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BOB SMITH

1944 (Springfield, Massachusetts)  – 1990 (Miami, Florida)

Graduated in Graphics, School of the Boston Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Mass., USA in 1968.

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ONE-MAN EXHIBITIONS

1989

1987

1986

1984

1978

1977

1973

1972

1971

Art Remains a Witness to a Life, Martos Gallery, New York City. 

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Galeria Mar Estrada, Madrid, Spain

Galerie Les z'Arts, Les Cerqueux/Passavent, Loire, France

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Galeria Oliva Mara, Madrid, Spain

Egyptomania N.Y.C. 1977-1980, Terne Gallery, New York

Box Constructions, Schreiber/Cutler Gallery, New York

Window at Chicago Books, New York

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Wall Constructions, Schreiber/Cutler Gallery, New York

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Box Environments, Yvonne Seguy Gallery, New York

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Nolo Contendere Gallery, New York

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Galeria Ciento, Barcelona, Spain

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Caja de Ahorros de Pamplona, Spain

Galerie Rodolphe Stadler, Paris

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Galeria Vandrés, Madrid, Spain

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Galeria Vandrés, Madrid, Spain

Galerie Fey & Nothelfer, Berlin, Germany

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2022

Días de plata y oro, Galeria Marta Cervera, Madrid

2023

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2019

2015

1994

1991

1990

1989

1987

1986

1985

1984

1983

1982

1980

1979

1978

1977

1976

1975

1973

1972

1971

Either/Or, Viviane Esders & David Panchout, Galerie Luc Berthier, Paris, France

Arstronomy, Casa Encendida, Madrid, Spain

The Box Show, K & E Gallery, New York 


Discarded, The Emerson Gallery, Rockland Center for the Arts, Nyack, NY.


Galaxie Gallery, Miami, Florida
Arregui Hsia Gallery, Coral Gables, Florida

Sculpture, East Martello Museum, Key West, Florida
Galerie Hélène Grubair, Miami, Florida

Two for One-Collaborative Art
, Henry Street Settlement, New York


Consensus, Exit Art, New York

Wall Constructions, Schreiber/Cutler Gallery, New York

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Pandora's Box, Benefit exhibition, New Museum, New York

The March Hare Show, Lasser Galleries, New York

Germans van Eck Gallery, New York

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Anniversary Show - Ten Years, The Artist Space, New York

Manhattan Art Gallery, New York

Bunnies, White Columns, New York

Nolo Contendere Gallery, New York

Objects, Germans van Eck Gallery, New York

Night Gallery, New York

Esta Robinson Gallery, New York, NY


The Seven Days of Creation, ABC No Rio, New York

Selections, The Artist Space, New York

Decisions of Arms, Just Above Midtown Downtown Gallery, New York

Homage to Joseph Cornell, Gabrielle Bryers Gallery, New York

Shelter, Public Image Gallery, New York

Travelling Scholarship Show, Boston Museum of Fine Arts, Boston

International Shoebox Show, University of Hawaii

O.I.A., Brooklyn Federal Courthouse, New York

Cultural Council Foundation, CETA Artists Exhibition, Snug Harbor, Staten     Island, NY also World Trade Center (Court House Mural Proposal)

CETA Artists Exhibition, Snug Harbor, Staten Island, NY

Centennial Exhibition, Boston Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Mass.

Galeria Vandrés, Artefiera, Bologna, Italy

Galeria Vandrés: 1970-1975, Galeria Vandrés, Madrid, Spain


Biennale de Paris, Musée d'Art Moderne, Paris, France

Galerie Rodolphe Stadler, Paris, France

La Paloma, Galeria Vandrés, Madrid, Spain

North American Painters in Spain, United States Cultural Center, Madrid, Spain

Ibiza Graphics, Museo de Arte Contemporaneo, Ibiza, Spain
 

Galeria Ivan Spence, Ibiza, Spain

Eros y el arte actual, Galeria Vandrés, Madrid, Spain

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2023

Looking Back/The 13th White Columns Annual, January 20th - March 4th 2023

After Lives, Foreign/Domestic Gallery, New York

ART IN PUBLIC PLACES

1986    

1980   

1979    

1978    

  Bob Smith Box Environments, Spanish TV, Metropolitan Program
 

 Permanent installation, Dyckman Welfare Center, New York
 

 Hocus Focus, Staten Island Children's Museum, New York
 

Homage to Goya, Start 5 Project, Staten Island, New York

STAGE DESIGN

1986    

Basic Stategies No. V, stage set design for choreographer Blondell Cummings, Adams Memorial Theater, Williams College, Williamstown, Mass.

Opening Jan. 24.

AWARDS

1990

1989 

1988  

1986    

1982 

1971    

1969

Change Etc., Rauschenberg Foundation, New York

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The Pollock-Krasner Foundation Fellowship

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Residency, The MacDowell Colony, Peterborough, New Hampshire

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The Pollock-Krasner Foundation Fellowship

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Clarissa Bartlett Travelling Scholarship, Boston Museum of Fine Arts

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Charles H. Whitman Travelling Scholarship, Boston Museum of Fine Arts

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Charles H. Whitman Travelling Scholarship, Boston Museum of Fine Arts

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