Josh Smith

 

Biography


Born Okinawa, Japan, 1976

Education BFA, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, 1998
Miami University, Oxford, Ohio, 1996

Resides Brooklyn, NY

SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2020 Josh Smith: Spectre, David Zwirner, New York concurrently on view at David Zwirner, London
Josh Smith: High As Fuck, David Zwirner Offsite/Online: Josh Smith Studio, Brooklyn, New York [online presentation]
Josh Smith: Life, Galerie Eva Presenhuber, Zurich

2019 Josh Smith: Emo Jungle, David Zwirner, New York [catalogue]
Josh Smith: Finding Emo, Xavier Hufkens, Brussels

2018 Josh Smith: I Will Carry the Weight, Massimo De Carlo, London
Josh Smith: Understand Me, Galerie Eva Presenhuber, New York

2017 Josh Smith: You Walk On Ahead, Go As Fast As You Want. I’ll Follow Along Slowly. I Know The Road Well, Standard (Oslo), Oslo

2016 Josh Smith, Bonner Kunstverein, Bonn, Germany
Josh Smith: Fishes, Xavier Hufkens, Brussels [catalogue]

2015 Josh Smith, Galerie Eva Presenhuber, Zurich
Josh Smith, Museo d’Arte Contemporanea Roma, Rome
Josh Smith: Cold Fusion, Hiromi Yoshii Roppongi, Tokyo
Josh Smith/Dieter Roth, Cahiers d’Art, Paris [organized by Galerie Eva Presenhuber] [two-person exhibition]
Josh Smith: Sculpture, Luhring Augustine, New York

2014 Josh Smith: Unsolved Mystery, Massimo De Carlo, Milan

2013 24 Hours, Galerie Eva Presenhuber, Zurich
Josh Smith, Luhring Augustine Bushwick, New York
Josh Smith, Luhring Augustine, New York
Josh Smith, Standard (Oslo)
Josh Smith, Zabludowicz Collection, London
Josh Smith: Gauntlet of Life, Home Alone 2, New York

2012 Josh Smith, Franz West, Neon Parc, Melbourne, Australia [two-person exhibition]

2011 Josh Smith, Luhring Augustine, New York
Josh Smith: The American Dream, Brant Foundation Art Study Center, Greenwich, Connecticut

2009-2010 Josh Smith: On the Water, Deitch Studios, Long Island City, New York [catalogue]
Sophie von Hellermann & Josh Smith, Museum Dhondt-Dhaenens, Deurle, Belgium [itinerary: Consortium, Dijon, France] [two-person exhibition] Who Am I, De
Hallen Haarlem, Haarlem, The Netherlands

2010 Josh Smith, Massimo De Carlo, Milan

2009 Centre d’Art Contemporain Genève, Geneva, Switzerland I’m Not You, Air de Paris, Paris
Josh Smith: Currents, Luhring Augustine, New York [catalogue] Josh Smith: Paintings, Hiromi Yoshii Gallery, Tokyo
Josh Smith Books, Printed Matter, New York

2008 Hidden Darts, Museum Moderner Kunst Stiftung Ludwig Wien, Vienna, Austria [catalogue] Josh Smith / Josh Fish, Hard Hat, Geneva. Switzerland
Josh Smith, Taxter & Spengemann, New York
Josh Smith: Collages, Galerie Catherine Bastide, Brussels
Josh Smith: Zurich Abstraction, Galerie Eva Presenhuber, Zurich Unstable Ideas, Standard (Oslo), Oslo 2007

2007 Abstraction, Luhring Augustine, New York [catalogue]
Josh Smith: Fortescue Avenue, Fortescue Avenue/Jonathan Viner Gallery, London

2006-2007 Josh Smith, Skestos Gabriele Gallery, Chicago

2006 The city Never Sleeps, Air de Paris, Paris Dial “J” for Josh, Power House, Memphis
Josh Smith, Galerie Catherine Bastide, Brussels Josh Smith, Susanne Hilberry, Ferndale, MI Standard Norwegian Show, Standard (Oslo), Oslo

