Michael E. Smith
b. in 1977, Detroit, USA
lives and works in Providence, USA
EDUCATION
2008
MFA Yale University School of Art, New Haven, USA
2006
BFA College for Creative Studies, Detroit, USA
2005
AICAD New York Studio Program, New York, USA
SOLO EXHIBITION
2024
“Michael E. Smith”, Kunst Museum Winterthur, Winterthur, CH
2023
ZERO…, Milan, IT
“Michael E. Smith”, Herny Moore Institute, Leeds, UK
2022
Modern Art, London, UK
2021
KOW, Berlin, DE
“Michael E. Smith”, Pinakothek der Moderne, München, DE
2020
“Michael E. Smith”, Secession, Wien, CH
Andrew Kreps Gallery, New York, USA
2019
KOW, Madrid, ES
Modern Art, London, UK
2018
What Pipeline, Detroit, USA
Lumiere Atlantis, Marseille, FR
“Michael E. Smith”, Kunsthalle Basel, Basel, CH
“Field Station: Michael E. Smith, Eli and Edythe Broad”, Art Museum at Michigan State University, East Lansing, USA
2017
Joseloff Gallery, Hartford Art School, Hartford, USA
“Michael E. Smith”, MoMA PS1, New York, USA
“Michael E. Smith”, S.M.A.K., Ghent, NL
KOW, Berlin, DE
2016
Lumber Room, Portland, USA
Andrew Kreps Gallery, New York, USA
ZERO…, Milan, IT
Pig, CAPRI, Düsseldorf, DE
2015
“Michael E. Smith”, Kunstverein Hannover, DE
“Michael E. Smith”, De Appel, Amsterdam, NL
Michael Benevento, Los Angeles, USA
“Michael E. Smith”, Sculpture Center, Long Island City, USA
2014
Lulu, Mexico City, MX
Reserve Ames, Los Angeles, USA
“Michael E. SMith”, MoMA PS1, Long Island City, USA
Zabludowicz Collection, London, UK
Susanne Hilberry, Detroit, USA
“Michael E. Smith”, Power Station, Dallas, USA
“Michael E. Smith, La Triennale di Milano, Milan, IT
2013
“Michael E. Smith”, CAPC musée d’art contemporain de Bordeaux, FR
KOW, Berlin, DE
Clifton Benevento, New York, USA
“Michael E. Smith”, Ludwig Forum, Aachen, DE
2012
“Michael E. Smith”, Culturgest, Lisboa, PT
ZERO…, Milan, IT
2011
“Michael E. Smith”, Contemporary Art Museum, St. Louis, USA
“Michael E. Smith”, Mönchehaus Museum, Goslar, DE
Susanne Hilberry, Detroit, USA
2010
KOW, Berlin, DE
Clifton Benevento, New York, USA
2009
KOW ISSUE 3, KOW, Berlin, DE
Susanne Hilberry, Ferndale, (with Kate Levant), USA
2008
“Ackerstrasse 18”, curated by Nikolaus Oberhuber, Berlin, DE
Jenny Jaskey, Philadelphia, USA
2007
Susanne Hilberry, Ferndale, (with Kate Levant), USA
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITION
2022
“Quite as it’s Kept”, Whitney Biennial, curated by David Breslin and Adrienne Edwards, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, USA
“On the Nature of Things”, Andrew Kreps Gallery, New York, USA
“Our Silver City, 2094”, Nottingham Contemporary, Nottingham, UK
“The Imaginary Sea”, curated by Chris Sharp, Fondation Carmignac – Villa Varmignac, La Courtade, FR
2021
“Delusionarium 5 (Adaptation)”, curated by Jesse Benson & Becky Koblick, Night Gallery, Los Angeles, USA
“Reassembly”, Galerie Nordenhake, Stockholm, Stockholm, SE
“Group Show”, Modern Art, London, UK
“K as in Knight”, Helena Anrather, New York, USA
2020
“Just Connect”, Museum of Contemporary Art (MCA) Chicago, Near North Side, Chicago, USA
“Out Of The Dark II”, KOW, Berlin, DE
2019
“Since Last We Met”, Simon Lee Gallery, New York, Upper East Side, New York, USA
“Department of Carving and Modeling Section II: Form and Volume”, curated by Cristina Guerra, Cristina Guerra Contemporary Art, Lisbon, PT
“Stadtschlawinereien”, KOW, Berlin, Berlin, DE
“Buildings”, Lodos Gallery, San Rafael, Mexico City, MX
“The Smiths”, Marlborough, London, Mayfair, London, UK
“We Burn Our Dreams Just To Stay Warm”, Capital, San Francisco, USA
2018
“Take a seat”, Lee Marks Fine Art, Shelbyville, USA
“Mike Smith: The Lost State of Frankland”, Tracey Morgan Gallery, Asheville, USA
“Was euch am Leben hält ist was bei uns zu Asche zerfällt”, KOW, Berlin, DE
“Sculptures”, Andrew Kreps Gallery, New York, USA
“Fences & Windows”, Modern Art, London, UK
“Baltic Triennial 13: Give Up the Ghost”, Contemporary Art Centre Vilnius, Vilnius, LT
