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GEOFFREY TODD SMITH | artist resume
Born 1973, Cleveland, OH
Lives and works in Chicago, IL

Education
1997	MFA, Northern Illinois University, DeKalb, IL
1995	BFA, The School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL
Solo Exhibitions
2012	Western Exhibitions, Chicago FEEL HARDER, Nudashank, Baltimore
2011	Casual X, Luis de Jesus, Los Angeles, CA
2009	solo booth, NADA Art Fair, Miami Beach, FL w/ Western Exhibitions Geoffrey Todd Smith is a Friend to Beauty!, Western Exhibitions, Chicago, IL I Could Look at Myself in Your Eyes Forever. Western Exhibitions, Chicago, IL
2008	Looking You Up to Look You Down, Main Gallery, Las Vegas, NV Here’s Looking at You Looking at Me Kid, Hyde Park Art Center, Chicago, IL
2007	Geoffrey Todd Smith Will Romance You When He is Good and Ready, Western Exhibitions, Chicago,
2006	The Dynamite That I Might Light, Butcher Shop/ Dogmatic Gallery, Chicago, IL
2005	A Map of the Tunnels From My Bedroom To Yours, Silo, Stoughton, WI
Selected Exhibitions
2012	Afterimage, Depaul Museum of Art.September 13 – November 15, 2012 R & D, curated by Britton Bertran, Manifold, Chicago Painted, curated by Tyson Reeder. The Green Gallery, Milwaukee, WI
2011	Blaque Lyte, Hyde Park Art Center, Chicago, IL A Person of Color: a mostly orange exhibition, The Green Gallery, Milwaukee, WI
2010	Strategic Abstraction, Geoffrey Young Gallery, Great Barrington, MA Passion for Pattern, Hinsdale Center for the Arts, Hinsdale, IL Let There Be Geo, A+D Gallery, Columbia College, Chicago, IL PAPER! AWESOME!, Curated by Brion Nuda Rosch, Baer Ridgway in San Francisco Painter’s Paintings, Western Exhibitions, Chicago, IL
2009	What is Design?, Unit B (Gallery), San Antonio, TX group show, Synchronicity, Los Angeles, CA United States of Color vs. Grand Theft, Auto, Seminal Projects, San Diego, CA Pattern, Hallway Projects, San Francisco, CA
2008	West, Wester, Westest, Fecal Face Dot Gallery, San Francisco, CA
2007	Obsessive Explosive, Evanston Art Center, Evanston, IL The Uncertainty Principle: Drawing in the Golden Age of Worry, NIU Art Museum, DeKalb, IL
2006	Drawing Works, Sling Shot Gallery, Madison, IL Klusterfudge, Telephone Booth Gallery, Kansas City, MO 18th Biennial Exhibition, Evanston Art Center, Evanston, IL
2005	Chicago Sampler, University of St. Francis, Joliet, IL Into the Midst, Mixture Contemporary, Houston, TX Group Show, Butcher Shop / Dogmatic Gallery, Chicago, IL
2004	Organically Grown, SUNY, Purchase, NY Pay Attention, Unit B Gallery, Chicago, IL All About Drawing, University of Nebraska, Lincoln, NE 2003 Biennial Exhibition, South Bend Regional Art Museum, South Bend, IN These Days, Illinois State University, Normal, IL
2002	Realm of the Lair, Joymore Gallery, Chicago, IL Summer Group Show, Contemporary Art Workshop, Chicago, IL National Drawing Exhibition, Muscarelle Museum, Williamsburg, VA
Collections
	Hallmark Inc. Collection, Kansas City, MO Jager Collection, Amsterdam, Netherlands South Bend Regional Art Museum, South Bend, IN Harper College, Palatine, IL
Press
2011	New American Paintings, No. 95, August/September 2011 art ltd. Enholm, Molly. “Geoffrey Todd Smith” (profile). March 2011
2010	The Open Daybook. Earle, David. Mark Batty Publisher. November 2010 Chicago Sun-Times. “Art work challenges viewers to find the pattern behind the pattern” Bosch, Sandy Illian. May 27, 2010
2009	Joanne Mattera Art Blog. "Fair and Fair Alike: Miami 2009. The Wrap-up Awards!". Dec. 30 Chicago Tribune Magazine. “Art in Chicago: On View”. April 19 New City. Edwards, Natalie. “Geoffrey Todd Smith” (review). April 13, 2009 Art Addict. West, Paige. “Three Very Different Artists” April 10 Chicago Art Review. Ruiz, Steve Kush. “Geoffrey Todd Smith @ Western Exhibitions”, April 5 Flavorpill. Lund, Karsten, “Geoffrey Todd Smith” (review). April 3 Chicagoist. Apple, Lauri. “An Interview with Geoffrey Todd Smith” April 3 Huffington Post. Klein, Paul. “…Art in the Galleries is Improving” April 3 Fecalface.com. Christian, Ryan. “Geoffrey Todd Smith in Chicago” April 8 Fecalface.com. Figueredo, Carlos. “United States of Color vs. Grand Theft Auto” Jan. 12
2008	Las Vegas Weekly. “Sixty Seven Words about… Geoffrey Todd Smith” Oct. 23 Fecalface.com. Christian, Ryan. Interview Las Vegas Weekly. Forestieri, Susan. “Offbeat art blazes a trail in Vegas”. July 24 Cool Hunting. Samson, Jonah. “Geoffrey Todd Smith” Kill City. Rich. “Geoffrey Todd Smith” Doobybrain.com. “Geoffrey Todd Smith” Sixty Second Ape. “Geoffrey Todd Smith” Orange Alert. “Artist of the Week”. interview. May 14
2007	Chicago Magazine. Topor, Joanna. “After Pashcke”. April 2007 The Jeremy Show. “The Jeremy Show Interview: Geoffrey Todd Smith”, July 2 New City. Foumberg, Jason. “Night Moves”, September 4
2006	Artinfo.com. Janku, Laura Richard. “Fair Report: Affair@the Jupiter.” Oct. 1, 2006 Joanne Mattera Art Blog. Mattera, Joanna. “Aqua Art Miami”. December 2006 Artinfo.com. “On Collecting: 10 works We Like for Under $2000”, Oct. 2006
2004	UR. “Scene/Heard”. June Edition.

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