2005 Josh Smith, Fortescue Avenue/Jonathan Viner Gallery, London Josh Smith, Galerie Catherine Bastide, Brussels
Josh Smith, SculptureCenter, Long Island City, New York
Make It Plain, Reena Spaulings Fine Art, New York
Sophie von Hellerman and Josh Smith: Collaborations, Greene Naftali Gallery, New York [two-person exhibition]

2004 Josh Smith, Reena Spaulings Fine Art, New York

2003 Chinese Paintings, M Shanghai Bistro, New York
Dial “J” for Josh, Margo Victor Presents, Los Angeles
Josh Smith, Galerie Catherine Bastide, Brussels Josh Smith, Volume Gallery, New York

GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2021 I Know where I’m going, Who can I be now?, The Modern Institute, Glasgow Nature Morte, The Hole, New York [catalogue]

2020-2021 00s. Cranford Collection: The 2000s, MO.CO. Montpellier Contemporain, France [collection display] [catalogue]
Painterly: From Warhol and Twombly to Today. Paintings from the Museum Brandhorst, Neues Museum Nürnberg, Germany [collection display]
A Possible Horizon, de la Cruz Collection, Miami

2020 100 Sculptures, No Gallery, Los Angeles
All in One: One Work By Each Gallery Artist, Galerie Eva Presenhuber, Zurich Animal Kingdom, Alexander Berggruen, New York [online presentation]
UNIQUE, Parkett Space, Zurich

2019-2020 Forever Young – 10 Years Museum Brandhorst, Museum Brandhorst, Munich [collection display] From Day to Day, de la Cruz Collection, Miami
Third Dimension: Works from The Brant Foundation, The Brant Foundation, New York [collection display]

2019 GARDEN, SHRINE, New York MCMXXXIV, Massimo De Carlo, Milan
Schöne Sentimenten, museum Dhondt-Dhaenens, Sint-Martens-Latem, Belgium Trouble in Paradise: Collection Rattan Chadha, Kunsthal Rotterdam [collection display][catalogue]

2018-2019 More/Less, de la Cruz Collection, Miami
Nightfall, Mendes Wood DM, Brussels

2018 Buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo, STANDARD (OSLO), Oslo
Cliche, Almine Rech, New York
Smooth Transitions, Löwenbräu Areal, Zurich [organized by Galerie Eva Presenhuber] 2017-2018 Force and Form, de la Cruz Collection, Miami

2017 Animal Farm, The Brant Foundation Art Study Center, Greenwich, Connecticut Artistic Toolbox: 1989-2017, Kunsthalle Wien, Vienna
Black & Brown People | White Problems, Samsøñ Projects, Boston
FEED BACK, Marlborough Contemporary, New York
The Gap Between the Fridge and the Cooker, The Modern Institute, Glasgow, Scotland Heatwave, UTA Artist Space, Los Angeles
Jo Baer, Michael E. Smith, Josh Smith, Raphaela Vogel, Essex Street, New York
Jump Ball, Dio Horia, Mykonos, Greece
Painting Paintings (David Reed) 1975, Gagosian Gallery, New York [catalogue] Pharmacy for Idiots, Rob Tufnell & Tanya Leighton, Cologne
Utopias are more or less fascistic, Nicolas Krupp, Basel
White Trash, Luhring Augustine, Bushwick, New York
Zeitgeist, MAMCO, Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Geneva

2016-2017 Creature, The Broad, Los Angeles
Franz West: Artistclub, 21er Haus Museum of Contemporary Art, Vienna
Fredrik Vaerslev: All Around Amateur, Bergen Kunsthall, Bergen, Norway; Le Consortium, Dijon, France
The Power & The Glory, Charles Riva Collection, Brussels
Progressive Praxis, de la Cruz Collection, Miami
Schiff Ahoy: Contemporary Art from the Brandhorst Collection, Museum Brandhorst, Munich [collection display]
What’s My Name?, Michel Majerus Estate, Berlin

