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Dianne Smith (born August 28, 1965 in Bronx, NY) is a contemporary African-American artist of Belizean descent. Smith is an abstract expressionist painter, sculptor, and installation artist. Her work explores global socio-economic and political issues as it relates to race, gender and identity. Smith is an arts educator in the field of Aesthetic Education at Lincoln Center Education, a part of Lincoln Center For the Performing Arts, in New York City. Her teaching includes pre k-12 in public schools, as well as numerous colleges and universities throughout the Tri-State area such as: Lehman College, Brooklyn College, Columbia University Teachers College, City College, and St. John’s University.

Biography

Smith's work has been exhibited in solo and group exhibitions in New York City’s Soho and Chelsea Art Districts as well as, galleries and institutions throughout the United States, and abroad. In 2007, She was one of the artists featured in the Boondoggle Film Documentary Colored Frames. The film took a look back at fifty years in African-American Art, and also featured artists such as, Benny Andrews, Ed Clark and Danny Simmons. That same year, the historical Abyssinian Baptist Church commissioned Smith to create the artwork commemorating their 2008 Bicentennial. In addition, she co-produced an online radio show the New Palette, for ArtonAir.org (Art International Radio) dedicated to visual artists of color.

Smith is a Bronx native. She attended LaGuardia High School of Music and Art the Otis Parsons School of Design and Fashion Institute of Technology. Smith completed her MFA at Transart Institute in Berlin, Germany. She currently lives and works in Harlem, New York.

Selected Solo Exhibitions

2012 Dianne Smith, Surface & Soul, Piedmont Arts, Martinsvlle, Virginia, Curated by Brandon Adams and Dianne Smith.
Dianne Smith, s.h.e. Gallery, Boontoon, New Jersey, Curated by Dianne Smith and Kim Saunders.
2011 Syllogisms, RFA Gallery, New York City. Curated by Dianne Smith and Paula Coleman.
2006 Live Artfully, Kalahari, New York City.
2005 My View: A Black Girl’s Thoughts On Canvas, Hearne Fine Art, Little Rock, Arkansas. Curated by Garbo Hearne. Dianne Smith, ZZAJ, New York City.
2003 The Duplicity of the Proletariat, UFA Gallery, New York City. Curated by Carol Sims and Lawrence Finney.
2002 Unbroken, UFA Gallery, New York City. Curated by Carol Sims and Lawrence Finney.
Unbroken, Diggs Gallery Winston Salem State University, Winston Salem, North Carolina. Curated by Belinda Tate.
We’ve Come This Far, Abyssinian Baptist Church, Charity Event, New York City.

Selected Exhibitions

2014 I Kan Do Dat, Contemporary Abstract Art, Skylight Gallery, Brooklyn, New York. Curated by Daniel Simmoms and Oshun Layne.
2014 From Africa to Abstract: Journey of a People Through Art and Image, Southhampton Cultural Center, Southhampton, New York. Curated by Tina Andrews.
2013 Curate NYC, On line Exhibition, New York City. Curated by Amanda Hunt.
2013 Curate NYC, On line Exhibition, New York City. Curated by Paul Goodwin.
2013 Curate NYC, On line Exhibition, New York City. Curated by Betty-Sue Hertz.
2012 Together, s.h.e. Gallery, Boontoon, New Jersey, Curated by Kim Saunders.
2012 “Romare Bearden: 20th Century American Master” A Project of the Romare Bearden Foundation. Developed and produced by Full Spectrum Experience, Inc, New York City. Curated by Danny Simmons and Brian Tate.
2012 Curate NYC, On line Exhibition, New York City. Curated by Lowery Sims.
2012 Curate NYC, On line Exhibition, New York City. Curated by
2011 Collaborations: Two Decades of Excellence, The Delta Cultural Center, Helena, Arkansas.
2010 Dash Gallery, New York City.
2010 Woman’s Work: 20 Emerging and Mid-Career Avisca Fine Art, Marrietta, Georgia.
Stand Up II: Individualism in a Collective State, New York City, Tilford Art Group. Curated by Terrell Tilford.
2010 Collaborations: Two Decades of Excellence, South Arkansas Arts Center in El Dorado, Arkansas.
2009 Collaborations: Two Decades of Excellence, Chattanooga African American Museum.
2009 Habitat for Artist, New York City.
2008 School of Visual Arts Residency Open Studios, New York City. Hearne Fine Art, National Black Fine Art Show, New York City. Collaborations: Two Decades of Excellence, Pyramid/Hearne Fine Art:1998-2008, Little Rock, Arkansas. Curated by Garbo Hearn Daughters Of The Diaspora, Hearne Fine Art, Little Rock, Arkansas. Curated by Garbo Hearne.
2007 Colours Fine Art, National Black Fine Art Show, New York City.
2006 Objects Reinvented, PCOG Gallery, New York, New York. Curated by Paula Coleman. Harmony Designs, Mount Vernon, New York. Abstract Artist, Johnson-Byrd Gallery, New York City. Abstract Expressionism: A Sublime Experience, West Harlem Art Fund, Russ Berrie Medical Science Pavillion, New York City. Curated by Savona Bailey McClain. Colours Fine Art, National Black Fine Art Show, New York City Abstraction, Corridor Gallery, Brooklyn, New York. Tilford Art Group, Los Angeles, California. Curated by Terrell Tilford.
2005 Colours Fine Art, National Black Fine Art Show, New York City. Hearne Fine Art, Little Rock, Arkansas. Artjaz Gallery, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Arterior, Contemporary African, Caribbean and Latin American Art, Off The Main, New York City.
2004 Kenkeleba Gallery, National Black Fine Art Show, New York City. Rongio Gallery, allu’sion, Brooklyn, New York.
2003 P.C.O.G. Gallery, New York City. Represent Too! Celebrating Black Women Visual Artist of the 21st Century, Los Angeles, California. Curated by Terrell Tilford. Rush Fine Arts, New York City. Unbroken, Celebrating Black History, The Art Center of Northern New Jersey, New Milford, New Jersey. National Black Fine Arts Show, UFA Gallery, New York City.
2002 No Greater Love: Abstraction, Jack Tilton Gallery, New York City. Myriad Eyes, Women in Photography, SUNY Empire State College Metropolitan Center Galley, New York City. Hearne Fine Art, Little Rock, Arkansas. Curated by Garbo Hearne. Believe, Fairleigh Dickinson University, Hackensack, New Jersey. Curated by Carol Sims. NAC, Rush Fine Arts, New York City. UFA Gallery, National Black Fine Arts Show, New York City. Museum of Contemporary African Diaspora Art (MOCADA), Brooklyn, New York.
2001 NAC, The Center For Arts & Culture, Skylight Gallery, Brooklyn, New York. Museum of Contemporary African Diaspora Art (MOCADA), Brooklyn, New York, Gale-Martin Gallery, New York City.
2000 UFA Gallery, National Black Fine Arts Show, New York City. Celebrating Black History Month, The Art Center of Northern New Jersey, New Milford, New Jersey. Celebrating Black History Month, Bergen Regional Medical Center, Paramus, New Jersey. Women in the Arts, Simone's Gallery, Pelham, New York. City Hall, Mount Vernon, New York. COLOR, Chicago Black Fine Arts Show, Gale-Martin Gallery, Chicago, Illinois. Iandor Fine Art, Newark, New Jersey. Curated by Tarin Fuller. UFA Gallery, New York City. Curated by Carol Sims. Gale-Martin Gallery, New York City.

