MARTIN SMITH
Born and works in Brisbane, Australia
EDUCATION
2000 Honours in Visual Art (Photography), Queensland College of Art/Griffith University
1995 Bachelor of Visual Art (Photography), Queensland College of Art/Griffith University
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2009 I am Fortunate and Bored, Ryan Renshaw Gallery, Brisbane
2009 My Jesus Let Me Rub His Belly, Sophie Gannon Gallery, Melbourne
2008 In Response to Using Conversations with a Therapist, Ryan Renshaw Gallery, Brisbane
Nobody Out There, Centre For Contemporary Photography, Melbourne
In Response to Knowing When Something is Finished, Stills Gallery, Sydney
2007 In Response to Being Somebody Else, Qld Centre for Photography, Brisbane
2006 In Response to the Boy on the Train with the Speech Impediment,
Ryan Renshaw Gallery, Brisbane
2005 Recent Works, Ryan Renshaw Gallery, Brisbane
2004 ...am I Missing Something, Gadens Lawyers, Brisbane
What Would You Choose, The Farm Space, Brisbane
You Can Give Them a Better Life than I Ever Could, Canberra Contemporary Art Space
2002 Give and Take, Metro Arts, Brisbane
Two Weeks Later the Dominant Male was Dead, Black Peppers Gallery, Brisbane
2000 Looking at Yourself, Looking at Yourself, Stratton Gallery, Brisbane
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2009 The Shilo project The Potter Museum, University of Melbourne, Melbourne
Self-portrait prize, University of Queensland Art Museum, Brisbane
Inheritance, Australian Centre for Photography, Sydney
Family Guy, Lake Macquaire Regional Gallery, Newcastle
I have not been feeling myself lately, Queensland College of Art Gallery, Brisbane
New, The University of Queensland Art Museum, Brisbane
2008 Paris Photo (with Stills Gallery), Paris, France
Under the influence; Art and Music QUT Art Museum, Brisbane
Typecast Sophie Gannon Gallery, Melbourne
Looking at others; the death project part one, Parramatta Artists Studios, Sydney
Photo LA (with Hous Projects), Santa Monica, USA
KLM Paul Huf Award, Foam_Fotograifiemuseum, Amsterdam
Primavera 07, Samstag Museum, Adelaide
The Bon Scott Project, Fremantle Arts Centre, Fremantle
2007 Elsewhere, Nellie Casten Gallery, Melbourne
Human House Projects, New York City, USA
Typecast Sophie Gannon Gallery, Melbourne
Primavera 07, Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney
Photo LA (with Hous Projects), Santa Monica, USA
Josephine Ulrick & Win Schubert Photography Award, Gold Coast
2006 Time...after Time, Kings ARI, Melbourne
2005 Brisbane Art Fair, Brisbane Convention Centre
2005 Dig Me Out, Dig Me Out Gallery, Osaka, Japan
2004 Sleight Qld Contemporary Photography, Redlands City Art Gallery, Brisbane
Josephine Ulrick & Win Schubert Photography Award, Gold Coast
On Location, Qld Centre for Photography, Brisbane
City Views, Museum of Brisbane, Brisbane
2003 The Farm Comes to Town, Gallery Barry Keldoulis, Sydney
The B-Sides, Studio 11, Brisbane
Serendipity and Lunacy, Soapbox Gallery, Brisbane
Churchie Emerging Art Exhbition, Brisbane
COMMISIONS/AWARDS/RESIDENCIES
2008 Clayton Utz Travelling Scholarship, Violia Prize, MCA, Sydney
2006 Springfield Complex, Mural Mirvac Constructions, Eleanora Public Library, Gold Coast
2005 Artworkers Alliance, Small Grant
Artworkers Alliance, Gift for Japan Expo
Museum of Brisbane, Small Talk
2004 Gadens Lawyers, 24 week artist in residence
Artworkers Alliance, Gift for Japan Expo
Museum of Brisbane, Small Talk
2001 The Promise Residency, 6 months, Metro Arts, Brisbane
COLLECTIONS
Queensland Art Gallery
University of Qld Art Museum, University of Qld
Monash City Gallery
ARTBANK
Gadens Lawyers Brisbane and Sydney
Private Collections
PUBLISHED WRITING
2008 Where the citizens like to sit
‘Martin Smith; photographs; In response to…’
2004 painted light / malt lys
Deb Mansfield Camilla Birkeland, Catalogue Essay
2003 The White Album, Christopher Handran
Local Art issue 12