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Artist: Keith Smith ( United States, 1952 - present ) -
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Main Category: Painting
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Genres: Contemporary American Art
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Biography: KEITH SMITH BIO
Keith Smith is a Full Professor and the Assistant Chairperson of The Visual Arts Department at the County College of Morris in Randolph, New Jersey. Professor Smith is also an exhibiting artist, a published poet and author, and a distinguished lecturer. His artwork has been exhibited at The Museum of Modern Art in New York City, The Smithsonian Institute in Washington DC, The Butler Institute of American Art in Youngstown, Ohio, The New Jersey State Museum in Trenton, and The Morris Museum in Morristown New Jersey. His artworks are in the permanent collections of The San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, The E.B. Crocker Museum - The California State Art Museum in Sacramento, California, and the Long Beach Art Museum in Long Beach California.
Smith is the author and illustrator of MOURNING SICKNESS The Art Of Grieving, published by Resurrection Press, a book about coping with the loss of a loved one and the journey through grief on the road to healing. His paintings, drawings, and essays have appeared in: Choices In Healing, by Michael Learner M.I.T. Press, Wounded Healers, by Naomi Remen M.D., Commonweal Press, Animals As Teachers and Healers, by Susan McElroy, Ballentine, and most recently Creative Healing, by Mike Samuels M.D. and Mary R. Lane, Harper. Smith's work may also be found on the World Wide Web as a columnist for WEBMD he created a six part series on Caregiving.
Keith Smith has earned a Master of Fine Arts Degree, the Terminal Degree in the Fine Arts from The California College of the Arts in San Francisco. Professor Smith is the recipient of a Ford Foundation Fellowship Grant; he is a National Merit Award winner in Experimental Media from the American Film Institute and Sony Corporation, and twice a Gold Medalist in Painting and Drawing at the California State Exposition. He is a frequent lecturer at hospitals and universities on the subject of Art As A Healing Force.
Keith's home and studio are on a small lake in Northwest New Jersey where he lives with his wife Ginny and two daughters Talia and Chloe.
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Exhibition History: KEITH SMITH
WORKS IN PERMANENT COLLECTIONS
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art San Francisco California
University of California Berkeley California
Crocker Art Museum Sacramento California
Long Beach Museum of Art Long Beach California
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
Vanderbilt University Medical Center Nashville Tennessee
Butler Institute of American Art Youngstown Ohio
Visual Arts Gallery CCM Randolph New Jersey
The Pavilion Gallery Memorial Hospital Mount Holly New Jersey
Phyllis Rothman Gallery Fairleigh Dickinson University Madison New Jersey
Bruce Lurie Gallery New York New York
New Jersey State Museum Trenton New Jersey
Shakti Gallery Long Beach California
Art Works Gallery Sacramento California
Gumps Gallery San Francisco California
Crocker Art Museum Sacramento California
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
National Oncology Conference San Antonio Texas
Morris Museum Madison New Jersey
Commonweal Art Gallery Bolinas California
Sussex College Newton New Jersey
The Bolinas Art Museum Bolinas California
San Francisco State University, Visual Arts Gallery San Francisco California
Blackwell Street Center for the Arts Dover New Jersey
Peter Drew Gallery Boca Raton Florida
Bruce Lurie Gallery New York New York
Schering Plough Corporation Gallery Madison New Jersey
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art San Francisco California
Metro Art New York New York
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art San Francisco California
Visions of US Touring Exhibition Museum of Modern Art New York New York
Smithsonian Institution Washington DC
L.A. County Art Museum Los Angeles California
Seattle Museum of Art Seattle Washington
Cleveland State University, University Art Gallery Cleveland Ohio
Sixth Tokyo Video Festival Tokyo Japan
Wesleyan College Art Gallery Macon Georgia
University of California Art Museum Berkeley California
Crocker Art Museum Sacramento California
Diego Rivera Art Gallery S.F. Art Institute San Francisco California
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art Fort Mason San Francisco California
University of the Pacific, University Art Gallery Stockton California
Gumps Gallery San Francisco California
Louis Newman Gallery Los Angeles California
Scottsdale Center for the Arts Scottsdale Arizona
Northern California Arts Exhibition Sacramento California
SELECTED REVIEWS
New York Times, NY Art Links, By Bill Zimmer
The Philadelphia Inquirer, PA Mourning Sickness, By Louise Harbach
Art Matters, PA Good Grief, by Burton Wasserman
New York Times, NY Mourning Sickness, By Vivian Raynor
You Magazine, NJ Light Heavyweights, by Marion Filler
Arts Alive KVIE PBS TV, Sacramento, CA Studio tour and interview
San Francisco Magazine, CA Best By the Bay, by Gay Falk
KEITH SMITH
EDUCATION
MFA 1980 With Highest Distinction California College of Arts and Crafts San Francisco California
BFA 1975 With Highest Distinction California College of Arts and Crafts San Francisco California
1970 - 1973 California State University Long Beach California
TEACHING
1995 - PRESENT County College of Morris Randolph New Jersey
Full Professor, Chairperson Visual Arts Department
1990 -1995 William Paterson University , School of Education Wayne New Jersey
Assistant Professor, Undergraduate Education Coordinator
1989 - 1990 County College of Morris Randolph New Jersey
Assistant Professor
1987 - 1992 Fairleigh Dickinson University Madison New Jersey
Assistant Professor, Adjunct
1984 -1988 County College of Morris Randolph New Jersey
Assistant Professor, Adjunct
1982 - 1983 California College of Arts and Crafts Oakland California
Adjunct Professor
1980 - 1983 American River College Sacramento California
Assistant Professor, Director of The American River College Art Gallery
PUBLICATIONS
Poetry and painting, Creativw Healing, by Michael Samuels, M.D., Harper, SF
Column and poetry, Caring For The Caretaker, by Keith Smith, Sapient Health Network/WEBMD, OR
Poetry, Shambala Magazine, by Naomi Remen M.D.
Poetry, Barefoot on Holy Ground, by Gloria Karpinski, Ballantine Books, NY
Column and poetry, Fear, The thief of Dreams, by Keith Smith, Sapient Health Network/WEBMD, OR
letter, Choices In Healing, by Michael Lerner, M.I.T. Press, MA
Poetry, The Wounded Healers, by Naomi Remen M.D., Commonweal Press, CA
Essay and Illustrations, Animals As Teachers and Healers, by S. McElroy, New Sage Press, OR
Book, Mourning Sickness, by Keith Smith, Rainbow Press, NJ
COMMISSIONS
Marin General Hospital, CA, Painting for Entrance of Cancer Center
Sussex Mental Health Center, NJ Painting for President's office
State of California, Painting for the office of the Secretary of Business and Transportation
McClatchy Publishing, Corp. Headquarters, Sacramento, CA 4 Paintings for Lobby
HONORS
National Merit Award for Experimental Media, Sony Corp. and The American Film Institute
Ford Foundation Fellowship Grant
2 Gold Medals, First in Painting & First in Drawing, California State Art Exposition
Antoinette S. Jones Memorial Award, Crocker Art Museum, Sacramento CA
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