2016 Between Something and Nothing, Richard Telles, Los Angeles
My Cartography: The Erling Kagge Collection, Fundación Banco Santander, Madrid [itinerary: Foundation Vincent van Gogh Arles, France] [collection display]
Contemporary Dialogues with Tintoretto, Zuecca Projects Space, Venice David Zwirner: 25 Years, David Zwirner, New York [catalogue]
It’s Personal, Edward Ressle, New York

2015 Fine Young Cannibals, Petzel Gallery, New York [catalogue] Group Exhibition, Richard Telles, Los Angeles
Ich, Schirn Kunsthalle Frankfurt, Frankfurt [catalogue]
La mia ceramica, Galerie Max Hetzler, Paris
Michael St. John: These Days; Leaves of Grass, Andrea Rosen Gallery, New York No Rules, No Rules, Franklin Parrasch Gallery, New York
Self, Massimo De Carlo, London
S.M.S. S.O.S.: Text, Texture and Gesture, Marlborough Chelsea, New York
The World is Made of Stories: Works from the Astrup Fearnley Collection, Astrup Fearnley Museet, Oslo [collection display]
New Skin: Selections from the Tony and Elham Salamé Collection, Aïshti Foundation, Beirut [collection display] [catalogue]
Painting 2.0: Expression in the Information Age, Museum Brandhorst, Munich [itinerary: Museum Moderner Kunst Stiftung Ludwig Wien, Vienna] [catalogue]
You’ve Got to Know the Rules...to Break Them, de la Cruz Collection Contemporary Art Space, Miami [collection display]
White Columns Benefit Exhibition + Auction, White Columns, New York
Call and Response, Gavin Brown’s enterprise, New York
Carte Blanche to Luhring Augustine, Galerie Patrick Seguin, Paris
CNTRL+P: Printmaking in the 21st Century by University of Tennessee Alumni, Ewing Gallery of Art and Architecture, University of Tennessee, Knoxville [catalogue]
Das unbekannte Meisterwerk/The Unknown Masterpiece, Galerie Meyer Kainer, Vienna [catalogue published in 2017]
Jacques Andre, Jean-Pascal Flavien, Monique van Genderen, Ola Rindal, Josh Smith, Kelley Walker, Galerie Catherine Bastide, Brussels
Marlborough Lights, Marlborough Gallery, New York
My wife does the dishes, I do the revolution, Kimmerich, Berlin
The Now Forever, Basilica Hudson, Hudson, New York
The Shell (Landscapes, Portraits & Shapes), Almine Rech Gallery, Paris Unfixed: New Painting, Arizona State University Art Museum, Tempe, Arizona Winters—Smith,
Casamadre Arte Contemporanea, Naples, Italy
Works on Paper, Galerie Eva Presenhuber, Zurich
Artists for Artists: 51st Anniversary Exhibition to Benefit the Foundation for Contemporary Arts, Matthew Marks Gallery, New York
Beneath the Surface, de la Cruz Collection Contemporary Art Space, Miami [collection display] The Forever Now: Contemporary Painting in an Atemporal World, The Museum of Modern Art, New York [catalogue]
ART Fahrenheit 451: Sailing into the Sea of Oblivion, Yokohama Trienniale 2014, Yokohama, Japan [catalogue]
Artist’s Artists: James Siena, Josh Smith, and Charline von Heyl Collect Prints, International Print Center New York, New York
Artists for Artists: 51st Anniversary Exhibition to Benefit the Foundation for Contemporary Arts, Foundation for Contemporary Arts, New York, NY [catalogue]
BASH: An Exhibition in Two Parts, Woodstock Byrdcliffe Guild, Woodstock, New York Dallas Biennial 2014: Josh Smith + Jose Lerma, Oliver Francis Gallery, Dallas
Displayed, Anton Kern Gallery, New York
Fire!, Venus over Manhattan, New York
Home/Sculpture, Massimo De Carlo, London
Hypothesis for an Exhibition, Dominique Lévy Gallery, New York [catalogue] The Image Is beside the Point, Pierot the Fool, New York
KILN, Leila Heller Gallery, New York

