, Development Grant
2007 State of Louisiana, Visual Arts Grant
2006 Michael Robinson Foundation Grant
2005 Louisiana Division for the Arts, Individual Artist Grant
2004 Louisiana Division of Arts Outreach Grant/Art in Public Places
2003 Council on Research, Summer Stipend
2002 LSU School of Art Development Grant
2002 Michael Robinson Foundation Grant
2001 Louisiana Division of the Arts, Decentralized Art Funding,
Art in Public Places grant
2001 Office of Research and Graduate Studies, Research Travel Grant
2001 Council on Research, Summer Stipend
2001 State of Louisiana, Visual Arts grant
2001 LSU School of Art, Development Grant
1995 New York State Council for the Arts Grant
PROFESSIONAL OR RELATED EXPERIENCE
1998-Present: Emogene Pliner Professor of Painting. Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge
1992-1998: Adjunct Lecturer. Queens College, City University of New York
1988-1998: Senior Studio Supervisor. Queens College, City University of New York
1986-1988: Art Fabrication, Vito Acconci, Mierle Laderman Ukeles, Tom Doyle, PS1, The Clock Tower Gallery.
1978-1979: Crew Member, Sea Shepherd Conservation Ship
GALLERY AFFILIATIONS:
Spillman Blackwell Fine Art, Camp St, New Orleans, LA
Erdreich White Fine Art, 145 West Newton Street, Boston, MA
EDUCATION
1992 MFA Painting, Brooklyn College, City University of New York, NYC
1987 BFA Painting, University of Massachusetts at Amherst
Ed Smith was born in Naples, Italy and raised on Cape Cod, Massachusetts. He divides his time between Louisiana and Bridgton, Maine.
Ed Smith 