“From the Collection: Against the Wall?”, S.M.A.K. Ghent, Ghent, BE
“A Flower Show / AIPAD 2018”, Lee Marks Fine Art, Shelbyville, USA
“This is a Pipe: Realism and the Found Object in Contemporary Art”, Shane Campbell Gallery, South Loop, Chicago, USA
“Converter”, Kunstmuseum St. Gallen, St. Gallen, CH
2017
“The Air Vibrates with the Buzz of Insects”, Rochechouart Museum of Contemporary Art, Rochechouart, FR
“Sunlight arrives only at its proper hour”, 356 Mission, Downtown Los Angeles, USA
“Group Exhibition”, Essex Street, Lower East Side, New York, USA
“99 Cents or Less”, MOCAD, Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit, Detroit, USA
White Columns Benefit Auction, White Columns, Greenwich Village, New York, USA
“All Watched Over by Machines of Loving Grace”, Palais de Tokyo, 16e, Paris, FR
“The Gap Between the Fridge and the Cooker” ,The Modern Institute, Aird’s Lane, Glasgow, UK
“Representing Place: Photographs of Appalachia”, Tracey Morgan Gallery, Asheville, USA
2016
“Concrete Islands”, Kayne Griffin Corcoran, Santa Monica, Los Angeles, USA
“Me and You and This Other Thing”, Southern Exposure, Mission District, San Francisco, USA
“Out Of The Dark”, KOW Berlin, Berlin, DE
“See sun, and think shadow”, Gladstone Gallery, New York, USA
2015
“Walks and displacements”, Andrew Kreps Gallery, Lower Manhattan, New York, USA
“Stranger than Paradise”, Sies + Höke, Düsseldorf, DE
“Albert the kid is ghosting”, The David Roberts Art Foundation, London, UK
“System of a Down”, Ellis King, Dublin, IRL
“A Summer Of Films”, KOW, Berlin, Berlin, DE
“A Walk…”, Tripoli Gallery, Southampton, New York, USA
“Toys Redux: On Play and Critique”, Migros Museum für Gegenwartskunst, Zürich, CH
“Sculptures Also Die”, Museo di Palazzo Strozzi, Florence, IT
“Scottish Drawings”, Royal Scottish Academy, Edinburgh, UK
2014
“The Little Things Could Be Dearer”, MoMA PS1, Long Island City, USA
“The Registry of Promise: The Promise of Moving Things”, Institut Suédois, 3e, Paris, FR
“Technokinesis”, Blum & Poe, Los Angeles, USA
“Technokinesis”, Blum & Poe, New York, USA
“Another Look at Detroit (Part I and II)”, Marianne Boesky Gallery, Chelsea, USA
“humainnonhumain”, Fondation d’Entreprise Ricard ,8e, Paris, FR
“Slip”, Mitchell-Innes & Nash, Chelsea, USA
“Group Exhibition: Ice Fishing”, Max Wigram Gallery, London, UK
“Geographies of Contamination”, The David Roberts Art Foundation, London, UK
“Being Here & Being Thus. Sculpture, Object & Stage”, Frankfurter Kunstverein, Frankfurt, DE
2013
“The New Morals”, Galeria Stereo, Poznan, PL
“Realization is Better than Anticipation”, Museum of Contemporary Art, Cleveland, USA
“Prodigal In Blue”, Laura Bartlett Gallery, Bethnal Green, London, UK
“Painting in the 2.5th Dimension”, Zabludowicz Collection, London, UK
2012
“Remote Control”, Institute of Contemporary Arts, London, UK
Whitney Biennial 2012, Whitney Museum of American Art, Greenwich Village, USA
2011
“The Moment Pleasantly Frightful”, Laura Bartlett Gallery, Bethnal Green, UK
“The View from a Volcano: The Kitchen’s Soho Years”, 1971-85 The Kitchen, Chelsea, USA
“Segalega – Group Show”, Gio Marconi Gallery, Milan, IT
“Proposal for a Floor”, Zabludowicz Collection, New York, USA
2009
“The Living And The Dead”, Gavin Brown’s enterprise, Greenwich Village, USA
“Michael Smith & Sarah Pohlman: Conceptual Glances / Life’S Soup”, Twenty-Two
Gallery, Philadelphia, USA
“The Puppet Show”, Serralves Museum of Contemporary Art, Porto, PT
“Kayle Brandon and Lady Lucy Present: The Drawing Exchange Festival”, Spike Island, Bristol, UK
“SONIC YOUTH etc. : SENSATIONAL FIX”, Kunsthalle Düsseldorf, Düsseldorf, DE
Untitled, 2022, bottles, knee caps, motors
installation view at ”Quiete as It’s Kept”, Whitney Biennial 2022, New York, USA
Untitled, 2022, bottles, knee caps, motors
installation view at ”Quiete as It’s Kept”, Whitney Biennial 2022, New York, USA