b. 1984 Liverpool
2009 MA Fine Art Media, Slade School of Fine Art
2007 BA Fine Art, Wimbledon College of Art
2004 Foundation, Carmel College
Selected exhibitions:
2012 'Plans Within Plans' solo exhibition at The Royal Standard, Liverpool
2011 'Mister Mercer' with Sarah Macdonald and Eleanor Wright, Oriel
Sycharth Gallery Wrexham
2011 'American Mountains - Greenway' at Grand Union, Birmingham (downloadable
pdf publication available here)
2011 Residency at Meantime Gallery,
Cheltenham
2010 'American Mountains - The Last Thing', The Nunnery, London
2010 'Gotta Get Away' Quare, London
2010 'Role Diffusion', with Michael Whitby, Meantime
Gallery, Cheltenham
2010 'Çiçak', Richard and Michael Whitby, Paradise
Lost, London
2010 'Helen', with Jamie George, Lima
Zulu, London
2010 'Kam Lee and the
Second Look' at Dalston Library (with Siôn Parkinson and Ed
Atkins, curated by Rose Lejeune)
2010 'American Mountains', group show at Auto
Italia South East, London, reviewed in AN magazine, July 2010
2010 'The Bear Pit', solo show with Paradise
Lost, London, review
on Artvehicle
2009 'Cornerhouse
Projects' Cornerhouse, Manchester, review
from Manchester Evening News
2009 ‘American Mountains’ Hastings
2009 ‘Set Off Set’ Edinburgh
2008 ‘Laputa City’ Liverpool Biennial
2007 ‘Deserter’ Berlin
2007 ‘Material Intelligence’ UEL Open Competition
2006 ‘La Sala Naranja’ Kanazawa Modern Art Museum
2006 ‘Brand New Suit’ Liverpool Biennial
Other:
2011 'Circuit' with Pavilion, Margate
2010 'Contemporary Art and Cinema' research day at Wimbledon College
of Art, with Ed Atkins
2010 Attended 'Retreat' workshop, North Wales, article
2009 Lecture at Whitworth Gallery, Manchester, for MUSEA
2009 Lectures and tutoring at Slade Summer School
2009 Lecture at Dubai College
2009 Lecture and tutoring Wimbledon College of Art
2009 Advisor at 'How to make it as a visual artist', Chelsea College
of Art
2009 Attended 'Retreat' workshop, North Wales
2009 Lecture and tutoring Edinburgh College of Art
2009 Leading BA seminars, Slade School of Fine Art
2008 Tutoring at Central St. Martins
2008 Attended Poznan Academy International Workshop, Poland
Contributor to Dreck.co.uk
2010 'Why Kenneth Anger's 'Scorpio Rising' is one of my favourite films'
Or Something...magazine
2010 Review of 'John Smith - Solo Show' at RCA, MAP magazine
Regular contributor to Artvehicle,
an online art magazine, articles include:
Postcard
from Kitsch that I brought with me - Bucharest, Romania
'All
Suffering SOON TO END' - Jennet Thomas at Matt's Gallery
Retreat
2010
The
Bleak Midwinter - in Bow and Poplar
Omer
Fast's 'Nostalgia' with reference to Michael Haneke
Postcard
from Theatricality - via Vue Leicester Square and 'Ben Hur Live'
Dave
Hullfish Barry and Nils Norman: Surrounded by Squares
Postcard
from Dubailand
Postcard
from the Edge of Nuclear War
Postcard
from Westfield
Babylon:
Myth and Reality
Tate
Triennial: Altermodern
See also:
'Excessive Expenditure in Illusion City' on Murdofleur
blog
Garageland Magazine, 'Fake' 2011
Countersituation
- 'On Entering the Movie Theatre'
Interview with Ed Atkins, MAP Magazine, summer 2011
Review of John Smith Solo Show at RCA, in
MAP Magazine, summer 2010
Excessive Expenditure in Illusion City, an essay from 2008
The Continuing Careers of
James Bond and Batman - Cinema Franchises in the Twenty-first Century,
an essay from 2009