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
2011 Perfect Price for Donny, Ryan Renshaw Gallery, Brisbane
2011 Artist in Residence, Turner Galleries, Perth
2010 Hello Newmarket Hotel, Ryan Renshaw Gallery, Brisbane
2010 Until You Comfort Your Father, Sophie Gannon Gallery, Melbourne
2009 Jesus lets me tickle his belly, Sophie Gannon Gallery, Melbourne
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
2008 Nobody Out There, Centre For Contemporary Photography, Melbourne
2008 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
2004 What Would You Choose, The Farm Space, Brisbane
2004 You Can Give Them a Better Life than I Ever Could, Canberra Contemporary Art Space
2002 Give and Take, Metro Arts, Brisbane
2002 Two Weeks Later the Dominant Male was Dead, Black Peppers Gallery, Brisbane
2000 Looking at Yourself, Looking at Yourself, Stratton Gallery, Brisbane
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2011 Monaism, Museum of New & Old Art, Hobart
2010 The State We're In: Contemporary Queensland Photography, University of Queensland Art Museum
2010 Josephine Ulrich & Win Schubert Photography Award, Gold Coast City Art Gallery
2010 Melbourne Art Fair, Ryan Renshaw Gallery / Sophie Gannon Gallery
2009 The Shilo project The Potter Museum, University of Melbourne, Melbourne
2009 Self-portrait prize, University of Queensland Art Museum, Brisbane
2009 Inheritance, Australian Centre for Photography, Sydney
2009 Q150, 150 Years of Queensland Photography, Queensland Art Gallery, Brisbane
2009 Family Guy, Lake Macquaire Regional Gallery, Newcastle
2009 I have not been feeling myself lately, Queensland College of Art Gallery, Brisbane
2009 New, The University of Queensland Art Museum, Brisbane
2008 Paris Photo (with Stills Gallery), Paris, France
2008 Under the influence; Art and Music QUT Art Museum, Brisbane
2008 Typecast Sophie Gannon Gallery, Melbourne
2008 Looking at others; the death project part one, Parramatta Artists Studios, Sydney
2008 Photo LA (with Hous Projects), Santa Monica, USA
2008 KLM Paul Huf Award, Foam_Fotograifiemuseum, Amsterdam
2008 Primavera 07, Samstag Museum, Adelaide
2008 The Bon Scott Project, Fremantle Arts Centre, Fremantle
2007 Elsewhere, Nellie Casten Gallery, Melbourne
2007 Human House Projects, New York City, USA
2007 Typecast Sophie Gannon Gallery, Melbourne
2007 Primavera 07, Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney
2007 Photo LA (with Hous Projects), Santa Monica, USA
2007 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
2004 Josephine Ulrick & Win Schubert Photography Award, Gold Coast
2004 On Location, Qld Centre for Photography, Brisbane
2004 City Views, Museum of Brisbane, Brisbane
2003 The Farm Comes to Town, Gallery Barry Keldoulis, Sydney
2003 The B-Sides, Studio 11, Brisbane
2003 Serendipity and Lunacy, Soapbox Gallery, Brisbane
2003 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
2005 Artworkers Alliance, Gift for Japan Expo
2005 Museum of Brisbane, Small Talk
2004 Gadens Lawyers, 24 week artist in residence
2005 Artworkers Alliance, Gift for Japan Expo
2005 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