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EDUCATION

2003 MFA The Maryland Institute College of Art
2000 MAT Tufts University & The School of the Museum of Fine Arts
1992 BFA The Maryland Institute College of Art



SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2005 Shinique Smith: FULL ON! Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art, Colorado
Shinique Smith: OVERSTOCK, The Proposition, New York (December/ January 06)

2002 Crossroads, The Creative Alliance, Baltimore, Maryland
Manifestations, Scuola dell’Arte dei Tiraoro e Battioro, Venice, Italy



GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2006 I Feel You, curated by Dean Daederko, Roebling Hall, Williamsburg, New York
Making the Timeless Now, Broadway Gallery, New York
Do You Think I'm Disco, curated by Edwin Ramoran, Longwood Arts Gallery, New York

2005 Frequency, curated by Thelma Golden & Christine Kim, Studio Museum in Harlem, New York
Group Exhibition, curated by Franklin Sirmans, Stephen Turner Gallery, Los Angeles
Drawn Out, curated by Lorelei Stewart, Gallery 400, Chicago
Desvelar lo Invisible, Video Creation Contemporaria, Museos y Bibliotecas, Madrid, Spain
Recess, curated by Derrick Adams, Rush Arts Gallery, New York
Selected Works: Shinique Amie Smith and Kate McKinnon, Gallery Imperato, Baltimore
African Queen, curated by Christine Kim, Studio Museum in Harlem, New York
Tawkin’ New Yawk Walls, Hillwood Art Museum, Long Island, New York
Gimme Some of That: Revisioning Feminist Strategies, 1926 Gallery, Chicago
ReFound, W/O Walls, scopeNewYork

2004 WORD, curated by Paul Laster & Renee Riccardo, Bronx River Art Center, New York
Re: Source, Art in General, New York
The Reality of Things, Triple Candie, Harlem, New York
CONVERSIONS at 149, Longwood Arts Gallery, Bronx, New York
Veni Vidi Video II curated by Christine Kim, The Studio Museum in Harlem, New York
Peekskill Project, Peekskill, New York
Purveyor of Dreams, W/O Walls scopeLA
Home Coming, Phat Farm Store, New York
Super Salon, Samson Projects, Boston

2003 Rising Voices, DC Arts Center Gallery, Washington, DC.
Artscape Juried Exhibition curated by Darcie Alexander, Decker Gallery, Baltimore
Selected Group Exhibition, James E. Lewis Museum, Morgan State University, Maryland
Black Russians curated by Joyce Scott, Galerie Francoise et Ses Freres, Maryland
Covert, The Whole Gallery, Baltimore

2002 Upwardly Mobile, Museum fur Modern Kunst, Frankfurt
Upwardly Mobile, The Ludwig Museum for Contemporary Art, Budapest
Stories & Personal Dialect, Intercultural Museum Gallery, Baltimore
28, The Whole Gallery, Maryland



SELECTED REVIEWS

Hall, Emily, ArtForum, Reviews, Shinique Smith at The Proposition, March 2006
Cotter, Holland, New York Times, Art in Review, Do You Think I'm Disco, February 3, 2006
Spense, Rebecca, ARTNews, Top Ten Art Trends, February 2006
Kastner, Jeremy, ArtForum, Reviews, Frequency, January 2006
Smith, Roberta, New York Times, Frequency, Art Review, November 18,2005
Marglin, Elizabeth, The Daily Camera, Summer cycle at BMoCA, Boulder Arts Review, July 24,
Ater, Renee, African Arts, creating Their Own Image, Summer 2005
Bowers, Jessica, Office Politics, Baltimore City Paper, March 30, 2005
Wiley, Kehinde, NYFA Arts Current, Volume 13, No.14, Introducing Shinique Smith
Johnson, Ken, New York Times, The Reality of Things, Arts in Review, June 18, 2004
Washington Post, Rising Voices, Arts & Entertainment, November 27, 2003
DiPastino, Blake, Baltimore City Paper, Arts & Entertainment, April 2, 2003
RADAR, Crossroads, Issue No.2, p.42, September 2002
Il Gazzentino, Manifestations, June/ Giugno 19, 2002
Mcnatt, Glenn, The Baltimore Sun, Art Review, September 13, 2002


PUBLICATIONS

Frequency, exhibition catalogue, 2006
Desvelar lo invisible: videocreacion contemporanea, exhibition catalogue, 2005
LINK; a critical journal on the arts, Issue No. 9, Fall 2004
STILE Arte, Manifestations, Issue No. 59, p.29, June/ Giugno 2002


RESIDENCIES, FELLOWSHIPS & GRANTS

2005 Aljira Center for Contemporary Art, Emerge Fellowship
2004-05 Henry Street Settlement, Studio Residency
2003 Lower Manhattan Cultural Council, Studio Residency
2003 Skowhegan School of Painting & Sculpture, Fellowship/Studio Residency
2002 Vermont Studio Center, Visual Arts Fellowship/Studio Residency
2002 Institute for Cultural Enterprise, Solo Exhibition Grant

2001

Scuola di Grafica, Venice, Italy, Studio residency

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