Select Public art and Installations

2013 Dazzle, Play Lab, The West Harlem Art Fund, New York City.
2013 Public Art, Festval de Artes al Aire Libre, Museo Municipal de Guayaquil- Ecuador, Guayaquil, Equador.
2013 No Limits, Harrison Museum of African American Culture, Roanoke, Virginia.
2013 Organic Abstract, The West Harlem Art Fund
2012 Connections, Select Art Fair, Art Basel Miami, Miami, Florida.
2012 Afro Syllogisms, Transformers: A Coiled Potential, Atelierhof Kreuzberg, Berlin, Germany.
2011 Within Shadows Cast, Piedmont Arts, Martinsvlle, Virginia.
2011 Where Are We Now, Piedmont Arts, Martinsvlle, Virginia.
2011 Loosely Coupled, The West Harlem Art Fund, Governor’s Island, New York City.
2011 Gumboot Juba, The West Harlem Art Fund, Armory Arts Week, New York City.
2009 Remix/Repurpose, PARK(ING) Day NYC, West Harlem Art Fund, New York City.

Selected Commission(s)

Abyssinian Baptist Church, New York City, Sponsored by the Bicentennial Anniversary Committee, 2007.

Private Collections

Dr. Maya Angelou
George Faison
Danny Simmons
Vivica A. Fox
Rev. Dr. & Mrs. Calvin O. Butts, III
Cicely Tyson
Terry McMillan
Arthur Mitchell
Tasha Smith

Bibliography

Zagat Spotlight on Harlem, Clinton Foundation, Other Neighborhood Highlights, Arts and Entertainment, Dianne Smith Arts, 2009/2010.
Angie Hancock, The Virtuoso Dianne Smith, What’s New in Harlem, New York Living Magazine, February/March 2009.
Elizabeth Fasolino, Contemporary Lessons, The East Hampton Star, July 2008.
Dianne Smith, Narrator’s View, Lincoln Center Institute, Picasso: What is the Artist’s Voice?, 2008.
Dianne Smith, Narrator’s View, Lincoln Center Institute, Mary Whalen: A Night Sonnet So Far, 2007.
Dianne Smith, Afterward Collaborations Two Decades of Excellence, Collaborations: Two Decades of African American Art, Hearne Fine Art Catalogue, 2008.
Open House NYC, NBC, LX-TV, New York City, 2008.
Lerone D. Wilson and Nonso Christian Ugbod, Boondoggle Films Documentary, Colored Frames, 2006.
New York Times, Harlem Celebrates, August 2006.
Essence Magazine, Living Well Home Special, September 2004.
Flo Wiley, WCHR-FM-90.3, City College Harlem Community Radio, New York, City, 2003.
Cheryl Washington, Good Day New York, New York City, 2002.
Ambrose Clancy, Washington Post, Life Styles In Harlem, Washington, District of Columbia, 2002.
Soho Art Journal, New York City, 2002.
Cheryl Washington, Channel 5 News, New York City, 2002.
Disappearing Acts, HBO & Adelphi Pictures, 2000.

Lectures/Panels

NYC State of the Art Conference Panelist: What more can be done to facilitate NYC artists selling art?, New York City, 2010.
Moderator, Panel Discussion Longevity and Sustainability in a Global Market Place, Hearne Fine Art, 2008.
Lecture, Hearne Fine Art, Little Rock, Arkansas, 2007.
Lecture, Gay Men’s Health Crisis, New York City, 2006.
Lecture, UFA Gallery, New York, New York City, 2003.
Lecture, Fairleigh Dickinson University, Hackensack, New Jersey, 2002.
Lecture, Winston Salem State University, Winston Salem, North Carolina, 2002.
Lecture, Harlem Book Fair, New York City, 2001.

Teaching

The Center For Art Education, New York city, 2011-2012
Lincoln Center Education, New York City, 2005-present.

Select Residency

School Of Visual Arts Residency, Painting and Mixed Media