Biography
1976 Born in Tennessee/TN, USA
1994 – 1996 Miami University, Oxford/OH, USA
1996 – 1998 University of Tennessee, Knoxville/TN, USA (BFA)
Lives and works in New York/NY, USA
www.joshasmith.com
Solo Exhibitions
2011
Luhring Augustine, New York/NY, USA
Brant Foundation, Greenwich/CT, USA
2010
Sophie von Hellermann & Josh Smith, Museum Dhondt-Dhanenens, Deurle, Belgium
Josh Smith, Gallery Massimo de Carlo, Milan, Italy
2009
On The Water, Deitch Studios, Long Island City/NY, USA
Who Am I, Frans Halsmuseum, Haarlem, the Netherlands
Hiromi Yoshii Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
Centre d'Art Contemporain, Geneva, Switzerland
Rusters in the Duffel, Luhring Augustine, New York/NY, USA
I’m not you, Air de Paris, Paris, France
2008
Galerie Catherine Bastide, Brussels, Belgium
Hidden Darts, Museum Moderner Kunst Stiftung Ludwig - MUMOK, Vienna, Austria
Zurich Abstraction, Galerie Eva Presenhuber, Zurich, Switzerland
Unstable Ideas, Standard, Olso, Norway
2007
Abstraction, Luhring Augustine, New York/NY, USA
Fortescue Avenue/Jonathan Viner Gallery, London, Great Britain
2006
Skestos Gabriele Gallery, Chicago/IL, USA
Susanne Hilberry Gallery, Detroit/MI, USA
Air de Paris, Paris, France (curated by Eva Svennung)
Standard Norwegian Show, Standard, Oslo, Norway
Galerie Catherine Bastide, Brussels, Belgium
Dial “J” for Josh, Delta Axis / Power House, Memphis/TN, USA
2005
Fortescue Avenue/Jonathan Viner Gallery, London, Great Britain
Sculpture Center, Long Island City/NY, USA
Galerie Catherine Bastide, Brussels, Belgium
Make It Plain, Reena Spaulings Fine Art, New York/NY, USA
Faces, Taxter and Spengeman Gallery, New York/NY, USA
2004
Reena Spaulings Fine Art, New York/NY, USA
2003
Galerie Catherine Bastide, Brussels, Belgium
Volume Gallery, New York/NY, USA
Chinese Paintings, M Shanghai Bistro, Brooklyn/NY, USA
Dial “J” for Josh, Margo Victor Presents, Los Angeles/CA, USA
Josh Smith: Recent Paintings & Handmade Books, Freight + Volume, New York/NY, USA
Group Exhibitions
2011
21° édition Le printemps de septembre, Toulouse, France
Untitled (painting) and Tulsa 1968: A film by Larry Clark, Luhring Augustine Gallery, New York/NY, USA
After Images, Musée Juif de Belgique, Bruxelles, Belgium
2010
Alpha Omega Deste Foundation, Centre for Contemporary Art, Athen, Greece
About Us, Johann König, Berlin, Germany
TWENTY FIVE, Luhring Augustine Gallery, New York/NY, USA
Barbaric Freedom, Simon Lee Gallery, London, Great Britain (curated by Anne Pontegnie)
FAX, Para/Site Art Space, Hong Kong, SAR
FAX, Torrance Art Museum, Torrance/CA, USA
2009
Learn to Read Art: A History of Printed Matter, P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center, New York/NY, USA
We Are Sun-kissed and Snow-blind, Galerie Patrick Seguin invites Galerie Eva Presenhuber, Paris, France
Hard Hat at Francesca Pia Galerie, Zurich, Switzerland
Le Consortium, Dijon, France
Younger Than Jesus, New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York/NY, USA
That’s Just the Way It Is, Curated by Michael St. John, Marvelli Gallery, New York/NY, USA
The Generational: Younger Than Jesus, New Museum, New York/NY, USA
The Living and the Dead, Gavin Brown’s enterprise, New York/NY, USA
My Summer Show, Galerie Lelong, New York/NY, USA
Top 10 Allegories, Francesca Pia Galerie, Zurich, Switzerland
Learn to Read Art: A History of Printed Matter, Badischer Kunstverein, Karlsruhe, Germany
Access All Areas, Max Hetzler, Berlin, Germany (curated by Arturo Herrera)
Cave Painting, PSM Gallery, Berlin, Germany (curated by Bob Nickas)
Chapter Three: The Wall of the Sky, The Wall of the Eye, About Change Collection, Berlin, Germany
Abstractionists Unite! Who Give you Just Enough To Last A Lifetime, The Glendale College Art Gallery, Glendale/CA, USA
Practice, Practice, Practice, Lora Reynolds Gallery, Austin/TX, USA
A Wild Night and a New Road, Altman Siegel Gallery, San Francisco/CA, USA
2008
We Have Never Met Before [...], Standard, Oslo, Norway
Fair Market, Rental Gallery, New York City, NY
Painting Now and Forever Part II, The Greene Naftali Gallery, New York/NY, USA
Meet Me Around the Corner - Works from the Astrup Fearnley Collection, Astrup Fearnley Museet for Moderne Kunst, Oslo, Norway
Standard Sizes, Andrew Kreps Gallery, New York/NY, USA
Champion Fine Art: Champion Zero, RENTAL, New York/NY, USA
Blasted Allegories. Werke aus der Sammlung Ringier, Kunstmuseum Luzern, Luzern, Switzerland
Murder Letters, Filomena Soares Gallery, Lisbon, Spain
Black and White Exhibition, Galerie Neue Alte Brücke, Frankfurt, Germany
Book/Shelf, The Museum of Modern Art, New York/NY, USA
