MARTIN SMITH

In Response to Conversations with a Therapist as a Narrative Device

 

APRIL 22 - MAY 10, 2008

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 othersthe 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 PhotographyRedlands 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 TownGallery 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 Lawyers24 week artist in residence

                 Artworkers Alliance, Gift for Japan Expo

                 Museum of Brisbane, Small Talk

2001        The Promise Residency6 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