2014 Mirage: Alex Israel & Josh Smith, Reena Spaulings Fine Art, New York
Pouring It On, Herter Art Gallery, University of Massachusetts, Amherst [catalogue]
Speaking through Paint: Hans Hofmann’s Legacy Today, Lori Bookstein Fine Art, New York
Stay in Love, Laurel Gitlen, New York

2013-2014 Selections from the de la Cruz Collection, Miami [collection display]

2013 39 Great Jones, Galerie Eva Presenhuber, Zurich
Abstract Generation: Now in Print, The Museum of Modern Art, New York
DSM-V, The Future Moynihan Station, New York
For the Time Being: Wall Paintings Painted Walls, Kunsthalle Bielefeld, Germany
Get Out of Town, Johan Berggren Gallery, Malmö, Sweden
Love of Technology, Museum of Contemporary Art, North Miami, Florida
Morphology of the Print, Lehman College Art Gallery, Bronx, New York
Passive Aggressive, Massimo De Carlo, Milan
Station to Station: A Nomadic Happening, Brooklyn, New York [itinerary: Pittsburgh; Chicago;
St. Paul/Minneapolis; Santa Fe, New Mexico; Winslow, Arizona; Barstow, California; Los Angeles; San Francisco]
The System of Objects: The Dakis Joannou Collection Reloaded, DESTE Foundation, Neo Ionia, Athens [collection display]
The Writing Is on the Wall, Jonathan Viner Gallery, Margate, England
White Collar Crimes, Acquavella Galleries, New York [catalogue]
Why is Everything the Same? Works from the Collection of Anne Collier and Matthew Higgs, Shoot the Lobster, New York
Xerography, firstsite, Colchester, England [catalogue]

2012-2013 Selections from the de la Cruz Collection, Miami [collection display]

2012 Bitume et Astre Dansent, Parfois, dans la Pure Peur, Galerie Eva Presenhuber, Paris Concatenation: Signature, Seriality, Painting, Blain|Southern, London, England
Everyday Abstract—Abstract Everyday, James Cohan Gallery, New York
The Feverish Library, Friedrich Petzel Gallery, New York
Idealizing the Imaginary: Illusion and Invention in Contemporary Painting, Oakland University Art Gallery, Rochester, Michigan [catalogue]
Jessica Dickinson, Liam Everett, Alex Olson, Josh Smith, Garth Weiser, Altman Siegel, San Francisco
Joe Bradley, Nicolas Deshayes, Eddie Peake, Dan Rees, Josh Smith, Oscar Tuazon: Surface to Surface, Fortescue Avenue/Jonathan Viner Gallery, London
Mix/Remix, Luhring Augustine, New York
Painting in Space, Luhring Augustine, New York [organized in collaboration with CCS Bard, Hessel Museum of Art, Annandale-on-Hudson, New York]
Painting Now, Galerie Eva Presenhuber, Zurich
Phantom Limb: Approaches to Painting Today, Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago Print/Out: 20 Years in Print, The Museum of Modern Art, New York [catalogue]
The Feverish Library, Friedrich Petzel Gallery, New York
The Painting Factory: Abstraction after Andy Warhol, Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles [catalogue]
The Slide Show, FRAC Auvergne, Clermont-Ferrand, France

2011-2012 Selections from the de la Cruz Collection, Miami [collection display]

2011 Accrochage, Carolina Nitsch Project Room, New York
After Images, Musée Juif de Belgique / Joods Museum van België, Brussels [catalogue] Don’t Do It, Galerie Bruno Bischofberger, Zurich
Le printemps de Septembre, Toulouse, France [catalogue]
Painting . . . EXPANDED, Espacio 1414, Santurce, Puerto Rico
Perfect Man II, White Columns, New York
Ray’s a Laugh, Half Gallery, New York
Sculpture Now, Galerie Eva Presenhuber, Zurich
The 54th International Art Exhibition: ILLUMInations, La Biennale di Venezia, Venice [catalogue]
The Perfect Man Show II, White Columns, New York Untitled (Painting), Luhring Augustine, New York Yotta Paintings, Massimo De Carlo, Milan

2010-2011 Selections from the de la Cruz Collection, Miami [collection display]