Recent Acquisitions, Gifts, and Works from Various Exhibitions 1985-2007, White Columns, New York/NY, USA
Accidental Modernism, Leslie Tonkonow Artworks + Projects, New York/NY, USA
2007
Uncertain States of America, Galerie Rudolfinum, Prague, Czech Republic
USA Today, The Saatchi Gallery, London, Great Britain
USA Today: New American Art from The Saatchi Gallery , The State Hermitage Museum, St. Petersburg, Russia
The Third Mind – Carte Blanche à Ugo Rondinone, Palais de Tokyo, Paris, France
00s – The History of a Decade That Has Not Yet Been Named, Lyon Biennial 2007, La Sucrière, Lyon, France
Paintings, Props and Problems (Still Unresolved), Standard, Oslo, Norway
off modern, Le Confort Moderne, Poitiers, France
Genesis, I’m sorry, Greene Naftali Gallery, New York/NY, USA
What we do is secret, Blancpain Art Contemporain, Geneva, Switzerland
Prague Biennale 3, Prague Biennale, Prague, Czech Republic
Beneath the Underdog, Gagosian Gallery, New York/NY, USA
Conditions of Display, Locust Projects, Miami/FL, USA
Painting as Fact – Fact as Fiction, De Pury & Luxembourg, Zurich, Switzerland
Uncertain States of America, CSW Centrum Sztuki Wspolczesnej/Centre for Contemporary Art Ujazdowski Castle, Warsaw, Poland
Der Ficker, Fortescue Avenue/Jonathan Viner Gallery, London, Great Britain
Uncertain States of America, Herning Kunstmuseum, Herning, Denmark
For the People of Paris, Sutton Lane, Paris, France
Carnegie Art Award 2006, Den frie udstilling, Copenhagen, Denmark
What glue do you use?, Atelier Cardenas Bellanger, Paris, France
Malerei und Affekt, Museum Moderner Kunst Stiftung Ludwig, Vienna, Austria
Last Attraction Next Exit, Max Wigram Gallery, London, Great Britain
Irreversible, Stellan Holm Gallery, New York/NY, USA
ProjectSD, Barcelona, Spain
Michèle Didier Project – Part II, Michèle Didier Project, Brussels, Belgium
2006
Take One, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston/TX, USA
The Dimes of March, Reena Spaulings Fine Art, New York/NY, USA
Hold That Elevator, Butridge Gallery at Dougherty Arts Center, Austin/TX, USA
Paper, Skestos Gabriele Gallery, Chicago/IL, USA
Under Pressure, Art:Concept, Paris, France
Bill Saylor and Josh Smith, Hiromi Yoshii Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
Gedi Sibony and Josh Smith, Harris Lieberman Gallery, New York/NY, USA
Wade Guyton, Seth Price, Josh Smith, Kelley Walker, Kunsthalle Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland
Exquisite Corpse, Mitchell Algus Gallery, New York/NY, USA
Reena Spaulings, New York/NY, USA
Slow Burn, Galerie Edward Mitterrand, Geneva, Switzerland
In Dialogue, Elizabeth Dee Gallery, New York/NY, USA
When the Revolution Comes, Kathleen Cullen Fine Arts, New York/NY, USA
The Uncertain States of America, Astrup Fearnley Museum of Modern Art, Oslo & Serpentine Gallery, London, Great Britain
USA Today, Royal Academy of Arts, London, Great Britain
Color Aside, Luhring Augustine, New York/NY, USA
Hiromi Yoshii, Tokyo, Japan
2005
KIOSK, ICA-Institute of Contemporary Arts, London, Great Britain
Sophie von Hellerman and Josh Smith, Greene Naftali Gallery, New York/NY, USA
Paintings, Susanne Hillberry Gallery, Detroit/MI, USA
Confort Moderne, Poitiers, Ruptures des Evidences
Uncertain States of America, Astrup Fearnley Museum, Oslo, Norway
Helter Skelter, Capsule Gallery, New York/NY, USA
I’m a Child of Divorce, Give Me a Break, Cynthia Broan Gallery, New York/NY, USA
Interstate, Nicole Klagsbrun Gallery, New York/NY, USA
New York Twice, Air de Paris, Paris, France
Lesser New York, Fia Backstrom, Brooklyn/NY, USA
Situational Prosthetics, New Langton Art Center, San Francisco/CA, USA
Paper, Nicole Klagsbrun Gallery, New York/NY, USA
New York’s Finest, Canada Gallery, New York/NY, USA
Marc Selwyn Gallery, Los Angeles/CA, USA
2004
POST modern, Greene Naftali Gallery, New York/NY, USA
Paula Cooper Gallery, New York/NY, USA
East Village ASU, New York/NY, USA
Me, Myself & I, University Galleries, Florida Atlantic University, Boca Raton/FL, USA
Rimbaud, I-20 Gallery, New York/NY, USA
Repetition, Hudson Valley Center for Contemporary Art, Peekskill, New York/NY, USA
Collection (or, How I Spent a Year), P.S.1, New York/NY, USA
2003
Mighty Graphitey, Feature Galler, New York/NY, USA
Ljubljana Graphic Arts Biennial, Ljubljana, Slovenia
2002
Copy Books, Roth Horowitz, New York/NY, USA
2000
New Work: Abstract Painting, Hosfelt Gallery, San Francisco/CA, USA
Columbus Museum of Art, Columbus/OH, USA
1999
Mr. Fascination, Threadwaxing Space, New York/NY, USA
1998
Remix, Team Gallery, New York/NY, USA
Projects
2008
Josh Fish, Hard Hat, Geneva, Switzerland