I acknowledge the traditional owners of the land on which I live and work: the Wurundjeri and neighbouring Boonwurrung people; and their continuing connection to land, sea and community. I pay my respects to their Elders; past, present and emerging.
Nicholas Smith is a visual artist that lives and works between Los Angeles, California and Narrm / Melbourne, Australia
- CV
Born 1990, Geelong, Australia
EDUCATION
2019-22 Masters of Fine Art, ArtCenter College of Design, Pasadena CA, United States
2013 Bachelor of Fine Art (First Class Honours), Monash University, Melbourne, Australia
2010-12 Bachelor of Fine Art - Painting, Monash University, Melbourne, Australia
2009 Semester 2, Bachelor of Fine Art, Monash University, Prato, Italy
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2022 ribbons and piss, ArtCenter College of Design, Pasadena CA, United States
2018 Cooled pride, roused ardour, Bus Projects, Collingwood, Melbourne
2017 After Feint, as a part of I am Crying with Jimmy Nuttall, Firstdraft, Woolloomooloo, Sydney
2017 Swaddle me, West Space, Melbourne
2017 Forget-me-not, Recess, www.recess.net.au
2016 Feint understanding, Tcb Art Inc, Melbourne
2015 Searching for Something, Mildura Palimpsest Biennale #10, curated by Jonathan Kimberly and Helen Vivian
2014 Night Parrot, Trink Tank, Melbourne
2012 Entering Mt Widderin, RUNT Space, Monash University, Caulfield, Melbourne
2012 Archive of Fluorescent Casualties, Link Space, Monash University, Caulfield, Melbourne
GROUP SHOWS
2023 decorator's touch, as a part of 'The National 4: Australian Art Now', Museum of Contemporary Art Australia, Sydney,
curated by Jane Devery
2022 Saint Sebastian martyred five times, as a part of 'Queer: Stories from The NGV Collection', National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne,
curated by Dr Ted Gott, Dr Angela Hesson, Myles Russell-Cook, Meg Slater, and Pip Wallis
2021 Garden Variant, as a part of 'Variations', Tcb, Brunswick, Melbourne, curated by Olivia Koh
2019 Forget-me-not, as a part of 'Hobiennale', Cinema One, Hobart, curated by Olivia Koh and Nina Gilbert
2019 St Sebastian martyred five ways, as a part of 'Midsumma and Australia Post Art Prize, No Vacancy - QV Gallery, Melbourne
2017 Swaddle me, as a part of the 'Darebin Art Prize', Bundoora Homestead, Bundoora
2017 Unfired plinth, as a part of We make Memories 7UP, Fitzroy, curated by Clare Longley
2017 Forget-me-not, as a part of 'Hobiennale', Cinema One, Hobart, curated by Olivia Koh
2016 to make a Feint, The Substation, Newport, curated by Kali Michailidis
2015 Untitled, Kingston City Art Gallery, curated by Mira Oosterwaghel
2014 Mountain Cry, Prospect Lefferts Garden, New York, curated by Jim Nuttall
2014 A Platonic Relationship, As a part of ‘Touch We Seek’ showing at Seventh Gallery, curated by Pippa Milne and Shena Jamison
2013 A Platonic Relationship, MADA Now 2013 Graduand Exhibition, Monash University, Caulfield
2013 Untitled, As a part of ‘Honey is flowing in all directions’ shown at MADA, curated by Tom Nicholson and Brook Andrew
2013 Untitled, As a part of 'Isn’t it Funny' shown at RUNT Space, Monash University, Melbourne
2012 Modes of Escape, MADA Now 2012 Graduand Exhibition, Monash University, Caulfield
2011 Untitled, As a part of ‘Works in progress” shown at Monash University Prato Campus, curated by Michael Vale
RESIDENCIES
2019 Kingston Arts Ceramic Residency, Moorabbin
2018 Nextwave's Brunswick Mechanics Institute, with Jimmy Nuttall and Olivia Koh, Brunswick, Melbourne
2017 Frontyard, Marrickville, Sydney
2015 Mildura Palimpsest Biennale #10 Inland Residency Program
WRITING
2013 The young adult is full of biology, Nicholas Smith interviewed by Jen Broadhurst and Tom Nicholson as a part of the ‘Honours Dialogue
Series’ (#5 in a series of 5), self-published
2013 Urgent, Concept, Board, Meeting, David Egan interviewed by Nicholas Smith and Tom Nicholson as a part of the ‘Honours Dialogue Series’
(#4 in a series of 5), self-published
PUBLICATIONS
2013 Killen, H; MADA Thought into Form (MADA: Melbourne 2013)
GRANTS, SCHOLARSHIPS AND AWARDS
2019 American Australian Association and American Friends of the National Gallery of Australia AusArt Fellowship
2019 Ian Potter Cultural Trust Grant recipient
2019 Midsumma and Australia Post Art Prize finalist
2017 Darebin Art Prize finalist
2016 The Substation Contemporary Art Prize finalist
2014 Australia Council ArtStart Grant recipient
2012 Poetics of Space Prize for an Undergraduate in Fine Art