2010 2000–2010, Galerie Catherine Bastide, Brussels About Us, König Galerie, Berlin
Alpha Omega: Works from the Dakis Joannou Collection, DESTE Foundation for Contemporary Art, Athens [collection display] [catalogue]
Barbaric Freedom, Simon Lee Gallery, London
Project 38th Street Publishers, White Columns, New York
Rise of the Rad, Torrance Art Museum, Torrance, California Signatures, Sutton Lane, Paris
Twenty Five, Luhring Augustine, New York [catalogue]
When Do You See Yourself in Ten Years?, Standard (Oslo), Oslo You Were There, Rachel Uffner Gallery, New York

2009-2010 Learn to Read Art: A History of Printed Matter, P.S. 1 Contemporary Art Center, New York Selections from the de la Cruz Collection, Miami [collection display]

2009 Abstractionists Unite! Who Give You Just Enough to Last a Lifetime, Glendale College Art Gallery, Glendale, California
Access All Areas, Galerie Max Hetzler, Berlin
Cave Painting, PSM, Berlin
Chapter Three: The Wall of the Sky, the Wall of the Eye, About Change, Collection Stiftung, Berlin
Fax, Drawing Center, New York [itinerary: The Contemporary Museum, Baltimore; Torrance Art
Museum, Torrance, California; Burnaby Art Gallery, Burnaby, Canada; Dowd Gallery, SUNY Cortland, Cortland, New York; Museo de Arte Carrillo Gil, Mexico City;
Para Site, Hong Kong [catalogue]
A Guest + A Host = A Ghost, DESTE Foundation, Neo Ionia, Athens
The Generational: Younger than Jesus, New Museum, New York [catalogue]
Jettison: New Ideas in Abstraction, Trahern Gallery, Austin Peay State University, Clarksville, Tennessee
Jonathan Viner’s Furniture Show: Donald Judd, Christian Mergert, Jorge Pardo, Giles Round, Josh Smith, Oscar Tuazon, Nicole Wermers, Franz West, Rachel
Whiteread and Sophie von Hellermann, Jonathan Viner, London
The Living and the Dead, Gavin Brown’s enterprise, New York My Summer Show, Galerie Lelong, New York
The Perpetual Dialogue, Andrea Rosen Gallery, New York Practice, Practice, Practice, Lora Reynolds Gallery, Austin Summer Show, SAKS, Geneva, Switzerland
That’s Just the Way It Is, Marvelli Gallery, New York
Top 10 Allegories, Francesca Pia Galerie, Zurich
We Are Sun-Kissed and Snow-Blind, Galerie Patrick Seguin, Paris A Wild Night and a New Road, Altman Siegel, San Francisco

2008 Accidental Modernism, Leslie Tonkonow Artworks + Projects, New York
Black and White Exhibition: Dean Hughes, Nadira Husain, Andrei Koschmieder, Josh Smith, Anne Spieir, Neue Alte Brücke, Frankfurt
Book/Shelf, The Museum of Modern Art, New York
Champion Zero, Rental, New York
Fair Market, Rental, New York
Meet Me around the Corner—Works from the Astrup Fearnley Collection, Astrup Fearnley
Museet, Oslo
Murder Letters, Galeria Filomena Soares, Lisbon, Portugal
Painting Now and Forever, Part II, Greene Naftali Gallery/Matthew Marks Gallery, New York The Peanut Gallery, Journal Gallery, New York
Standard Sizes, Andrew Kreps Gallery, New York

2007 Aleatoric Contracts, Standard (Oslo), Oslo [catalogue]
Beneath the Underdog (or One Unopened Packet of Cigarettes), Gagosian Gallery, New York Biennale de Lyon: 00s, The History of a Decade That Has Not Yet Been Named, La Sucrière, Lyon, France
Conditions of Display, Locust Projects, Miami
Der Ficker: Thea Djordjadze, Sophie von Hellermann, Mick Peter, Tamuna Sirbiladze, Josh Smith, Emily Wardill and Franz West, Fortescue Avenue/Jonathan Viner Gallery, London A Fair Show: Slang and Cool Orthodoxy, Massimo De Carlo, Milan
A Few Artist’s Books: Roma Publications and Christoph Keller, ProjecteSD, Barcelona
For the People of Paris, Sutton Lane, Paris
Genesis I’m Sorry, Greene Naftali Gallery, New York
Irreversible, Stellan Holm Gallery, New York
Last Attraction Next Exit, Max Wigram Gallery, London
Malerei und Affekt, Museum Moderner Kunst Stiftung Ludwig Wien, Vienna, Austria
Michèle Didier Project—Part II: Christopher Wool and Josh Smith, Galerie Christophe Daviet-Thery, Paris
Off Modern, Le Confort Moderne, Poitiers, France
Painting as Fact—Fact as Fiction, de Pury & Luxembourg, Zurich
The Third Mind: Carte Blanche a Ugo Rondinone, Palais de Tokyo, Paris What Glue Do You Use?, Atelier Cardenas Bellanger, Paris
what we do is secret, Blancpain Art Contemporain, Geneva, Switzerland

2006 Bill Saylor, Josh Smith, Hiromi Yoshii Tokyo, Tokyo Color Aside, Luhring Augustine, New York
The Dimes of March, Reena Spaulings Fine Art, New York
Gedi Sibony and Josh Smith, Harris Lieberman, New York
Hold That Elevator, Julia C. Butridge Gallery, Dougherty Arts Center, Austin
In Dialogue, Elizabeth Dee, New York
Paper, Skestos Gabriele Gallery, Chicago
Reena Spaulings Fine Art, New York
Slow Burn, Galerie Edward Mitterrand, Geneva, Switzerland
Take One, Museum of Fine Arts Houston, Texas
Under Pressure, Art:Concept, Paris
USA Today, Royal Academy of Arts, London [itinerary: State Hermitage Museum, St. Petersburg] [catalogue]
Wade Guyton, Seth Price, Josh Smith, Kelley Walker, Kunsthalle Zürich, Zurich [catalogue] When the Revolution Comes, Kathleen Cullen Fine Arts, New York

2005-2007 Uncertain States of America, Astrup Fearnley Museet, Oslo, Norway [itinerary: Serpentine Gallery, London; Galerie Rudolfinum, Prague] [catalogue]

2005 Helter Skelter, Capsule Gallery, New York
I’m a Child of Divorce, Give Me a Break, Cynthia Broan Gallery, New York
In Practice Fall ’05, SculptureCenter, Long Island City, New York
Interstate, Nicole Klagsbrun Gallery, New York
KIOSK: Modes of Multiplication and Liam Gillick: Edgar Schmitz, Institute of Contemporary Arts, London
Lesser New York, Fia Backström Production, Brooklyn, New York Marc Selwyn Fine Art, Los Angeles
New York’s Finest, CANADA, New York
New York Twice, Air de Paris, Paris
Paintings, Susanne Hilberry Gallery, Ferndale, Michigan
Paper, Nicole Klagsbrun Gallery, New York
POST MoDERN, Greene Naftali Gallery, New York
Ruptures des évidences, Le Confort Moderne, Poitiers, France Situational Prosthetics, New Langton Arts, San Francisco

2004 Collection (or, How I Spent a Year), P.S. 1 Contemporary Art Center, New York East Village ASU, B-Side Gallery, New York
Me, Myself, and I, Schmidt Center Gallery, Florida Atlantic University, Boca Raton, Florida Repetition, Hudson Valley Center for Contemporary Art, Peekskill, New York
Rimbaud, I-20 Gallery, New York
So Few Opportunities, So Many Mistakes, Champion Fine Art, New York

2003 25th Ljubljana Graphic Arts Biennial, Ljubljana, Slovenia Mighty Graphitey, Feature Inc., New York

2002 Copy Books, Roth Horowitz, New York 2000 Columbus Museum of Art, Columbus, Ohio
New Work: Abstract Painting, Hosfelt Gallery, San Francisco 1999 Mr. Fascination, Threadwaxing Space, New York

1998 Remix, Team Gallery, New York


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